Mine barely qualifies as lifted, I needs some fresh AT tires before bringing my wagon near yours.
Got some more work done for the +T.
When I first started building the J pipe I looked in the engine bay and thought to myself, "oh, tons of room". I went back to the work bench and pretty much didn't look at how it would fit in the engine bay again until I had fully welded it. Now I realize it comes very close to the back of the alternator. Im cheap and lazy, so obviously my solution in an attempt to salvage my work is to attach a little heat shield to the up pipe, we shall see how that plays out. I got the downpipe more sorted, I may move the v-band up more and ill likely save the rest of the downpipe fabrication for after install. Tig welding aluminized steel is boring and not rewarding.
Started looking at oil and coolant plumbing. Shown here is my oil drain solution, its going to get pretty close to the bottom of the J-pipe, might need another heat shield lol.
Oil feed will be a -4 line from the m14x1.5 oil pressure sensor boss with a banjo fitting with the bolt head tapped for 1/8" NPT for a pressure sender. No pictures sorry.
I am going to feed the turbo coolant from the radiator return hose via a -6an line tapped off this fancy pants radiator hose splice I made from a 1.5" aluminum elbow. Tig welded a 3/8 npt bung onto the pipe. Had to make my own bead crimper, got the idea from the internets.
I needed a solution for the coolant reservoir as i felt it was to close to the turbo pump and extended a bit far forward which would make routing the turbo intake a little more difficult. I ordered up some weld fittings and built a 4"x4"x7" coolant tank. Im planning to weld a -6An bung to the bottom of this for the turbo coolant return. Tig welding aluminum is fun and rewarding.