RS FF 6766 Build
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RS FF 6766 Build
This car has been a project since 3 weeks after I brought it home in Sept. of 2010. I purchased the car from a member on here, it was fairy well modded and made a tad over 500whp on E85. I picked this car mainly because of the tasteful mods, low mileage, color, and JDM rear bumper. Having owned a DSM for almost 10 years now I wanted a car that had good power that I could just drive and maintain. I looked over the car for 2 hours, everything seemed great and I towed it 9 hours back to Michigan.
Fast forward 3 weeks, and what I expected, happened...it blew up. Cruising speed, low throttle and boost, and the thing threw the #2 rod through both sides of the block. T-case was trashed, radiator was trashed, head was trashed, and oil pan. I now had a 18k dollar paper weight.
I ended up buying a MAP 2.1 bottom end, and having TRE rebuilt the t-case.
I replaced pretty much everything I could that was going back on the motor so there would be no issues with anything. I did the same thing with my GSX back about 6 years ago and I've had 0 issues with it.
I took a job in December of 2010 in NC so the car stayed in Michigan at my parents house. I periodically went back to work on it and in April of 2011 I got it running and towed it down to NC.
I didn't put the FP Red the car came with back on, as I didn't like the amount of shaft play it had, so I picked up a stock turbo and have been using that.
Present:
I haven't done really anything with the car over the past year except drive it occasionally on weekends, and that is only if I was traveling for work and I was able to pick up E85 on the way home, I am still on the tune that was originally on the car. There is no E85 within an hour of my house, so its a pain to drive 2 hours and use a half tank of gas in my truck.
I figured I'd go all out with the car now and a week or so ago I purchased a FF 6766 setup from a member on here. Everything arrived Monday...well almost everything, a few small items were missing but its not a big deal.
I was hoping this kit was bolt on and go...and after dealing with these kinds of cars over the past 9 years or so I knew that wasn't going to be the case. The first problem I ran into was the ACD pump in the way of the lower pipe. I ended up mounting it to the rear of the car behind the passenger side wheel. I cut off the reservoir bracket and had a piece of steel welded to the stock bracket.
It is mounted to 2 threaded inserts that are there from the factory. I've got a couple inches of clearance between the wheel, should be fine.
I had a custom line made today to run back up to the t-case. I will be installing it today.
I made bracket to hold the half width Fluidyne radiator in place. It currently sits at a very slight angle because of the fan resting against the core support. I will be putting a piece of foam or rubber between the upper rad support and the radiator to reduce vibration and even it out.
So this is how it currently sits. I need to mock up the exhaust and have it welded since the seller cut it up into 5 pieces, run the wires for the ACD pump, and mount the reservoir in the trunk. After that it should be smooth sailing. Let me know what you think!
Pictures of the exterior.
I'll post a full list of what parts I've used during the built later, it's gonna take me awhile to remember everything that is on the car.
Fast forward 3 weeks, and what I expected, happened...it blew up. Cruising speed, low throttle and boost, and the thing threw the #2 rod through both sides of the block. T-case was trashed, radiator was trashed, head was trashed, and oil pan. I now had a 18k dollar paper weight.
I ended up buying a MAP 2.1 bottom end, and having TRE rebuilt the t-case.
I replaced pretty much everything I could that was going back on the motor so there would be no issues with anything. I did the same thing with my GSX back about 6 years ago and I've had 0 issues with it.
I took a job in December of 2010 in NC so the car stayed in Michigan at my parents house. I periodically went back to work on it and in April of 2011 I got it running and towed it down to NC.
I didn't put the FP Red the car came with back on, as I didn't like the amount of shaft play it had, so I picked up a stock turbo and have been using that.
Present:
I haven't done really anything with the car over the past year except drive it occasionally on weekends, and that is only if I was traveling for work and I was able to pick up E85 on the way home, I am still on the tune that was originally on the car. There is no E85 within an hour of my house, so its a pain to drive 2 hours and use a half tank of gas in my truck.
