TitaniumTT's I hope I make it to DGRR '09 Build

[Whizbang]

yea im busting ass to get my FB done before i leave for basic training. Time constraints suck.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by vex

TT, I went ahead and tore it down again. I had all the seals installed. I guess I did get an extra fire seal. First time for everything.

Wow.... that's interesting. Don't you feel better now knowing though?

Originally Posted by Low Impedance

yea im busting ass to get my FB done before i leave for basic training. Time constraints suck.

Yeah they do, especially when you realize that there is a teflon front cover seal missing and you're going to pay 10X the price of the part in shipping to get it here by the weekend I may have to call in a favor @ the dealership.

You've come along way from a carb'ed 12a to a 'squirted ITB 13B 6P though. I likey the motor. I thought about building a crazy n/a motor than realized that for not that much more after all was said and done, I could go turbo. Then the project became 3x what the n/a would've been. You planning on attending DGRR?

[TitaniumTT]

So I did get a few things done tonight. I went to the hydraulic shop and had them silver soder a -6AN fitting onto the oil feed line. Then I got a -6 - -4 adapter. A -4 would've been ideal but the size of the fitting would've required it to be drilled out that it would leave too little matterial. I generally CAN'T STAND adapters, but I can live with this. Note - this is not the actual line I'll be using..... I ordered an all black fitting to go along with the theme




Something else I decided to try, No more stock fasteners. The last motor I had I either powdercoated or painted all the fasteners. It didn't last. So this time around I'm changing everything out to be either a stainless acorn nut, or a button head. It's also been brought to my attention that I'm getting old and grumpy. Little things are starting to piss me off, like different length fasteners. So I studed the front cover with stainless and loctited them in there. Now all I need is a handfull of acorn nuts and washers. Should limit the grumpiness a little



This porting was already done. It always surprised me how little time Mazda spent on the oil system. I think this 1/2 mod is something that alot of people over look when building an engine. Sorry if this makes you break the engine apart again vex



Something else I thought I'd try with this build. I never liked the fact that there isn't a positive seal with the oil pump. Yeah it's machined, yeah people never seem to have a problem with it, but wouldn't it be nice if you were a little more certain about the pump not pulling in air or pumping out oil? I thought I'd give this a try. A good friend of mine has a CNC mill, he accepted my challenge and this is what we have.



Insert the o-ring, apply a smear of hylomar on the OUTSIDE of the ring only, this keeps it from getting into the pump itself, and we should have a pretty well sealed oil pump. We'll see though. I'd like to see 30 psi @ idle as opposed to the low pressure warning light flicker when she drops to idle. That always causes me a little concern. Meh, we'll see.