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My understanding is he will only give it back if Brendan pays to get it back. Pretty simple story.

By "that guy" I mean the blast plate maker

Ah. At first is sounded like the guy was just keeping hostage even though.

^^^2nd. What dubious uckery is going on?^^^

Almost 110k. Yours?

So on a lift you can feel binding from the trans while rotating a wheel. Which means that there is some thing floating around inside the transmission.

As much monkey as i attempted cant get eyes on the other side of the fork to see how far the ball is pushed through.

 

Thoughts? Do I have it towed back to Andrewtech and have them replace it? They have the parts there.

I have read the thread before and didn't remember that part.

 

Have any issues with the ethanol at all over that time? How does it feel in the mid RPM range? How's the in town driving... where does it shine?

 

Keeping a consistent ethanol rating range is the only concern really. Meaning winter blend is from as low E70 and summer E85. Which is two separate maps for me. If you are fortunate to have a flex kit for blending no worries. I don't care personally because i like the options. If you use the zetronix kit, i suggest upgrading the fittings for the fuel connections.

 

I do not "light to light" unless i have to for merging. Just getting along 3500(maybe 4k for good measure) shifts will get you away from most road cars from the light. This to me is for 50mph and up essentially. It shines from 3900 to 6500 depending on the cams you have. Yeah when its boost time shes ready.

The first and most important thing is to change your oil! Do not think twice about it if you drive it hard or it gets hot often in traffic. A fumoto valve makes life so easy. I use Motul period with factory filter. 2k hits that oil is gone. Of course that's before the motor got built, now its 1k swaps.

Nice, how long have you had that? How do you like it? What fuel you running?

2 almost 3 yrs. Love it. Ethanol. First part of my build thread can be more accurate.

I'm trying the HTA71 (recommended by him) with flex fuel.

That's what's in mine[emoji41]

Those pics look a little different. Can you move the fork? Does it seem like it went through?

 

I have the aftermarket fork and ball that I could take a pic of, if you think it will help?

Are you just looking at how far the ball sits in fork divot?

The fork doesn't move but the tiniest wiggle. Yes, how far the ball fits in the fork.

I just got a call from Bryan at BNR! I Have my payment in and the turbo should be shipping today or tomorrow!! Now I just gotta get those frickin heads back/done.

What did you have Bryan build for you?

I hear ya stewdogg. I used a flathead screwdriver to remove rust. Does the distance between ball and fork seem to be shorter? Someone take a pic of theirs for a side-by-side please.

Possibly surface rust?

This is what I've found

Car is home. I'll get that boot off and look. What exactly am I looking for? I'll take a pic of what I see.

That will be awesome if only the fork and maybe pressure plate failed. I honestly don't know. I'll find out over the next few days what's going to happen.

Thanks guys. It happened on a gorgeous day. Temp mid 70s, made walking home fun for us.

 

Rebuilding the trans this year as an option maybe be leaving. I hadn't seen this coming and no backup money is there. Most likely I'll be parking it in the garage till this fall maybe and revisit it. Thankfully I have a spare car that needs a little brake fix and good to go.

 

Just starting the car in neutral made horrible sounds the one time i did after i parked. Thought of engaging a gear made me cringe. Didn't want to chance it breaking more.

 

Its at Andrewtech for now as they look it over to make sure it's internal. Hopefully resources become available for the rebuild soon. Till then.... Thanks guys.

So i had this exhaust leak I sourced to a manifold nut had backed off. Hard to tell by visually inspecting. Sorted it out and took for test drive. Sounded great, afr little off but good. Got to home stretch (less than a mile from home), when some thing broke. I just let clutch out to engage 2nd after making a right. Immediately looked at Acessport and numbers good. So that left trans. Sound was clanging grind. Push clutch in no sound. Inverse noise return. Parked in nice neighborhood, walked home with my 3yr son. I initially thought it was the clutch fork. But the shifter moved and possibly engage. That tells me the trans has possibly had enough. Or one of the gears rather. So there's that.

 

Hey i got to drive it in boost for 4 months! Qwhat a great time that was! Smiles per gallon- check and double check.

 

Some other new parts I installed were; Gecko street coilovers and camber plates, R1 concepts geomet slotted rotors f/r, Akebono pro-act pads f/r Have Goodridge ss brake lines yet to be installed.

 

I added +1 to the factory setting for the coilovers and it rides so much better than just springs on oe struts. The spring rate stiffness is a tad higher than i like but, the dividends (wife likes the compliance the the highway) sells it self. Across the board from acceleration to stopping and cornering has been drastically improved the use of my 22-24mm sway bars The brakes are just what's needed. I slow down now faster than most with barely pushing the pedal. Push harder and you're stopping now. I mean dam check the rear view so i dont get hit. Fade? Havent gone to that level of need so i can't tell.

 

This is the first car I've owned that surpassed 100k with the original rotors front and rear! All i did was change pads! Actual was 109800. Almost 110k. Blown away.

 

Maybe a internal transmission issue. Might need a sti swap lol. Wish me luck guys. My wallet is gonna need it[emoji87][emoji86][emoji85][emoji16][emoji16]

Get that Billet replacement! and the pivot ball too!

Yeah buddy! On deck ready to wreck!

Where in Maryland your at. If your close by. I can help you tracing the exhaust leak. I have access to a 2 post car lift.

Thanks. Very nice offer, thank you. I did find the leak which was a manifold nut had backed off. I test drove it and was good. But on the way home the clutch fork broke and i had it towed to Andrewtech.

That was the manifold bolt. Upon return test driving my clutch fork broke when i went to engage 2nd and released the pedal. Made clanging rattle grind. Then i pushed pedal in (squishy) no noise. Coasted into a visitor parking space in nice neighborhood. Walked home with my son. Oh well......

So ive been chasing this leak of sorts for a week. Hard to pinpoint the source. Car is running lean yet the DAM stays at 1. I've gone over dp studs, exhaust manifold studs, intake pipe, exhaust and the only thing maybe is the flex pipe on the exhaust is showing some fraying. But the sounds are coming from the engine bay. Where else can exhaust leak from?

1st pull E60

 

Dyno vid

 

must've gotten your BS in teasing from GTEASER [emoji38]

Honestly I put the link in and it didnt take it. I meant to post both at same time. I'll get the video to another place and upload it.

I stopped video cause honestly I was to excited. He made more i just dont have the video. This was rhe best screenshot i grabbed. My bad.