PS: If anyone has the detensioner tool PM me. I hear you can get away with threaded rod or something. But if anyone has something that works please PM me.
I plan on doing this the easiest way possible.
i have this tool for the valvetrain, it is AWESOME
http://www.euroexportinc.com/store/tools/mitsubishi-4g63-valve-spring-compressor.html
i also did it with the head on, make sure you plug up all your oil passages in the head. i made my own threaded tube to connect my compressor to keep my cylinder pressurized. i used 85-90 psi and it worked like a charm… only pull the spark plug you are working on and leave the rest in, chuck the wheels and put the car in 5th gear so it doesnt move, rather be safe than sorry right? i dunno if you know this all already, but there it is if you need it.
i have the timing belt tool, let me know
PS: have fun putting the keepers back in, they are an absolute PITA :lol:
Sobo I should be free…
Paul was a big help last year btw and he’s real cool on letting you borrow those tools :tup:
Yeah were starting hopefully the upcoming week after I get the rest of my parts. My current tune sucks balls right now, sheesh. My car hates to be driven.
I won’t be running my car on the street or track cause I don’t have the time for it, or the consequences I just need her to be reliable and fun to drive when I feel spirited. But I hear where your coming from though.
The stock ecu is amazing, I wouldn’t go with AEM either. What the Evo guys out there are doing on stock ecu is enough to forget about AEM lol.
RRE has a nice vid on the install.
Sobo good choice on having emery doing your tune after the cams. There’s only a few people I’d let tune an Evo and he’s right up there with Dave Buschur. Honestly though after going with Paul to mike@innovative I was quite surprised at how well everything went with that. Paul’s car is wailing out and will only get faster with a good 60ft
I actually bought the same exact tool! Nice. I really could use that tool for the timing belt tensioner though.
If you wanted to come hang out with a couple of guys and do some wrenching that’d be cool. I’d buy beer + food for everyone so we could tag team this bitch. I’ve watched the videos on how to do it but I’m sure you have some tricks.
Lets do it! Beer + Food.
We shall see, I’m keeping my fingers crossed.
Also, I’m interested in seeing what my bill is on this one. Tamer hooks me up pretty good.
dude lets just do it saturday lol im sure we’ll be hung over but cams are easy. but it deffantly feels good and i think that guy in that srt-8 would agree muuuhahaha
looking good.i think im going to lose. 
sounds good, just shoot me a txt, i know a thing or twleve about these cars! lol
you’re arguing here with people that have actually owned cars for more than 3 weeks and actually built their cars themselves
I forgot you ghetto rigged on a mapsensor and now all of a sudden your building cars.
If you have no idea what you’re talking about, then stfu. when you do know what you’re talking about, then offer your opinion.
Here is me “Not” working on a car myself.
Decided to do my cams last minute yesterday after visiting STM.
Called up some people, met at a garage and began wrenching. The job took about 4 hours, including learning how to use the valve tool and get the retainers to sit.
We ripped all the excess BS off, put the car in gear and got the engine to TDC.
Then we ziptied the cam gears and bungee corded them to the top of the hood.
Undid some bolts and what not, got the cams out.
Started the tedious valve spring swapping. Wasn’t too bad though.
New valve springs:
Then we put everything back together in reverse order. I bled the lifters, and torqued everything down properly.
We put everything back together, released the belt tension and rocked the car back and forth to regain some belt tension. The timing was still perfect.
Started it up and finished the lifter bleeding process, took probably 4 cycles.
End result: Very lopey idle! Strangely they idle better than my BC cams on the BC tune. The driveability remained the same, if not better. Can’t wait to dial these in and dyno it.
A big thanks to
Kyle Adams for helping me
Psphinx for lending me the tool, and some very helpful hints
Cougarspeed for lending me the cylinder pressurizer dildo
Bueme + Ian for stopping by.
Nice
good work :tup:
GJ sorry i couldn’t help out more there. Too much crap going on at the shop right now.
looks good :tup:
and i never would have thought to use the zipties like that
Dope. I was so down to come help too but you didn’t get my text. 
:tup: Nice job
Going to STM for a tune and some dyno time. Stay tuned for some numbers.
I’m hoping for low 300’s.
I did some minor work today too. I put the hallman back on for emery as well as some other parts.
Also, following emery’s advice I preloaded the fuck out of my waste gate. My car is much quieter sitting at idle and the driveability is amazing. I moved my DLI down onto the frame rail as he also advised me that the vibrations from the current location contribute to DLI failure.
I am also considering picking up an AEM ecu. After some indepth discussion, It became clear to me that the AEM was the more precise way to get closer to the ragged edge while still being safe. I’m trying to meet my goal of 400 wheel on stock turbo/e85 before I put the red on, and it’s becoming more obvious that the stock ECU will make this task a bit harder (atleast for now. Those stock ECU guys will probably have a ton more done in the upcoming years)
Track results pwn dyno numbers. Set some real goals pssy.
:tup: Definitely a path in the right direction!
There are plenty of people who use stock ECU and make good power. If you use the bigger maps I would think it would be very similar. However I know emery LOVES the AEM’s and tunes them very well. It’s all on what your tuner is comfortable with using. Anywho, you’re in good hands with STM.