Ok, Another update for the you V8 guys to turn your noses up at:tumbleweed:
Today started off having me walking 5 miles to pick up the new 4eye. It was about 90 at 9AM when I started walking. I called the seller to tell him I'd be there in an hour,and after talking (and finding out I was walking), he offered to pick me up. I had made 1.5 miles by the time he got to me.
I grabbed the car, took it by the ins office, then by the credit union where it's financed (I just didn't want to come off 2500.00, and have to wait on my #1 son to pay me back) for an inspection. They just wanted to make sure it wasn't some heap.
Interesting sidenote, The loan officer congratulated me on the great price. She said the according to NADA. the car retail in fair condition was 4k, and in excellent condition was 9k.
So the lesson learned for today would be:...A credit union will finance a perfect 86GT, even if it sells for up to 9K. :woowoo:
I got the thing home and parked it. It is bad need of a left tail light, and I didn't want it falling off onto the interstate like the tail lights on my car did when they hauled the thing to me.
Focusing on my car, I needed to find a Gilmer belt. I went downtown again, to Motion Industries, but they didn't have one. Grainger didn't, another industrial supply didn't, finally I found a bearing supply house that did. 20.00.
I found another supplier for more of the push lock -12 hose I've been using for the water hoses, so I could build the oil feed lines to the pump. I bought 10' of that junk @ 2.77'.
The reason that bears worth mentioning is that purchasing this stuff from Summit/Jegs would be double that, so it pays to try and locally source the stuff if you can.
I get back home at noon after eating lunch at the only fast food tex-mex restaurant worth patronizing,.....Moes. You can have all the Taco Bell you can pass in 12 hours, Moes kills the TBell.
I throw the belt on to be sure I didn't get one too short. It fit perfecto.
Yesterdays update said that the belt alignment was wrong, and the pic clearly shows that it is. What looks like the belt is too far forward is actually the nose of the gear being too low.
I removed the bracket, and ground off one of the two tack welds so that I could twist the thing up to align it. I need to do a better job of with that tack weld, because I did in fact twist it, and you can see that the tack is starting to fail because of that. Let me tell you, if that tack fails, and I lose all that I have, the roar that'll come out of my mouth will be heard in Canada.
So that that won't have to happen, I'll just add to the tack tomorrow before I bolt the bracket back in place for final alignment.
All of my couplers came in this afternoon, so I changed gears again, and returned to the cold side completion. The dilemma was what to do w/ each cut end of the tubing to keep it from slipping out under boost. I was gonna weld tabs, and strap the splices together ala-dragcar, but that was more work than I wanted to commit to. I attempted to weld a ring around the end of one of the tubes, but that took forever, and I hated it when I was done. So, in the end, and in the simplest form possible, I took a crescent wrench, closed it tight against the wall of the open end of each tube, and slid it onto the end of the tube 1/4". Then, working around the tube, bent a simple flare at the end by "nibbling" one little bend at a time until I got completely around the end of the tube.
Took about 1 minute per end. Ten minutes for all.
Then I painted the things in a high heat black, and coupled the things in place permanently.
I got to the IC side, and completed my BOV installation. Another Chinee piece from Godspeed, we'll have to see how this thing works and sounds.
There's an Aussie Mustang out there on Youtube, that I am hoping mine will sound like.
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Once all of that junk was done, I moved to the wastegates, and the hotside. At some point during the welding/ baking the holes that hold the waste gates on got way smaller. I had to run a tap through them to get them back open big enough to get them to bolt up.
Loosely bolted on till I get the downpipe finished. That'll be tomorrows work.
That, and that stinkin' oil pump