- Hey, this is Davin with Hagerty,
at Redline Rebuild updates.
Today working on our Subaru engine.
We have our long block completed
and I need to move on to a fully-assembled engine
so we can get it on this test stand and get it running.
So order of operation today,
get our valve covers on so all these pieces here
are for our valve covers,
and then we'll move over here to our intake manifold
where we have everything spread out,
everything's nice and clean,
and it is ready to be assembled.
This is a huge puzzle, as you can see,
because there's a multitude of parts,
and of course, everything has a specific spot to go
and an order so we might get it right the first time
or we might not, but at the end of the day,
it'll be together.
So with that, we gotta roll.
All right, there's that.
Now we can put this on.
Take the rubber outta there.
Okay, left side valve cover is on.
Let's roll this over to the right side.
Okay, so before I throw my valve cover on,
I wanna wipe down any oil of course
or any dirt that might have gotten put on here.
That's more useful when you're doing it in the car.
But for us, we're pretty clean
but you still don't wanna have any oil on the surface
even with a reusable gasket, which these are.
I like to keep things tidy.
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All those wrenches and gears.
Crescent wrench, yep.
Just to show you how easy it is
and that you can do without boogering it up.
Good enough.
All right.
Okay, that wraps up our valve covers.
Let's roll this back up right side up
so we can work on the intake manifold.
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Should be the name of a club.
Probably is, right.
All right, ready to finish out our puzzle pieces here
for the intake manifold.
All right, so on the intake side,
we're gonna start with these, I don't know,
glamorous emissions controls.
So this is kind of interesting
'cause it is a runner for the air and fuel mixture
because you have your injectors here
but then it also has these flappers,
which are not relative to the throttle body,
therefore emissions.
So as my understanding is
these things basically create a turbulence
at whatever specified RPM
to keep that fuel moving and burning.
Seems complex to me.
There we go.
This is this way.
Gotta have.
Okay, now that we have our fuel lines in,
that brings me put my intake manifold on,
which also brings me to my rockauto.com tip of the day.
So this is a fixed point from here to here,
there is no play right?
However, we have these stands that have to,
this has to sit on and these need to float
because there are multiple parts in here
that bring up a stack of dimensions.
So I'm sure I'll need these loose.
So then as I set this down,
I can find all the threads.
Like so, now I can come in and tighten everything down.
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Like I said, next point is to torque everything down.
Now, when I went through and looked up the torque specs
I learned that these fancy valves
are referred to as the tumble generator valve.
Their words, not mine.
- [Cameraman] What are they getting torque to?
- And these get torqued down to 18 foot pounds.
All right, so moving right along here
to our rest of our intake stuff.
I have my throttle body I'm gonna put on.
I have a hose in here I'm gonna put on
and I'm moving towards a turbo.
Now, as you watch me go through and do this
I'm sure you're gonna see where I make a mistake
because I put something on too early
have to take it back off, put it back on.
And quite frankly, I'm sorry,
that's the way I gotta do it
because I'm kind of piecing this together
and muddling my way through 'cause this is the first time
I've ever done this.
Now for those of you that are sitting back
on a couch and ready to type away and say, I found it.
You know what?
Cool, good for you.
And if you tell me that you've never done this
and never had to take something back off to put it back on,
well, I don't believe you.
Here we roll.
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Well, you can see here I have our inner cooler
basically preassembled,
so I can just kind of flop it down here
and hook it up to the turbo inlet.
All right, so as I said in the beginning of this episode
as I was going to do something wrong, right,
wrong order, what have you, and here's one of them.
This intake rail or tube,
well it had to go in before the top
of the intake manifold went on.
So unfortunately I had to lift everything up
slide it up underneath there and then bolt it in.
So for those of you that have already got that message
typed out and ready to hit send, it's your choice,
because you might be a little quick on your trigger.
Now, once this is done on the engine stand, like I said,
and we have our glamor shot
relative to our time lapse stuff,
then we're gonna move this out here
'cause everybody's asking, ah, where's this thing going?
Well, I'll tell you, here's where it's going.
It's going on this state of the art Subaru test rig.
No, it's not just a plain old Jane eight foot long pallet.
This is a Subaru test rig.
So it's gonna have this fancy freshly painted
cross member bolted to it, engine sets on that.
we have not quite so shiny yet,
exhaust tube that we're gonna run off of there,
for some gnarly sound by the way.
And then we have our rats nest worth of
salvage Subaru harness from Old Blue.
But we do have a nice gauge pack in.
Oh man, it doesn't tell you how many miles are on it.
Bummer, but seriously, the engine's coming on here.
We're gonna fire it up on here
and well hopefully make some music with it.
If not, we're gonna plug in some music for it.
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Well there we have our assembly to this point.
Like I said, from here,
when they're done with the fancy shots,
we're gonna take it out there
put it on our test rig and fire it up.
Glorious, well, till next time,
get out in the shop go get your work done.
Find yourself a fun project.
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