was trying to fit another a/w, but stupidly got the 4.5" thick core one again rather than the 3.5" thick one...
Obviously not going to work with a headlight there. Stock sidemount went back in.
Could maybe have snuck the exhaust out the back with another few days work but that's just more effort than I wanted to put into something so trivial. Can't put it out the back of the car anyways because of how the rear hatch doesn't seal. Fills the cabin with exhaust if a window's open.
bit o holesaw and some sledgehammer work
Good and ugly.
Can also see the old aluminum sidepipe on this one. Had a throttlebody from a GMC something or another on the end to act as a muffler. It rusted up pretty quick though.
Oh, and the left axle's in.
turbo drain nightmare, quickly got tired of that setup and capped off two of the ports from the HP turbo and just ran the HP to the pan and the LP to the block. The adapter to the block is only 1/2" ID though so that's kind of a downer. Haven't noticed a huge amount of oil in the piping yet, but I'm sure it'll be there at some point.
Made a wrench to try and get all that junk tightened so close to eachother, but the cheap chinese fittings are 26mm rather than 1" so I screwed myself there...
All in all it runs and drives, haven't beat on it much or flashed a bunch of fuel in it yet as the stock sidemount is likely what killed the old HP turbo running an absurd PR trying to breathe through it. Makes 25 PSI interstage measured before the IC and 50 in the intake, so nice even numbers though unbalanced PRs. Had the thought lately to just ditch the interstage IC all together. Might do that, gotta find some time to wander the junkyard and get more bent up aluminum pipe from ricers with cold air intakes before I'll spend the time cutting up the intake side again. Currently patched together with junkyard exhaust pipe, but that's heavy 409 stainless.
Oh fixed the speedometer and it still gets 48. Likely go up once I get some fuel into it as it's running stupid lean out of boost. Can accelerate up to 70 mph, foot to the floor short shifting it to keep below 2200 revs and the pyro reads 500F. Way too lean for peak BSFC.