here are a couple of pics of the swap!

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Jesus those picture are big!!

Looks good though. Trans looks nice. Wish I would of painted mine.

Do you have room for the water pipe with that header on there??

just some info on those headers= crap

mine broke and a lil peace fell in the hot side and broke my wheel clean off.

but over all it looks realy good

Water pipe fit with no problems.

How is that engine supported in the stand?? It lookes like it's just hanging off the bolt threads!


You need one of my shiny EGR blockoff plates!

The stand we had worked like a charm no problems.

We hacked up the factory 2G EGR cover to make our 1G EGR block off.

WAIT ONE MINUTE!!! Don't tell me you used a Felpro headgasket please! Much like the stocker, the Felpro gasket will blow at anything much more than 16lbs of boost on stock head studs. ARP studs increase this by a little, but not much. Sorry bud, but I can't say that you'll be all that happy with the results if you put anything more than the stock turbo on that car because you'll be doing a headgasket job too.

No. This is the premium gasket from NAPA not sure of the name off the top of my head. They gave me the wrong gasket set twice and upgraded the last one on there bill. Also Larry at precision said felpro was the way to go.

Ok, fair enough, do what you want but don't say I didn't warn you.

Felpro is what was suggested to put on my car as well. It blew shortly after running 18lbs of boost on that same gasket. There are countless threads on DSMTuners on this topic.

The multilayer Mitsu 4-layer gasket is a slightly more expensive alternative that will stand up to 25lbs of boost with ARP studs.

to late now. but seeing that DSM break like every month I am sure I will have the engine back out soon.

http://www.slowboyracing.com/more.php?id=1079&

If you combine this and a set of ARP head studs you'll be safe for running higher than stock boost.

MITSU# MD 349347

Slowboy Price:

$94.99

fel-pro = fel blow in the DSM world.

Might be ok for a stock car, but they don't hold much outside of stock boost ranges.

I ran a Fel-Pro for about a 9 months on stock boost with no problems. It was probably only about 4,000 miles though

Check the link and scroll down to the SCE ICS Titan Copper head gasket.

http://www.ffwdconnection.com/headgaskets.shtml

IMO, this is the head gasket to end all head gaskets. Its what I use on my car. They have been tested to hold 43 psi and over 1800 horses on varying applications. A little more expensive than the Mitsu 4 layer or the Cometic, but I think the extra money spent is worthwhile considering how easy it is to turn that boost up and pop a head gasket.

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Your 6 bolt looks great! I wish that my engine looked like that...

Yep, and Fel-pro is the reason why I kept it "on stock boost". I wasn't trying to give any false hope by saying that I had no problems...

Felpro or stock IS the way to go, IF you have an o-ringed block. If it's not a stock rebuild nothing leves the shop with a "stock" head gasket.