Tron's S13 Hatch // PNW

[Wykydtron]

Silicone worked fine from header to manifold. Lasted an hour on the t2 flange. Back to square one. I'm going to cake high temp copper gasket on a t2 gasket


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[Wykydtron]

Myth busted.






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[Wykydtron]

Slapped this bitch together in a night. I used a 4 later t2 gasket with copper high temp rtv. Going to let cure for 24 hours before taking it out. I double-checked and made sure the studs were torqued down.




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[S14rebuild]

Ive tried all diffrent types of gaskets..the only one that has ever held up for me is a full copper gasket. Its 3/16 thick straight copper. Installed with lock washers on the bolts and never looked back.

Good luck solving the issuse..shit is annoying

[Wykydtron]

Originally Posted by S14rebuild

Ive tried all diffrent types of gaskets..the only one that has ever held up for me is a full copper gasket. Its 3/16 thick straight copper. Installed with lock washers on the bolts and never looked back.

Good luck solving the issuse..shit is annoying

I thought about it, but I had a 4 layer t2 gasket sitting on my bench. We shall see... I'm really hoping the inconel studs hold up. I torqued those studs into the manifold really well.

I didn't really take any photos, but small update I did wire in a relay and switch for my oil cooler on Labor day. I'm planning on running Villains Sportsland in a few weeks.

[Wykydtron]

Sunset Cruise and burritos






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[Wykydtron]

Last Friday I received my Villains hydro kit. I bought the full $500 kit because I didn't want to waste time piecing together my own, plus I love supporting the Villains guys, Nate is one of the nicest people I've ever met.

On top of that, Villainssportsland is this weekend. I decided to slap a $30 underglow kit on the schassis. I need to add more ricer RGB to the car since I'm a PC gamer / twitch streamer!

I'll try and record random shenanigans from VSL VI and post it to Zilvia.











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[Wykydtron]

I never gave a proper update from Villains Sportsland back in September, most likely for how bummed I was. First of all, the event was INSANE! 3 days of drifting and camping with your buds at one of the coolest tracks in the PNW... This just makes me realize I could post a ton of content from that weekend! I'll update the thread over time.

Long story short, the KA overheated and blew a head gasket. The head was 11 thousandths off and the block was only 2 thousandths off. Couple weeks ago I pulled the motor out and had Ray at Garage Auto Hero pull the head off. Ray machined the head and he slapped a Tomei head gasket on her!

I have most of my photos on my phone, so I'll add photos through the Tapatalk app.

[Wykydtron]

I’m very thankful my buddy Nick Mosher reaches out to me and offered to tow my car to Villains Sportsland in Walla Walla WA. That’s about a 4-5 hour drive depending on traffic, a little more with our lunch break at a trucker hub.

Jordan Hilmo, Jon W, John Danyals, Roland Gallagher, and Derrik Pompeo all met at the Safeway gas station to fuel up and hit the road.















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[Wykydtron]

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[towlie]

Man, VSL has a great backdrop

[Wykydtron]

Originally Posted by towlie

Man, VSL has a great backdrop

It’s beautiful out there


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[Wykydtron]

I brought my camera out to VSL and took photos while I wasn’t driving. Here’s a few from Friday night.









Also camera photos of Nates car in the morning.






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[FaLKoN240]

Damn bro your pics are HUGE

[Wykydtron]

Originally Posted by FaLKoN240

Damn bro your pics are HUGE

holy shit lmao i uploaded through the app (instead of pc)

i'm surprised zilvia admins haven't added max-width or some CSS wizardry.

[S14rebuild]

That coupe is thrashed and still looks sexy as fukk

[Wykydtron]

Personal note for myself in the future:

IAT 5v ADC03 - blue
IAT ground - White

MAP 5v - red
MAP ADC02 - yellow
MAP GROUND - orange


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[Wykydtron]

I keep slacking off and forgetting to update my thread. Few photos of me at from Villains Sportsland.









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[Wykydtron]

While I was at Villains, I lifted the head? I think a cooling issue that started back in July finally caught up to me in September. Although it didn’t seem apparent mid summer. There was an open drift where my turbo coolant lines sprung a pin hole leak. I think ever since then my motor had strange cooling issues. I believe it had a minor head gasket leak that got progressively worse until 3 days of hot lapping at Villains Sportsland.

At VSL6, my coolant needed to be bled 2-3 times due to air getting stuck in the upper coolant hose. What I didn’t realize was that exhaust fumes was slowly building in the coolant lines. On the 3rd day at Villains Sportsland, the motor ECT peaked at around 240 F. After that I called it for the weekend.

