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Using a bottle jack to tuck the X up into the body better. Just cut a couple tacks on top to let it flex. Easy.
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Final product. Not too bad. Driver's side swings out a bit to clear the fuel pump. Tips are pretty even. Four hangers and no rattles. Full 3-inch mandrel bends from the down pipes back. Ready for bigger turbos at some point.
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My gas tank had a bunch of rust in it so I bought a new tank. Since I had a new tank I took the opportunity to add some fuel feed fittings to the bottom of the tank. The previous set up had a 1/2" feed stuck into the stock fuel sending unit with...
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Fittings welded up. The MIG did a fine job. But I ended up with one small leak that I touched up with the acetylene torch.
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Fittings tinned. The factory tank is tinned to prevent rust. I slathered some body butter on it and used the torch to get a nice even coating. Should make it a little less prone to rust.
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Fittings cleaned up with the wire cup brush on the angle grinder.
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Now I needed to deal with the 1/2" hole in the sending unit I don't need any more. I used the MIG to slowly fill it in while keeping the piece cold. Can't melt the wire grommet for the gauge sender.
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The welds were ground down and it had a couple very small leaks. I was wary of getting a good seal with welding without putting enough heat into it to melt the plastic. I put some body butter on it and tinned over the welds. Wet paper towel protected...
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Finished repair. Pretty good. No leaks. There's brake cleaner pooled on top to check for seeps.
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Fittings installed. That's a -8 AN full flow fitting.
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Installed in the car. Fuel gravity feeds straight to the pump.
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Fuel pump primed itself and the pressure is nice and steady.
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I was upgrading to a 3G alternator and I hate wire splices in my harness. Finding the connectors and pins was easy. Unfortunately the water temp sending unit for the dash light is part of that harness and it only comes as a wire splice since the rubb...
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Crimped a connector to the wire and placed it in the mold. Mix the two-part rubber and degas it using a big syringe. Inject the rubber and wait. A wood dowel kept the opening clear. The results are decent. The new connector was a tad longer so it sti...
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New wire on the left. Old wire on the right. The old wire was fine except for being so old that the insulation was crumbling away. Now it's ready for another 30 years.
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The AC compressor bracket held the tensioner for the smog pump. It didn't anything anymore but I wanted to keep it as stock as possible so I made a pair of brackets to hold the pump in place and used a shorter belt. The spark plug just blocks the O2 ...
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See the cold side pipes disappear into the fender? I built a custom box to hold a 8"x16" panel filter.

Later I moved to pod filters on each turbo since the panel filter was heavy and sucked up a lot of water.
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I made that battery hold down also.

Later I moved the battery to the trunk. Which works a lot better. The old battery tray was in sad shape.
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All fits under the stock hood! I've painted it since this pic.
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Oval exhaust tips. I liked these when I made them but I'm not happy with the side exhaust anymore. I lose ground clearance and they get pretty hot. I'll be making rear exhaust pipes at some point.
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See there is a Holley in the box. I've added braided stainless -8 lines to replace the 3/8 hose in this pic. I also added a K&N stub stack.

Later I discovered that I was getting crazy vapor lock in the fuel lines. I tried to reroute them and insulat...
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Bottom view of the filter in the box. That filter got wet and sucked into the pipes.
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View from the driver's side.
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Better lighting. Short pieces of 1/2" threaded rod hold each bung and allow me to adjust the bung height pretty precisely. Had to make the cross pieces angled a bit to account for the angle of the carb mounting pad.
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The lower nuts holding the bungs had to be ground down to 3/4" diameter to fit through the holes with the bungs. I ground flats on them so I could tighten them with a wrench. The bungs ended up withing a few thousandths of each other in height. ...
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Everything bolted down and ready to go to the welder.Nothing moved much during welding so I suppose the fixture worked well. I still have the bits in case I ever end up doing this again. Not hard at all.
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Boring the injector bung holes. I used normal water to lubricate the bit so there wasn't any oil to soak into the aluminum and contaminate the weld. I had to constantly spray water but it worked fine. I already spent a lot of time boiling this intake...
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Pulled the entire harness out of the car to wrap it up. The whole thing pretty much pops out as a single harness. All the wires terminate in OEM or at least OEM-style connectors. The Megasquirt 37-pin connector has to have the shell removed to fit th...
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The harness fully wrapped in wire loom. Mostly high-temp split loom but there is some high-temp braided loom in there too. The high-temp stuff lets you use heat shrink on the ends for a clean finish. Everywhere the loom splits or changes size it's wr...
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The tuning software running on the laptop talks to the ECM and the ECM talks to the sensors. I calibrated the TPS right after this but everything else looks normal.
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Harness installed on the car. It hides pretty well. I was going for an OEM fit and finish and I think it looks pretty close.
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Laying out the rails to hold the injectors for welding. 3/4" extruded aluminum square tube.
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Most of the fuel injection wiring harness installed. Took a long time but I tracked down factory connectors and terminals for every thing. There are no pigtails and almost no splices in the entire harness. It's just loosely zip-tied here but I'll pul...
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Working on the wiring. I have the main relay and fuel pump relay half wired in this picture. You can see the wiring diagram I created (based on a Megasquirt diagram) that I'm using to wire everything. I only have 30 or so more wires to connect before...
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Working on the intercooler piping. This is the pipe to the throttle body with the blow off valve flange welded on. I decided to go with a Type R blow off valve off ebay for simplicity. It came with a nice 2.5" aluminum pipe and flange but I don'...
(Posted in: Intercooler)

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