September 5, 2011

September 5, 20011
Had a Ford Taurus Fan lying around from the Jeep, decided to see how it fit the Daytona radiator, it well well! The stock fan moves around 1000CFM from what've I've seen on the forums. This moves 4000-4500CFM on its high setting, and its thinner than the stock fan!

The alternator was installed, I bought new heater hoses to by-pass the heater control valve, oil line for the turbo was installed, clutch cable and shifter cables have been connected, throttle cable is hooked up.

Forgot about the water line on the back of the block though, so I'll have to wrestle with that, or I might just plug the line instead of the block and call it good

Taurus Fan

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August 3, 2011

Redid my injector harness. Good thing too because it was starting to get really worn. I bolted down all the mounts, and removed the heater control valve too. I'll need to get some longer heater hose to make up for it.

I think I might take the time to try to get some wiring out of the way. It would look way cleaner.

August 29, 2011

A Street Auto didn't have any injector plugs, and I was fairly sure they couldn't beat the online price, so I ordered a set of 6 (a couple spares) for $15

August 28. 2011

My Taurus fan seems to fit my radiator perfectly (ok, almost). The Taurus fan is thinner and flows more air than the factory fan (by nearly 3500 CFM).

I also plan to move the heater control valve elsewhere. It kind of gets in the way with intercooler piping.

I am also going to get my suspension parts painted, and ready to be installed. I have new struts, new strut mounts, crossmember, control arms, poly control arm bushings, new ball joints, and new tie rod ends ready to be put in. I would also like to take out the steering rack and warranty it for boots that are degrading.

August 28, 2011

I picked up a good short block from a local guy for a good price a while back. Yesterday I took the engine/trans out and separated them and removed the head. Today, everything went back together and the engine and transmission are sitting in the car. They still have to be bolted up completely and the accessories put on. Should be ready to go in a few days.

August 27, 2011

Increased oil consumption? Loss of gas mileage? Yep, that will do it.

That's the number #3 cylinder, which I figured was toast since we had no change in idle when we removed that spark plug wire on the road. I thought it was cracked, but it looks like I melted my first piston. Not entirely sure why it melted, all the others pistons look fine, the looks good, and so do all four plugs (well #3 is oily). I did notice that I have some exposed wiring on the #1 fuel injector plug, I think I might buy some injector plugs and rebuild that harness.

November 15, 2011

Back in November(October?) I think a piston cracked. I let off to make a turn (possibly sucked up some oil from the catch can) and heard a loud snap. Seemed to run fine for while until a Turbo Dodge get-together in Iowa. I was accelerating to catch up to the guy in front of me (everything still seemed fine at that point), but as soon as I let off, a huge oil smoke cloud let out behind me and the engine started burning/spraying oil. Went through about 4 quarts of oil driving it home from Iowa (it is a Dodge and all, but that still seemed a little high for oil consumption).

Bought a short block from a local Turbo Dodge enthusiest, and have the head gasket and head bolts. I started unplugging/unbolting things connected to the engine. Should be able to get everything swapped this weekend