It runs!
But only on 5/6 cylinders. These were not cheap injectors at $800 for a set and not only do they not fit without extra parts but my cyl 1 injector isn't firing. The injector has the appropriate resistance but it just won't click when tested independent of the ECU, I tried reversing polarity to unstick it because sometimes that works to unstick an old injector and got nothing. I also have a dripping freeze plug which has me pretty steamed, and a leaking radiator. The radiator is a brand new Nissens 540i radiator, I'll be testing FCP euro's replacement policy on this one I guess. I was tempted to try and re-crimp the area that leaks, but I didn't because I don't want it to hurt my chances of an exchange. You can't even pay for quality these days it seems. I have a couple of videos but there's no point in posting videos of it running on 5cyl, I'll post up when I have 6. I'm glad these problems didn't stop me from taking this car on my road trip in November because I would be way more angry at these issues than I am now.
Post run engine bay shot. The turbo is a big pain to install with the short S-pipe coming off of it and going to the intercooler. I am going to have to re-work that. It took way too much time cramming silicone couplers onto the turbo and intercooler, but space is very tight there, it's up against the wheel well and the AC lines. There's not even enough space for a tight cast aluminum 90° coming off of the turbo if I wanted to do that. I may modify my S pipe and intercooler to take one of those expensive aluminum clamped flanges that are so trendy right now but pointless for most applications. We'll see. I'm just hoping I don't have to take the turbo off for the freeze plug fix, the wastegate pipe is in the way and I don't think it can be removed without getting at the flange from the top.
Wastegate blanket. I thought this was pretty neat, I bought it to help keep the radiant heat off of the valve cover gasket area and oil return line (which has a sleeve, but still). It's kind of a pain to install and I hope I don't have to remove the wastegate any time soon.
Priming the oiling system. It still took about 40 seconds of cranking cumulatively, 10s at a time, to get the dummy light to go off. Pouring fresh oil into the galleries directly through the center tube gave me a little bit of peace of mind though.
Looking forward to driving it, but that can't happen until I get a new radiator and replacement fuel injector.
But only on 5/6 cylinders. These were not cheap injectors at $800 for a set and not only do they not fit without extra parts but my cyl 1 injector isn't firing. The injector has the appropriate resistance but it just won't click when tested independent of the ECU, I tried reversing polarity to unstick it because sometimes that works to unstick an old injector and got nothing. I also have a dripping freeze plug which has me pretty steamed, and a leaking radiator. The radiator is a brand new Nissens 540i radiator, I'll be testing FCP euro's replacement policy on this one I guess. I was tempted to try and re-crimp the area that leaks, but I didn't because I don't want it to hurt my chances of an exchange. You can't even pay for quality these days it seems. I have a couple of videos but there's no point in posting videos of it running on 5cyl, I'll post up when I have 6. I'm glad these problems didn't stop me from taking this car on my road trip in November because I would be way more angry at these issues than I am now.
Post run engine bay shot. The turbo is a big pain to install with the short S-pipe coming off of it and going to the intercooler. I am going to have to re-work that. It took way too much time cramming silicone couplers onto the turbo and intercooler, but space is very tight there, it's up against the wheel well and the AC lines. There's not even enough space for a tight cast aluminum 90° coming off of the turbo if I wanted to do that. I may modify my S pipe and intercooler to take one of those expensive aluminum clamped flanges that are so trendy right now but pointless for most applications. We'll see. I'm just hoping I don't have to take the turbo off for the freeze plug fix, the wastegate pipe is in the way and I don't think it can be removed without getting at the flange from the top.
Wastegate blanket. I thought this was pretty neat, I bought it to help keep the radiant heat off of the valve cover gasket area and oil return line (which has a sleeve, but still). It's kind of a pain to install and I hope I don't have to remove the wastegate any time soon.
Priming the oiling system. It still took about 40 seconds of cranking cumulatively, 10s at a time, to get the dummy light to go off. Pouring fresh oil into the galleries directly through the center tube gave me a little bit of peace of mind though.
Looking forward to driving it, but that can't happen until I get a new radiator and replacement fuel injector.
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