There's a dye kit you can get locally or online that will pinpoint your leaks very easily. Judging from the placement of oil on the coolant pipe I'd say check near the factory turbo oil feed port.

To actually answer your question. Yes. Yes you can. I would follow the manufacturers recommendations for inspecting the pump. My Waterman still looks brand new on the inside I just send it to get the shaft seals replaced once every couple years.

I also ended up with an ipt but will likely move to a jbd unit later down the road.

I've had a sprag fail in mine... twice. To be fair I'm almost positive it was a pump issue. Swapped the pump and converter and never had another failure in the same trans.

What do you think caused the backfire? spraying too much at too low of an RPM? Im asking because i've been using nitrous to get on the converter for years injecting in pretty much the same spot and i haven't had an issue but i damn sure don't want to run into that lol

Magnus Bracket, Waterman pump, Aeromotive mechanical pump regulator, 10an ptfe lines (feed and return), Magnus rail, sumped stock tank, TDC 2200 injectors.

You'll run into the same issue with a magnus unit. I used a tight radius swivel type fitting on it and no it doesn't and hasn't leaked even at fuel pressures well above 100psi.* This is the fitting I used. It was name brand at least...

Yup. I've had bad fuel do that to me before. Drain the tank and get some from another station.

I have the stock tank sumped with a check valve and a T for the stock pump to prime the line. Works flawless.

Honestly upgrading to v3 and ditching the maft setup is going to alleviate a lot of headaches you may run into.

If you plan to stay with the maf there's no reason you can't run v2.

I thought Franks discontinued the dsm stuff?

Try some of scott lairds videos on youtube. I'm not on my tuning laptop so i can't view the log. Generally you want to make a nice smooth afr table and leave it alone, start with a conservative timing table (stock 2g works) just so it isn't knocking when you make a pull. Use your SD table to...

It won't matter if you found a tuner if you keep making pulls like the ones you posted pictures of. ECMlink is pulling 11 degrees of timing up top which is a healthy dose of engine knock. Also I hope that you're tuner is going to stick the car on a dyno equipped with a wideband readout as I...

Scott laird is "v8s_are_slow" on this forum you may try to PM him. If you're looking to have work done/tune I would recommend Mike Amerson at TDC performance in Mobile, AL. Obviously you would need to trailer or tow the car to him but i consider him one of the best in the south.