 Hello boys and girls. It is time for part 16 of the EJ25 build. Yeah, it's that many. I thought it would be maybe 10 or 12. And there's more. So in today's episode I'm gonna finish up the special oil pan. It is special. And then it's flex fuel time. I'm actually gonna... I changed my mind. I am gonna go with flex fuel the whole kit from cab tuning and decided to make an install video on it. It's gonna be probably two parts. But a few minutes of the second part of the video, once I start on the flex fuel install, what you're gonna see me do turns out it's gonna be unnecessary for me. And I'm talking about keeping or getting rid of the fuel dampers. So according to cab they say to get rid of them both on feed line and return fuel that is. Later on I talked to my tuner and I decided to keep them both. But I decided to include whatever I did. I basically removed them from the fuel lines, both dampers. And I decided to include this in this video. So for you if you decide to keep them, you don't do any of that, whatever I'm gonna do. And for those guys that decide to get rid of them, there you go. So talk to your tuner, do your research, and decide if you're gonna keep those dampers or not. Also cab tuning instructions say to put the flex fuel sensor on the pressure side along with the fuel pressure sensor. I decided to go with the fuel sensor on the pressure side of the fuel rail. And the flex fuel sensor is gonna go on the return. So you could say I'm kind of doing my own custom install. I basically did what my tuner recommended and it did work out. That's all I can say. You're gonna see that in future episodes. All right guys, so as always I need you to subscribe, like the video if you did, hit the bell so you don't miss any future episodes. Or is the bell there? Is it there or there? And enjoy the video. All right, let me show you what I've done so far. I've been fighting with this oil pan. Now I found two things. I might have found the problem. I'll show you that later, but the pan. So I did cut out the baffles, I'll show you that in a second. But I also had to massage it a bit. Okay, it took me hours to actually fit it all the way up to the block. Let me see if I can actually show you this. See after I cut the baffles out I had another issue, which was the actual pickup was hitting the bottom of the pan. So I had to, I'm holding it with my leg, so I had to do this, basically damage it, massage it, as some would say, and make room for the pickup. There is about a quarter of an inch, maybe more of space between the pickup and the bottom of the pan. So this should be good, but this took me quite some time. Okay, so as you can see, this was cut out in the bottom baffle there. So this would fit like that, right about there. And as you can see, another issue, a major one, was the bottom pan. So this one apparently, it's a tiny bit deeper. But yeah, this is what it looks like now. All I gotta do now is weld it up. That's all. And another issue that it might have been an issue, I don't know. Okay, when you install this, the pickup took to the block. It attaches in three with three bolts. So, but if you look closer, it took me a while to notice this, but if you look close enough and you kind of look at the level of this top of the bracket and this rounded area, the flange, I don't know, whatever you want to call this. It actually, it used to, not anymore, it used to angle towards each other. So this was slightly this way and this was slightly this way. That's why I grinded this away. So now they're both even. And because of that, there was a gap, a tiny gap on this side. So there's a rubber seal that goes here, around here. And there was a tiny gap. There was no gap here, but there was a tiny gap on this side. And that might have been catching air. Yeah, Moroso. So anyway, so I grinded this down. So this goes up and, you know, this would fix that angle. So this is nice and flush right now. So that might have been the main issue. I don't know. It might have also been the oil pump. We won't know. Maybe a combination of both. Maybe a small leak here. And the actual fact that the oil pump was dry inside, it would just not start sucking on the oil. Anyways, I'm going to weld this up, probably put a plate over it. I don't know, I'll figure something out. And we'll be back. All right, update. No plate, just welds. Buildup kind of started from this side, still adjusting the welder. And then kind of spot welding, not like a constant weld. But touch and then wait for one second. Let that one weld cool down, then touch again next to it. And keep doing that kind of like, you know, spot, spot, spot, spot, just keep going. I don't know. There's probably, I'm sure there's a names. I think it's spot welding, but I'm not sure. Anyways, because if you keep going and this is thin metal, you just melt this. So that's how it looks outside. I am obviously going to clean this up to a smoother surface. And this is what it looks like inside, not too bad. So there was a few splatter, those little metal balls stuck everywhere. You want to make sure you get rid of every single one. You know, these guys, because it can be bad news if it gets into your oil galleries. So everywhere underneath, clean this up 20 times. Or 30 if you got to. Several times I'm going to do it again. But now it's time for the water test. I'm going to fill this up with water and leave it overnight. And make sure it's not, make sure it's leak free. All right guys, it's been about 15 hours for the water test. Let's see what it looks like. I see, I see two, at least two spots. One here and one here. This one is I think from the plug. Yeah, this one comes, it's coming from the plug. Weird, because this is brand new. Anyway, so we got two spots. So one here and maybe one here. Yeah, there's a little bit of water right here. Okay, so gotta dry this, these three spots off and weld it again. I'm not going to do another water test. I'm just going to weld it up, clean up the welds just a little bit. I don't care how this thing looks. And then paint it and put it all back on. Let me show you what it looks like inside. Already rusty from the water and it not welded inside. This is all from the outside. All right, while this unique oil pan dries, it's going to be a two tone. Mm-hmm. Simply didn't have black high temperature paint. So half black, half silver. Look, it's taking off. There's something else I'm going to be doing. And I recently made the decision, I'm going flex fuel. Yes, sir. To go flex fuel, to make it convenient, you gotta buy the cab access ports 3.0. I've been running the 2.0 for the past 12 years. It's time to go. It