I’ll keep this section short, because most of you probably already know why one might want to upgrade their high pressure fuel pump (HPFP). For those of you who don’t, the rationale is simple: to make more power we need to be able to inject more fuel. Along those lines, we might upgrade the fuel injectors to ones that are capable of flowing more volume, or we might change the engine tuning so that the injectors flow fuel for longer. However, if we increase the volume of fuel that the…

As I learned from going through this process, painting an engine block (and doing a good job) is no easy feat. The reason for this, as you’ve likely already heard, is that getting a good quality result requires a lot of preparation. From my experience, there are two main things that make preparation difficult. First, used gasoline engines are especially dirty, and you want your nice paint to stick to the raw metal and not whatever contamination is on the surface of the engine. Second, you…

It’s been quite a while since my last post… I’ve been preoccupied with work, life, and trying to get the car up and running. To keep things brief for now, the car is driving nicely. I’m still being gentle with it, primarily because the engine is on its first couple hundred miles. I’ve also had the car break down a couple times now, so I’m slowly rebuilding my confidence that the car can handle long distances. I’m planning to start posting more…