Got the downpipes all welded up. Had to take a little off the subframe pinch weld. Doing the heat shields and secondary support bracket now

Let’s see if 16ga 304ss amazon stuff holds up for the flex pipe back

I’ve got 3/4” clearance from the drive axle boot. Heat wrap and a custom heat shield

1 3/4 roll cage tool and a serpentine belt alignment tool to merge the wastegate into the downpipe

Here’s progress so far. No oval tubing. Can’t get it to fit do you all run 3” tubing? I’m worried about ground clearance and melting things?

I shortened the downpipe a little to fit this
I hope haha. Wish me luck. 3” oval tubing. More ground clearance and will leave more room from melting the axle boot

Hello again. It’s been a long time. I decided to keep it. Too sentimental. The piston rings went. I’m going to be able to get a short block from Marc in about 6 months. Now that I know which turbine housing I’m going to use I can make the exhaust and intake as well.


Glad you kept it! I've ...

It fits

Making a downpipe is much more difficult than I thought. A new found respect for fabricators. Here’s what I got so far.

IMG_0077.jpeg I pushed her back into the garage on the first. Happy new year everyone. for the third time around. This time I’m getting a short block professionally built. Didn’t have much luck the first two times. I’ve gotta make the intake and exhaust first so we can tune it properly. The intake ...

Hello again. It’s been a long time. I decided to keep it. Too sentimental. The piston rings went. I’m going to be able to get a short block from Marc in about 6 months. Now that I know which turbine housing I’m going to use I can make the exhaust and intake as well.

DE80q wrote:I'll believe it when I see it!

I shouldn't say though, mine hasn't moved in 2 years haha.

Haha. It’s been a 18 year long project. It’s hard to believe myself. So long my mind still doesn’t register that it’s available to use

Everything is great 100 or so miles later. I needed a vacation from it. It turned into an obsession again and now I can relax. It’s back to it now.
First is the power steering doesn’t work. I used a mini cooper electric pump that’s not coming on.
Just ordered one today. This weekend I’ll finally ...

After starting it for the first time the second time around. Had a loose oil cooler hose and a leaky freeze plug. They are now fixed. Gotta get a plate and registration and I should also hook up the electric power steering pump. Not sure if that affects tuning. It is more of a load on the engine. I ...

She’s all back together again. So I called Marc for a remote tune. Over the internet and through the computer it started right up. Thank you!!

The new coils solved the issue only it lost a lot of compression due to piston ring failure. I finally am able to start removal and disassembly of the entire engine this time.

I’m selling all my 5 cylinder AAN stuff and going to 1.8t. Stuff is for sale or trade for a 06A 1.8T swap into my 91’ 80q

Thank u but I decided to go a different route

To be continued

As the title states

It started misfiring pretty bad. It has Amazon coils. So I ordered Okada coils for the ttrs in hopes that it stops the issue. I also previously relayed the coils with a 50A/30A relay. It was getting pretty warm so I ordered a 70A replacement. When everything gets here we’ll see if the problem goes ...