So hope this isn't to boring, but maybe it is a lesson to those ever contemplating it to keep all their parts, and make sure they get everything back from any shop that does the work for you... Today was definitely a lesson in not knowing how to put something back that you didn't take out yourself. Anybody want to guess what part it was?
So today was rear brakes(wish I had done them while I was there.), more under the car, and some engine compartment, and interior.
So rear brakes are easy. swap lines, and put in some stock pads.
Open the hood.. Pull the intercooler, swap the dog bone, decide to do the rest of the exhaust.
Drop the mid section. Bloody rear O2 sensor takes hand grenades, vice grips, and a sledgehammer to get out...
Figure out how to get the downpipe out, and drop it.
Now I have to figure out the uppipe...
Drop the front plastic cover, and pull off the brake "duct" plastic thingies I put in while I'm there.
Oh look, I'm missing a header to up-pipe bolt... I thought I had an exhaust leak... Guess I was right. Gasket is shot too.. Crap...
OK, drop the oil filter, pill the sandwich adapter with the oil temp and pressure sensors in it. Filter back on. Drop the right side headers. Ah,there is the up-pipe.
The top bolts on the downpipe were tightened by gorillas. liquid wrench, 1/2" breaker bar, 3/8 reducer, 2 extensions and a deep socket fixes that.
S^2 uppipe drops out with only a little wiggling... This is going to be easy... HA!
Put the stock muffler and mid/rear section in.
Put the EGT sensor back in the stock up-pipe. Mistake... Pull it back out...
How in the hell does this thing fit? It won't go up from the bottom, and it won't go down from the top...
After trials and tribulations, I figure out you drop it in upside down from the top, and feed it in from the side with twisting and cajoling until it rotates and drops in and can be pulled up into place. What a bloody pain... Except now I have to get the EGT in... Pulling off the little bracket running forward makes that almost doable. I think it's tight.
Somewhere along there, I pulled out the cabling to the gauges to the Oil and after market EGT sensors.
Downpipe isn't to bad, and the cat with O2 goes in pretty good.
Center differential mount, rear diff mounts.
Swap out the vacuum hose I split for the boost gauge. Pull the boost gauge hose back to the firewall.
That's enough dirty work. I'm getting tired.
Clean up, and start tearing apart the interior.
ECU Swap back to stock.
Dash gauge pod out, center console and gauge cluster out to get to cables. Pull the A-Pillar pods, boost hose back through the firewall. Pull it all out, and put the stock bits back.
Well, that was enough for today.
Not much left...
I need to decide what to do with the headers. That leaves the front bar, engine mounts, intercooler back in, and then the steering rack bushings and snorkel if I decide to do them, oh and put the spare and junk back in the trunk. And I think that is it...
Hey, who wanted to swap snorkels?