OMG I am retarded
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Alright, so I tried to start the car last night. Actually, I was successful in starting it. However, I had coolant leaking out of the intake?!?! Unfortunately, when I put everything together, I was just putting it together like it came apart on the stock stuff. Little did I know that a Cobra intake does not use the EGR coolant lines, yet I hooked one up anyways, so I had coolant going into the intake! I think I have everything hooked up correctly now, but I think I will have to pull my sparkplugs out and crank it over to make sure there is no more coolant in the cylinders (don't want to hydrolock anything) and also pull all my vacuum lines to make sure there is no coolant in them either. Also, I was too hard on my heater core lines, and now my heater core leaks like crazy, so I will have to bypass that until I get around to replacing it. Otherwise, I think I have the fuel pressure close enough (40 psi) and the timing should be close enough to play around with (pretty sure I have the distributor on the right cam gear at any rate). I should not be allowed near a car with a wrench in my hand, I can't believe I had a coolant line going into the intake where it should not have been. I was worried that I would not have those pedestal roller rockers set up right, but it seems so far, so good.
On a side note, the car sounds much much meaner, and I think I have a good shot at putting myself much higher on the TCS list than before (dead last).
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TsiTom wrote:
Well you did get one thing right....the thread was named properly....
What he said? hope you get it all working properly.Matt
92 Civic HB
JDM d15b w/14b@8psi
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Well, it seems that there was coolant in the oil and the car lost compression. So evidently, the engine sort of hydrolocked, and blew the head gasket on the inside (no visible leaks outside of the motor). So I will have to tear it back down again and replace the headgaskets. Oops.
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haha, I hate to say it stormy, but jesus, what about owning a shop manual?
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Eh, it was just one line hooked up wrong, and it was getting late at that point. I just got sloppy, and paid for it the hard way. On another note, the oil drive gear on the distributor did not pull out with the distributor, so now I need to pull the entire motor again to get in there through the oil pump. gg luck.
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Good luck, let us know when you are coming, we can all converge on Krispy's house!
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