The Project Pad

Well played, sir.

Went with ebay intake hoses. Quality is good. Price was good. Fitment TBD.

Have not updated this in a long time lol. Car still running good. Better every day. Rocking full HPR drivetrain mounts now. Snub to diff. Did some regular maintenance today...coolant res, oil change Snub and diff mount install.

5 years and still kicking. Sitting at 301k km now. Clear Corners on the way ( I caved Dustin)

It's about time Kenny... all the cool kids are going clear.

Only way I can't chirp a guy is like Lars did it... UrS6 was much more subtle with the amber.


How do you like the HPR mounts? Any noteworthy increase in NVH?

The trans mounts are the only ones that seem to increase NVH. So far Iike the snub, engine and diff. Quality product for sure. I'd post pics installed but photofucket you know lol.

The Clear Corners will be nice. Just redid lenses again and added new 3M so they look mint

morris400 wrote:The trans mounts are the only ones that seem to increase NVH. So far Iike the snub, engine and diff. Quality product for sure. I'd post pics installed but photofucket you know lol.

Sometimes I feel like I'm spamming this link... but it's so amazing to have pictures work, even if it's just for looking at old build threads and such:
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morris400 wrote:The trans mounts are the only ones that seem to increase NVH. So far Iike the snub, engine and diff. Quality product for sure. I'd post pics installed but photofucket you know lol.

The Clear Corners will be nice. Just redid lenses again and added new 3M so they look mint

Interesting. I noticed a bit more NVH when I did my engine mounts. Those were the first mounts I installed before all the other ones. I also used HPR tranny and motor mounts but used Apikol for the diff and snub mount.

I like the clears on my UrS6. Pics of said 3M on your lenses? (Use Imgur)

morris400 wrote:Have not updated this in a long time lol. Car still running good. Better every day. Rocking full HPR drivetrain mounts now. Snub to diff. Did some regular maintenance today...coolant res, oil change Snub and diff mount install.

5 years and still kicking. Sitting at 301k km now. Clear Corners on the way ( I caved Dustin)

Good to see it's still up and running. It's still a baby sitting at 301k. I'm up to 406k but I just blew out my headgasket so it may be time to part it out lol.

Long time buddy. Sent you a PM. Don't part her out man...change that HG.

Lucky wrote:

morris400 wrote:Have not updated this in a long time lol. Car still running good. Better every day. Rocking full HPR drivetrain mounts now. Snub to diff. Did some regular maintenance today...coolant res, oil change Snub and diff mount install.

5 years and still kicking. Sitting at 301k km now. Clear Corners on the way ( I caved Dustin)

Good to see it's still up and running. It's still a baby sitting at 301k. I'm up to 406k but I just blew out my headgasket so it may be time to part it out lol.

morris400 wrote:Long time buddy. Sent you a PM. Don't part her out man...change that HG.

I've got some body and frame issues, this was the straw that broke the s4s back lol.

That sucks man. Mine needs a new hood and that's about it really. Keep me in the loop and I may snag some parts off ya.

IslandRinger wrote:

morris400 wrote:The trans mounts are the only ones that seem to increase NVH. So far Iike the snub, engine and diff. Quality product for sure. I'd post pics installed but photofucket you know lol.

The Clear Corners will be nice. Just redid lenses again and added new 3M so they look mint

Interesting. I noticed a bit more NVH when I did my engine mounts. Those were the first mounts I installed before all the other ones. I also used HPR tranny and motor mounts but used Apikol for the diff and snub mount.

I like the clears on my UrS6. Pics of said 3M on your lenses? (Use Imgur)

It's kinda hard to see the 3m but it's there. Went 12mm.

started my 7400 install, and its resulted in me pulling the head lol. Will update with more info and pictures soon. everything was going well until....the manifold stud snapped off in the head and the extractor also broke in there lol.

morris400 wrote:started my 7400 install, and its resulted in me pulling the head lol. Will update with more info and pictures soon. everything was going well until....the manifold stud snapped off in the head and the extractor also broke in there lol.

I had an extractor break off in a broken bolt not to long ago. Was not to fun to get out. I did a lot of looking online as I was unfamiliar with how to get a broken extractor out. Found that (most) are hardened steel and can be very hard to get out. One of the tech’s at work used a pencil grinder to start getting it out. Luckily he got it to move and it came right out.
Good luck with it, hope it goes well. Let us know.

Head is off. Today was very productive. Need to get head bolts and a few other small things but it's coming along well now.

morris400 wrote:Head is off. Today was very productive. Need to get head bolts and a few other small things but it's coming along well now.

Right on! Glad to see some more progress. I know we spoke through email regarding the work but I'm still a bit skeptical about yanking the head when I do my install just for the sake of it. I do agree that I should do a compression test to get a good baseline of where my engine is at health-wise but in my opinion, it seems a bit unnecessary to pull the whole head if it's not mandatory for installing the manifold and turbo. Not to mention the added costs involved. (headgasket, cylinder head bolts, etc.) I'd rather not open up a potential can-of-worms. I do understand your situation with having the extractor break off and such. As the saying goes, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Thanks again for the tips and such. They're all going into my mental notebook for when I eventually start putting my parts on.

Making more progress. Kinda....head back from machine shop and they damaged all intake valves. So waiting game again.

Pretty much at a stand still until the head is back .

What do you mean, damaged the intake valves? They messed up and just gave the head back to you, expecting you to not notice?? What shop was this? What did they offer to do when you got back to them?

Dustin, I sent you a text...I think lol.

Lapping in new valves today. Moving forward







Tomorrow more of the the same lol. All hand lapping so I dont mess it up.

All this chatter about VEMS logs has me thinking this build is a lot farther along than you're letting up...

PRY4SNO wrote:All this chatter about VEMS logs has me thinking this build is a lot farther along than you're letting up...

Busted... lol

Dustin...yes. complete lol. I did not document well after getting the head done. I kinda put my head down and pounded through to finish it up. Car runs great. Just tuning the VEMS now. Really did not have any problems other then the shop messing the valves up. But I fixed that on my own.

This was a first in everyday for me so I'm pretty happy with the results.

Pics added above.

Yeah that really is too bad about the machine shop, I'd heard they were the Best in town with 5 cylinders. If they hadn't made such an avoidable mistake the car would have been together much in advance of the snow. Suppose you win some and lose some. As it is, you were able to take it in stride and the progress you've made really sets you up for a fun summer next year.

Car looks great, thanks for updating your thread!