That's about the best surprise anyone can ever have.
You've got a great family and wife. That's love.

Hope the tune brings an even bigger smile to your face.

 

Thanks for the kind words friend. They most certainly are the greatest group of people I've ever encountered! I'll have plenty of pics to post up tomorrow and the start up vid for sure.

 

First time out of the garage in a year and a half!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtuJo...ature=youtu.be

Here's the start-up vid. The other one's wouldn't load but pretty much, I had the crank sensor backwards so it wouldn't start but once my brother noticed it and flipped it this is the video of it starting right up. No base map.

 

Thanks alot for making this thread and posting all of those pictures. This was definitely a very fun read, enjoy your new evo!

 

WOW bro! Thats awesome, it sounds like you have a very nice family! What a great way to come home

 

Thanks for reading. Aside from my own documentation, my hopes with this thread was to help some out and entertain others. I'm glad you enjoyed it and thanks again!

 

Thanks man they're pretty awesome. I wish the DMV was as nice... I have to wait for my bank to smail the title to register the car after being told otherwise. So the tune might have to wait a little longer...

 

I do have a question for the good evom people though...

I removed the t-case so I knew I had to bleed the ACD which was no big deal. Until I got under the car and heard no noise come from the pump. All 3 traction lights are on, fluid is full, I loosened the bleeder and nothing came out. Any ideas other than bad pump?

 

Sweet build bro. Just read it from beginning to end! Giving me confidence to build my own one day. How many "special" tools did you have to buy? Seems like you had most of the stuff already..

 

thanks man! everyone needs confidence :P As long as you pay attention to what you're doing and take your time everything will work with you. For the most part... Lol and I actually didn't use any special tools. If I didn't have something I either made it or found another tool or combination of tools that worked just as good.

 

Today I removed the charcoal canister and the rest of the evap stuff on the intake manifold. Ill get some pictures up of that soon.

I think I read somewhere that if an abs code gets thrown, the Acd will go in standby mode. Is this correct? today all 3 lights weren't on but the pump still wouldn't turn on.

 

Well today an old friend of mine stopped by and started tuning the car. I haven't drove it yet but tomorrow morning ill have some videos and pictures to post for sure!

Until then...

 

A little update:

We started tuning the car the night before I had to leave and realized I should've advanced the intake cam 5 degrees, so we could only advance it so far without tephra. We decided on calling it a night and turning the cam later on.

I noticed that the car had some oil on the bottom of the radiator which was odd... the radiator was leaking coolant due to a poor buy from an un-trusty local guy. There was small amounts of oil on top of the wastegate, licp, downpipe, and back due to driving.

I cleaned everything up and tried determining where the leak was but nothing was found. I figured it was alright for my brother to drive it to put some miles on it as long as he monitors the pressure and level of oil at all times.

100 miles went by and still it hadn't lost even a half quart of oil but we're all stumped as to where it is leaking from. The feed line, return line, everything on and around the turbo is spotless.

 

And of course... he's some more pictures for the people!










Trying to find that stupid oil leak for 45 minutes...