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Beautiful build..Great choice of parts.. looking forward to more
Thank you sir!
Just waiting on Boostin Performance to finish up my cylinder head and intake manifold.
After reading many threads, I ordered a Fluidampr crank pully to help with harmonics and bearing longevity. It should be here by tomorrow.
I also decided to order the 900hp Driveshaft shop front axles. My oem axles have over 100,000 miles on them and one of the boots tore apart.
I might just throw the shortblock as is in the car tonight just to get ahead on assembly time so that when the cylinder head comes I can throw it on and go. Having the entire engine together before it goes into the car would be car **** though...
Apparently it has a steel disk inside that sheers through silicon oil to absorb harmonic vibration and convert it to heat. Why that works I'm still not sure unless it has to do with entropy. Thermodynamics is not my forte, but I digress, this is that.
Boostin informed me that they would have my cylinder head and intake manifold shipped by next Monday. I also found out some interesting facts about some of my other parts.
The MAP evo 8/9 short runner exhaust manifold has been discontinued (Understandably). The STM standard oil catch can has also been taken off STM's website. They released a better one. The new one they released is sealed so that it can use the intake pipe negative pressure to place a proper vacuum on the crank case/valve cover. That being said, I'm still using their standard catch can
I will be trying out the cast FP Evo race manifold as it seems like it will be much more reliable in the long run. It has no welds that can crack.
Things are going well enough and I have done EVERYTHING in my power to finish what I can now, even without all of my parts. To give you an idea of just how close this is to being done, i'll leave you with this:
your build is fairly close to mine. interested in how this turns out.
There are a couple of good people I know who are doing the exact build as we are. It's hard to beat for street duty and spool. Excited to get this thing together already. Start up date will be the day I get the cylinder head. Believe me, I won't waste any time as i'm a boost addict who has been deprived for much too long.
I'm a native San Diegan. Nice to see another nicely built 2.3l FP Black Evo in SoCal.
A great assembly of parts, no doubt this car is going to perform magnificently. Like the other member mentioned, this is very similar to my old FP Black build. Just to give you some reference and what to expect, I'm posting a link to my thread where I shared my results. Now granted, I was using very mild cams, your list of parts will no doubt out perform my old set-up. When your car is running, maybe you can come out to Temecula where I live and we can hit up Palomar mountain.
I'm a native San Diegan. Nice to see another nicely built 2.3l FP Black Evo in SoCal.
A great assembly of parts, no doubt this car is going to perform magnificently. Like the other member mentioned, this is very similar to my old FP Black build. Just to give you some reference and what to expect, I'm posting a link to my thread where I shared my results. Now granted, I was using very mild cams, your list of parts will no doubt out perform my old set-up. When your car is running, maybe you can come out to Temecula where I live and we can hit up Palomar mountain.
Thank you for the kind words. It's always encouraging to see another San Diegan who is also braving the retarded smog laws here. I will definitely check out your thread to see what's in store! We'll cruise it to Palomar mountain some time. I have a lot of sport bike buddies who ride up there on the weekends (They are always dropping bikes ) Believe it or not, i've never been there yet.
I have it and like it. Only issue with it is hardware fitment. If you use the FP hardware the 12 point nuts are an issue. Do some searching and you'll see. I bought a cheap 12 wrench and ground it down till it fit.
yeah Ron you need 2 longer bolts for the manifold, its like $25 on extremepsi's website I believe, if you cant find it let me knows il find it for you.
I have it and like it. Only issue with it is hardware fitment. If you use the FP hardware the 12 point nuts are an issue. Do some searching and you'll see. I bought a cheap 12 wrench and ground it down till it fit.
Originally Posted by roni4g63
yeah Ron you need 2 longer bolts for the manifold, its like $25 on extremepsi's website I believe, if you cant find it let me knows il find it for you.
Thanks guys!
I went ahead and test fit it tonight and found it to bolt up perfectly (to the turbo at least for now ) I'm most likely going to be using good old 6 point hardware on this. I compared each runner size to my old tubular manifold and it's noticeably larger.
