New radiator arrived today, bay looks a lot more complete now

Looks like a two core rad to me. Are you planning to keep at least one stock fan? or doing both slim?

Ya I ended up going with a 2 core instead of a 3, I'm going to likely keep the stock fan on the passenger side and put a slim on the front on the driver side. I logged a spirited run up the highway and it's staying much cooler than the stock rad did.

I also put some weather stripping on the stock fan shroud so it sealed up good to the rad, there was a good 1/8-1/4 inch gap without it.

Good idea, I also did it. Do you keep your fans always running or is it automatic?
I don't see any AC lines and AC condenser seems to be missing. That should help with the airflow.

AC is deleted. Fans are on auto.

I've been battling weird idle and WOT issues for a few days, tune would be perfect, afr's between 11.2-11.5 then the next pull would be more around 12 and I'd get knock. So this morning I did a BLT, biss screw was leaking like a sieve, took care of that with a new o-ring, then pulled off the vacuum line to the Fuelab AFPR and gas started pouring out the line.

So I dismantled it and found a rip in the diaphragm, small but not good!



Guess I'll have to give Ziggy some more money

Good troubleshooting Jason,
How many kms was on your FPR before diaphragm ripped? Thank god Ziggy sells just the diaphragm . Does your FPR hold pressure after engine off?

Not sure how many km's but 3 years so probably around 15k per year, so a few. It still holds for a little while after it shut off, not like it did before though.

This FPR and many like it had an issue where the ball didn't seat quite right and new from the factory they wouldn't hold pressure for more than a minute. I took it apart and used some lapping compound to make it seat properly and it would hold for a good 15-30 minutes afterwards.

I could have got it cheaper in the US, but I know Ziggy would get it to me quicker.

Gotta love the Purolator guy, always dropping off nice things.

Talk to your cars about drugs

OPEN THE DAMN BOX ALREADY..and show me more

Sheesh, tough crowd

I need to call Ziggy in the morning though as there are no fittings to screw into the pump in the box...

Sorry but the pump is out in the garage.

So, since the board has been down, Ziggy sent me those missing fittings(thanks!) and I installed the kit, then went out to do some tuning, the car pulled really hard, far more than ever before. After about 30 minutes of tuning, this was the result.

ouch! I bet that made a hell of a sound and felt even worse!
Are you AWD or FWD? I have a spare parts tranny that I should be breaking into in the near near future.

I'm AWD.

Actually, it didn't make any noise during the pull, but it sounded really bad as soon as I let off the gas.

I'm trying to work a deal with a local for another tranny, if that doesn't work out I might send this off to Jack's for a 2.2HD rebuild. It's a big chunk of change to drop but I intend to keep racing this car so I might as well go big I think.

Shitty, i guess that happened in the third gear pull. How much power did you make in Ecmlink logs??

On the log before the blow up, the Ecmlink log showed 397hp, I added a bunch more timing on the blow up pull, so it should have been more but I forgot to save the log.

Hopefully I'll get things sorted out there and get it on the dyno sometime this summer.

So I've been thinking it over, contemplating buying another stock trans, risking blowing it up again or going all out and not have to keep worrying about it all the time. I do plan to race the car and it will likely continue to be pushed further.

I'm leaning heavily towards a Jack's 2.2 Super-HD rebuild
(http://www.jackstransmissions.com/collections/value-rebuilds/products/stage-2-1-hd-awd-value-rebuild)

One of my friends had a Jack's rebuild and loved it. He did manage to break it with his 2.3 stroker and FP 3076HTA but Jack's honored his warranty and fixed it at no cost.

That tranny sounds delicious.

DO IT!

I think you'll be very happy with Jack's tranny, if you decide to go that route. I'm doing my best to try and save for one myself, with plans to buy it next winter or spring.

It definitely seems like you'll be seeing enough power and track time to justify it

Tranny is out and off to Jack's



In the meantime, some cutout 2-step

MORE FIRE!

This!

Was expecting much more fiyah!

Ha, next time I'll crank up the fuel enrichment, that'll make fiyah!

Trying to get some things done while the car is down. Got the new bumper fitted and took it over to the body shop today.

I assume the new bumper is so that you could go badgeless?

I like the matte colour, it looks nice.

No, actually I liked the embossed mitsu emblem on the oem bumper, but that bumper has seen it's time, so many stone chips and gouges on the bottom edge from 16 years of abuse.

This one will be paint matched to the car, should have it back in a week or 2. I gave the body shop my gas cap door so they can do an exact match on the paint.

Good call on using the gas cap, never would have though of that.
You cutting before paint or after paint?

I cut it today, before paint.

Motor/tranny mounds freshen up.





Also started on my calipers. I painted them about 3 years ago and they are certainly looking like it, hundreds of track passes and thousands of miles later.



Started to strip them down.





Apparently the Baer logo is filled with some sort of rubbery coating, very thick and the sandblast won't touch it, had to cut them out with a knife.



A final blasting and they will be getting powder.

Black Chrome?

I still haven't decided 100%, but I think that would be nice with candy red letters.

Black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow, black and yellow.

You planning on using the pressure switch to trigger the meth injection? If so, I'd recommend ditching it & using link to control it, much better setup IMO.

I ran it for a bit off the pressure switch, seemed to work fine, but yes the plan was to upgrade to V3 and use link, that's why I didn't buy the progressive kit.

Ya, nothing wrong with the basic pressure switch, I ran mine like that for a few summers. Just that Link offers more options/conditions, instead of the basic pressure regulated, on/off control. Its just as easy to hook up (actually maybe easier), but not everyone is aware it has this option, so just making sure

Sorry Rob, but the ricer inside me won, I stayed with red, I thought long and hard but in the end I decided I liked the red in my color scheme.



Also fixed a CV boot that was cracked.

Before:



After:

The calipers look mint !!

Great job on those calipers Jason