FINALLY!!! Turbo gods have smiled!

Finally have the XR-7 running. For those that don't know, bought the car in Nov. '04, developed a rod knock, pulled the engine in Mar. '05 took my sweet time rebuilding it (I like to think it's because I was doing it "right" but in reality I got tired of fooling with the blasted thing, lots of work on the car was done between nov. and mar.) dropped in the rebuilt engine sept. 06 and it blew the rear main...in half. Weather turned bad (and again, the difficulty getting this car running tested my patience) finally, today, got new rear main installed, and fired her up, took her for a few victory laps around the block, can't do much else at the moment, as it's not insured and 14 months out of date on the tags, but she runs, idles, charges (and I don't care what ANYONE says, the battery gauge works on this car) and builds nice oil pressure. So, this next paycheck tags and insurance, and the break-in period truly begins, only has 4 miles on this block. But, new bearings all around, new rings, honed block, new oil pump, new gaskets (even the hard to find turbo inlet gasket). All that needs to be done is replace a head light and foglight, radiator leaks and fan doesn't turn on. But, things are looking good!

Good for you

Keep the XR7's on the road, we have snow is Michigan no driving until late march or so.

Travis

FelPro sells the inlet gasket for both the IHI and the T3, FYI.

Update:
Car runs great, put a 1G DSM BOV on it, working on fabbing a Spearco FMIC into it. Only problems I've encountered is the factory BC seems to have given up the ghost, as it just builds boost to build it, I've seen it spike to almost 24#s on the factory gauge, so a MBC is going to be installed here soon, and it ate a distributer. It wasn't starting, so I checked spark, no spark, so I suspected the TFI. Go to look at it and notice my dist. cap is loose. So I tightened it down, still no spark. I pulled the cap off, the rotor has a hole in the side, the button is missing and the electrodes on the under side were sheared off. Luckily I happened to have a spare complete distributer assembly, swapped it out, and she was an entirely different car. Still have a few issues to work out, radiator has a small leak, the cooling fan doesn't seem to be turning on (tested the fan and it does power on) and have to fine tune the timing, but she's running. Has approx. 124 miles on the rebuilt engine, and no real problems.

the factory boost gauges are not accurate. even if the BCS is messed up the t vacume fitting in the turbo compressor housing will open the wastegate at 15psi. you may still have a malfunctioning wastegate diaphram though. get real boost gauge, and find out