This video is ultra-unique for us in that we filmed and edited the Lime Rock portion…. 5 hours ago. We’re STILL AT Lime Rock, and one of us is still racing. Ben L pulled an all nighter editing footage we shot earlier this week and today into the video you’re watching now, so if it sucks… that’s why we don’t do day-of edits. Polish takes time and we didn’t have it this week, but we didn’t want to miss a video. Hope you enjoy!
This channel is fun. I love it when you guys get small and big wins, and I hurt when you have your misfortunes, but you guys take it on the chin and keep rolling. This is passion. Keep it up, boys. I'm rooting for you!
Definite raincheck on letting Thorn be your mechanic, Mark. Good call. Dude blows a coolant line, keeps driving the car, and is surprised when the temps keep on rising past 270F.
Reminder that if you’re rebuilding a 4g63 after lifting the head, always check your main bearing clearances with plastigauge… If there’s even a mm of movement on the crank, you’ll crankwalk and blow your motor. You didn’t show Mark checking clearances last week so I was worried…
And eliminating the clutch switch so you can start the car without it pressed in will help with dry starts against the thrust bearing. That will prolong the life significantly.
Just a note since a lot of people are asking: if your car is overheating like this, turning it off is a great way to warp the head and damage the engine. Ben kept driving to try and get air flow across the rad and keep water circulating through the engine. He didn't know the hose had popped off and released ALL the coolant.
That's literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard. If your car overheats get it shut off as soon as possible unless you're on the freeway pulling a hill and know that hill is about to end and you can coast. Like experience that its fine. He shouldn't have been driving it after the overheating started the first time. Better yet do your 2 laps get a time and stop. Don't come in then go back out knowing it's overheating.
Might be obvious but when you sealed the engine bay, could you have potentially over-restricted OEM engine bay outlets underneath or beside the engine for heat to escape? Maybe the air within the engine bay needs to feed behind the front tires at the back of the fenders to see cooling performance improve instead of just exiting underneath the car or through the hood
Mark has been a fantastic addition to the channel, he’s pure gold! Also, the rpf1’s have been my all time favorite wheel, had them on my mk5 ko4 gti, vr6 corrado, and my 92 h22a si prelude, they will be going on my va Sti soon!
Sucks to see all that time and effort put into the radiator ducting not turn out to help. It was encouraging to not see you too discouraged by it though. Way to stay positive.
is it bad that an episode that was stitched together at the last possible second is one of my favorite episodes ever? Mark's good vibes at the race track and the enigmatic and still unknown diagnosis of the Talon along with the hilarious sketch of having lil Ben offer unsolicited advice to Mark was a winner in my book
I think it'd be super interesting and beneficial to do some underhood aero testing. Like, either do it moving or stationary with perhaps dyno fans, but use fog machines of some sort and maybe gopros and lighting in the engine bay (which I'm sure yall have) and see where the fog sits. You could try using yarn tufts (or similar) taped to everything to show the movement of air as well, could show things better/worse or differently than the fog, or might help solidify results. Running the car with standalone temperature sensors of some sort in different places would tell you a lot, I think. It'd be great to see the high and low pressure areas in the engine bay, and you could use cardboard to attempt to figure out the best balance of removing lift and keeping the car as cool as possible. That'd have to make a great video, be super informative, and help you at the grid. Edit was great, regardless of the time crunch or not! Good luck Mark!
Bummer about the car issues friends. Thanks for pushing out some content for us even if it's not the type of content you really want to be posting. Gotta share the highs and the lows so the highs mean that much more. Keep your chins up I'm rooting for yall.
I was there yesterday, saw the Civic all laid up and was so disappointed. Was a great even though! Love seeing some love for the local track! GridLife x LRP needs to keep happening!
Marks Evo looks so clean and sexy. Glad he gets some time on the track. If I was Mark, my inner Patrick voice would be saying “careful SpongeBob, careful SpongeBob…” the whole time installing the new injectors.
Oh no, hope you guys get back up and running! It was really cool meeting you guys yesterday. Mark got his hands FULL..! Hopefully our builds can compete next year or at the very least park in for show😅
I used to live in New Milford, CT not far away from Lime Rock, been there a bunch of times, then moved to Ansonia, CT, and now I live outside of San Antonio, TX. FREAKIN HOT HERE!!
*Update* the civic was retuned and made 282/191 and the powerband is amazing! Super consistant and linear all the way til 8600. Can't wait to drive it at Thompson speed way!
Major props Ben L for the video - its like Christmas morning every time a new video pops up. (P.s. best chapter titles in the history of RU-vid and it took a man killing his sleep so give it up for Ben)
Im surprised you didnt just kill it in the pits or off the track when it was overheating, Ben! Great video as always, love seeing Mark in the fray as well!
I did the exact same thing to an injector on my car recently, putting a new engine in and trying to get it back on the road after 7 months. I feel your pain Mark
I am not sure what fuel rail you use but whenever I change injectors I lube them up and push them into the head port first to make sure they are seated properly. Then wiggle the rail onto the injectors evenly since the rail ports are tapered. Then the top injector retainer clips and then the rail bolts, moving back and forth until both are torqued the same. I've not ever seen anyone put the entire rail together and then sucessfully bolt them in as a unit. I could be wrong though.
It can be done for sure! I’ve done 3 sets of injectors on my Talon and they all leaked a little until my last attempt with my FIC 1650’s. Put them all in the rail and plopped them into the head and no leaks! :) Not sure if my new aem fuel rail had anything to do with that but it was nice to see!
