Jamie did a good job on the MY 15 STI of Roscos two months ago

No fuel stumble could be felt

Started up and idled like a champ this arvo, very happy. A bit more tweeking of the fpr and it should be good to go in for the heart transplant.

Replaced all the catch can heater hoses of fail, all the blow-by killed them.

Still need to de-burr the new oil pump too ugh.

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Bye bye betty blue. Hello F6.

Heater hose and oil does not mix. The oil makes regular heater hose turn into poo.

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Doing it for all the wagons out there

That's interesting to know! What should be used Bram?

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Huge range of extinguisher brackets for cars!

http://kap.industries/

Fuel & oil hose that is designed for that purpose. I purchased some from Supershitauto the other day.

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Bye bye betty blue. Hello F6.

Nick if you want to delete the air pump. I have a stack of those delete plates

Fuel / emmissions hose.

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Doing it for all the wagons out there

Thank you seagull(Neil) for the tip to put a rubber sheath around the front brake line that was sitting close to the surge tank.

When I attempted to push the rubber hose on it wouldn't fit as the brake line had dropped and settled into its normal position and was actually making contact with the top of the surge tank.

I sussed out the clips that hold the brake line along the firewall had another spare space above to clip in to. I popped the clip open and moved the brake line up to the top part of the clip.



After that there was just enough space to push on the hose and tie down.



A couple more happy snaps of the electrical install. The new relay and safety switch are tucked away in the top right corner of the fuse box. There is one main power wire to connect and an earth wire to the right on the strut tower, after that it gets pretty fiddly.



There is a power wire and earth wire to be connected to the tank and chassis which was a dog to get on. Then it is on to the ecu.

There are two wires to be soldered in. The red one gets connected in to the ignition signal, and the second brown wire gets soldered into the rpm signal wire of the ecu. This process was so fucken fiddly it did my head in, but I got there in the end.



The system is set up so that if the engine stops for 3-4 seconds while the ignition is still on it will stop the surge pump.

The car is booked in for the block swap early next week and booked in with Tokyo Motorsport on the 19th for the run in/flex install & tune.

I am excite!!

A big thank you also to Jamie at Tokyo's for spending loads of time on the phone answering all my questions about plumbing the fuel system.

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Bye bye betty blue. Hello F6.

So there have been some casualties. Jim initially couldn't separate the block from the gearbox, it took some pretty crude blunt force trauma to split them.

Then the exhaust cam pulley would not come off, unfortunately it snapped during the ground and pound. A new one arrived this arvo ex-east (another $400) yay.

Mick Goodmans prediction of $17k is getting awfully close... Fuck you Mick, in the nicest possible way mate!

So close now, Jim reckons it will be up and running tomorrow arvo cross fingers. Booked in for tune on Monday.



Fuck you betty.



Some turbo with your oil sir? Oem clutch took a fucken pounding, 200 odd race laps and close to a hundred launches.



Bye for now.

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Bye bye betty blue. Hello F6.

Haha, keeping a spreadsheet of costs too eh? My missus caught a glimpse of it last week....

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