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Old 08-17-2012, 11:19 AM
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shuiend, I love your turbo placement. Thats almost exactly where I want to put mine. Looks like you're running the water pump inlet flipped too. Got to go searching for more pictures of that.
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Originally Posted by phillyb
mine needz moar turbo



silly naturally aspirated ----
few changes...different engine

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and i also hit a deer carcass.

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for those of you that post on cr and have seen these pics, i sort of apologize.
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That is clean.

And that deer is gnarly lol
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Did you swap from having a 99-00 engine to an NA 1.8?
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I'm surprised you didnt just power wash the hell out of it and left it at the car wash.
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Originally Posted by phillyb
few changes...different engine




for those of you that post on cr and have seen these pics, i sort of apologize.
Link to intake parts, please.
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Old 10-27-2012, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by hustler

the engine bay of a quitter/traitor.

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So far to go still :(
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Old 10-28-2012, 03:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Pen2_the_penguin
the engine bay of a quitter/traitor.

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This car can make me a nationally competitive driver now. I'll take that over horsepower.
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need to repaint valve cover
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Old 10-28-2012, 10:05 AM
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that's an interesting setup

Originally Posted by Leafy
Did you swap from having a 99-00 engine to an NA 1.8?
yeah, that 99 block was cursed.

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I'm surprised you didnt just power wash the hell out of it and left it at the car wash.
i should have taken it to jiffy lube for an oil change.

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Link to intake parts, please.
previous owner did it. some custom ****. it's actually quite nice - all one piece. has a bracket welded to it for support.
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Here is my project, still in progress (obviously) but it goes in the right direction, but todo list is still long.

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I threw in a few extra hoses and some more loose wire for that "clean" look.
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Old 10-21-2014, 02:21 PM
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please tell me those arent rubber, plumbing couplers
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No sir!
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