11-21-2013, 03:07 PM
Welp, guess I can update this jank. Copy & Paste time..
Well it's been a long time coming for an update... Been rather busy with other things + fixing the track car in between breaking it at VIR and Summit, but now thats over I've had some time to work on the Hype.
I went ahead and bought some Skunk2 LMA's from VPR (Thanks Victor) to replace what I thought were worn out LMA's in my head. So when I went to tear down the head I came to the pretty weird discovery, the LMA's were not put back in my head from the machine shop. I contacted them and they were very awesome to work with, and luckily I never really put load on the engine without the LMA's installed.
This made for a pretty simple swap in (didn't have to take the rockers out) and then went about re-tensioning the timing belt, etc.. I also fixed some small things here and there such as swapping the poon mirrors on, switching over to coolant, tearing into my blower motor and replacing a bunch of shit when it was really just a plug I forgot to plug in
Also did a nut and bolt check on a majority of the components (hint: the bolts that attach the caliper to the knuckle is 80 ft/lbs, I'd check this bolt alot for track guys).
I do have one problem with the car at this moment that I need to dig into more... The car sometimes is stubborn to turn over and start. The car did sit outside at the body shop during the warmer months of summer so I initially thought it was the main relay because I couldn't hear the fuel pump prime over. So i swapped in another used main relay I had sitting around and it seemed to remedy the problem, but the car seems to be doing it again. Any ideas?
Onto some pics and video:
Out of the garage under her own power
![[Image: 10909574043_175c77f1a9_b.jpg]](http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3697/10909574043_175c77f1a9_b.jpg)
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Shitty picture after the car was put down on the ground
![[Image: 10909579213_bdaa0a9cff_c.jpg]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7415/10909579213_bdaa0a9cff_c.jpg)
Some vids:
https://vimeo.com/79610609
https://vimeo.com/79610552
Well it's been a long time coming for an update... Been rather busy with other things + fixing the track car in between breaking it at VIR and Summit, but now thats over I've had some time to work on the Hype.
I went ahead and bought some Skunk2 LMA's from VPR (Thanks Victor) to replace what I thought were worn out LMA's in my head. So when I went to tear down the head I came to the pretty weird discovery, the LMA's were not put back in my head from the machine shop. I contacted them and they were very awesome to work with, and luckily I never really put load on the engine without the LMA's installed.
This made for a pretty simple swap in (didn't have to take the rockers out) and then went about re-tensioning the timing belt, etc.. I also fixed some small things here and there such as swapping the poon mirrors on, switching over to coolant, tearing into my blower motor and replacing a bunch of shit when it was really just a plug I forgot to plug in
Also did a nut and bolt check on a majority of the components (hint: the bolts that attach the caliper to the knuckle is 80 ft/lbs, I'd check this bolt alot for track guys).
I do have one problem with the car at this moment that I need to dig into more... The car sometimes is stubborn to turn over and start. The car did sit outside at the body shop during the warmer months of summer so I initially thought it was the main relay because I couldn't hear the fuel pump prime over. So i swapped in another used main relay I had sitting around and it seemed to remedy the problem, but the car seems to be doing it again. Any ideas?
Onto some pics and video:
Out of the garage under her own power
.
.
Shitty picture after the car was put down on the ground
Some vids:
https://vimeo.com/79610609
https://vimeo.com/79610552