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[BlackT5]

Bit of an update

Intake mani is bored for the NA throttle body




My gaskets finally arrived yesterday so today the work began.


How shes been sitting for like the last month I hate just watching my car sit there.



Top dead center set and off with the timing belt, dizzy, cam gears, cam position sensor etc..





Lots of bolts later, the cam cover is eased up and off the dowel pins







off



stock cams





dirty



crosshatch & headstuds







after lots of cleaning



a fresh head gasket and on she goes



head studs torqued down and that's it for today

[Ayte54R]

Wow just wow. What an amazing project. Please keep us updated!

[Piglet]

It's coming together nicely. Take it easy man, no need to rush this build

[Geevs]

Awesome Mark. Bet you are having a lot of fun putting the new pieces all together. What a way to start the new year.

Did you drop in the NA cams?

[BlackT5]

NA cams are going in today

[Über855R]

Cool, great build so far. Any idea what kind of power you made on that 19t after the motor build and before deciding to upgrade? What kind of boost were you running on the 19t? That garrett turbo is HUGE! Can't wait to see this bad azz mo fo back on the road.

[BlackT5]

Cool, great build so far. Any idea what kind of power you made on that 19t after the motor build and before deciding to upgrade? What kind of boost were you running on the 19t? That garrett turbo is HUGE! Can't wait to see this bad azz mo fo back on the road.

19psi



I think i should be able to make around the same power on 1/2 the boost with the new setup. The powerband should be much better also.

[ACES70]

19psi



I think i should be able to make around the same power on 1/2 the boost with the new setup. The powerband should be much better also.

Yikes, freakin yikes. Makes me want to get a T5 and just go with your past setup.

[narxs70]

ditto. i can't wait to see this monster. this build is aawesome. thanks for the update. this tops off and already good day for me.

[550]

Mark, I feel you on the seeing your car sitting there thing
it sucks.

[BlackT5]

I forgot to take pics of the cam cover ready to go in with the cams installed but they're in.

I quickly made my own cam locking tool and it was worth it. Much easier to have the cams held steady while your trying to bolt it back up. It also stops the cams from moving while you install the cam gears and slip on the timing belt. Pretty hard to mess things up this way. Anyone doing cam swaps, i highly recommend you make oneof these. Took all of 15 mins.



the tool



cam gears on, timing belt tensioned



put on a few things last night.. S60R mani is in place, just need some more studs and then the turbos going on.



after that, the next job is IC piping

[Mesoam]

no catch can, come on you know you want to...

[BlackT5]

no catch can, come on you know you want to...

Catch can is on the list, just gotta choose how i'm going to run it.

[prasamin]

have you ever replaced the knock sensors?

[BlackT5]

have you ever replaced the knock sensors?

nope.

why?

[NGB]

Can't wait to see that turbo bolted up

Keep the pics coming.

[rodrigo]

top notch, Mark.

[RedspeedR]

Holy crap!...good job.
Jason

[Gioseppe]

the 10 day update, what's the word?

[550]

slacker.