doesn't support flex fuel. In other words, ethanol or E85. So I bought a kit. With the kit comes stickers. Yes, we definitely need these. We got, I got, what is this? This is the harness for the, I believe this is the, we got lug tight. This is for, is this the fuel? I mean, yeah, the fuel pressure sending unit. This is, I'm guessing, yeah, going to plug into the fuel line, fuel rails. Zip ties. Let's put this aside. We got some, yeah, like I already mentioned. What's in here? More stickers. Yes. Zip ties and the Allen bolt. Okay, this is the little module. This, one of these connects to the TGVs, the stock TGVs on the car. So it's a plug and play, basically. And the third and last box. So this is the actual flex fuel sensor. Okay, this takes the amount of ethanol in your fuel tank as it goes through. We're going to, I'm going to hook this up on the return line, fuel return line. And this will let the onboard ECU or the access board let it know how much ethanol is currently running into the engine and adjust accordingly. So the beauty of this is I can mix fuels, pump gas between 93 and ethanol, E85, any amounts I want. So basically, on my way to race track, I'm going to make sure my fuel tank is empty so I can fill it up with E85. I don't need to change any settings, nothing. The computer will adjust automatically. And then on my way back, let's say I have half a tank left or whatever. Quarter doesn't matter. All I got to do is fill it up with pump gas 93 in my case. And again, the ECU will adjust automatically. More connectors, clamps, a fuel line made in the Czech Republic. Interesting. And pull at the same time. And more stickers? Yes. And this is just a bracket. Kind of smells like Windex. Some kind of a glass cleaner. All right, so I guess I can make an installation video on this flex fuel kit. I am actually looking online at CapTuning.com. So this is the website in question, CapTuning. And you basically go to support, installation instructions. It's pretty basic. So this is the whole kit. Well, the flex fuel kit. Different kind of, in different instructions for the fuel pressure. Regulator. Anyways, it tells you what you need. And the reason why I'm showing you this, because look here first and make sure you release fuel pressure in the fuel lines. I don't have to do that because I didn't have the car running as of yet. It's all explained on the website. So that's what you do first. So I'm going to be looking at the same instructions as you would be looking if you were to install this yourself. So first thing, you got to remove these fuel dampeners. Get yourself a set of these tools. Now the stock ones use 516s. This is basically what you do is you put this tool around the fuel line. And you know, I already took one out. And you shove it in there. Shove the tool inside this greenish clip here. And you can see inside it's got tabs on opposite. You can see on the outside, if you look at it from the side, you can see these tabs here. So the tabs, the locks on the inside there on the opposite side of the clip. So that's where you want to drive your little tool in there. And there is another trick to it, which I'm going to have to use on these lines. Because this tool, oh yeah, one other thing. I had to cut some of this off, this yellow protector. Just like a half an inch. So this tool would actually fit. Now there's one more. This is the return. The very bottom one is the feed. I'm going to have to remove the EVAP line here. You can tell that it's just EVAP because it doesn't have any of these kind of connectors because there's no pressure in there. So I'm going to have to do the same thing to the bottom one. Cut this protective film and all that. And using this tool. Why do you need this tool here? Because you can't fit anything else from that side. Now on here I can't use the tool because of this design here. This is just simply in the way. There's no way I can fit this inside the line. So but there's a trick and it's very simple one. I'll show it to you right now. I wanted to do that trick on both of these lines. Okay, what you do you take two small flat screwdrivers. Well, this used to be a screwdriver. Make sure the tips are clean. And simply shove it in there lightly. Don't force it. Don't force anything where the tabs are. What I showed you before on the clip that I took out. You just got to be patient. You can do it with one screwdriver and pull on it at the same time. See no damage, you can reuse the same one. Or you can try and fit two screwdrivers at the same time. And basically prying those tabs out. So it clears this flare on the line here. So that's one. Much easier on this one. Okay, now the EVAP line. Just your regular clip here. Or clamp I should say. Actually maybe I can get to it without removing that EVAP line. No I can't because I got to cut this shortened yellow protective thing. Just trying to pull this closer. I'm going to get rid of this plastic bracket. I can actually access this bracket from the wheel well. There you go. Just take your regular long nose pliers. And squeeze this here. I may reuse that I don't know yet. We don't need you for now. Okay there we go. I'm probably going to end up removing this bracket as well. We'll see. Anyways we kind of have access to it now. So a razor. What I'm doing now is just ripping it off. Yeah those guys with newer you know STIs the 17s 2020 or 18 whatever. Yeah your car is never going to be the same after you start messing with it. All right so it looks like I got access to the line now. Or actually a room so this fits. No it's still catching that film. See I can't squeeze it all the way. Probably for two reasons because of that turn. And that black protective rubber or plastic. I'm going to do a bit more cutting and ripping. Come on now. Get in there. There we go. It's in. Is it out? I don't know I can't tell. This is not out. Maybe I have to pull it out and put it in a different spot actually. Maybe I didn't put it in the right spot. Okay let's try this again. So the cut. The cut is on top so I'm going to try and go in basically 90 degrees away from it. Come on I think I'm just slowly destroying that clip of the lock. Okay I pushed it in a bit. There we go. Okay it was just yeah felt like I was actually removing it but didn't want to force it. Okay I'm going to well we're not using these anymore. So these are out. We got new lines and clean those off before I install anything on them. All right that's all I got for you in this one. Next episode is going to be all about the flex fuel kit install. Keep in mind that's two kits. The fuel pressure and the the flex fuel sensor. See you soon.