Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Ouch!! Those pics were painful to even look at! Sorry to see that hope you can get it back up and going fairly easily... Best of luck!

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

I love your positive attitude man! You sure you didn't just drop a screwdriver in the timing area just to give yourself an excuse to build this thing? :D

Well keep us up to date, good luck!

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Fucking interference engines... That's all I have to say. :( Let me know if you ever need a hand turning wrenches.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

You should have seen him when it happened! Brad is one cool customer that is all I have to say. I would have been throwing shit.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

No shit I had a ball joing break pulling into the driveway and I lost it. kicked the bumper and punched the fender so good job Brad also thanks for the call to tow your car! Im sorry to see your pile of parts good luck getting it back together.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

It's called anger management. It's just a car, they break, especially if you mod them. It's not like you or wife just got diagnosed with cancer.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Unless it's a VW, then you can kick in the door and never think twice about that. They deserve it.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Finished stripping the motor down to nothing this past weekend. Block seems to be ok but there was a sligh scratch on cyl 1 and a little nick on cyl 4, 3 and 2 looked perfect though. There was one chunk of metal found, which appeared to part of the #1 piston that had a hole in it. No metal shavings in the bottom end is nice so the oil cooler/turbo aren't full of shit. Probably could have just ball honed it and threw some rods/pistons in it but then I'd want to throw a huge shot at it knowing me then I'd break something else:beer:

Thought this was kind of cool
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/a8764b73.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/81b13008.jpg

I've purchased a stock long block for 2k shipped that I am hoping will be here by the end of the week or early next week so I can get a running car again. I will be slapping the stock turbo on there and just driving the damn thing till its paid off. Maybe get a lip or some stupid little crap but nothing cool.

After I can get it paid off I'll either build this block and make this thing quick or get another dsm for a track type of car.

Just a boring update but probably the last one I'll do for a while.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

:(

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

So are you gonna keep your extra shortblock on the side for a later date?

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Yep the short block is just sitting. After its paid off I'll either build that block for the evo if I decide to go that route with the evo or sell it and use the money for a new project car.

As much as i want to push it it SUCKS not having a daily to get to work everyday and having to bum rides with the GF or riding the bike in these 30 degree mornings haha.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Buy a beater, you need to play with your evo.

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Finally got my "stock and factory sealed" long block yesterday from awd motorsports. Looking it over it has arp headstuds and had gates racing timing and balance shaft belts. Makes me a little worried but as long as it runs and doesn't leak I dont really care what's done to it.

Put my gsc s2 cams in it along with the gsc springs as well last night. I was actually surprised when my gf came and helped haha. Hoping to have a running car by the end of the week.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/05b18d40.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/9be69521.jpg

One more random before it blew up
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/ba9c3d5f.jpg

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Nice! good luck dude

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Get that thing running. Let me know if you need any help, I do live up hadley near 10th

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Have well over 1k miles on the thing so far and so far so good. Nothing done to it really other than the stuff that was on it before. It's pretty fun for a daily driver, put it up for sale for a while but decided to hang on to it for now.

Blacked out the headlights today on my day off along with painted all the grills and hood vent cover a semi-gloss black and tinted the rear side markers. Just need to get a vinyl overlay for the emblem and I think I'll be done with all the cheaper look mods I can do to it. Want to paint the wheels a semi gloss black and paint the calipers bby but that will be for another day. Maybe when I'm layed off as the state can't decide a budget:2strangle:

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/6ba8c407.jpg

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Looks really nice!

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Steady as she goes! Glad you got it back on the road quickly. Was it done on dyno day? I meant to ask for a ride but I got distracted. She's looking good, keep having fun with it, finally we have the weather for it!

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

the black headlights look great

Re: '03 BBY Evo
 

Thanks fellas!

It was running for the dyno day but I was too paranoid to drive it up there. It was only running for a week before then and the timing belt had a slight movement when rpm's changed dramatically. This freaked my paranoid self out and didn't want to pay for another tow from the other side of the cities. Another evo guy on here checked his and said it was normal so it could've been but I was too paranoid.