Its together!

I'll explain my extremely long day off weds and what happened with the car. Got up @ 8am. On the road by 830 in the truck with trailer behind it. Get to Covas house @ 10am. It's slightly raining and his car is in the garage. I decide to just work on it outside in the intermittent rainfall. FUN! I special ordered a belt to use the aftermarket pulleys i bought until my idler pulley comes next week. Installed the wp and alt pulley and new belt. That all went fine esp since i've had it apart three times now. Still has to come apart once more for the idler to go on along with both new belts. Now the fun begins, my car had pretty much every stock emission component still on it. I ordered up a complete banzai racing block off plate kit. This meant removing the upper intake manifold, taking apart the emissions rack etc etc. I think i spent five hours start to finish UIM off to UIM on and all block offs installed. The biggest problem i had was getting the double throttle plates out. The tiny screws that holds the plates on the rod are red locktited. All of them stripped. Covas drilled them out and everything else went pretty straight forward. The car now has three vacuum lines. Stock it has 82 or something insane. I get the car together at about 5pm. Add coolant. Fire it up. Exhaust is crazy loud. Did i forget something ??? Nope the crappy exhaust gaskets on the midpipe we reused are shot and leaking. I saw screw it not gonna mess with it now. Take 30 minutes. Load the car on the trailer and pack up the truck with all the miscellaneous parts that were removed or extra. Call Kahren and head to CT. I had no idea from Covas house to CT was the same distance as from my house in NJ. Oh well. It's still raining. I drive 2.5 hours. Get there are 9pm. Unload the car in a nearby mall parking lot. Some 80 year old mall cop, keeps driving circles around me unloading the car but does not say anything. I proceed to ignore him the entire time. We drop off the truck/trailer in the commuter lot nearby and drive the fd to kahrens house. Stop at MCD's for a smoothie first though. Wait a while for it to cool down. Rotaries get hot FAST... I pop in a brass npt port for the turbo. Kahren takes off the rubber house that is current working as a cold pipe. Starts fabbing up the cold pipe. Wound up taking three pieces to get it right. Comes out awesome. Takes about 30 minutes. I stare at the crapping looking hotpipe off the turbo i whipped together with random couplers and 90 degree bend. And suggest we move the reducer to the turbo then he can use the ubend to make it one piece. He agrees. Starts chopping welding etc. I am now bored sitting around and decide to change the midpipe gaskets since they were complete garbage. Also install the brace under the midpipe that was taken off when the double cat pipe was on for emissions. While i'm under there i notice a little puddle of oil.. awesome. I assume Kahren took off the oil feed or something nope. Its getting late now and i have work in the morning. Around 1030pm when we are finally done, Neither of us have eaten dinner. Take the car out of the garage. Drive it to the trailer load it up then We head to the Goldroc diner for coffee and omelette's. Delicious and enough caffeine so i can now make it home 2.5hrs. I fill up the truck again with gas. Grand total on gas today $110 only.... SICK! Does not include tolls which sometimes double when pulling a trailer... I head off driving through crazy fog. Why is there always crazy fog when i drove home from CT after midnight. I get home right at 3am! This day seemed to never end but i was very happy. The car is pretty much ready to be tuned now and it is home, instead of sitting 1.5 hours away, so i can actually work on it a little at a time. Tomorrow i'm going to jack it up and figure out what is going with the oil leak. I'm going to assume its the oil feed. It had a rubber hose to join the two metal pieces... i bet its broken or something. Anyway here is a picture of the completed engine bay thanks to Covas, Me and Kahren