How's the car holding up?

 

The car is holding up fine! Pulls hard and feels great. EGT and air/fuel are all in the green and I should have my top mount intercooler in very very soon. The only problem i have had is my exhaust manifold in that it cracked pretty bad but that was a design flaw by me i used to thin of metal for the runners. I am in the process of building a new one now and shoudl be in this weekend hopefully if not this weekend the next.

 

Will there be enough clearance with a top mounted intercooler? Will you make a hood scoop for it?

 

My egt runs between 1250-1300. Not much more than it would NA.....our lean situation come in around 1500

 

Oh yeah the top mount is going where the battery was hehe...i've relocated my battery to my trunk and made room for the intercooler. I'm thinking of a hoodscoop but I don't really like them too much...i'm thinking abotu putting louvers in my hood with a fan underneath blowing up....or just convert my N2O kit to a spray over the intercooler which I plan on doing anyways.

 

Do you have any pics of the car and engine bay? I'd like to see what's been done.

 

Good Idea Jesse thanks I might just have to do that...i'm trying to stay away from hood scoops and keep the apperance as stock as possible louvers I like though! The engine bay looks a tad different now i have secured down the coils better and i'm actually looking for a wrecked P5 so i can grab the coils off it so I can have the same setup as the new pros. The battery is gone and in the trunk now and I have redone teh exhaust wrap so it looks tighter and much less loose.

 

Yeah they aren't the prettiest thing in the world but they do their job. I'm goign to get the Thermo-tec turbo wrap kit once I find one for a decent price. I foudn it the other day for 70 so I might get it pretyt soon....it actually doesn't look that bad when you first put it on but once it heats up it turns to that oily color.

 

Oh yeah forgot to mention T28 wheels now BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Thanks Jess. I'm kinda lazy in the morn.

I take it that all the work was custom?
Looks wicked.

 

Cool. Glad to here all is well. I'm doing an Air/Water setup and relocating the battery to the trunk as well. Your going air/air under the hood w/out a scoop? Should be some interesting ducting work!

I have been in the process of welding up the intercooler for the past few weekends. Time has been limited because of a hernia operation and final wedding plans are taking up the weekends. I'm hopping to have my whole setup finished in the next couple months. I have the header, and intercooler almost complete. I have the radiator for my air/water setup almost ready. The biggest limiting factor is going to be money. I still need an FMU, fuel pump, some minor pipes and a water pump for my intercooler setup. I think junkyard hopping with get me most of the stuff I need.

I had a crazy thought off the subject. Wouldn't the precat make a great(and free) highflow cat? All you would have to do is make a flange and reducer to bring it back down to a reasonable exhaust size. Is there anything flawed with my reasoning?

 

BTW. I rode in my friends new WRX this weekend. It realy put my turbo project into perspective!!!!!

 

Good luck on yoru quest for boost man its fun. Water-air is good but i do too much stop and go to justify it. Oh yeah Jesse I would take a T28 over a T3 anyday!!!! and anyways go to www.forcedinduction.com and look at the red model...thats the one going on when the forged internals go in!!!

 

I think you would run into ground clearance issues by moving the stock primary cat under the car. It's rather large and round in shape, so I don't think there is a convenient place to tuck it out of the way under the car.

 

Just get a High-FLo they aren't that expensive. I picked mine up through my local speed shop for 70 bucks....but then again I have hook ups hehehe anyways you can get a Catco Hi-Flo universal cat for like 80 bucks through summit.