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Well fuck.... lucky I kept the piece I cut out. I'll work on moving it back further. Could I get a replacement fabricated Or its just new car stuff that can't be messed with? I won't lose sleep tonight over cutting a removable part as a smaller intercooler is always an option. Thanks for heads up.

Looks ready for D1NZ.....

Broke out the angle grinder and created a space for the intercooler tried to be conservative left some structure in it so it's not all floppy 2x 8mm bolts and the intercooler is hanging securely off it. Now I can start making intercooler pipes and fitting up the turbo setup.

Took this to Frankton Thunder this year and to KFC once..... I reckon it's safe to pull off road now and make a start on the final push. Hoo roo bumper! I need an intercooler in here. Bumper support is obviously in way and power steering cooler just behind it. A bit of force moved the power steering cooler and its bracket easily enough.

Thought I had crossover pipe all sorted so did wee trial fit today found it ends up straight into sway bar mount. Fuck it re do it all. Turned out nice had a good few hours asphyxiating my self with argon loved every minute. Engine is now sitting at the perfect angle I can see it in garage from dinner table.

Thanks I'll see where it sits in car as closer to firewall = shorter wiring back to controller and ecu. Wonder if turbulence from wastegate will be an issue.

Sorry to Semi-hijack where would be the best place to fit the sensor on a turbo downpipe? Bosch type not 100% what ive got yet. Pipe goes straight down from the blue cap.

If I can't figure out how to narrow the track out back I'd happily cobble some flares together to look like this using scumbag holden adventra parts. Only need 15mm to get tread under car 25mm to cover rim. 275's are slightly stretched on these 10" rims a 315/30 would fit with flares

Are the thrust washers (in engine) shagged? Check endfloat of crank I battled clutch problems for ages because I didn't want pull a running engine out. They can fall into sump if your real unlucky engine will run fine for a while but you will add a couple off mm to your clutch stroke. See below not much too them

What! You mean these brakes might be bad too.

These might may just stay in Taiwan for now. So cheap yet not cheap enough to risk been garbage.

The ones on trademe are these, how can you sell stuff that's bogus in nz?

Been looking around the marketplace for new springs and shocks for my VY COMMODORE guessing the algorithm noticed. I'm not looking to slam my car but some flexibility would be nice if it were adjustable led me to finding below Maxpeedingrods coilover setup incredulously cheap! It will be road legal im not about TikTok views so needs to get thumbs up from a certifier down the track. But seriously is this a scam or manufactured from Taiwan grade cheese alloy. All the parts are infact commodore shaped and instructions do list what they don't fit indicating they have some feedback.

Back off again till I find some Ford Ranger flares or something. They'll work im just not going to commit automotive butchery today till I think about it a bit more.

My stupid wheel nuts I bought for drag day actually look alright because the wheels are so deep.

Well I wanted 275's out back they fit around all the moving parts but poke out a lot I can get a bit of pull on guards to cover them. But might see if I can find narrower rear arms as there surprisingly is heaps of room on inside. Looks pretty hoony

Yeah these are made by Ronal, ive always found a factory made set of rims so much more hardy with potholes and shit roads. And spokes that go to the edge although not as cool as a lip are stronger again.

Been a while I very nearly got knocked on a WOF before drag day as my rear tyres are down a bit on tread some life left but not much. I bought some 275 tyres to see if they might fit as I want meats out the back. Fluked these BMW X5 m Spec rims in 19x9 front and 19x10 rears off market place today for basically scrap value. They should look mint! Can also chuck a 255 up front as well. Turbo stuff not on hold as such just doing my bit with small stuff like catch cans and power steering reservoir and radiator over flow relocations. Meanwhile its nice driving it.

I'll keep it in mind for an option but I've just put a wastegate right where the inlet is there and tge plumbing where the coils are. Might work better for someone converting a hilux or something. Cool to see how yanks set them up though.

Got a photo ?

About 4 hours thrown at it today this will be about where I get to till I get more argon. Wastegate plumbing back into downpipe all 3.5" from here back, left it here as I can add to it later and gives me clearance to do a few little bits once everything is in car so i clear shit like chassis rails and steering rack. Going to definitely need some heat shields and right angle spark plug leads, everywhere has 10-20mm of clearance though I reckon my bonnet will need some ventilation on passengers side!

Ever so slowly working on this im reluctant to take car off road to fit stuff as I'm enjoying driving it glad I've got the tape measure and dummy engine. Anyway finished front portion of crossover pipe not going to join them up to manifold yet as in the car there is a conflict with the lower radiator pipe, and I need to get the plumbing at right height it is only a 90 degree bend and some straight so that's easy enough in car. My down pipe conundrum. I had wanted to build the whole exhaust in 3.5" but the size of the bends just didn't fit so now done front 30cm in 3" everything fits and looks right now. I've fitted a reducer to hook the two different size of pipes together and need to order another 2x 3.5" v bands one for downpipe and one to go near diff as whole exhaust is currently 1 piece up to manifolds. Trying to just cruise and do really nice work for this last part I can Tig again nicely, so long without doing much took a while to get my eyes and hands back working together again.

Post race have put the car back road trim, left the race tune in and have kept it fed on Gull E10 as the economy and drivabilty are better than stock! Next piece of puzzle came for my l67 long block I needed L36 heads (ecotec) as these don't have injectors in the head and my l67 ones are cracked I found a set up in Auckland on trademe that were up for ages and last minute put a bid on reserve got them for $50. Plan is to give the ports a very minor tidy up little metal by looks that can come out anyway so just remove casting dags add new stem seals and give them a valve grind. Slowly going I reckon I need to financially recover from Christmas or sell something..... will see what happens. Can still fit intercooler and make pipes over break as that won't cost much or stop car from been drivable.

Put a turbo on blowing in to the supercharger so it makes all the noise and buckets of boost.

It rolled over 500,000ks on way home too! Was a pretty full on day lost track of how many passes i ran in end car is a mess with timeslips.