When I got home from Walla Walla, I rented a compression tester to see if I lost a cylinder. I was getting around 150-175 per cylinder BUT cylinder 1 was around 120. I ran the compression test a 3rd time when I realized the compression in cylinder 1 was falling a lot faster then the other cylinders.

Turns out, the compression in cylinders 1 and 2 were being pushed into the coolant jackets (yes while I was testing). This was evident when I heard bubbles in the overflow tank.


I messaged Ray at Garage Autohero and asked if he could look at it. For his sake, I pulled the motor and brought him the long block and a Tomei head gasket.









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[Wykydtron]

Ray made a quick turn around and got the head back from the machine shop over the weekend. With the freshly installed head gasket, he noticed something odd about the upper timing chain. Apparently Mark (that assembled the long block) had the lower chain off 1 tooth. Ray fixed the issue by moving the upper chain 1 tooth to match the lower chain. I dressed the motor and dropped her back in that week!













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[TheRealSy90]

Just FYI you don't need to torque the inconel T2 studs into the manifold. Just fully threaded in and hand tight is fine. They work with Clamping force via the nuts.
Also good on you for getting Inconel studs and Stage8 nuts. This is the best hardware that you can use. However you really should have went with the "s15" multilayer t2 gasket. Good time to do that.
My only gripe with the Stage8 nuts is they can easily get deformed in the area where the clip for the lock engages the nut. Oh well.

[Wykydtron]

At first I was having issues starting the motor and it turns out the MAF died. When I hooked up my standalone, the reading was sitting at 255. NO IDEA how tf the MAF died! All I did was set it on a shelf when it was removed from the car. POS reman car parts!

The MAF sitting at 100% flooded the motor and caused it to not start. I updated Ray what happened and couldn’t believe it. I pulled the spark plugs to air out the motor overnight. The next morning I had an old MAF to A B test with and it started up!

While I was at it, I spoke with my tuner about getting it tuned again. Since the timing was corrected, the tune would be way off. He recommended (again) to wire in the MAP and IAT sensors I have. I got off my lazy ass and spent last Friday evening wiring in both of those sensors.

After I had the harness back in and tucked, the motor started but ran on 3 cylinders. I thought an injector died or I fried the wiring while I had the harness out. Turns out spark plug in cylinder 4 decided to completely die?

Long story short, check the basics before ripping the engine harness out a second time... ugh.

Street tune coming later this week!!!



Above: NismotronicSA ADC board. Soldered the bridge for the 4.5 ohm resistor. This is for the IAT sensor.



Above shitty wiring while I test the sensors. I eventually cleaned this up.



Above: the GM 3bar MAP sensor actually had wiring diagram labels stamped on it. Thank god.



Above: ugly ass schassis that runs and drifts needing paint. Will throw money in ur face.

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[Wykydtron]

Special delivery from Osaka Japan. Full kit! Ordered this back in December and just got it last week! Can’t wait to send the car off for paint!





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[Wykydtron]

This week, I’m bringing my car down to a guy named Kenny to dyno tune my car. I switched to speed density! Now I can run more boost and toss the old s13 MAF.

Last week I noticed my house reeked of gasoline. After checking around the garage, I figured out my gas tank started leaking.

Luckily my friend Spencer (Frowsh) offered to let me use his dads outdoor lift. We got it up in the air and slapped some JB TankWeld on the leak.

Simeon stopped by in his BMW to hang and play pool. Spencer’s never seen his new BMW in person.

Looking forward to this 2020 season! Paint in March!












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[Wykydtron]

Short video from dyno day:

https://youtu.be/D6vSaRxBlR0




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[Thursday7]

Legit!

How do you feel about the tank weld? My 13's tank is leaking and I don't feel like sourcing another.

[Wykydtron]

Originally Posted by Thursday7

Legit!



How do you feel about the tank weld? My 13's tank is leaking and I don't feel like sourcing another.

If it fails, I’ll keep patching it... unless I can find a cheap s13 tank on a budget.


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[Wykydtron]

This weekend went well. I can’t believe how fast the car is now. I was actually nervous af entering the 3/8ths bank because how fast it got up to speed. I need to work on my flick entries.

While I was tandeming towards the end of the day, I broke a RUCA! Thankfully my friend Brad Davis has a replacement in his trailer. He loaned it to me so I could gimp back home. The next day he gave me a few arms to try out.








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[Wykydtron]

Open drift video (yeah I’m not a vlogger just recording some runs to look back on some day)

https://youtu.be/CUbMpupHKm4


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[JoelC]

Just read though your entire thread, I got a KBD rear bumper and skirts for my s14. You mentioned their fitment was bad? How so? I'm a little nervous because it gets misshapen so easily.

Anyway, great thread!