Joshuaw3's 96 gt build

[joshuaw3]

 

[joshuaw3]

I had an oil pressure issue. Not sure why yet. The tuner and I thought the gauge was messed up but he gave me an opportunity to back out. I said let’s send it and see what happens. I guess the gauge was right and I did have low oil pressure. As of right now my theory is that the technician at my job who relocated where I had my oil filter relocation kit and to try to stop the leaks plumbed the lines wrong. If they weren’t out to in and in to out that would explain the problem.

 

[joshuaw3]

Good news is I found a guy local selling pi 4.6s so I already have another motor disassembly on that has already begun. Next weekend we should have it running again.

 

[ttocs]

ouch. That is the exact reason I decided to keep my plx gauges in addition to the holley system gauges. I wanted to be able to have a 2nd gauge to verify what was or was not being read so with them I have 2 oil pressures, 2 fuel pressures, ect. The plx design is nice because it can monitor all the sensors and alert me if something is wrong with out needing to have one gauge for each sensor.

 

[evilcw311]

That really sux!!!!! Luckily you already got a new block and it should drop in pretty quickly.


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[joshuaw3]

Well it was a weekend of firsts
1st dynotune
First time driving a turbo car.
First time driving something with more than 250hp
First time destroying an engine
First time buying a junkyard engine
First time swapping engines (happening soon)

 

[joshuaw3]

Not as big of a hole as I thought

 

[96blak54]

Oh that sux! Hopefully youve lined out the problem.

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[ttocs]

eh a little duct tape and your golden.

 

[98snakehorse]

Atleast its getting you a PI assembly now. Make sure to sort the oil filter relocate stuff for sure this time

Your gonna be over the 400whp mark easily now

 

[joshuaw3]

I have some good friends. They pulled the engine while I was working an hour away. They are really helping me get this back up and running with as little down time as possible

 

[evilcw311]

Those are definitely good friends.




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[ttocs]

I really need to get some new friends I guess...

 

[98snakehorse]

Your on your way to getting it back up and running it looks like

 

[joshuaw3]

 

[joshuaw3]

First pic above is the new engine. Everything looks good in there. We made some progress tonight. Cleaned up this new engine really good, put new intake manifold gaskets in, new thermostat. Tapped the pi intake for the second coolant temp sensor. Got the old crank pulley off, swapped out the plugs, pulled the timing cover off the old motor and put a new gasket on and put it on the new one. Only things left are to swap over the oil filter relocation, swap the motor mounts, swap the headers, tap the pan, put a gasket on the pan, put it on the k member, reinstall turbo setup, connect wiring and we are good to go. Hopefully be done by this Saturday. The other two pics above are the carnage. I’ll get better pics when we actually take the pan off the old motor.

 

[98snakehorse]

Did you find out what caused the low to no oil pressure?

 

[joshuaw3]

Did you find out what caused the low to no oil pressure?

Not yet

 

[joshuaw3]

I promise I’ll update you guys tomorrow on what we find in the old engine. But spent all day in the 100 degree heat working on this thing. Got everything reinstalled. And it will be in the car tomorrow

 

[evilcw311]

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I promise I’ll update you guys tomorrow on what we find in the old engine. But spent all day in the 100 degree heat working on this thing. Got everything reinstalled. And it will be in the car tomorrow

If it makes ya feel any better I was out in 90° heat all day.


But I was laying around the pool. [emoji1787]


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