Long Awaited Turbo build...

[JeremyH]

I am not Eddie, but yeah he does. Mike is a bit of a workaholic...lol (a good thing).

He tuned my car from about 8:30 to 12 midnight on a week night. He is the man and very time flexable.

Lol i figured Eddie is there all the time so he would know lol.
Well once i see how everything goes tommorow im going try to setup the day and time for the tune.

 

[Greg Hazlett]

We do need the pics of my garage...the look on my face when I returned from vacation was priceless...2 stangs jacked up literally and figuratively!

What a PITA we had today with trimming the bumper to accomodate the GT500 heat exchanger...learned that a grinding wheel does the job but not so much grinding as melting and that plastic shit gets hot...right Jeremy?

The belt install was kicking our ass until I called the previous owner and asked him how he got it on and that explained the smaller idler that was included...had to remove the stock Vortech idler and installed the pulley the previous owner used...would have been nice to have known that!

 

[07 s197]

Hey Eddie, does Mike work on sundays?

not usually, but im sure if need be he will. The word is he can be bribed with red lobster or Tokyo if need be

 

[JeremyH]

not usually, but im sure if need be he will. The word is he can be bribed with red lobster or Tokyo if need be

Haha! Nice.

 

[jodadejss06gt]

Light are you running delete plates on this?

 

[JeremyH]

We do need the pics of my garage...the look on my face when I returned from vacation was priceless...2 stangs jacked up literally and figuratively!

What a PITA we had today with trimming the bumper to accomodate the GT500 heat exchanger...learned that a grinding wheel does the job but not so much grinding as melting and that plastic shit gets hot...right Jeremy?

The belt install was kicking our ass until I called the previous owner and asked him how he got it on and that explained the smaller idler that was included...had to remove the stock Vortech idler and installed the pulley the previous owner used...would have been nice to have known that!

Yeah and grinded off the tensioner stop so we could lossen the belt more than the stop would allow us to, and finally the belt went on, and that sucker is on there!

 

[JeremyH]

Light are you running delete plates on this?

Yeap.

 

[Greg Hazlett]

not usually, but im sure if need be he will. The word is he can be bribed with red lobster or Tokyo if need be

I know what Red Lobster is but what is Toyko other than a city in Japan? That could get expensive!

 

[07 s197]

I know what Red Lobster is but what is Toyko other than a city in Japan? That could get expensive!

Its a japanese steak house in hampton, Tony came with us last sunday. Probably the only place where you will see 4 guys eat 20lbs or more of rice haha

 

[JeremyH]

Greg we need to get your car done! lol
I figure tommorow i will finish the bumper and mount/wire up the intercooler pump, then start some hose routing. Probably finish that power steering mount too.

 

[TonyN]

Yeah and grinded off the tensioner stop so we could lossen the belt more than the stop would allow us to, and finally the belt went on, and that sucker is on there!

My belt was a BITCH to get on too. I put some dielectric grease on my water pump pulley and hung on the tensioner with a breaker bar while a friend fought his ass of to slide the belt over the WP pulley. TIGHT!

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Think you can get all that done tomorrow before work?

It would be great if we could get mine done and Mike could tune both of them on Sunday...if Mike was willing to work Sunday...

 

[JeremyH]

My belt was a BITCH to get on too. I put some dielectric grease on my water pump pulley and hung on the tensioner with a breaker bar while a friend fought his ass of to slide the belt over the WP pulley. TIGHT!

Yeah we try to slip it on the water pump pulley at one point and it just wasnt happening. Removing the stop on the tensioner really did the trick.

 

[JeremyH]

Think you can get all that done tomorrow before work?

It would be great if we could get mine done and Mike could tune both of them on Sunday...if Mike was willing to work Sunday...

We shall see, thats my goal anyway!

 

[Bullitt3478]

Greg I see you are gettin yours done finally.I still havent done my paxton yet...... Got anymore room in that garage of yours?????LOL.

 

[Greg Hazlett]

LOL...I can't even walk through my garage with all the stuff all over the place...and it is killing me as I am a little OCD and everything needs to be back in it's spot!

 

[lostsoul]

hey.. are you going to finish this thing.. your almost reaching the # of post in my thread (65,480).. haha

 

[JeremyH]

Haha, so that why tools get randomly put away while they are still needed! lol
You should have seen the garage when i was using all kinds of tools for the turbo. I cleaned it up at the end of day though lol

 

[JeremyH]

hey.. are you going to finish this thing.. your almost reaching the # of post in my thread (65,480).. haha

LoL trying to!

 

[Greg Hazlett]

Stangs jacked up!

Progress..I think!