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Post by Riekert »

Well as the subject states... the SX we went to pick up in Upington a few months back munched through a complete set of bearings. haha.

Well we got back after the long and exhausting trip there. unloaded the car and started her up. holy hell... bearings knocking on heavens door :P

So we started to dissasemble the motor form the bottom up... motor still in the car though...

It did not work... so a while later we decided to pull the motor and box. lovely. second time I pull a CA out of a S13 :P

Stripped the rest of the bottom end and checked the crank and conrods. Crank screwed and bearings screwed... conrods and pistons still fine.

Sent the crank away, but was to screwed to redo. thus the hunt was on for a new(used) crank. found one and got it redone. crank and bearings back in. motor closed and ready for install...

Took me and my buddy 6 hours to get the motor back into the damn car...
easy to take out not so easy to put back in... but I had that with the SR too. haha

Motor in, and all piping and wiring connected (or so we though) started the car and it idled crap! bugger.... rechecked everything and saw that the FPR wasn't hooked up. damn sleep deprivation...

Anyway, with that sorted the car idled fine no issues....

Had a bit of a splutter when it was hot... turned out to be a injector plug that wasn't clipping on correctly so it vibrated itself loose the whole time.

Now its running fine. boost is at 0.6 bar and goes nicely... its smoking a bit though... so not sure if its the turbo or motor itself... but ja. thats pretty much it, motor wise.

This car also has a awesome sound system in... so we set that up nicely too. Sounds good and goes good. :D


Next on the mod list is to loose the stock IC and get a lekker big one. also mod the exhaust and spray the rims black.

And hopefully Mary Anne wins the monstermob comp (R10k), so she has some cash to spend on the SX.

Will update with pics and a full speclist a little later.

Cheers!
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Post by ljS14 »

Nice and well done Rieks :wink: ,Hopefully the smoking is nothing serious
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will be cool to see this car at the next B/run :wink:
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Thanx man! and yeah hope so too...

It will be there, no doubt about that! hahaha

We actually drove it to killarney on wednesday. No issues, and pretty light on fuel. haha
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Nice work :)

But you know you still have one more time to pull a motor out of an SX, right? 'Cos only after the third time, will Murphy move on... :lol:
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Toby wrote:Nice work :)

But you know you still have one more time to pull a motor out of an SX, right? 'Cos only after the third time, will Murphy move on... :lol:
arg!! don't say that!! hehehe

well yeah... we'll have to pull the motor again... cause we need to install the ACL race bearings still... and check on the crank ect again. :cry:
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Well that's not a bad reason to pull the motor again (unlike, say having a hole through a piston ;) )

Hopefully by anticipating Murphy's next move, we'll prevent it :lol:
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is this gona be a 50 pager :lol:
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@ ReeceZ nah... need to get my own project to that first :P
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Toby wrote:Well that's not a bad reason to pull the motor again (unlike, say having a hole through a piston ;) )

Hopefully by anticipating Murphy's next move, we'll prevent it :lol:
Thats true, but seems the turbo might be on its way out... Its a freakin GT28RS.... argh....
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Any pics :lol:

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oh will upload some tonite :)
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Riekert wrote:oh will upload some tonite :)
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ok so its been a while...

Never even uploaded pics :oops:

But I've bought Nirvash's motor for Marys SX/ We will be doing the swap over the coming weekend.

3rd time lucky :P

Will keep you guys informed and pics to come soon too!!
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im very keen to see what my old CA is gona be turned into, good luck :D

oh ya, sh*t one about that disco potato :(
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nirvash wrote:im very keen to see what my old CA is gona be turned into, good luck :D

oh ya, sh*t one about that disco potato :(
hehe yeah, oh and the disco patato is 100% so thats going on the stock CA again :D
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