KrissrocK
05-04-2009, 12:23 PM
ok. This is pic heavy. But i had a crazy weekend. Firstly, i've been dealing with bad suspension as well as fueling issues. I had to purchase new shocks, having installed my lowering springs, i knew it was bitch to do. I took off friday from work, and actually started things on thursday night. I only stopped to eat, and go to see Wolverine cause my GF forced me to. I didn't finished till sunday morning. My hands and back are killing me. i think my thumbs are swollen actually
So let's start with suspension. I had the stock with lowering springs with cause Cupping of my tires. I get loud resonating sounds in the car between 15 and 25 mph. Plus on the highways I would get vibrations. If you look at these two pic, on the left sides of the tires you can see areas that are darker than others. Those areas are not touching the ground. The lighter spots have the dry dirt on them and you can see the pattern of contact with causes the sounds.
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Next up, I removed the entire intake track for a cleaning. I knew i had a lot of blown oil in the track after I had blown off a connection once. I planned on cleaning the entire track, but I truly had no idea just how much oil was in my tubes.
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notice how this goes from blue - to completely black
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all of this running out of my IC...imagine how much is sitting in the bottom of it
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So i took everything and gave them two baths using a whole bottle of grease lightning.
This was after all intake removed, but suspension still on
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oh yeah, all this cramped in a single car garage.
the bath - yes even the manifold.
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So i thought i was ready to start putting the rear suspension on, but the Bilstiens were so stiff and actually had rebound, I couldn't get them on w/o extra jacks and tie-downs to bring them in some. So i had to do the front suspension so that i could use the jacks in the rear along with the jack-stands.
The Bil's waiting
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After over an hour of fighting with the first shock, i got it out. I used a chisel to wedge in the shock mount and the strut spring compressors rented from AutoZone. The chisel can be seen in the background with the yellow handle. I purchased new bearing and mounts
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Old vs New - I didn't notice this when i was holding them, but looking at this pic, these two mounts are different. the new one is deeper than the old. I think this actually raises the ride height a couple mm's. No bother, they fit just fine. I decided to use the tie-down straps for the othe side cause they are soooooo much easier to work with. I found using the spring compressor annoying as either i didn't have enough room to crank, or my tool would get stuck on the compressor. On the rear, i noticed that it would take OVER A MINUTE for the shocks to come back out from a full compression. and they would only come back out if they were upside down. Right side up, the weight of itself was stronger than the rebound pressure.
I then decided to start getting the engine back together since once i got the suspension together, i could let he car down and leave it down, instead of having to jack it back up to get the belly pan and stuff on.
in doing my catch can, I broke the tube from the case trying to get the rubber connection off of it. So i had to figure out some way to connect a tube to it again cause it has to go through the catch can. The part of the tube that was left is significantly bigger than the part i broke off which would have connected to the tube so i needed a huge tube connect them again.
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on the left is the case vent and those two pieces used to be one. I bought the huge 1.25 inch tube on the right to go over the L shaped crank tube. also on the right, is a big brass fitting that will be connected to the case vent and has a smaller side so it can connect to normal size tubing. Under the case tube, is the PCV value, This is the one way valve that allows the engine to suck in all that nasty oil vapor in, but not blow back into the engine. I will use this one-way valve for the brake booster line. Because it's pretty big, i had to buy a good size hose and reducer for that as well so it can connect to existing brake booster line.
Here's what i did with the crank vent line since i broke it
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Here it is on the engine
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With hardly NOOOO space for my catch can, i had to make a mount for it on the heat sheild of the intake.
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OK, now call me stupdi, but that phenolic spacer was a BITCH to get right
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the spacer itself goes on fine, but trying to follow the directions was utterly impossible. The images were small and in b/w and the descriptions were horrible as well. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to use the new bracket support or not.
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So i took out the old one, and here you can see there are no where near the same size. The new bracket actually sits way deeper in the engine so i had to use the stock on. It came came with this big shim which they show bolting up under the manifold in between the support whole and the bracket...but the bolt they give you isn't long enough to through them... Luckily i had one of the magnetic wand thingies cause i dropped bolt deep into the engine trying to get these stupid brackets on n off. IDK, i couldn't figure it out, so i just ended up bending the stock support bracket back some so that it didn't pull the manifold away from the enging.
Some of the intake tubes came clean having to use steal wool. Some where just too long for me to get into so whatever came off after two days of soaking is how it's gonna be..
