Late Sunday night around 10:30pm, the Jcavi was finally left in my hands. We left it outside of one of my bays at work with the trunk and cabin completely filled with parts and by around midnight, Jason and his friend headed back off into the night with one less vehicle.
The next morning I got to work around 7:30am and did the usual ritual of beating down the morning rush. Around 10pm, I got the Jcavi up onto the lift, by noon, it was heartless with only an empty shell and a bird's nest of molested wires hanging about....
These are the sotries, the people are real, the cars are real.... this is... Boost.
I had a feeling they would be due to how long it was driven so hot; the cams are shot. Since it over-heated so many times and this will be a high-hp turbo vehicle, the milling of the head might be too excessive as well. Before Jason came down I ripped out an ecotec with a blown bottom end from saturn L-series which I have now confirmed only had just over 15k miles on it!!!!! They cracked the oil pan and threw a rod out the side of the block. Yesterday I raped it and stole it's head in under three minutes. It really shows the milage.
After pulling the motor, I got started on the wiring harness. I didn't take any before pictures as things in that condition should not have written records but rather be passed down by word of mouth so that the story gets and worse/better everytime and eventually gets super powers. ::cough Jesus cough cough:: Lets just say it was bad... very bad. I started off from every tip of the wiring harness and worked my way in, hiding the new megasquirt sensor wires inside the factory harness, looming everything and snipping off sensor wires that could have been found way down at the bottom of the narness instead of at the sensor.
When I got close enough to the harness where I could start isolating the sensor signal wires down at the base of the harness, I gave up. The MS wiring was a jumbled mess with globs of solder (acid core?) that were too thick to put into the factory harness
I decided to pull all of the MS wiring out and just start over from scratch so that it could be that much more organized and that much more presentable. With MS out and only the required signal wires still exposed, the factory wiring harness is pretty much done. I cleaned the transmission and engine bay the best I could. If I can find touch up paint, I will atempt to fix all of the scratches and rust spots.
There are only small parts of the narness to touch up on now, I got kicked out of work 4 hours early because of the freak snow storm.
You may also notice oil coming out of the cylinder 2 exhaust port. It was all over both of the exygen sensors as well. I can replace the heated O2 sensor for free but I've got my fingers crossed that the wideband is not damaged.
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MMM fresh engine bay. Friday needs to come so I can get in there and play!
so what happened inside jcavi's motor?
I kept telling him ring land but he insists its just a head gasket....
but looks good
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the jcavi...... we got to work on a new name for the car. any suggenstions?
yeah I firgured the cams were shot. that head looks great though. as for the 02 sensor, Im pretty sure it still works, it was operating properly when the motor went, so unless it went after the car was shut down, it should be fine.
I still think it was a head gasket solely beucase, the plugs were fine. also if its not the head gakset im in deep @!#$.
I cant wait until we really get into it, people are gonna flip when they see what you do.
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Kick azz is my boost hero!!! 
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I forgot to mention, in the shop right now I have one other car that I am working on. What do you guys think?
Pretty cool huh? Can you even tell it's a Saturn?
Ok, before you laugh at it:
Balanced, knife edged and shot peened crankshaft
Custom 9.3:1 forged JE pistons with raised wrist pin
One-off forged Eagle long rods
Oil squirters in the block
Heavilly ported and polished cylinder head
Custom cams ground from blanks
Dual valve springs
Titanium retainers and keepers
Bronze valve guides
5 -angle valve job
1mm over-sized and undercut, narrow stem stainless valves
Custom aluminum intake manifold
100hp NOS direct port nitrous system
Twistec 62mm throttle body
Ported and internal/external ceramic coated stock exhaust manifold with T3 flange
Ceramic coated Turbonetics T-61 turbocharger
38mm dumped Tial wastgate
2.5" ceramic coated downpipe
3" full stainless dual exhaust
2.5" aluminum chargepipes
Tial blow-off valve
Aeromotive adjustbale fuel pressure regulator
Custom fuel rail
1000cc RC fuel injectors
SDS EMS controlling fuel and spark
Turbonetics front mount intercooler
More that I can't think of...
Last time I'll laugh at stickers, this thing should be an 11 second car on slicks. Another mechanic dropped in the motor and I installed everything turbo related. My end of the work took about 3 hours. For my labor he gave me 9.5:1 JE forged pistons to drop into my turbo Saturn SL2.
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Very sweet..