I figured I'd go all out with the car now and a week or so ago I purchased a FF 6766 setup from a member on here. Everything arrived Monday...well almost everything, a few small items were missing but its not a big deal.
I was hoping this kit was bolt on and go...and after dealing with these kinds of cars over the past 9 years or so I knew that wasn't going to be the case. The first problem I ran into was the ACD pump in the way of the lower pipe. I ended up mounting it to the rear of the car behind the passenger side wheel. I cut off the reservoir bracket and had a piece of steel welded to the stock bracket.
It is mounted to 2 threaded inserts that are there from the factory. I've got a couple inches of clearance between the wheel, should be fine.
I had a custom line made today to run back up to the t-case. I will be installing it today.
I made bracket to hold the half width Fluidyne radiator in place. It currently sits at a very slight angle because of the fan resting against the core support. I will be putting a piece of foam or rubber between the upper rad support and the radiator to reduce vibration and even it out.
So this is how it currently sits. I need to mock up the exhaust and have it welded since the seller cut it up into 5 pieces, run the wires for the ACD pump, and mount the reservoir in the trunk. After that it should be smooth sailing. Let me know what you think!
Pictures of the exterior.
I'll post a full list of what parts I've used during the built later, it's gonna take me awhile to remember everything that is on the car.
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No clue, probably similar to the post below yours, they came on the car and the previous owner didn't know either. Tires are Nitto NT-05's 255/40/17. Suspension geometry is the next on my list of things to look at as the tires seem to rub slightly on control arms/side skirts/gas filler tube. There are spacers on the front, I am unsure of what size, I haven't measured them.
Thanks Scott! Detroit is definitely FTW...I need to move back
It should lol, its a beautiful piece, you guys do very high quality work!
Thanks for the comments, I'll hopefully have some more updates later on tonight.
Thanks Scott! Detroit is definitely FTW...I need to move back
It should lol, its a beautiful piece, you guys do very high quality work!
Thanks for the comments, I'll hopefully have some more updates later on tonight.
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Got some more work done on the car the past couple days/nights. ACD line is ran, just need to bolt it up under the car which I will be doing tomorrow.
For anyone looking to do this its not hard at all utilizing the stock pump bracket and having a line made. I took the pump and banjo bolt to a local hydraulic fittings place and they made it in 10 minutes, I had them make it 12 feet long which was a tad long (8-12") but I'd rather it be long than too short. The threads on the pump and t-case are the same pitch/diameter too btw.
I left the stock ACD line on the car, I started to remove it and realized it was going to be a PITA. I cleared the line of fluid, capped both ends, and temporarily zip tied the banjo fitting up out of the way.
Trimmed the front bumper for the 5" thick ETS intercooler......not fun and very time consuming. I ended up removing the spacers that came with it that go between the mounting brackets and the core support and used washers instead to move the intercooler closer to the core support. I wish I would've done that first as I wouldn't have needed to trim as much off the bumper. I'm going to try and retain the stock grill to keep as much road debris out as I can.
Wrapped the wastegate dump tubes. I'm going to wrap the entire 4" exhaust as well after it is welded back together.
Installed..
AIT sensor installed using a plug and play harness to the stock MAF harness
Stock fan control module wired up and mounted as well as the Profec B II solenoid mounted.
Put the intake manifold, injectors, OmniPower 4 Bar MAP sensor, etc. back in and upper intercooler pipe. I need to source a t-bolt clamp that is between 2.5" and 3" for the throttle body coupler, could't get the 2.5" one to go and the 3" was too big .
Next on the list other than having the exhaust welded up is to run new vac lines to the wastegates and bov. I'm going to go through and try and tuck/hide as much of the wiring harness as I can as well. I'm probably going to have the piping and valve cover powder coated satin black, I'm not a big fan of polished pipes, plus they're fairly scratched up.