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Got out today and cut some steel fender flares out of a mk2 jetta coupe to mock up to the fenders and quarters of my wagon. They are a pretty close match and I think they are big enough to go into the doors and blend the dog leg area to look like a professional flare job. Might take some flack from ...

A few questions were answered for me as well, those gray top injectors from a 97 ouback sport worked very well I'm sure I didn't have to but I numbered them and put them in with the same orientation. Still couldn't find any technical info on them like pulse and hold rates fuel output and why the ori...

Well fellas, its been a while but I'm finally done with my build and she has a strong heartbeat, want to say thanks to everyone and the great info that I received through this thread. Yall are the greatest ;p..motor fires great, sounds great and it can pull its own weight like never before. Stage on...

I have some of the same codes but the 33 code confuses me a little bit. I just finished a motor build and swap on my wagon and pulled knock sensor, vss and purge valve codes. Two of the three are very apparent but the vss is a strange one to me because its not a circuit and looks to be purely mechan...

Yeah I imagine it would be fun to say the least..I did run into a good thread from a miata forum on how to depower a r+p by taking some seals out. The guy who did this work said it felt pretty good and sturdy, not like the manual racks from back in the day.

It wasn't so bad in my bd, I had a really bad leak in the p/s reservoir so I bypassed the lines and fed the little bit of fluid that was in there in a loop. I only had it like that for about three weeks until I could get a rebuild kit for the pump. What would be ideal for me is to get the pump and r...

I did think about that when I put my valves and plugs in but did not measure them together, I did put a contour guage in there and they were close enough for me not to worry about decking them again. This Wednesday I'm going to check for leaks in the valves seats and ill measure the bowls at the sam...

Awesome thank you sir.

Lol..no I was just being a smartass.

No one can tell me if all my valves should be closed or partially open when my heads are fully assembled. I thought all the valves should be closed until I put them into timing...Or its just a ridiculous noob question.

Whoa calm down people..

I swapped out the whole roller valve train and cam into that head, not just the rocker assembly should have mentioned that. The only other thing is that the hlas, the I bled the air out yesterday and only 4 of them stayed solid, the other 4 have bled down already so those need to be replaced. But th...

Well time ran out for me to find another block so I'm putting my 22e back together, got everything I needed for it now. I did unfortunately have to buy another right side head for it, the head I bought was out of a 92 legacy sedan. So I'm still kind of frankensteining this build. The cast patterns a...

Damn, I had some of the red injectors in my grasp not two months ago and I sold them :smt083... oh well if only I knew. I like that idea of the 222 because of the stroke too, mostly what I'm after with this build is pep and low end torque and responsiveness..not much can be expected on HP, but I wou...

Thanks bratman, That's what I was thinking was going to happen as well, I didn't even think about the cr of the phase 2 motors. I think ill have to have a custom gasket made for it though. All the second phase motors 251/252 are basically the same right, I thought it was kind of strange that the mot...

Well that's not a bad idea I can probably get the injectors and rails at the cheap u pull here, they have 4 first gens there. I already have the rotary iacv from my other 22e and wiring for an early 97 2.2, if I'm not mistaken the changes were mid year after July 97 to the injectors. I had the red t...

The heads and manifold are looking good. Thanks man, I hope it does some good things, now I'm off to look for injectors and rails, maybe toy around and open them up too. Has anyone tried the phenolic spacers from grimmspeed? The theory sounds pretty legit, I just guess that the I/m bolts have to be...

Wow thanks for kicking ass josh..that's funny how or why that happened not
to mention that the car seemed fine for a 40 mile trip home with it. No notable
fueling issues. New injectors it is then.

They don't look broken, no evidence of residual materials or tool marks, the part looks manufactured. The front two injectors have a black top and the rear ones have grey tops. The grey tops have the normal looking nozzles, black tops have no nozzle..weird. The car ran pretty good when I got it desp...

A few weird things I noticed about the fuel injector set up in the manifold but only one sticks out right now. Why dont the two rear injector nozzles extend into the valve entrance like the other two, they were super extra dirty too. I'm wondering if I can use my 98 impreza obs rails and injectors i...

http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/s660/pleaidestar/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0040_zpsd7abawb_edit_1390089823833_zpsopkuiiej.jpg just for kicks and the whole motor is going to be seen when its in, I'm leaving out the a/c and power steering (maybe), I want to try to depower the rack and see how it feels...

blended that lip down into the throttle chamber all the way around and polished it pretty smooth in there, the entrances to the runners remain rough and even out in the exits to the heads. I think it will breathe better but only time will tell. http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/s660/pleaidestar/Mo...

blended the casting marks cleaned it well..

there we go..

http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/s660/pleaidestar/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0032_zpshvnctrba.jpg http://i1310.photobucket.com/albums/s660/pleaidestar/Mobile%20Uploads/IMAG0031_zpsawteznen.jpg cleaned up the ports and left them a little rough throughout the eexhaust end just cleaned that side well and...

At least they keep us busy right...seen some bad stuff done mechanically too but in my time in body work I Have seen some s*** that could get people indicted. Insurance companies too, I can't believe what they overlook or just plain miss. Today was pretty cool, got to spend another full day cleaning...