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Vacum line to the map sensor, line to the distributor, line to the fuel pressure reg... Thats about all you really need... There is also one going to the air-con idle up solinoid on the side of the injection mixer, but its neither here nor there. Shoot with any questions and i'll try my best to help out. I've removed the egr, made a plate to go over it. I also removed the charcoal canister, as its kinda pointless i rekon, and ugly. Yeap, i've seen the white one in town, would like to chat to the owner at some stage. My flatmate owns the starion now, and has some forged 20tho over vr4 pistons, and a twin cam head... but it'll be a long slow project.

New wheels, fixed lots of little problems, cleaned up the engine bay alot. Its running really well now, engine hasen't flown to pieces yet, which is nice . Its just a little faster than a standard one i rekon, doe to the lack of clutch-fan and no balance shafts. Its almost impossible to drive without boost, as the turbo is so small it spools instantly. No point in revving it beyone 4500 really, as its all over by then, heh. I rekon i could pull a standie at 2500-odd rpm though . I'll give it a go when it hits the 1000km mark.

Awesome awesome awesome! Kickass to see another one of these around... thats 3 of this shape and turbo i've seen in new zealand now . Bring it down to chch man, we need to line em up and see which one is faster!

Installed some gauges, because, yes, at heart im a rice-boy.

Absolutly loving that car, really kickass work .

Its a good idea to get a marine starting battery if your car's lowered, or see some hard use. They're alot hardier and will survive the vibrations and knocks much better.

Repco can only get DBA ones from aussie, even on staff prices they're a fucking rip, trust me. Have a check on http://www.austarion.com and see what the boys there are doing for starion rotors, someone on there will be able to send you a set.

Shes back together now and running sweet so far, no odd noises, temp and oil pressure are stable, turbo spools, no smoke... yeah baby .

New motor is in, interior is all cleaned up, starion seats bolted in with no issues . I replaced the bent rear strut, with a spare one (also from a starion) Cranked over the motor for 15-30 seconds with no coil lead to get some oil flowing, then hook it up and kicked it in the guts... Started up first try with no problems whatsoever! couldnt even hear the tappets, wicked. Runs smooth as so far. Tomorrow i'll hook up the fans and actually take it for a drive.

I think i have a spare set of lines and a cooler from a turbo sigma also.... Its not as big as my one, and more squarish.... same as a 90's-ish VR4 i think. Ive just moved and my shit is everywhere, but i'll find it and let you know The oil filter blocks with the oil-cooler lines should fit and NA motor without an problems, theres really bugger all difference between them .

I think I've got a spare one... I'll have a look later on tonight. Engine is getting put back together with new stuff to power the starion . We found the source of the knocking... big end no 4 wasent looking to healthy! (no bearing left at all) Oil had a nice metallic shimmer to it.

Well, while waiting to pull the motor out, as its a bit of a 2 person job, i had a go at cleaning up some of the interior. Last owner must have been a smoker because holy fucking shit does it stink in there. Seats were taken out and a good vacuuming commenced. Came up alright for a first try. More involved cleaning can come when its actually back on the road. At about this stage i opened up the boot and started emptying all the shit in there out... Holy fuck what a mess... At some stage someones spilt a LOT of sugar in there, its gotten pretty wet and formed gloopy messes everywhere . That fluid you can see pooled at the bottom of the wheel-well is actually dissolved sugar. Its thick and syrup-like... tasty. I bet my car is sweeter than yours, for real. Anyways, after getting in there with the hose and scrubbing brush it came up 'aiight, smelt a lot better also. That white power ain't cocaine, grrrrr. My oil-cooler is huge and awesome.

Fuck yes, I've got a nice intercooler to go in the front, its got a fucking huge oil cooler in there already, so thats sweet. My flatmate bought those Mitsy turbo bits on trademe, there were a couple of TC06's in there, so I'll do an 05/06 hybrid and she'll be cranking . There are some 12" thermofans sitting at work for me (im a repco slut)... Thats about as far as you can go on mods with the factory computer before shit starts getting fucked up. Should make for a sweet machine though... Burnout action coming this way.

Motors ready to pop out... only thing that stopped me doing it this evening was removing the interior trim and shifter itself.... Haven't done it on one of these before and it was a little involved, and it was raining, and I'm a fucking pussy... But i am off work for another 7 days, so i've got nothing but time, baby.

Yes, well, I need to make up my mind and actually get a car running! I've purchased a rather fubar'd sapporo... It goes BANG BANG KNOCK KNOCK... But i do have that motor all built... hehe. I prefer the sapporo shape over the staz, so its getting the motor for the moment.

My 1980 Sapporo has one factory as well, was a bit of a surprise.

Had my exhaust manifold re-surfaced and fixed up, put some new studs in, purdy. Only needed one helicoil. Best of all, its not cracked! finding one of these un-cracked is getting quite difficult. It wont be hanging around for long, but it'll do for getting it up and running. Mate has some exhaust wrap left over, so i used that, looks the goods now. Hopefully it actually does something as well.

Waterblasted the engine bay, came up nicely.

Yes, but the 70's bought us 240z's... and lets face it, there is no sexier car on the face of the planet .

That is true, but would also require a 5-stud conversion, and shipping the parts and wheels from the US would be super expensive... If im gonna do it i'd swap to the bigger LSD and 6-bolt axels/cv's while im at it. Ive got some 15" black mesh wheels with a little bit of dish... they need to be a tad wider, but they'll do for now .

Yes, i was offered way to much money for the EX, and couldnt turn it down. Theres just something about starions, i _meant_ to own one i think, its a genetic imperative. I have an MPI manifold sitting there, needs to be cut and shut however... I rekon if im gonna do that, i may aswell just put a twin-cam engine in it. Not a hell of alot more work... Someone offer me a cheap (free) vr4 motor, go on, i dares ya. Turbo is a TC05 12a, off a factory intercooled starion. Thats why the compressor outlet points that way by default. I have a TD05 12a off a dash motor like yours there aswell, i'll pinch the center out of it as its water cooled and run that untill i get my ass into gear and put on the big t3/4.

(Yes, i know this is a Starion, scroll down a little and see what happens) I've had a few before, was building an EX when this came up for a very good price, couldnt say no. EX got the biff, and this is the new whip. I bought it with a big sticker reading "Some Assembly Required"... But its all there, and i know where it all goes, hopefully! Step one is putting the motor back together and getting it running. New rings and bearings ofcourse, and some higher comp pistons i had from another motor that were in tip-top shape. Had the crank polished up, rebuilt the head aswell. Put some blanking plugs where the jet valves used to be. Havent tried them out before, so i sure hope the head dosent crack... . Only colour i could get 2.5" hosing in for the cross-over pipe to TB connection was blue, so i went with a blue theme on the rest of the motor also. Sand-blasted the rockercover, polished up the lettering, masked it off and sprayed. Looks damn good. I did the same for the ECI-cap. It may be a shit system, but damn it may aswell look good. Rebuilt the glorified carburettor that is the single point injection system while i was at it. I've never seen an original one that dosent leak, they all need a good once-over by this stage. Removed the EGR emmisions crap, tidies things up heaps.

Ive got a few EX 5 speed gearbox crossmembers, and a couple of starion ones.. they look identicle. Hook me up with some postage and one is all yours.

Splinearrific, splinetacular, spligantic. Splines.

More info on porsche strut inserts please... and piccies of the actual struts themselves, i need to see thses perches. kthx.