Few more little parts trickled in. Nothing major but I broke out the murlostands and did the old 20-minute-at-a-time maintenance package. 20 minutes here, 20 minutes there, and a week later my list is done.
During the 3rd DCTC day last Friday the motor clicked over 1000 miles and with the motor finally broken in and lots of revs to redline I decided to drain the oil out. Looked just dandy!
With it empty cleaned up the oil drain line from the turbo...it's still been slowly leaking...and installed one of the newer yellow crush-style gaskets, fresh bolts, and fresh little o-ring gaskets for the bolts. Also a new oil drain bolt w/ fresh washer, a fresh oem filter and 4.5 quarts of 10w40...ready to rock!
Next up I yanked off the front bumper and fitted the 3" ducts I have been meaning to install. There's some mismatch of I.D. vs O.D. and the 2.75" silicone tubing I had didn't fit very well, so I just did what I could to make it work. The setup is far from perfect but I think it'll do good on the track. I want to do some airflow testing to make sure air is pushed in properly but it should be good to go.
Yip, that's ducting/foil tape. It'll be at the front of the car, so should be fine.
Once that was all buttoned up, I decided to take a break and setup my new iRacing setup to practice for BIR next weekend:
Seriously though I put some NES & SNES ROMs on a raspberry pi with a $9 usb controller from amazon have been just having an absolute blast!
Minorist of minor splurges, I talked to my buddy Matt Szabaga down in VA and he sent me some pins, plugs, wires, and a cute little breadboard mount for some old toyota parts I had sitting around.
An hour with the soldering gun and crimpers and not too shabby:
Slapped it on the car:
And promptly hid it away:
Bled brakes, rotated tires, upped the rev limit (just in case), turned up the boost a little more, and I'm pretty much all set for BIR next weekend
Still shopping for track insurance, not having much luck yet...yes places offer it but it has to be organized/signed off/form filled out by the organizers so we'll see. Oh, and anyone want some beagles? Looking for a sitter for that weekend.