Yes. Plus my clutch.

 

Have a 5558 gen 2 supercore in transit.

letsgetthisdone, I’ve had a shop do most of the large stuff because I had no time and no space to do it myself. Now I have space but time is still at a premium. I also want a working car after all this so I’ll find the time to do it myself.

Have a lot of history of doing wrenching myself that I will have to dust off the cobwebs to call it back.

 

So your keeping her?
and how far would your drive be to Palmer?

 

Looks like six hours. Isn’t that the track with rocks right off track? No thanks, place looks like death.

NJMP is now my local track, about two hours away.

 

5558 Supercore showed up today. Super fast.

Want to our swap it out this weekend but need to get a space heater first as it’s in the 20’s now. I love the cold weather but standing still working on a car I need some heat...

Home depot here I come.

 

Been taking my time and slowing doing this turbo swap. All my fancy inconel heat shielding makes it a royal pain in the *** to get to any bolts.

The upper half of the shielding on the exhaust manifold took me about thirty minutes alone to get off. I was trying not to bend it much but ended up giving up and bent the hell out of it to get it off. Hoping I can reshape it before putting it back on. The OEM exhaust manifold to head gasket with it's weird top heat shield is what was getting in the way. I think I am going to trim that part off when I put things back together.

Once I got the upper inconel shielding off I realized I needed to expand my tool library to get to some of the manifold bolts. Good excuse for more tools! So now I wait for them to be delivered.

Here it was before I mangled the upper inconel shield to get it off:

 

If anyone was curious, the carcovers.com indoor cover fits surprisingly well on the Evo 10.

 

That doesn't look very for sale

 

I gave up trying to get the manifold off so it's going to hibernate until spring.

 

Evos are Hotel California of the automotive world.

You can check out, but you can never leave.

 

At least the weather will be warmer when you start throwing the lawn chairs around again.
Hey...Looks like you have a decent place to store it.... newer constructed garage?

 

Definitely better than what I had in California. It's a newer two-car garage. It's not insulated though so working on the car in 20* weather sucks. I've already lost most of my interest in the car so the idea of working on it in the cold just makes me not work on it. I'll see it in the spring.

 

I am very interested on how the 5558 gen 2 performs, it should be fantastic. Any ideas on how to convince the bolts to keep their job of holding the turbo together?

 

me too, we’ll have to wait three plus months

 

My vote goes for a good copper anti-seize that is meant to prevent the stainless from galling, and get the bolts drilled for safety and safety wire them.


That garage would take a 2 days to throw insulation in the walls and put up sheet rock.