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Rad cap is new along with the rad. Thanks for your input!

She's looking great!

Thanks Daigle, im going to be taking the car out for some more break in runs over the 2 days i have off this week and report back. So far my idle vaccum is slowly increasing with the more engine breaking i do wich is a good sign and im always moving the RPM's and not letting it sit at the same speed...

I took the car out yesterday for a lengthy drive and got into some boost to see if maybe the headgasket was only leaking under boost but everything is running normally. The water temps are very stable between 185 and 193 consistently even after seeing some boost. Oil temps never went over 220. When ...

Yes the heater was at the hottest setting but the fans were not on since i didn't see the point. If the temp control is at the hottest then coolant will flow through the heater core regardless of the cabin fan being on or off right?

Yes sir, brand new 50/50 in the whole system.

The system has been bled with the nose up in the air and with a Leslie Funnel about 5 times. The throtle body no longer has coolant going to it, I took the hose that was feeding the throtle body and used that as the turbo coolant feed and connected the turbo coolant return to the hose that was previ...

Exactly, im starting to think it might be normal or it might be that my feed and return lines are just to small or have too little flow to cool down the 50 trim on a log manifold. I took the feed and return lines from the throttle body and used those since the car does not see the winter anymore. In...

Thanks for all the replies! The coolant is not boiling into the overflow tank at all, the amount of coolant rises nor,ally in the overflow tank as the motor warms up and then goes back down to were it was when the motor cools off. I do have Altima dual fans installed on the back of my Koyo rad that ...

I took my car out today for a small ride around the streets of my house to continue breaking her in and when i got home and let it idle for a few seconds i shut her off and i can hear irregular spurts of coolant boiling in the motor / turbo. I have no coolant leaks, i am not burning any coolant, i h...

Oh nice I didn't know there was anyone else on here from my part of town. We should have a little meet when my car is ready.

Nice!! she's looking good! Was the drift session part of your break in?

im no pro but i dont agree. a lot of imort piston mfg's run as low as .003" clearence. all shall perish and my machine shop both referenced the slap as a direct correlation to clearences. Unfortunately I was not able to do to the reccomended specs. i had used pistons with .0001" wear and ...

Montreal, Canada

I can deffinately real time whatch it and data log it as well, so thats not an issue and thats a good idea. Il have to do some pulls and keep an eye on the timming and the water temps and see what its doing. As of right now i only want to street drive it and get used to the car again (haven't driven...

Nice glad to hear it sdaigle240! I did the Motoman method as well but on the dyno. I fi can stop getting rained out at home and can actually just finish up some odds and ends on the car i can start my street engine breaking and continue to break her in. Ya im running a Vi-Pec 44 ECU and the fans are...

Ah i see, no worries.

I am running Gulf 5w-40 right now.

Ya i don't have that luxory living in Montreal where temps drop at night when i have the car out.

supakat - what oil temps are you seeing with those water temps?

Thanks guys, its good to know! I just recently broke in my motor and was curious what you guys were getting because i never had the oil temp gauge on the car before i was boosted. I forgot to mention i am running the Nismo thermostat in the motor which is supposed to start opening at 153F. I tested ...

What Oil Temps are you guys seeing on your street driven rides? Im seeing about 220 F on a hot day crusing on the highway with barely any boost. Are oil temps on KA's normally this high?

You don't simply choose to either have or not to have piston slap, it all depends on the type of material the pistons are made of and how much they will expand inside of the bore. I would strongly recommend boring your block to the recommended tollerances that come with the Arias Pistons. Thats what...

sdaigle240 wrote:id bypass the throttle body and run it to/from the turbo.

I did this on my Garrett T3/T04E 50 Trim

I run an S15 Helical LSD on a solid mounted rear subframe on an S-13, it holds power no problem but that b*tch is LOUD!! due to the lash between all the gears.

Sweet! What have you done to it?

Fixed the oil leak today, it was the oil filter seal that came apart on the oil filter. Replaced it with a new one and no more leaks on the motor at all. I bled the cooling system again today and got a few more bubbles out and now when i shut the motor off the annoying boiling sound that i got when ...

Now that i think of it, my machinist that did all the machining work on my motor told me that my arias pistons would slap when they were cold due to the type of aluminum they are made of and told me not to freak out if the motor sounds louder then i am used to, its all normal. Plus i have supertech ...

Little update: I warmed the car up today and bled the cooling system with the spill free funnel which worked great btw. I got some little bubbles that came up but nothing huge, so i was happy to see that, plus i was also relieved to notice that the bubbles were not consistant which means that for th...

Alright sounds good then the tank was at 1/4. Just making sure its normal. Im paranoid since this is the first motor / car ive ever built and I have put a lot of time and money into it that i get stressed out when **** goes wrong lol.

I got myself the Lisle spill free bleeding funel so im going to go ahead and give that a try and see how it goes. Just got back from getting some fresh 94 octane and filling the tank up so im going to go ahead and let it warm up and hopefully get rid of the pesky bubbles that are left. Anyone know i...

No problem at all! Thanks for your help also. Im going out now to bleed my cooling system and I will report back and let you guys know how it went. Hopefully i can get a build thread of my own started shortly .