So in typical fashion I have no signal to starter or fuel pump now. Ready to burn this mother fucker to the ground. I’ve been steadily working just about every afternoon to finish this thing up and I feel like I’m almost to to the finish line where it can at least move out of the garage under its own power. I had a buddy weld my intercooler piping together to save me some couplers and I’m not even going to share pictures lol I’m no welder, never have doubt I ever will and he did it for free but man I need to figure something else out for the next go round. Anyways I was able to get my IAT mounted pre intake manifold which is what I wanted so I didn’t have to drill the intake. I think it came out decent. RTV and slammed it in.
I was also fortunate enough to have a buddy donate some 3” exhaust so I could make some sort of down pipe. I realized I forgot to order the flange from VSRacing when I ordered the turbo. Called and spoke with Viren on a Friday afternoon at 4:30 PM and it was at my house on Monday. I can’t say enough good things about the man. It’s two day shipping from Texas to Alabama but he still got my flange and clamp to the post office that afternoon. Anything I can get from him I will.
Me and Kyle have looked at how to do the fuel system every which way. Mainly trying to get the China boi regulator out of the way where it’s fairly accessible but still not in the way. So we finally decided to go under the truck by the frame rail and i ordered some nice ptfe braided hose and an fittings. Well I thought I did until I went back and reviewed my order a few days later and realized I just order black nylon braided hose. Not the end of the word just after looking at so many options I chose the wrong thing. No harm no fowl. It’ll still work. And yesterday afternoon after I got home from work I finally tackled the lines. I’ve put them off and done literally anything I could to not do them. I think they turned out decent. I still want to make a line to replace the return line. I did this to get it up and running so I can take the bed off to make it easier to work on I’m happy with this. I had to replace the fuel filter with one that had a 3/8 push lock on the outlet side. I’m keeping the hardline from the tank to the filter since I’m not looking at making huge power 3/8 and 6an should get me to where I want to be.
So by the time I got everything tightened up it was about dark but I wanted to make sure it was pouring because one of the fittings isn’t the exact one I need but I thought maybe it’d work with an o ring and it does. Battery has been disconnected since I started tearing it apart last month and I hook up just the trucks positive and ground and forgot I have a key on source to Holley so after the 3.5” screen tried to come on I turned key back off and hooked up Holley completely again at tree battery. Usually when you key on the fuel pump will cycle for 5 seconds. (The fuel pump is not controlled by Holley. It’s still running run by the stock computer.) This is what I was trying to do to make sure there’s no leaks. Well it didn’t cycle. Battery shows 11.8v on the Holley dash as well as stock gauge. Try to turn it over and nothing to the starter. Right now I’m at a loss. I charged the battery last night and this morning before heading out to work I tried again still nothing. I’m sure it’s a ground somewhere but it’s a kick in the balls. I did jump the fuel pump relay and I only had one very small leak and it was just at the hard line going into the filter like before when I had a bad o ring. I’ll tighten it up this afternoon to see if it goes away. Not super worried about it at the moment though. Everything else was tight and not leaking so that was something decent to end the night on.
There’s light at the end of the tunnel
Almost forgot I relocated the reservoir to the factory intake location. At factory location it was uncomfortably close to the turbo. Still working on a bracket to hold it exactly where I need it but overall happy with where it’s at.
I was also fortunate enough to have a buddy donate some 3” exhaust so I could make some sort of down pipe. I realized I forgot to order the flange from VSRacing when I ordered the turbo. Called and spoke with Viren on a Friday afternoon at 4:30 PM and it was at my house on Monday. I can’t say enough good things about the man. It’s two day shipping from Texas to Alabama but he still got my flange and clamp to the post office that afternoon. Anything I can get from him I will.
Me and Kyle have looked at how to do the fuel system every which way. Mainly trying to get the China boi regulator out of the way where it’s fairly accessible but still not in the way. So we finally decided to go under the truck by the frame rail and i ordered some nice ptfe braided hose and an fittings. Well I thought I did until I went back and reviewed my order a few days later and realized I just order black nylon braided hose. Not the end of the word just after looking at so many options I chose the wrong thing. No harm no fowl. It’ll still work. And yesterday afternoon after I got home from work I finally tackled the lines. I’ve put them off and done literally anything I could to not do them. I think they turned out decent. I still want to make a line to replace the return line. I did this to get it up and running so I can take the bed off to make it easier to work on I’m happy with this. I had to replace the fuel filter with one that had a 3/8 push lock on the outlet side. I’m keeping the hardline from the tank to the filter since I’m not looking at making huge power 3/8 and 6an should get me to where I want to be.
So by the time I got everything tightened up it was about dark but I wanted to make sure it was pouring because one of the fittings isn’t the exact one I need but I thought maybe it’d work with an o ring and it does. Battery has been disconnected since I started tearing it apart last month and I hook up just the trucks positive and ground and forgot I have a key on source to Holley so after the 3.5” screen tried to come on I turned key back off and hooked up Holley completely again at tree battery. Usually when you key on the fuel pump will cycle for 5 seconds. (The fuel pump is not controlled by Holley. It’s still running run by the stock computer.) This is what I was trying to do to make sure there’s no leaks. Well it didn’t cycle. Battery shows 11.8v on the Holley dash as well as stock gauge. Try to turn it over and nothing to the starter. Right now I’m at a loss. I charged the battery last night and this morning before heading out to work I tried again still nothing. I’m sure it’s a ground somewhere but it’s a kick in the balls. I did jump the fuel pump relay and I only had one very small leak and it was just at the hard line going into the filter like before when I had a bad o ring. I’ll tighten it up this afternoon to see if it goes away. Not super worried about it at the moment though. Everything else was tight and not leaking so that was something decent to end the night on.
There’s light at the end of the tunnel
Almost forgot I relocated the reservoir to the factory intake location. At factory location it was uncomfortably close to the turbo. Still working on a bracket to hold it exactly where I need it but overall happy with where it’s at.
