Abit of progress this week,
Although its a 40odd minute drive to get to the car, ive been enjoying the working conditions.
(no dog, no kids and a carport to work under!)
cooler piping is mocked up, just need to take it some where to get tig'ed up.
Initially I started to do it from stainless, the intake side come up a treat, but the turbo side required tight bends, so a mixture of cast and mendrel bent alloy was used.
Pic shows what it will look like, used a existing hole so its neatish, and will give me a heap of room for the airbox i'll start making when the cooler pipe is all welded up and bolted in.
Airbox will also cover up some of that wiring, which is a good thing.
Will also be fitting a oil catch can in the same area, basically mounted against the side of the radiator.
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Wired in 2 12" thermo fans, brought these in the US, 55mm odd thickness, $52 each from memory.
Ran the wiring for them along the sides of the radiator for neatness.
Started to relocate the battery to the boot, just waiting on a battery now so i can finish it off.
Also started to wire the new gauges in, removing the old birds nest took some time, need that battery to sort out power sources to power the gauges.
here what they look like, 'oil temp' wasnt available in this style, so opted for 2x water temps.
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Most of the big stuff to get it running is done, just ip to the small time consuming 'custom' stuff, wiring extensions, genrally just cleaning the bay up and mounting parts properly for a change.
Also got a longer throttle cable today!
random pic of my latest "investment" that will land hopefully early january.
Need to do a service and carb rebuild on it before I sell it.
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Thats about it, look out for more updates, the closer it gets, the more pumped I amto work on it.
Goal: tuned by early Feb.