A New Year; All New Setup!
Well it's been a while since I've updated this, so I figured it was about time! Tink has gone through a complete overhaul, rebuild, and just a general "DO OVER!" So much has happened with her in the past year! I have a lot of catching up to do!
Well, first off, around July of last year. I was parked in Downtown Austin. No visible "It's Illegal to park here" signs. So I park my car, and walk a few blocks to a Hookah bar I've been known to haunt. A few hours later I come back out, and my car's just GONE! Of course I flip out, thinking my car had been stolen, call all the towing places, none say they have my car. I'm in total shambles at this point thinking my car was stolen!
In the end, my car wound up at a towing yard with a HUGE hole (about quarter sized) in the Front Mount! I was ROYALLY pissed as you might imagine, and sued the towing yard for literally DRAGGING the front of my car 11 miles to the towing yard! I won the cost of a new FMIC and 1k in for negligence on their part.
NOW! Let's get to the fun stuff! If anyone has followed my build, you all know my bay looks like this:
Not anymore! The work started on September 18th, 2008 and has officially ended January 10th, 2009!
The first step was getting the engine out, which proved to be a littl harder than we thought! We dropped the complete longblock and tranny out of the bottom.
And this is how she sat for 4 months while we built the engine...talk about your wheel gap!!
Now I don't know what it is about working on my car that makes my camera decide to go nutso...but just like last time my camera went crazy. So I missed a lot of the pictures...again.
I had a lot of trouble with the timing. It always takes me like 3 times longer than it SHOULD take a person! lol
Now she make look similar...but she's worlds different!!
TurboXS Tuner Pro Install Pics Coming Soon!!!
New Mod List!
Big 16G w/ GT30R compressor
Stainless Steel o2 dump
SSAC Short Route and FMIC
Injen Intake
Aeromotive AFPR w/ B&M gauge
GM MAF
GM MAFT
PTE 680cc
HKS Timing Gears
Crushed/modded 1g BOV
Apex N1 downpipe
Greddy Evo cat back (GEN1)
Prothane polyurethane motor mounts
KYB/AGX adjustable shocks & struts 4 way front 8 way rear
Front/Rear strut tower braces
Eibach pro kit springs
FP flywheel bolts
B&M short throw shifter
CNC billet shifter plate bushings
ACT 2600 clutch kit
XACT Streetlite Flywheel
FP modified transmission
AEM slotted/cross drilled rotors
Walboro 255LPH pump
Apex SAFC
Greddy oil catch can
Optima red top battery
Greddy 52mm boost gauge
Greddy 52mm oil pressure gauge
Greddy 53mm EGT gauge
Turbonetics MBC
Block bored .020 over
Eagle H-beam rods
9:1 Wiseco pistons
ACL Race Bearings
Ported 2g head with a Cometic gasket
ARP head and Main studs
3g lifters
Ported intake manifold with 1g Throttle body(60mm)
Crower Valve Springs
UPDATE!!
So I was workin' on the ride, trying to find the vac leaks I thought I had. Well I found a massive fuel leak out of my brand new AFPR. So I sent that off to Aeromotive to get fixed (no leaks in the diaphram...so I don't know what the hells wrong with it). Hopefully I'll have her street ready soon!
Page 1- Stock with Issues
Page 2- The Work Begins
Page 3- 320hp @ 18psi
Page 4- Stage 4 Explosion
Page 5- 6 Months and 2k later...
**Page 6- New Year; New Setup!!**