~2014 New Z under the knife, same heart different body~
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why is jcavis engine like brass inside? lol
cheap @!#$ty oil ftl
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QBE (The Boosted One) wrote:why is jcavis engine like brass inside? lol
cheap @!#$ty oil ftl
You shoulda already know the answer to that Mr. Philbert. The aluminum stains from dirty oil; the steel cams and all that jazz... that just got REALLY hot. Inside the head it looks like a normal engine with say.... 150k miles.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go in to work today. I will be in tomorrow though to tear the actual engine apart and finding out what needs new. I had already discussed the possibility of a ring land having gone or a broken ring. Our fingers are crossed for just a headgasket. I will find out tomorrow.
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I remember opening my block up and my insides look amazing clean.. mobil 1 synthetic ftw!!!!
but alas the seized 4 crank bearings sucked the most
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I have a question. Is this your personal shop? Looks nice. Or where you work and you are allowed to bring cars in to work on?
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Bad news, the ring land on #2 went.
The bad news is, there isn't much damage on the top of the piston but there is a lot of material missing. Although that sounds like a good thing, it's a horrible thing because not only does it mean either A. new sleeve in #2, B. bore all cylinders and order new pistons or C. used motor with low miles; it also means that there is about a 99% chance that the tubine was demolished to match the piston and block. I will be ripping that apart shortly to know for sure.
Pictures will be up around 6-6:30 tonight.
John Higgins wrote:I have a question. Is this your personal shop? Looks nice. Or where you work and you are allowed to bring cars in to work on?
This is not my personal shop. I work for saturn dealership as a mechanic but my boss allows me to bring in other cars. I am building his engine in the shop but the shell is going home tonight heartless to my garage. My welders, grinders, porting bits, drill presses and all of that mumbo jumbo is at my house. At home I have everything I have at work minus the lift. I've got air lines and everything else.
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This is not my personal shop. I work for saturn dealership as a mechanic but my boss allows me to bring in other cars. I am building his engine in the shop but the shell is going home tonight heartless to my garage. My welders, grinders, porting bits, drill presses and all of that mumbo jumbo is at my house. At home I have everything I have at work minus the lift. I've got air lines and everything else.
That is awesome you are allowed to do so.
FU Tuning
Here's the destruction:
This is how she will sit for the next hour until I pick her up and toe her back to my house:
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so we cant just hone it...........
I just emailed turbo tech, will see what they say, *sighhhhhh*.
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I TOLD YOU... NEVER UNDER ESTIMATE TEH QBE... NEVAR EVAR!!!!!
Now that the i told you so @!#$ is over with...
@!#$ dude that sucks.. but need anything.. lemme know
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Going soley on the condition of the bottom end, I separated the girdle to check the condition of the mains. They aren't horrible but they aren't great. The crankshaft looks alright and didn't take much abuse but the bearings deffinately would suffice with the kind of power levels the Jcavi is looking at.
I am going to be fabricating A LOT of the parts in order to save money on the build. We're going to make this work even if it means taking a little more time than planned. We'll keep this thread alive.
Phil, you are welcome to come down at any time. While the bottom end fiasco is getting worked out, I am going to be starting the head work and the H/O intake manifold conversion, plus rewiring the entire car to clean up the mess and get everything organized/cleaned.
I didn't take apart the turbo tonight because I JUST finished towing my golf to the shop and towing the Jcavi back. I will bring it back to work tomorrow and check it out. I will be keeping an eye out for anybody that owes me a favor and has a nice sized turbo they aren't using. I will also write to a few turbo companies to see if we can pick up some financial backing.
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where'd that turbo go I gave you?
I'd like to come down... I would love to help. I did a decent amount of work on that car the night it let go. jason did say to me on the phone tonight you were doing something cool with the intake manifold. I have a custom one. Josh I will need your services sometime to install a megasquirt for me as well.
Thanks and hit me up
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QBE (The Boosted One) wrote:I'd like to come down... I would love to help. I did a decent amount of work on that car the night it let go.
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So where you guys located at exactlY?? As stated im in southern Montgomery county, would love to stop by and check this out/ meet some of the guys
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I am in Northern PG county about a mile from the montgomery county border and a mile from the Howard county border. My house is probably about 15 minutes up 495/95 from you.
Phil, that turbo is on the thunderbird. I know you remember Clarence who drove up there in the beemer and shot sh*t with us. From the beginning it was meant to go on his thunderbird from the start.... eats babies now. I'm all up for doing your MS but you;re going to have to wait in line. I have Brian's Z24 to turbo after the Jcavi is done. That is just an install and shouldn't take but a couple days. MS might take a weekend, maybe only a day if Jason's files work on your car decently.
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