moath Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 What kind of ECU are you going with? Quote Link to comment
Fat510 Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 I got a little bit of engine work done today. I had to take a field trip to a buddy's house to borrow a torque wrench since I loaned my out 15 minutes before I needed to use it. He was in the process of rebuilding an RX-8. I ran into some fitment issues with the timing cover and the new timing chain guides so I will have to hash that out tomorrow. do you have a pic of the headbolts close up? im curious about ARP headstuds Quote Link to comment
Atomic Posted March 23, 2014 Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 do you have a pic of the headbolts close up? im curious about ARP headstuds Wop: 2 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 What kind of ECU are you going with? Megasquirt 1 V3 1 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2014 I finished the ECU and got it buttoned up. 1 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Today was not my day to work on Watson. I took apart the front of the engine to address the broken stud. I accidentally drilled the hole into the block too large and there is no room for me to expand the hole in the timing cover without risking cracking it, so I just had to put it back together. I then broke one of the studs while installing the exhaust manifold. I at least had extras. I was having issues getting the bolts to go in for the intake manifold so I just called it a night. I'll pick up again tomorrow. Quote Link to comment
ArchetypeDatsun Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Nice work! Quote Link to comment
Atomic Posted March 25, 2014 Report Share Posted March 25, 2014 Here is how I got my broken bolts out of the head. And If you have trouble with screwing the bolts in, use threading set to clean (there might be some stones and rust) 1 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 It's finally starting to look like an engine. 1 Quote Link to comment
Atomic Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Looking good! Only thing that sticks to my eye is that 90 degree bend on oil feed line and that it goes quite close to exhaust manifold. Could you route it from front of the engine? Quote Link to comment
Driftease Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Nice build, I am curious as to why you are using MS1 in stead of 2 or 3 either way it is fun to see a desk or coffee table in my case go from tons of clear and pink bags to a functioning ECU. 1 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Looking good! Only thing that sticks to my eye is that 90 degree bend on oil feed line and that it goes quite close to exhaust manifold. Could you route it from front of the engine? Don't worry, I'm not leaving it like that. :P Nice build, I am curious as to why you are using MS1 in stead of 2 or 3 either way it is fun to see a desk or coffee table in my case go from tons of clear and pink bags to a functioning ECU. Simply because it's cheaper and I can control exactly what I want (fuel and spark) with MSnS on MS1. Quote Link to comment
Driftease Posted March 27, 2014 Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Sounds like a good enough reason :thumbup:. If you can it is best to not have any tees on the MAP hose going back to MS so it has a fast response that gave me some trouble on my truck it worked but made accel enrich off 1 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 Sounds like a good enough reason :thumbup:. If you can it is best to not have any tees on the MAP hose going back to MS so it has a fast response that gave me some trouble on my truck it worked but made accel enrich off You're right and as you can see in the latest pictures, I corrected that. Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2014 I finished the engine; time for a beer. 1 Quote Link to comment
ratsun73 Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 looks great!!!!! did you just weld a bung into the side of the oil pan for the turbo? if so i assume you wont need a scavenge pump. Quote Link to comment
Driftease Posted March 28, 2014 Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 I started using tuner studio ms it seems to have more features but i don't know if it will support ms1 I am currently using a microsquirt module in my truck in a ms pnp with one table for less than 100kpa and one for more than 101 for spark an fuel effectively giving me 288 cell tables I am not sure yet weather there was a benefit for that or not but I like a challenge. When i get my new pistons and a GT2860RS in I will resume tuning and start using the ms for boost control too! Good luck remember to take it easy when you first star to drive it and get a good wideband too. 1 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 28, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2014 looks great!!!!! did you just weld a bung into the side of the oil pan for the turbo? if so i assume you wont need a scavenge pump. I wasn't able to weld the bung as the supplied bung that came with the eBay universal oil line kit was made of aluminum, so I used some JB Weld. I figure since its a low pressure line, that should be adequate. We'll see. Had I known I wouldn't be able to use the supplied fittings that came with the eBay oil line kit due to clearance issues, I would have got a steel bung and welded it on. Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2014 The day started with people just stopping by to chat and decided the engine bay needed cleaning. I didn't ask for it nor did I care, so on with the cleaning they went. While they did that, I worked on removing more unneeded equipment. No more dashboard. Lets do this. So close, yet so far. The engine needs to move another half an inch and mesh up with the transmission to make this task complete, but I'm tired. Until tomorrow. 1 Quote Link to comment
ratsun73 Posted March 30, 2014 Report Share Posted March 30, 2014 nice!!! getting closer :w00t: Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2014 The engine is in! I had a dream last night that the engine would just mesh up the next morning without a hitch and sure enough, it did. Weird. Got a lot of bits installed. Good news: The lights are working and the fuel pump is working as well as the FPR which is reading at a solid 3 BAR. I stared working on the panel for switches, fuses, and relays. Will tomorrow be the day it starts? I hope so; there's a drift event next weekend. A video update will happen tomorrow. 2 Quote Link to comment
Cpl620 Posted March 30, 2014 Report Share Posted March 30, 2014 the extra effort with the pictures really adds to this build. loving it so far. 1 Quote Link to comment
Watson Posted March 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 the extra effort with the pictures really adds to this build. loving it so far. Thank you! I often feel like I'm not doing enough for this build thread though. I want to keep doing videos but taking/editing video on top of doing this work is damn near impossible. I've only been able to snap pictures here and there. I wish I could do more but I'm more focused on building than documenting. Today was quite interesting. I fabricated an exhaust system with scrap pipe and started wiring the the harness. I then just hit a brick wall in regards to exhaustion and just decided to call it a day, have a beer and enjoy the rest of the afternoon. Watson has a real rat rod look now! Or just a ghetto look... Here we can see the soldering cart put to good use. Quote Link to comment
Cpl620 Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 Side pipes! Freaking boss. Quote Link to comment
Atomic Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 No mufflers needed? :p 1 Quote Link to comment
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