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372 hits | 76.38 KB | Posted: 3/8/08
Pistons in a box, on a cam, above a big hole where a 600hp motor resides.
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218 hits | 55.86 KB | Posted: 4/13/14
Aluminum sheet heat shield for the passenger side air intake. Not that complex of a shape.
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236 hits | 55.74 KB | Posted: 4/13/14
The Saab relay box mounted to the Taurus fan. Pretty clean I think.
(Posted in: TractionLTD)

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248 hits | 62.85 KB | Posted: 4/13/14
Engine compartment as of April 2014. I'm just flushing the cooling system right here.
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176 hits | 57.89 KB | Posted: 4/13/14
Manifold installed. Had to make a heat shield for the air intake so I mounted the manifold to it. The low temp switch is toward the firewall so it turns the fan on when the coolant returns from the turbos gets above 185. The high temp switch turns on...
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151 hits | 43.99 KB | Posted: 4/13/14
Another shot of the manifold. You can see the hose routing better here. The fan sensors are on the bottom. I spray painted the wires: blue for low temp; red for high temp.
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151 hits | 54.43 KB | Posted: 4/28/14
Kinda blurry picture of the heat shield I put over the passenger side header. It's 22 gauge mild steel so it won't melt and hopefully it will keep a lot of heat away from the fuel lines. They already have heat sleeve on them but there's no kill like ...
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182 hits | 49.81 KB | Posted: 4/28/14
Picture of the bracket I made to keep the clutch cable away from the header heat. It just clamps to the intake tube but I spent a good amount of time getting the bends right and painting it. I like things to look close to factory. Factory experimenta...
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205 hits | 54.77 KB | Posted: 3/2/14
Made my own bell mouth adapters to bump the 2.5" air intake tubing up to the 3" required for the air filters. Just a 3" header reducer welded to a section of 3" exhaust pipe. Should be pretty good flow wise. These are just clamped...
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181 hits | 75.92 KB | Posted: 5/6/14
Driver's side turbo with the finished air intake. Routed the blow off valve to the intake. That's an upper radiator hose for an 83 Buick Century with a 3.0. Took a bit of searching to find a 1.25" hose with a 90 degree bend the right length. Ben...
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184 hits | 71.6 KB | Posted: 5/6/14
Passenger side pretty much done. Heat shield protects the air intake. More heat shield on the fuel lines. Crappy battery hold down was the first thing I made for the car. The radiator fan switches and water returns from the turbos are on the other si...
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163 hits | 71.57 KB | Posted: 5/6/14
Driver's side air intake. MIG welder makes adding bits of steel easy. Barbecue paint dries very fast and is a nice flat black.
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187 hits | 49.36 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
The start of any bracket fabrication - cardboard. I like old soda boxes but any will do. This is just the first try. Lots of trimming and fiddling left to go.
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202 hits | 57.67 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
The top bracket is pretty close so it's time to start on the bottom bracket. The two pieces will eventually get welded together to form a single bracket but I need to get the general shape first.
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166 hits | 48.99 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
The top piece of steel is now cut out so I can hold the reservoir steady while I mark and trim the cardboard for the lower bracket. The steel is on top in this picture but the final bracket has the steel under the plastic. Tack welded it and couldn't...
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185 hits | 46.86 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
Steel rough cut for the lower bracket. I ended up having to trim this down quite a bit. The angle section hit the air filter and the long section wasn't long enough because I didn't think bout having to put the voltage regulator back in. Not a big de...
(Posted in: Remote power steering reservoir)

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215 hits | 51.33 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
About to weld the upright to the main bracket. In this picture the upper and lower pieces are together and trimmed so that I can rotate the reservoir into place. I wanted to weld a stud to the bracket so I wouldn't have to use two wrenches in a tight...
(Posted in: Remote power steering reservoir)

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212 hits | 58.94 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
Both brackets. The big bracket holds the reservoir and the smaller holds the 5/8" to 3/4" adapter for the hoses. The pump has a 5/8" nipple and the reservoir a 3/4" one. Not a big deal and having the bracket means the hose is more...
(Posted in: Remote power steering reservoir)

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242 hits | 66.71 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
Bracket installed. You can see the trimming I had to do so the bracket would clear all the reinforcing ribs and such under the plastic lip. Not sure how Chrysler secured this originally. Mine lifts straight up after you loosen the two bolts on top an...
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197 hits | 70.08 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
Four Seasons 5/8" to 3/4" adapter. I welded it to the bracket and ground the welds flush. Not much strength needed. The adapter was a press fit into the sheet metal anyway. It bolts to the oil inlet flange on the turbo center section. The n...
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226 hits | 36.33 KB | Posted: 2/8/14
Fan switches installed. Turbo returns installed. Just need to order the 1/2 NPT to 3/4 hose barb fittings for the heater hose.

