Beater 2g

[C3L1CA]

Originally Posted by 95tsi

What size bottle is that?

It's a 10lb bottle. I bought a bottle opener for it so that's why the caps off, I just don't have the actual opener on the bottle in that picture.

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, can you tell me how danny did this?
Did he remove the baffles then put them back in?

[C3L1CA]

Never thought I'd see the day, it took me way too long...



Still a decent amount left to do, but feels good to see the engine in there again. Should be able to make it to the dyno day no problem now, was getting a little nervous. haha

Just some random pictures



Kenne Bell boost-a-pump and my nitrous controller






I think I'm also going to put the back seats and privacy cover back on so it'll look more stockish.

[sleepydsm]

So what made you decide on nitrous?

[hippiekiller]

Hey Brad, Where do you have your coolant over flow tank at? I have an ETS short route FMIC that sets up pretty much the same as yours and it isn't looking like it will fit under it. Trying to figure out where I want to relocate it to.

[C3L1CA]

Originally Posted by hippiekiller

Hey Brad, Where do you have your coolant over flow tank at? I have an ETS short route FMIC that sets up pretty much the same as yours and it isn't looking like it will fit under it. Trying to figure out where I want to relocate it to.

I put it where the old side mount piping went. I think I just hacked up the stock bracket and made it work. The wiring for the sensor reaches so you don't have to extend that which is nice.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...IMG_9715-1.jpg
Can see where it is in that picture. I want to say there was an existing bolt hole there but I could be making that up.

Originally Posted by sleepydsm

So what made you decide on nitrous?

haha I had it laying around from a different car and thought it could help spool my turbo a little bit quicker. I really don't need it and will probably be too much of a pussy to ever really use it but its kinda cool to know its there if I ever had a motor that could take it.

[hippiekiller]

Awesome. Thanks. Now I get to back out and cut the damn hole a little bigger so it fits through.

[munchgsx]

That motor will take it. I know it's been along time you've owned it but I still cringe everytime your throw more at it. Makes me feel good about the new motor in the Laser.

Hey can you take a picture of the kill switch? I'm setting one up and it looks like your is mounted right in the middle. Just wondering how it looks. Also how did you do your alt. charge wire?

[C3L1CA]

Originally Posted by hippiekiller

Awesome. Thanks. Now I get to back out and cut the damn hole a little bigger so it fits through.

Yea you just have to cut it a little bigger and bend the stock bracket. I just looked and I used an existing nut that was already there.

Originally Posted by munchgsx

That motor will take it. I know it's been along time you've owned it but I still cringe everytime your throw more at it. Makes me feel good about the new motor in the Laser.

haha yea so far its been a really solid motor, I hate to say it but I pretty much beat the piss outa the car almost every time I drive it. But thats its there for, to have fun and put a smile on my face

[sleepydsm]

Originally Posted by C3L1CA

haha yea so far its been a really solid motor, I hate to say it but I pretty much beat the piss outa the car almost every time I drive it. But thats its there for, to have fun and put a smile on my face

[lucasoil4u]

[munchgsx]

Get this thing on the road and turn it up.

[C3L1CA]

Well my car hates life. Started the car today just to get disappointed again.

Car started after a couple cranks but seemed like it wasn't running right and was missing a little. I haven't touched anything in the motor since my trans let go so I figured maybe the plugs were old and needed changing, that didn't change a thing.

Once the new plugs were in the car I started it again but it still seemed like it wasn't running right. While just letting it idle for maybe 45 seconds to a minute I saw a little smoke coming from the engine bay and from the back of the car so shut the car off quickly. Then went inside to take a break and scratch my head for a little bit.

When I came back to the car maybe 30 minutes later there was a small puddle of oil under the car. The only place I saw oil was from where the down pipe connects to the 02 housing.

My dad wanted the garage back so he made me pull it out of the garage and I've never seen a car smoke so bad as backing it out of the garage and pulling it over into the third stall.


So my question is what could cause the car to smoke so damn bad?

My guess was:
1. The turbo blew, but it still spun after I shut the car off like normal so I don't really know about that

2. I bent some valves on my stock head when it went from 5500 to 8500 in .12 seconds when 3rd gear let go. The only thing with this one is the car seemed to drive fine when I drove it home without 3rd/4th after the trans let go. I also didn't remember it smoking but I did drive it home at night and pulled it straight into the garage.

I'll try and do a compression test on it tomorrow but after that I'm kinda lost on what else it could be.

Also sucks because between working 35hrs a week, going to school full time, and having to get 40hrs of community service in before I graduate in may wont leave me much time to mess with the car.

I'd love to hear what people think could be wrong with it though and some other test I could do to narrow down exactly whats wrong with it.

Thanks in advance and sorry for the novel!

[mike55112]

Any news yet?

[C3L1CA]

Originally Posted by mike55112

Any news yet?

No good updates. Tried to do a compression test with a neighbors compression tester last week but the battery ran out of juice but the first 2 cylinders looked. I just went out and bought my own tester tho along with a leak down tester so hopefully I can find the time to test it again soon.

Put the turbo back on tonight with the catch can setup and it still smoked a little bit but not anything crazy like it did. I half think it was still burning off whatever oil was left in the down pipe/turbo.

It seems like it idles decent (then again I'm used to an idle of a bone stock audi now so I forgot what a cammed car idles like) but it misses if you try and rev it at all. From Link it says the afr is pegged rich from the stock 02 sensor but I don't know if oil getting all over the stock sensor messed it up. I was thinking of getting a replacement aem sensor sometime this week and see whats really going on with with the afr. If afr, compression test, and leak down test looks decent I'll be at a complete loss at whats wrong with it.

[C3L1CA]

HUGE thanks to Shane for putting up with my car this past Saturday!!

1 radiator, 1 tial clamp modification, a shotty NOS controller and 34psi later the car made 488 and 402 without nitrous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a1hhafZ2N8

Next is to figure out why the solenoids weren't working properly, and to figure out what I want to do with my motor so I can keep having some more fun with it.

I also want some slicks now. Shanes new slick setup is amazingly light and they just look bad ass.

[sleepydsm]

Nice.

[HiImBrian]

Wow brad. Congrats on absolutely powning newbs with this car. I'm flippin jealous and I think I need a ride soon.

[justinhill]

Seen you last night down at 280. nice car!

[Super Bleeder!!]

easy 130mph car