my winter project
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looks like you got lucky
I am surprised you lucked out breaking only one corner seal, and that an apex didn't let go, since i thought you were using OEM 2 pc, correct??
both halves look to be there from the corner seal.... so nothing went through the combustion chamber...... consider your rotors, housings, and turbine wheel lucky
(especially on a $$ turbo like that)I'd just make sure to check the irons for flatness if this motor got at all warm on you.
IMO those corner seals are brittle and a POS, I would recommend solid corners with the good springs when put back together
also people are having great luck with RA teflon encapsulated coolant seals.... just a thought
anyway, I am happy you didn't tear up those housings
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yea, I might be painting instead of polishing. looking at cost and will be much cheaper. Id rather not buy i guess one is limited to what he has in his wallet. Do they make a polished alluminum color paint?
Gary, what kind of paint do you suggest? never painted car parts before.
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fdfreak;246472 wrote:
Gary, what kind of paint do you suggest? never painted car parts before.On my stuff every thing has a PPG sealer applied first....
the irons have a PPG single stage black....
and the red is the same paint on the car..... PPG base/clear
you would not believe how tuff all that stuff is...... even right at the exhaust ports after a bunch of antilag the red was like new
BTW the stuff that looks like bumps or whatever on the back rotor housing is just casting flaws, not paint flaws
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Grr;247687 wrote:
spray paint wasnt what i had in mind when i said paint, but i guess it looks good enoughi know it wasnt what you had in mind, but I i was pinched for time. so I threw 3 coats of primer down, 4 coats of paint and 3 coats of clear. next week I will be up at NDSU putting the engine back together.
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:icon_cheers:> zbrown;246493 wrote:
On my stuff every thing has a PPG sealer applied first....
the irons have a PPG single stage black....
and the red is the same paint on the car..... PPG base/clear
you would not believe how tuff all that stuff is...... even right at the exhaust ports after a bunch of antilag the red was like new
BTW the stuff that looks like bumps or whatever on the back rotor housing is just casting flaws, not paint flaws
:icon_salut:YES this is now my screensaver...!!
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here are some updates on the project. The engine is 90% completed . I just have to wait until tintmasters is done polishing my IC pipes and my turbo compressor housing. This saturday I spent all morning cleaning and tearing the engine bay. Aj and eric came over about 1:30, we masked everything off and aj went to it. it turned out great. the color is better than I imagined. Cant wait until the whole car is painted.
This weekend will be spent putting the engine back in and hopefully firing the car back up.
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Looks good!!!! Painting your engine bay right takes lots and lots of time but when its done, it looks amazing! I am glad we spent the hours upon hours we took to strip, clean, prep and paint my engine bay!
What color is it?
Should have taken the rest of the stuff out tho
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