I'll be back at the shop in a few hours, taking a break. Then I'll put together 90% of the front end for a few pictures.

For now here is the coldside piping for the IC. As you can see I will no longer be able to put the headlights down, so haters can suck my *****. I'll deal with the omg dragz0r caused by the barn doors somehow.



It loooooks like I can just cut straight for the IC and not go under the light, but I was planning to mount my coolant over flow there... we shall see. I wish I could weld every time I work on this thing, it really is a must for custom work :/

 

looking good

 

Wow, looks awesome. I cannot wait to see this setup back in action. You should look into the "PIAA" front light mod so you can just delete your headlights.

 

I'll go over my calculations and compressor map plots at work tomorrow just for laughs. I do know garrett had some f'ed up maps for the 1544 (and why I could only get 240-ish rwhp at 14psi with crazy IAT's) but for the 1548's it seemed good. Plus my dad ran one 1548 on his 1.3 swift with great results so I figured two would work a'ite on a 1.8. Laggier than a 2560 but I do miss the rush at upper rpm's on the highway

 

I would have given up on this project a long time ago if I wasn't so excited about how awesome this setup is going to be. No matter what power these turbos make I'm sure I will be more than impressed.

As you can see I had to mod the y-pipe quite a bit. More clamps than I like, but I'm telling myself that is only temporary until I can get someone to weld me up some IC piping....

I have pictures of the front end... will post them tonight... keep checking hheheh.

 

Still need to work on a bit of the alignment as can see in the photos. But def looks good at 10ft. Which is all that matters to me.









right hood pin needs to be adjust a bit.

 

much better!!!!!!

 

lol at the schnauze on that thing. looks like a muppet.

 

 

LOL

Anything is better than before. Not trying to win an contests for looks here

 

obviously

 

 

In for Levnubbin-width black stripe up the center of the car.

 

You gotta do something about that nose man. It just.....


Leatherface hit the nail on the head:



That car has too many nice *** parts on it to leave it looking like that

 

you can find a new hood and bumper cheap....

 

The Veilside bumpers are starting to look tasteful.

 

Wish all your issues getting the IC properly ventallated makes me wonder how they made it look so simple here....

 

cause they are doing it wrong...

 

If by doing it wrong you mean don't have a welder then you are correct.


I'm seriously considering ditching this setup, it was a lot of working getting it to this point... but the factor is starting to creep up on me.

I just want this damn thing to runnnnnnnnnnnnn.

 

They probably don't work out of a storage facility with 1 power outlet and 1 dim light bulb.