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Well I knew this day would come.
With only 1,200miles on the motor...
Two main problems that Ive had with this engine, are...
#1 The alternator belts are being eaten away, somehow there miss aligned?
They actually broke on me a few days ago.
Its an S5 alternator on an S4 water pump housing. And there is a large space between the housing and the alternator ear in the rear part of it. I just put a grinded down nut in there to make up the space.
I wonder if that's how all S4 alternator brackets are, being shorter than the alternator.
With my S5 I didn't have this problem.
My solution will come when I rebuild the motor again.
I'm going to swap the front cover, and the water pump housing.
Because I found out that the S4 front cover doesn't go with the S5 water pump housing. So after I built the motor I used the S4 water pump housing.
Which leads me to the second problem...
#2. When I built this motor I didn't spend any money at all. Just reused everything.
Big mistake with coolant seals. Even though they only had 8 miles on them.
The car smokes every time I get it started. And I have had trouble getting it running once it starts.
I think with this rebuild I was more concentrated on the idea of the bridge port than the longevity of the motor.
This next rebuild, I'll do everything better.
It still will be bridge ported.
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