The fan switches are factory parts from early 80's Chrysler cars. The low temp is from a 2.6 around 1983 and the high temp...
(Posted in: Fan switch manifold)

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232 hits | 65.5 KB | Posted: 6/7/14
Complete install. Took a few cycles to get the air bled out of the pump and gear but it seems to work fine. I hope it holds up; there's too much time in those brackets for me to want to start over with another reservoir.

Half of the feed line to the...
(Posted in: Remote power steering reservoir)

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144 hits | 51.93 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Plenum bolted to adapter. Just a little step here and there. Won't hurt anything.
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145 hits | 47.52 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
The way it'll look on the car. Not too shabby for a guy in a garage with a drill press and die grinder.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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165 hits | 50.07 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Studs installed. The upper plenum fits it perfectly. I need to cut a gasket for it because Ford used an o-ring and I changed the port just a bit.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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131 hits | 48.93 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Finished piece. Intake elbow side. You can see the 5/16"-18 tapped holes for the plenum studs. They are blind tapped so there's no chance of leaks.
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156 hits | 51.61 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
A little work with sanding rolls really cleaned up the ports. Not too shabby. I also ran the router down the center divider to clean and straighten it. The outer profile was a bunch of drilled holes, angle grinder, router, and sanding rolls. I had to...
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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131 hits | 63.02 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
This is the way I'd have liked to run the throttle body. Didn't work out that way. Too close to the distributor and not enough hood clearance to get around it.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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152 hits | 85.34 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Would have looked nicer like this but it fits best facing the passenger side. Oh well.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

Layout1.JPG
140 hits | 48.98 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
There's a lot of layout work getting to this point but it all comes down to this. Lines on aluminum. This is the throttle body elbow side. I'm using a 99-04 Mustang upper plenum but Reshaping the port slightly and adding a divider. I also drilled the...
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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132 hits | 55.14 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Laying out the intake flange side of things. This is an idealized version of the ports. The intake will need minor work to match. I'm keeping the divider all the way to the throttle body to keep the airflow to each side even.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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150 hits | 68.18 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Starting to cut out the ports. Cut out a pair of circles with a hole saw to get a bunch of material out at once. The adapter fits the studs like a glove. I swapped out these old studs for ARP versions later.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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142 hits | 54.14 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
One block of 1" x 6" 6061 aluminum. Raw material. There's an adapter in there somewhere.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

rough holes.JPG
141 hits | 75.09 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Got the straight through section of the ports roughed out. Now to grind the angles in to match both ports. I used a aluminum-specific carbide burr for this.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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140 hits | 42.73 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
The ports are a bit rough but at this point it's a functional piece. Everything else is polish.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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143 hits | 43.05 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Die grinder with carbide bit got the ports roughed in pretty well. Need to do finishing work on the outer profile and sand the ports smooth. That takes most of the time.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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150 hits | 74.5 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
Used my router with a plunge cuttting straight bit to rough in the first 1/8" of each side. Just easier and faster than the die grinder.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

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153 hits | 77.9 KB | Posted: 10/24/15
More router work on this side.
(Posted in: Carb intake to throttle body elbow adapter)

floor1.JPG
130 hits | 65.93 KB | Posted: 3/8/16
Summit Racing sport seats sitting on modified stock seat brackets. I thought I took more pictures of this.
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102 hits | 37.66 KB | Posted: 3/8/16
The car has a convenient factory hole to run wires to the trunk. The factory trunk lighting wires run through here with no grommet so my battery cables should be fine in the flexible conduit I'm using.
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107 hits | 50.56 KB | Posted: 3/8/16
Flexible conduit run. This is all behind the rear seat and behind various panels and whatnot. It's invisible once the interior is in.
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126 hits | 41.73 KB | Posted: 3/8/16
Joining the flexible conduit to the battery box. I used a special bulkhead fitting. Should be nice and airtight once it's all said and done.
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173 hits | 45.33 KB | Posted: 3/8/16
Battery box vent. Hose plastic epoxied into the 90 degree bulkhead fitting and into the trunk sheet metal.
(Posted in: Trunk mounted battery)

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137 hits | 77.29 KB | Posted: 3/8/16
The former battery location is full of air filter. Running the two cables through the conduit was not easy; it took a lot of lube but it worked out okay. The battery is grounded to the trunk floor and then to the frame in the rear and the engine bloc...
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127 hits | 64.44 KB | Posted: 3/9/16
Front mount for the center console and the tower for the shifter boot. Made it flanged for rivets to match a lot of OEM designs. It got riveted down over a fat bead of seam sealer after everything was painted. It shouldn't rust.
(Posted in: Floor pans and carpet)