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1. Your iat should go after the maf and before the turbo.
2. Mines stock
3. T fittings should be fine.

Hope it helps a little.

 

ok, all parts have been acquired. All I need to do now is weld the oil return to my spare oil pan... and get a gasket for it, I'd have to get one from the dealer, right? I'm going to use BBQ flat black spray paint on the intercooler pipes that I got from Tibminn, they're crush bent steel, this should keep them in good shape for a while. the intercooler is an old speedfactor front mount, with some fins corroding, I'll use radiator paint on that.

The only thing that I could think of for problems is that a while ago I took out the a/c completely when I put the latest engine in. Since, I've only run the car with the 1 fan, the one closer to the battery. the stock fan shouldn't get in the way of a t25 with the obx manifold, should it?

Oh, also I will be installing the stupid "test" pipe thing until I get a high flow cat. I hated the sound of the exhaust when I tried it out before. I know the turbo will change the exhaust sound a lot though. I do have my stock cat in there now, but i would be better off with the straight pipe right? I know I'll throw a CEL for the pipe, but I think the stock cat is way too restricting.

Will I be getting any more CELs?

also, quick question, how does the mobil 5000 10w30 sound? do I really have to go fully synth or is the blend ok enough?

 

Cats actually flow a lot better than you think.

I'd run two fans to be honest. The turbo and manifold are probably going to be sitting further out, and you really don't want a heat soaked radiator.


I'd assume piping will work fine, you'll find out when you put it on there. wink1.gif

 

otherwise pick up a flexalite pair or a single flexalite. im running a single on mine and im hoping it will be fine. those things push air like crazy

 

I only had one fan and I never had any overheating problems. I think viper went this route at one time and perhaps alex too if im not mistaken. I used the smaller stock fan but moved it to the drivers side

 

I ran that way for a while... its only been about 65 degree weather and the poor lil A/C fan had to stay on forever for the temperatures to go back down low enough for it to kick off.

The only reason I ran it that way was because the stock main fan had the bigass motor fan. I just ended up using another stock fan motor, modified to fit in place of that. So I essentially have two lil A/C fans that come on at once whenever the temperature gets high. They shut off in 10 seconds.

 

Just a quick update: I won't be installing the turbo this weekend unfortunately. I had a pretty rough Easter last week, instead of prepping the oil pan, painting the piping and getting all the small parts that I still needed, I found out my grandfather had passed away. It was kind of an awful dinner sunday night with my parents. Hopefully I'll have it all installed by Memorial Day.

 

sorry to hear that about your grandfather...