sorrowfulkiller

Finally got my Infero Fab headers. I know the other ones are pretty ridiculous look but there where temporary so that I could run the car. Don't judge me. Hahaha

Christ that thing looks nice!

If only it wasn't almost $400 for the dual port...

I had a leaking cam seal, turned out to be a broken front cam cap bolt on the intake side. Drove 30 miles with it broke

I lifted the engine, pulled the valve cover, drilled a hole into the bolt thread that was stuck in the head and used a Harbor Freight easy out to get it out... which is funny because its the only brand of easy out that I have never broken lol

I thought I was going to finish today but...

 

When I got the car both tensioner bolt holes were partly stripped. I've struggled with it ever since because I didn't know at first that those holes were on a bracket rather than in the block casting.

 

So with this job I was going to swap in a spare of that bracket. Problem solved right? No. When I was putting in the timing set I found that the tensioner pulley hole was stripped on the spare. Nice! Two bad brackets and no good ones. I guess no one reads the 25 ft lb torque spec on these things and instead think they are building the Golden Gate bridge.

 

I probably should have checked the local yard, but they don't usually have anything useful, so I spent the day drilling and tapping and finding that no one in the western hemisphere sells M9x1.25 bolts, and threading my M10 bolts down to M9 because I didn't want to drill the tensioner slider holes out that big and finding that the heads on the M10 donors were too big to clear so reducing them from 17mm down to 15mm. I'm going to leave them odd sized as a reminder that they are odd in every way.

 

By the time I got done with all the silliness I'd lost the light.

 

Oh, but I did get the sensor wires merged into the front harness at the fan connectors. And the glueing on of the timing sprocket on the crank, that always makes me nervous.

Wait.... yours were M9? That'd odd because I stripped out my bracket and it was an M10x1.25... I just helicoiled the thing instead of dicking around with buying a new one... glad I did too because I had to helicoil an exhaust manifold stud hole too the next week.

Spent nearly an hour getting my timing sproket off the crank nose. Long story why it was so hard to do. The trick was mostly threading the holes in it 5/16 inch x 18 for a puller.

 

But, that is the hard part of getting the oil pump and water pump project done. The rest is just typical cleaning and R&R.

I had to use 2 big pry bars on mine...

damn woodruff key...

The parts came out really good! The colour match looks spot on from the pictures you posted. Any way you can put up a link to where you got your paint supplies or for the kit itself?

^THIS!

I have to do some rust repair... which painting comes shortly after. This would be helpful.

The eyelids make your car look half asleep haha

How'd you get the active tire display? Is it something that someone could buy?

Resistor to the airbag connector will correct that. 3.3 Ohms I believe is the correct resistor value. For the love of god, do not probe your airbag to find out what it is.

3.3 ohms was what my 02 wrx one was as well.

What a great looking car!

Quick question, what kind of spoiler is that?

Jesus dude, that is a good looking car!

You should do a writeup on polishing