Looking good!

love that nsx in the background of the first pic! Havent seen one in ages.... is that a Carrera beside it?

 

Thanks!

yeah those NSX are pretty cool little cars. Probably the best thing Honda ever built imo. The Porsche is a Cayman S

 

Where'd you get the flaming river u-joint? I didn't think they made them any more?

 

I'll second that! You dont see them much up here in canada... the cayman's are nice... but I'm starting to find that all porches are looking the same lol... I'm still on the fence about the four door...

 

Eshaw, they still make them. Heres a link to it at summit
Flaming river u joint

yeah, they do all look very similar now... I didnt used to be a fan of the four doors, but after working on a few Panameras I started to like them. I dont like their SUVs though. They are a pita to work on and just not built to the same quality as the cars

 

 

I didnt get a new shaft for it. I dont think I'll even have the u joint in time... I'm hoping to have the engine back in tomorrow. I'll have to do the ujoint at a later date.

I got the intake manifold all bolted on now, no broken bolts this time ��. Just gotta get a couple fittings and I should be good to go with it.

Pulled the oil pan and cleaned it up nice. Just gotta throw the new gasket on with a couple strategically placed drops of rtv so it hopefully doesnt leak by the timing cover again this third time.

I also got my hp tuners MPVI2 in the mail today, I'm excited about that. I tested it out and started tuning my dads 2012 Hemi Ram. I have a TON to learn, but I managed to increase throttle response, change the shift points, and firm up shifts on it so far. If I have a chance I'm going advance the timing a lil and set it up to run premium fuel.

Kinda off topic...but also kind of related since I mainly got it to tune the blazer.

 

Well, I didnt get the engine in as I had hoped today... but I did get the oil pan back on and got everything fully set on the upper intake.

Removed plug from water jacket on the lower intake, and found a fitting that threaded In for the t-stat bypass hose. Had to extend the hose a bit to fit nicely. Also got the throttle body adapter and throttle body mounted.


Next I ran my PCV valve to one of the ports that came on the upper intake. I used the hose that came with the intake, and slightly modified it to fit my needs better.

the port for the marine MAP sensor is too large to securely hold the factory sensor in place, so I drilled another hole in the upper intake for that.

I made use of the now empty MAP port. I tapped that hole and threaded in a fitting for my brake booster hose

that pic should give a pretty solid view of the layout of all that.

well it probably wont be till next weekend at this point until the motor goes back in, but in the meantime I'm going to be coming up with a way to retard timing while nitrous is being sprayed. From what I've found so far, I dont believe our ECUs are capable of running a second tune that's only engaged while a trigger wire is powered..I'm going to try and find a way to do that.. but by backup plan involves a relay and a resistor to trick the computer into thinking the timing needs to be retarded.

 

How do you plan on delivering the nitrous, just fog via the intake tube?

 

exactly. It's just a single nozzle fogger.