The Ohio Random Thread... aka We Should Probably Be Working

[THE Phen]

Yeah. I'll probably call them Friday or so.

 

[subspeed6]

Slacker...

 

[THE Phen]

Hahaha. I'm off Friday. Been too busy around the office lately. Tomorrow is going to be damn nuts.

 

[o0n8]

for those of you who have taken off the egr on the intake on the protege, how do you get the bolt for the pipe off?

 

[Lewis7789]

Nate, the front motor mount is a piece of cake. Just jack up the front of the motor a wee bit to take off some of the load. Then unbolt it from the cross member thang (2 bolts, 14mm I believe) and the 17mm (I believe) bolt/nut through the mount. Then replace it and bolt the new one back in. I expected it to be a pian but honestly took me 15 mins. Very simple. And for the EGR tube I just used plenty of PB Blaster to soak it with then used a pair of vise grips so I didn't round it off, and use some muscle. Well, a lot of muscle. Mine came out okay and and Ivans too. Just wear a pair of gloves so you don't bust your knuckles.

 

[o0n8]

Nate, the front motor mount is a piece of cake. Just jack up the front of the motor a wee bit to take off some of the load. Then unbolt it from the cross member thang (2 bolts, 14mm I believe) and the 17mm (I believe) bolt/nut through the mount. Then replace it and bolt the new one back in. I expected it to be a pian but honestly took me 15 mins. Very simple. And for the EGR tube I just used plenty of PB Blaster to soak it with then used a pair of vise grips so I didn't round it off, and use some muscle. Well, a lot of muscle. Mine came out okay and and Ivans too. Just wear a pair of gloves so you don't bust your knuckles.

It's been soaking with some PB blaster, need to find my vise-grips. Not to worried about the front mount, it's more to get Chris to my garage. Once he's here I know he can't help but pick up a wrench

 

[Lewis7789]

Haha! Werd. Yeah, soak that biotch for a while then just go to town. I think I may have just used a pair of channel locks on the first time to loosen it and the vise grips to tighten it because I chewed up the nut. It's a tough little bugger but you'll get it. No worries.

 

[Perro del Sol]

Haha! Werd. Yeah, soak that biotch for a while then just go to town. I think I may have just used a pair of channel locks on the first time to loosen it and the vise grips to tighten it because I chewed up the nut. It's a tough little bugger but you'll get it. No worries.

I guess you can help with mine on Saturday...hahahahahahahaha

 

[Lewis7789]

No problem, Godfather. Why do you need to remove yours?

 

[jri4]

I don't have a job...I'm a teacher, or at least pretending to be one for the next few weeks. So I dress professionally trying to impress prospective employers. At my job as a sales associate working retail on the weekend, I wear dress pants, polo and an apron!

 

[o0n8]

all fittings are in, fuel rail and 440cc injectors bolted on

now I just need to get the throttle body on and old intake off (letting the EGR bolt soak in PB blaster)

 

[03zoomzoom]

nate, we gotta find you an upgraded fuel rail. it just doesn't look right with that nice manifold with a oem fuel rail...

 

[hat1018]

^ purdy^

 

[PrinceValorum]

Nate, that looks serious! What kind of power goals are you shooting for?

 

[o0n8]

yeah, but perrins are hard to come by and usually alot of money. It'll do for now.

 

[THE Phen]

Hopefully those manifolds make more of a difference on the FS-DE than they do on the Honda B18's. Not enough flow, and they loose power.

 

[o0n8]

Nate, that looks serious! What kind of power goals are you shooting for?

Honestly when i started getting parts it was just to improve the quality of the stock parts but after getting a bunch of deals it's kinda turned into something kinda serious. I would have been happy with 180ish at the wheels but now I'm thinking I should be closer to 220 given The Godfather's dyno results


I need to get all my pics together and make a build thread one of these days

 

[Josue6WGN]

Hmm...

http://detroit.craigslist.org/okl/cto/2295323006.html

 

[Lewis7789]

I need to get all my pics together and make a build thread one of these days

Yeah you do. I love build threads. I lurk a lot.

And there was a cat selling fuel rails a while ago. He was making a GB but I didn't really follow it closely. They were nice looking pieces though.

 

[o0n8]

yeah, I think I know which gb your talking about but it would be arod $500 for the complete system or $200ish for the rail and you had to source some of your own parts