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Here you can see my catch can set up. In the mid left, you can see the line coming from the case with the new brass fitting n schit. That line comes straight out and bends to the left and curves up to meet the fitting coming from the right side of the T from the valve cover and both go into the top fitting of the catch can. The bottom fitting is a port straight back to the intake.
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I got this FMIC from anothe fella and it came with this straigh fitting to connect this corner....Ehh. that's like a 60 - 90 degree bend there. But it was all i had. I cause the piping to kink closer to the IC
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so i purchased this bend from PepBoys - of course it doesn't say what size Diameter it is....only what the bend angle is. and it turned out to be too big. 3 inches maybe, ours is 2.5
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I put this together using the pcv valve from under the under, a later tubing and fitting from lowes. This will allow me to connect this to the intake for a vac source for the brake booster, and use the nipple under the manifold for something totally different. I connected to the DV.
I will probably replace this with a smaller one way valve in the future.
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So under my mani, the two small nipple on the left side are connected to the FPR and to the SAI which is tee off to the gauges. The large part in the middle is a direct line to DV.
starting to button things back up...i like the shiny new bolts that came with the spacer
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here is things pretty much back together.
you can see the valve i made on the left side of the manifold, and the lines gong to the catch can from the the case and valve cover, and the reinstalled adj fpr and removed N249 again..
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Finishing up the suspension was ok. I ended up having to let the car back down so that the weight of the car would push the shocks into the mount fully as i could not get them to go. Even then i had to push on the car to get them to drop. I used an electric torque gun to remove the stock bolts and luckily i had the right right stuff to bolt down the bearings while keeping the shock from turning with the allen key. But the new shocks came a with a bigger bolt for the very top so i had went out and purchased a $23 wrench with a super angle on the head, but it turned out to be the wrong size. So i just decided to use the old monkey wrench...
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Back in business
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Things I didn't have pics of is just the wiring of all interior and DRLs to ignition and resistor install for slow blink.
My impressions of the shocks are that they are indeed much stiffer than what i had. Goin over road bumps, the car feels bouncier, but i guess this is because you can feel the suspension actually pushing back out. Turning seems to be much better as the car rolls less. Also, it doesn't follow road grooves as much. My car would have what could be equated to torque steer just dring down the road. Basically, the wheel would pull to whatever side, following different groves in the road or height changes in the surface from side to side...hated it. Seems to be gone now. I'm really hoping to see what kinda of oil the catch can gets cause the amount of oil i had in there was beyond belief.
i think that's all...
So let's start with suspension. I had the stock with lowering springs with cause Cupping of my tires. I get loud resonating sounds in the car between 15 and 25 mph. Plus on the highways I would get vibrations. If you look at these two pic, on the left sides of the tires you can see areas that are darker than others. Those areas are not touching the ground. The lighter spots have the dry dirt on them and you can see the pattern of contact with causes the sounds.
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Next up, I removed the entire intake track for a cleaning. I knew i had a lot of blown oil in the track after I had blown off a connection once. I planned on cleaning the entire track, but I truly had no idea just how much oil was in my tubes.
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notice how this goes from blue - to completely black
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all of this running out of my IC...imagine how much is sitting in the bottom of it
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So i took everything and gave them two baths using a whole bottle of grease lightning.
This was after all intake removed, but suspension still on
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oh yeah, all this cramped in a single car garage.
the bath - yes even the manifold.
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So i thought i was ready to start putting the rear suspension on, but the Bilstiens were so stiff and actually had rebound, I couldn't get them on w/o extra jacks and tie-downs to bring them in some. So i had to do the front suspension so that i could use the jacks in the rear along with the jack-stands.
The Bil's waiting
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After over an hour of fighting with the first shock, i got it out. I used a chisel to wedge in the shock mount and the strut spring compressors rented from AutoZone. The chisel can be seen in the background with the yellow handle. I purchased new bearing and mounts
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Old vs New - I didn't notice this when i was holding them, but looking at this pic, these two mounts are different. the new one is deeper than the old. I think this actually raises the ride height a couple mm's. No bother, they fit just fine. I decided to use the tie-down straps for the othe side cause they are soooooo much easier to work with. I found using the spring compressor annoying as either i didn't have enough room to crank, or my tool would get stuck on the compressor. On the rear, i noticed that it would take OVER A MINUTE for the shocks to come back out from a full compression. and they would only come back out if they were upside down. Right side up, the weight of itself was stronger than the rebound pressure.
