well, $50 you could have spent towards decent bosch or similar pump

Yes probably, but I was on a budget and the pump wont be working hard anyway as you say. If money was no object, I'd by a genuine Subaru turbo pump ... all metal all the way.... I was on a budget at the time so I bought what I could afford.. now I have more, but I'll try this one first and see how I go.. when it fails I will get a shurflo or something else as good.

Engine starts... timing was out which was to be expected.. but sadly I have a water leak pissing out near the water pump... will be using a mirror tomorrow to see where it's coming from.

Car runs and is totally together now, but I've still not tried the manual..
Oh well, at least it starts and nothing seems to be hitting...

Water was the heater pipe to the water pump on the exhaust side... replaced O ring and no leakie now.

Car runs like a dream and goes like a shower of s**t... now to get it ready to go over the pits and then I can go back to putting the charger in.

lol smart a*** . Maybe $5.50 can be considered nothing?

How's it going frank,got the bugs out?
Hope she's cranking well soon.

Any updates to this Frankieh?

dude i need updates im about to do the same thing lol to mine

yea frankieh, whats happening???

Not that much to report sadly.

I've collected all the bits I need to bolt it all in now, just have to take the car over the pits for the post manual conversion inspection. Before I do that, I have to change out all the ball joints (replacements have all arrived.) install my camber kit, replace one of the tie rods (car is so low it seems to chew them out) and a bunch of other little things. Once that is done, I'll pull the intake manifold out and start bolting the charger in. Since I have already had it fit to the engine that is now in the car, I don't expect any mounting issues. The engineers I've been talking to may want me to beef up the mounting though.

wish I have better more interesting news for you guys, but I have a wife and three small children and the amount of time I get to work on stuff for my car is extremely limited at the moment.. It won't be like that for too long, but it makes getting stuff done hard.

Hang in there bud.

lol yea i know that feeling bud no wife or kids but gf and lots of nieces nephews god kids all that stuff so its still heaps hektic lol but yea i got hold of the supercharger now just need injectors fuel reg n pump opefully she will run like that without a tune until i can afford a tune lol

Don't worry frankieh, we all go thru times in life when we can't get much done on our projects. Hang in there as mentioned, you will find more time & get it done.

Cheers

ToranaGuy