Well the core is leaking at the solder where one of the tubes meets the tank. POS!

I called Advance and they swapped it out for me... for an ALUMINUM CORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



I'll need to open up the hole a little in the plates. It hits a little in the corners.

This is amazing work, Jeff. Keep it up.

And to give you kudos on something secondary to the project, I like what you did with the exhaust. I had a vision of having mine fabbed up in a similar manner (following the "channel" under the car but exiting straight out the back instead of the 90* turn into the transverse muffler), and it'* great to see you accomplishing it in real life. If I lived near you I would bring my car to your place of business for a little modification

The i/c and */c are back on, waiting for the silcone to set a little before I crank it.

The aluminum core fit real good except it was alittle thicker. I milled out some wood, then the tubes didn't set tight against one side, so I milled a little more. Then the core was loose in the sandwick, so I took the aluminum side plates and straightened them upward a little to take up the slack.....

So its all back in, silly-*** squished out all the mating surfaces real nice. The Aluminum core has stepped tubes, they are 3/4 at the base and 5.8 on the end. I can use real heater hose now since the wood plates actually seal right against the 3/4 tubes (w/ silicone to make sure) The tight angle around the alt bracket, now I can use 90* heater hose there, actualy on both tubes, so the hoses will run behinds the belts and around the coil bracket instead of straight out next to the */c belt like they were. I was worried about them getting into the belt and cutting....

AH!!!! Gotta crank it again before I leave and chekc for leaks.....

I run * AGAIN!!!!!!!!

This time I put my thumbs over both i/c tubes and NO VACUUM!!!!



I ran out of time to do much else today.

Everyone have a good Thanksgiving!

I'll be back on Friday for a couple hours to finish the transmission harness, turbo charge-air pipe, and turbo coolant lines!

This might be a stupid question but I'm curious why you haven't added a cat? It may have said somewhere else in your thread but all the pictures in that overloaded my crappy 56K dialup conneciton......

Cats aren't exactly "performance parts" . I know that some cats flow really well, but it isn't helping performance if you're going extreme. I think Jeff just made the decision not to include one.

How did you balance the front and rear exhaust into the Turbo to ensure it'* equal :?:

That intercooler setup is pretty slick. Nice design.

It'* so good to know that this runs. I'm thoroughly excited to see this, and I hope you don't just stop here. Please fine-tune that engine far too much! Also, when is the dyno test?

The dyno only tells one story.
Real world driveability tells the other.

Loving the bumper mounted IC..

This is rarely ever done..