KCKrogoth's MP5 Build

[KCKrogoth]

Got some photos of the interior...excuse the dirtiness, haven't had much chance to clean her out.

Custom painted all the panels to match the outside

I build the rear deck speaker box one day because I was board and had the spare equipment to install...MDF deck, fiberglass structure with color match carpet to keep it sorta OEM looking. Installed a pair of Audiobahn 6X9" 200 Watt RMS Mids and their respective tweeters (speakers have built in crossovers). Wired to a Kenwood stereo Amp that I repainted to match the car. Also wired in red LED lights to the speaker grills for effect and the hell of it...Looks nuts at night!

Soundstream T5-12 2 Ohm DVC 12" Sub...this thing is a monster! Running off an Audiobahn A1300HCT Mono Block wired down to 1 Ohm for about 1200 watts RMS. Helped out with the 3.5 Farad Cap. This current system is about all the car's Alt can handle and that's barely as it is...Looking into better Alternator options still.

 

[808MP5]

I like it

 

[CR3 Motorsports]

That is interesting that you are running a Apexi SAFC. Anything special you had to do to use it?

 

[KCKrogoth]

That is interesting that you are running a Apexi SAFC. Anything special you had to do to use it?

Funny you ask that, I installed it to try and do some minor air/fuel cheating, but unfortunately it doesn't work with our MAF sensor, so it's basically just a fancy RPM, throttle % gauge for now till I turbo the car and switch to a stand alone or whatever route I decide later...I just have the wire that bypasses the MAF signal to the ECU disconnected for now, kinda lame I know, but haven't had the chance to troubleshoot how to get it to work properly yet and it's great for giving me accurate RPM info when the car sounds like it's idling funny or something down to the single digits.

 

[CR3 Motorsports]

Ahh ok, it caught my eye. Good looking interior none the less.

 

[KCKrogoth]

Update on this, have the materials on the way for a custom front splitter, possibly a rear defuser, and the idea/design in my head for a custom rear wing. Got tired of searching for an over priced wing in the design I want and if even available! I'll post up the build process for the Splitter and the wing once I get my stuff and the spare factory wing to make a mold from. If my plans for the wing work out, going to try and do a GI post on it, depending on how it turns out and if you all like it or not...more to come on this.

 

[KCKrogoth]

Installed my new CR3 Radiator plate....

 

[KCKrogoth]

guess its time to revive my old thread...have some new updates on the car to add. Ended up spinning a bearing and having to tear the engine apart and rebuild it. Also had a bad smoking while cold problem, so I did new rings while I was in there. couple months down the road the damn seals are leaking on me again after the rebuild, so I'm going to pull the engine out again to redo the seals with better stuff...Note to self, do not use DNJ seals, they suck! I'll post up pics of the past happenings and such since I've been away and catch this all up. (burnout)

 

[KCKrogoth]

So decided to try making a splitter. Here is how it turned out, not too bad I think.

Built it out of that plastic signboard stuff that realtors and politicians use to make sings. Traced out the shape I wanted and then cut it out and fiberglassed the whole thing for rigidity sake. It's a little heavy however, and I think if I had to do it again I would use a thick sheet of ABS plastic or something similar.

 

[KCKrogoth]

Here are a bunch of pics of the engine removal from the spun bearing/rod knock incident.

All out and starting the tear down. The other car in the garage is my RHD 240SX that I'm building up as a dedicated drift car. Finding money for all these projects is difficult...lol

And that is something you don't want to see in the bottom of your oil pan...

Some before and after of the cleaning...Berryman's is the s***!

Working on cleaning and polishing the combustion chambers.

Head all milled and clean back from the machine shop.

 

[KCKrogoth]

Engine going back together. Block all fresh from the machine shop and painted.

Time to start assembling...

Make sure to use plenty of assembly lube, helps prevent dry starts when the engine first fires up.

Checked ring gap for all the oil rings and compression rings.

Rings all clocked and pistons installed.

Putting the head/valves back together. This tool is a must have if you plan on doing valve seals or any type of spring work on the head.

Engine all back in, just need to finish up the install.

 

[KCKrogoth]

As I stated earlier, I'm planning on tearing the engine out of the car again to fix some leaking oil seals from the last rebuild due to cheap seals. Ordered some better quality stuff this time, so we shall see how it turns out. Also, I am having a bit of a low oil pressure problem at idle when the car is at operating temps. I think this is because of the bad scoring on the cam journals. I did some research on the matter and found an explanation about a KL-DE engine having similar problems. The guy working on the car decided to resurface the cam journals because they were scored up a bit and hit gained his oil pressure back. So.....My theory is, fix the scored journals and see if it fixes the issue. Instead of trying to resurface mine, I found a used FS head at the local U-Pull it for $40 complete with cams with smooth cam journals and caps.

So I figured I would do a bit of work to this head while I have it on the bench to see if I can get some small gains and better efficiency out of it. Going to do a port match and Polish job on the head then have it milled and cleaned. Also, this time around I'm going to do my best to put a mirror shine on the valves and combustion chambers to cut down on carbon build up.

Here are some before and after shots of the valves that I've started on so far.

More to come as I go through the process of working on the head. Also I plan on ditching the Nology Wire system and going to a 1.8 coil conversion with the long reach plugs. Hopefully is smooths out the car and I stop getting the random miss-fires during hard driving.

Heres the reason I'm tired of the Nology wires, for a $200 set of wires, I've already replaced 2 sets of them! The damn connections keep breaking off in the boots and I have to peace part my two sets of these wires together to get a full working set...I think I'm up to 3 broken wires now between the two sets. Definitely not impressed for the amount of $$$ I've spent on them...I've been building cars for 17 years now, and have never gone through a set of plug wires like I have these.