I then decided to start getting the engine back together since once i got the suspension together, i could let he car down and leave it down, instead of having to jack it back up to get the belly pan and stuff on.
in doing my catch can, I broke the tube from the case trying to get the rubber connection off of it. So i had to figure out some way to connect a tube to it again cause it has to go through the catch can. The part of the tube that was left is significantly bigger than the part i broke off which would have connected to the tube so i needed a huge tube connect them again.
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on the left is the case vent and those two pieces used to be one. I bought the huge 1.25 inch tube on the right to go over the L shaped crank tube. also on the right, is a big brass fitting that will be connected to the case vent and has a smaller side so it can connect to normal size tubing. Under the case tube, is the PCV value, This is the one way valve that allows the engine to suck in all that nasty oil vapor in, but not blow back into the engine. I will use this one-way valve for the brake booster line. Because it's pretty big, i had to buy a good size hose and reducer for that as well so it can connect to existing brake booster line.
Here's what i did with the crank vent line since i broke it
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Here it is on the engine
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With hardly NOOOO space for my catch can, i had to make a mount for it on the heat sheild of the intake.
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OK, now call me stupdi, but that phenolic spacer was a BITCH to get right
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the spacer itself goes on fine, but trying to follow the directions was utterly impossible. The images were small and in b/w and the descriptions were horrible as well. I wasn't sure if I was supposed to use the new bracket support or not.
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So i took out the old one, and here you can see there are no where near the same size. The new bracket actually sits way deeper in the engine so i had to use the stock on. It came came with this big shim which they show bolting up under the manifold in between the support whole and the bracket...but the bolt they give you isn't long enough to through them... Luckily i had one of the magnetic wand thingies cause i dropped bolt deep into the engine trying to get these stupid brackets on n off. IDK, i couldn't figure it out, so i just ended up bending the stock support bracket back some so that it didn't pull the manifold away from the enging.
Some of the intake tubes came clean having to use steal wool. Some where just too long for me to get into so whatever came off after two days of soaking is how it's gonna be..
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Here you can see my catch can set up. In the mid left, you can see the line coming from the case with the new brass fitting n schit. That line comes straight out and bends to the left and curves up to meet the fitting coming from the right side of the T from the valve cover and both go into the top fitting of the catch can. The bottom fitting is a port straight back to the intake.
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I got this FMIC from anothe fella and it came with this straigh fitting to connect this corner....Ehh. that's like a 60 - 90 degree bend there. But it was all i had. I cause the piping to kink closer to the IC
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so i purchased this bend from PepBoys - of course it doesn't say what size Diameter it is....only what the bend angle is. and it turned out to be too big. 3 inches maybe, ours is 2.5
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I put this together using the pcv valve from under the under, a later tubing and fitting from lowes. This will allow me to connect this to the intake for a vac source for the brake booster, and use the nipple under the manifold for something totally different. I connected to the DV.
I will probably replace this with a smaller one way valve in the future.
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So under my mani, the two small nipple on the left side are connected to the FPR and to the SAI which is tee off to the gauges. The large part in the middle is a direct line to DV.
starting to button things back up...i like the shiny new bolts that came with the spacer
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here is things pretty much back together.
you can see the valve i made on the left side of the manifold, and the lines gong to the catch can from the the case and valve cover, and the reinstalled adj fpr and removed N249 again..
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Finishing up the suspension was ok. I ended up having to let the car back down so that the weight of the car would push the shocks into the mount fully as i could not get them to go. Even then i had to push on the car to get them to drop. I used an electric torque gun to remove the stock bolts and luckily i had the right right stuff to bolt down the bearings while keeping the shock from turning with the allen key. But the new shocks came a with a bigger bolt for the very top so i had went out and purchased a $23 wrench with a super angle on the head, but it turned out to be the wrong size. So i just decided to use the old monkey wrench...
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Back in business
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Things I didn't have pics of is just the wiring of all interior and DRLs to ignition and resistor install for slow blink.
My impressions of the shocks are that they are indeed much stiffer than what i had. Goin over road bumps, the car feels bouncier, but i guess this is because you can feel the suspension actually pushing back out. Turning seems to be much better as the car rolls less. Also, it doesn't follow road grooves as much. My car would have what could be equated to torque steer just dring down the road. Basically, the wheel would pull to whatever side, following different groves in the road or height changes in the surface from side to side...hated it. Seems to be gone now. I'm really hoping to see what kinda of oil the catch can gets cause the amount of oil i had in there was beyond belief.
i think that's all...