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

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

That sucks man! Another reason why I am rebuilding my own engines from now on. You just cant trust another builder, regardless of reputation.

Hope the rest of the stack goes well! Good luck!

No you really can't. I have a friend who knows Gibson personally. I called her up to ask her opinion of his engine building skillz...... she didn't lie. But she choose her words carefully. Regardless, it was still the cheapest way to get this thing back together. And now I have a NEAR PERFECT set of RE Housings to sell too.... any takers?

The rest of the stack went..... meh. I had to do the front rotor twice because the assist piece kept breaking. I figured out the trick though,
take a piece of release tin foil and place on a flat surface.
apply glue
put pieces together
fold foil over apex seal and place a thin piece of sheet metal over joint
hold everything tightly for 60 seconds
peel foil off
using a razor, shave the glue away.

Then on the rear rotor I was removing a corner seal to set the apex springs in. The seal popped out and fell into a cooling passage I got lucky and was able to retrieve it with a magnet. The last corner seal I pulled out with a magnet, as I will be doing for the rest of my life.

So the stacking went ok, but assembling everything has been slow and painfull. Everything being ceramic coated I'm chasing everyt thread and last night broke a tap in the turbine housing..... oh I was pissed. So now I've got a date at a machine shop later today.

Originally Posted by Trots*88TII-AE*

Looking good B. I'm sure you'll have it all back together soon enough.

Thanks T, looks like I had to order a few more little pieces that won't be here until Thursday. So I'm going to assemble everything I can and hopefully get it in the car Thursday night. Hopefully fired Friday, cruising around over the weekend.