poulrais
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- Sep 8, 2006
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- Quebec, CAN
So! Is this thing running yet??
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LOL. No. It's been nasty/cold/wet here. Somewhat saps my enthusiasm for working on the thing.
I did bolt the manifolds/crossover pipe/turbo in and start looking at the turbo oil drain. And fixed the last major fitment issue - one of the wastegates was pointed into the passenger side frame rail. I just cut the crossover pipe on both sides of the WG flange, rotated it about 15 degrees, rewelded it. Now the WG's don't hit anything or each other. I had a half a thought (maybe a quarter?) to put little mufflers on the screamer pipes, but yea, not needed, if I'm on the WG then a little bit less noise isn't going to make it look more civilized.
It's a bit crowded over on the passenger side down below the turbo, with the crossover pipe/merge collector/wastegates. After some pondering, I decided to not do an oil drain straight down into the block/oil pan. So I got a cute little sump tank (.75L) and a scavenge pump, and I'm going to gravity drain down to the vented tank, sitting under the rad, and then pump the oil back up to the driver side valve cover. One more thing to fail and pour oil all over, lol.
Got a nice leather 6-speed shift knob from... Croatia? eBay, you so crazy. But it was pretty cheap, looks nice, I'm happy with it. Still need to do a little more fettling on the shifter area to finish that off.
Mostly I just need nicer weather. Since I don't have a heated garage.
John, is this the kit you're running? https://www.cxracing.com/MF-KIT-LS-MSTG7993-ONLY
Are you using STS mounts, or did you fab your own?
That is it. And I am using the first gen of the STS mounts. To make things work better on both ends (the CD009 sticking on the rear, and the turbo and crossover pipe on the front) I scooted the motor forward 1 1/4 inch using a relocator bracket that the Hummer version of the engine I'm using came with on the passenger side - I just got another one and used it on the driver's side too.
I needed to make some clearance for the turbo on the passenger side of the inner fender - and then a small ding in the crossover pipe where it got too close to the sway bar mount. But it all fit in quite nicely. All I had to do was cut and rotate part of the crossover pipe to move the wastegate a little bit.
Even the downpipe seems like it will fit nicely.
I don't think there's any room for an A/C compressor. The manifold runners drop down and come forward to a collector underneath that corner of the motor, and then the outlet drops down even further to curve up into the bottom of the merge fitting. But I haven't really looked at that too closely.
It's twin scroll, left/right sides are split, into a dual scroll turbo.
I don't think there's any room for an A/C compressor. The manifold runners drop down and come forward to a collector underneath that corner of the motor, and then the outlet drops down even further to curve up into the bottom of the merge fitting. But I haven't really looked at that too closely.
It's twin scroll, left/right sides are split, into a dual scroll turbo.