It f**king started!!!

[Amphiron]

After doing my rebuild for 6 months I finally fired her up today and it ran great, until it ran out of gas. Such a great feeling and experience especially with the open downpipe. I'll try and get a video up tomorrow night when I finish breaking it in according the break in procedure on stealth 316.

[Austin@STM]

Congrats, subscribed for vid/pics

[Amphiron]

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Still got alot of cleaning up with the engine bay and the body to do but now at least the internals are nice. =]

[Caswell239]

I kno the feeling I did a swap in July and man it felt good!!

[Amphiron]

here it is starting... look at that oil pressure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B33R_TGGqMI
I got some REALLY bad lifter tick after I moved the exhaust over so it wasn't lined up with the rest of the pipe anymore, is that normal?

[Austin@STM]

If the motor hasnt run in a while it is normal to have lifter tick for a little while as they pump back up, some take longer than others.

[MaxClass]

After doing my rebuild for 6 months I finally fired her up today and it ran great, until it ran out of gas. Such a great feeling and experience especially with the open downpipe. I'll try and get a video up tomorrow night when I finish breaking it in according the break in procedure on stealth 316.

Check out this site and article before you do the break in. Most tend to agree with his advice.

http://www.mototuneusa.com/break_in_secrets.htm

[Amphiron]

If the motor hasnt run in a while it is normal to have lifter tick for a little while as they pump back up, some take longer than others.

yeah when it first started there was a bit then it went a way then i after i unhooked the exhaust it got really bad. hopefully it goes away when i finish the exhaust work

[Austin@STM]

Are you sure its lifter tick your hearing?

Moving the exhaust should have no affect on the lifters being oiled.

[CoreyB]

Maybe it could. If there is no back pressure on the exhaust valve ? IDK just wondering how it could be possible.

[Amphiron]

Are you sure its lifter tick your hearing?

Moving the exhaust should have no affect on the lifters being oiled.

it might be like corey said with the back pressure but yeah, it's lifter tick. i can hear it coming right from the heads and when i take the oil cap off it gets louder.

[Alan92RTTT]

Congrats that it starts.

IIRC I could hear my lifters more when the test pipe broke.

Just to be safe check the timing belt. Make sure nothing jumped or out of place.

[DocWalt]

Congrats! I hope you get the issues worked out. :)

[Austin@STM]

Just put some dynomat inside your valve covers, and viola no more tick ;)

Just kidding, maybe it is possible with the changes in cylinder pressure that the tick becomes more apparent, i cant say for sure, and i dont have the brain to think to hard about it right now.

[terrets]

Have you changed the oil since the warm up? :)

Gratz on it running :D

[Amphiron]

Have you changed the oil since the warm up? :)

Gratz on it running :D
I stopped warming it up because the tick was so bad. I need to check the timing and also figure out why my temp gauge isn't working either. When I work those things out then I will warm it up, change the oil and do the "aggressive break in".

[Blurr]

I had a massive lifter tick (more like lifter clack), after my rebuild on first start up. I scared the shit out of me; I was convinced that I did something wrong. In the end, it went away on it's own and now I cant hear a thing.

If it's just lifter tick, I'll probably go away if the lifters are new (and big bore). I can't say why my lifters were as loud as they were when I first fired mine up. They stayed loud for a little while too, like a few days, getting quieter as time passed.

[Zero-X3]

1. were did you get the rebuild
2. Please tell me you checked the piston clearance from the block.

Sounds a little to loud to be lifter tick. It sounded like mine when I was sent 11 to 1 pistons. And with you moving the exhaust it would have just made to piston more noticeable when it struck the heads.

[Amphiron]

I never checked the piston clearance when I did the rebuild, But this is a better video of EXACTLY what it sounds like. Like I said I'm sure it's lifter tick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tMLATFQb6s

[terrets]

I think its lifter tick....Did you install the 3mm 99' lifters? Agree with Blurr

[Amphiron]

Nope didn't install the 99 lifters. It was basically a budget rebuild so only the essential things got replaced, oil pump, water pump timing belt, rings, bearings, pistons, heads redone etc. The lifters might have just ran out of the diesel fuel that was in them to keep the primed and after running it for awhile they just need to get re primed?
Right now I'm working on some "concept heads" in my autoshop, those are getting 99 lifters.

[Amphiron]

Got 200 miles on her. Doing a mix between the rough, and babying it break in method. Fuck its hard to keep my foot out of it, car is so quick now compared to what it used to be. Bit of a exhaust leak still, but it's good enough for now but you can tell the loss of low end torque. IAC is shitting out and the cold weather is making sure of that, sounds like its got a super lobed cam in it when it first starts then jumps to 2100RPMs and then steadys out after going into gear. Lifter tick is basically gone, which is great.
I just wanna give a big thanks to the community here for helping out in all my topics, if it wasn't for you guys I wouldn't of got it going.
HUGE thanks to Alan who came and helped personally! Really set me on the right track with where a few parts go. Gave me a ride in his TT (first time I ever rode in a TT) and really motivated me to get her finished. Talk about being a good admin.

[OhioSpyderman]

:bigthumb:

And +1 to Alan for helping!!!

Congrats :Clap:

Bob. :)

[CoreyB]

Disconnect the IAC untill you get a new one or you will be replacing the ECU and IAC.

[Amphiron]

I actually just found a vacuum leak, so I think the IAC is fine. I hope, however there is some humming come from under my dash. It's most likely the death song of a tired and abused capacitor. The leak is actually coming from my gasket on my throttle body don't get gaskets from auto-zone, period.