V.8MR

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I'd like to know as well. I had originally planned to send my hot bits to Swaintech for a coating. Wonder how these heat shields compare and also if they are heavy.

RazorLab

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Not sure the best way to measure effectiveness for you guys. It doesn't seem crazy hot after driving the car around town. True test is whenever I make it back to the track.

The shielding itself is very light. If you have ever held a piece of OEM inconel shielding (like on the Evo X firewall or on the chassis above the exhaust), it's basically the same.

kikiturbo

that does sound like mechanical noise and not knock... When I did the GSC S2 install Aaron told me to adjust the knock tables to get rid of phantom knock.. Glad it seems to be working out for you too..

RazorLab

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How much did you end up adjusting them?

kikiturbo

I left my laptop at home, I will take a look when I get back..

RazorLab

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Oil feed fitting at the turbo (the one that was loose) is now officially leaking. Coated the center cartridge housing, luckily I smelled it and checked before it had a chance to catch on fire.

Car is now garaged until the shop that put it together gets back from his Europe trip. :-/

Good side is now I have a bunch of time so I can swap the intake manifold and throttle body and install the secondary knock sensor.

LetsGetThisDone

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That sucks man. I don't think I would have the patience to let the car sit lol

RazorLab

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Tell me about it. This last year with this damn thing has tested my patience in ways I didn't know where possible.

It's also SUPER frustrating that I can't just unscrew the damn fitting or simply tighten it.

I was actually to the point of brainstorming last night how I could dremel cut the L part off enough to allow the fitting to turn without getting any shavings into the turbo. lol.

If I didn't have the luxury of having a second fun car I probably would have gone postal by now.

LetsGetThisDone

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shove some grease in it and cut it LOL. Get a straight fitting, and a line with a 90* swivel.

RazorLab

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LOL, that is EXACTLY what I was brainstorming. lmao.

LetsGetThisDone

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It would work. Use a grease needle to make sure it gets fully filled up.

Abacus

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As far as turning the knock sensitivity up, Its needed as the engine goes farther from the way Mitsubishi built it. Aftermarket pistons/rods/cams are going to change harmonics.

Can you stick it on the dyno on low smoothing and run the timing up/down to see what it likes. If you needed to test the sensor/real knock you could purposely knock it at low boost if you wanted to.

It would save alot of time and you would have a clear answer on the engines performance. Its alot easier to see exactly whats happening on a dyno vs road logs and ecuflashsums.

mrfred

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The fitting would heat up enough to make the grease flow. JB Weld or something more resistant to heat should work though.

RazorLab

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I'd be weary of accidently shooting JB Weld into my turbos center cartridge. Lol.

There has to be hi-temp grease that wouldn't start to flow at dremel cutting temp?

I haven't yet checked to see if I can even fit my dremel into the area anyway...

LetsGetThisDone

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The oil inlet has a large area to fill after the fitting. If it were to fill completely, some of the grease getting hot enough to flow wouldn't be an issue.