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[kelly270]

all I can say is... shit. You guys really know yer shit. Hey is there a different size belt to buy after eliminating the AC?? Does anyone know the number?? I looked at that SOB a long time today, and there is no real way to pipe in the intercooler with it in place, (you were right Matt). No carpet today and no intercooler. Bummer, I was really wanting to try it out today, see what differance the intercooler and hybrid turbo will make. And you guys are right about meeting the fellows and shit! Besides i am learning stuff I never knew. Lots of research the last few weeks, let me tell you!!

[sterling94capri]

O'Reilly Auto parts K040345 $8.99 ,power steering w/out A/C.Thats the cheapest, they go on up to like 25 bucks,goodyear, Gates blue etc. Rocky

[sterling94capri]

And there is an O'Reillys in Port Angeles, on first street! Rocky

[rcicustoms]

just ask.. the knowledge pool is great on this forum...

[kelly270]

you think... LOL they just put that freaking o'rielly's up like a week or so ago, already you guys know about it!!! Thats almost funny!! The parts guys at the other places, all know me by name.  I'm pretty sure that, I pay at least one guy at each place's wages!! On a nicer note, the gal that bought my 5.0 is having a new top installed this weekend! good 4 her.  
I can't wait to install the windshield banner I had made, I had all these plans on installing the fmic and upgraded turbo and leaving the front off and cruising it round this weekend! You know, just to be cool. Took off the 8mm red plug wires and hem on the car. The engine compartment is looking good. The rebuilt turbo is on and the exhaust manifold with no cracks, (believe it or not), is on. I'm just waiting for the carpet and intercooler! Next weekend for sure.

[kelly270]

yeah, bought the belt, and the AC comes off tommorrow. No way aound it. And the weight loss should make a differance.
   
heres my buddy mikey the mechanic showin' his skills,, check the sign on the wall of the shop!! Straight stolen from "pill hill" tacoma WA, place you don't want to be!
   
heres a shot of one of the seats after they were recovered. Looks good eh? new black carpet will be installed and a big f'in' speaker box will take the place of the rear seat!
   
heres the hybrid in place, after reading lots of input, this and the FMIC should be a real nice upgrade.
   
Man those red 8mm wires look good!!
   
that should comfirm the short nose crank!! Thank god, I spent $$180 on the high volume oil pump, from here on out all parts ordered will be for the 88 323 gt motor!!
coming long!!  Thanks, Clay, for the parts, and the info, to confirm what we already knew, kind of...

[kelly270]

Joe, I got the guys from Blox to respond, they said that the fuel pressure regulator from a honda civic, would not work on our cars, did you mean a fuel management unit, and if so they need to know the specific ratio that I would need. I know that you said that whatev er it was would need to be modified.

[rcicustoms]

Kell ok listen... they dont make much for a capri and alot of times you need to borrow and modify others cars parts....

you need ..
 

this is my intake mani out of the car you can see the gold reg. on the rail...

 
here it is in the engine compartment...


 trust me its a honda civic fuel pressure regulator.. it modifys the stock reg...

[rcicustoms]

theese are some comparison pics of the td05h-14b hotside and a vj-14 hotside .. you can see what i was talking about above with the 2in out compared to the 2.5 inch out and the huge difference in flow...also the big difference in wastegate hole size... holds peak boost better without as much spiking...
 
 
 

[kelly270]

cool, I will get some more questions in line, when it comes time to do the thing?? Man talkin' bout a big diff in the sizes on the turbo's!!! Yeah, I see  what you mean. Man I had a half a day off today and just got done working on the intercooler, today and yesterday. Its no easy task, and I sincerely hope anyone doing this, is willing to cut up the front of thier car a little! I had to drop off the top piece at the custom welders, to weld up an aluminum spicket for the vacumme port. We don't have aluminum welding wire at the shop where I work. The carpet came out sic!!! goes with the seats so well, its my little part of the 94 upgrades that most people put on thier cars, only mine is on the inside!! Very few people will ever even know the car did not come with the black interior!! I love the little subtle changes that no one else does.

[Christian]

What benefits do you get from that Civic's pressure regulator?

[Rocketman]

Adjustable fuel pressure. You'll need it to try to run oversize injectors.

Joe is your FPR a RRFPR? What ratio?

[rcicustoms]

hell no,  i had to turn the fuel DOWN... ok basically all you do is cut the hat off the stock reg. the stock spring flies out and gets lost... you use the included spring and the fpr is just a hat with a adjustable screw to tighten or loosten the spring pressure on the stock regs valve... no rising rate.. except when boost is pushed into the reg and holds the valve closed...
at an idle you can adjust the spring tension on the valve and get it to lean out at idle...
this was never meant to raise the pressure at all.. with the 450 cc injectors it runs stoopid rich at idle and out of boost conditions.. this reg (fuel pressure modifier)lets me soften the rate of the regs internal spring allowing fuel to bypass whenever vac. press is present and closes as stock when you make boost or hit 0 on the boost guage... then its up to the over clocked vam to controll fuel input into the engine via pulse width ect of the injector...

you guys are thinking backwards here  you need less pressure to run the bigger injectors..
otherwise the computer dosent know the stock ones are not in there it sends the same signal
and thinks its squirting the same amount of fuel where in reality its alot more fuel getting dumped in... Honda guys use theese to raise the pressure on there cars. to make a smaller injector squirt more fuel. you will need it to
lower pressure while in vac. to not run pig rich on the idle and cruising... make sense???

your tricking the simplistic ecu into running a bigger injector the ecu dosent know its a bigger injector is pulses it the same whether its a 300cc injector or a 700cc injector you just need it to not squirt so much down low.. so keeping the return flowing when not in boost achieves this... trust me with the walbro pump the fuel is there.. your not going to go lean even with the bypass wide open... hell ive forgotten to put the vac line back on my reg before and went for a ride and didnt lean out on the wideband till over 14psi then when it did lean out it was only into the 13.5 range.. noticeable to the tuner but not detramental to the motor...

now, if i could only figure out a way to lean it out a bit up top arround 18psi of boost id make alot more power .. and get alot less cylinder wash...Joe.

[kelly270]

yeah it all makes sense. one quick question, I was thinking about running a fuel cell  when its all done, can i get an inline one to work? I gues I'm wondering whay you specify an in tank model.

[Rocketman]

why oh why would you want to run a fuel cell? god I hate mine soo much