Chris R's churbo shuttle

[tortron]

Just needs to go on upside down

[chris r]

Turbo could sit there and look cool

But doesn't leave enough space for a intercooler, or down pipe and it'll roast the ac compressor pretty quickly 

I may have to spin the turbo so the inlet is on the radiator side. Will make charge piping interesting. 

Couple of people in the states have made it work that way 

 

[chris r]

20 minutes ago, tortron said:

Just needs to go on upside down

And cut a hole in the bonnet and solve all the exhaust clearance issues 

[tortron]

35 minutes ago, chris r said:

And cut a hole in the bonnet and solve all the exhaust clearance issues 

That's what I was looking for

[yoeddynz]

Mount the turbo at the back of the car. Use the length of alloy pipe heading forwards as intercooler. 

Embrace the lag. 

[chris r]

I'm away with work again but threw the bumper back on to check clearance for intercooler before I left. Found a 460x230x52 cire. Overall 600 ish wide but I can tuck in one tank in a bit and might have to chop/trim the other side. Any taller and I'll have to re make or trim the bumper support or have it poking through the bumper which I'm not a fan of. 

Once it arrives I'll test fit it along with radiator/condenser and have another crack at the manifold 

[Raizer]

There's a manifold design that would most likely solve your packaging issues...

 

[chris r]

1 hour ago, Raizer said:

There's a manifold design that would most likely solve your packaging issues...

 

That's still a option tbh

[chris r]

Unbuilt mk1 manifold 

Did what I thought about the first time and made some brackets to hold the flange in position where the turbo (just) clears everything 

 

Fitted to the other motor as its easier to work on

Sat the nice sinco collector on and there's no way that's fitting without lots of butchery 

Figured I'd try a little mini ram style manifold 

I'll need to make bit of a ugly collector but if log manifolds work and make power a less than perfect collector will also be okay

Realised at the end of the day there's no rocker cover gasket so I've probably filled the head with schmutz 

Intercooler arrived and mostly fits. 

I'll have to stop being precious and will need to trim a bit of the bumper. One end tank will need to be modified but I'll see what angle I can get away with clocking the housing 

[chris r]

Saw zebra had a ef Civic so grabbed a spare bonnet slam panel and lower rad support to replace the one that's on the car and slightly sad. Also got a battery tray incase making a sealed enclosure in the boot ends up in the too hard basket 

And did a couple of things on the orthia. 

Finally got around to replacing the broken door handle 

Saw someone parting out a prelude and it didn't have the ugly cruise control buttons so grabbed a spare steering wheel for the shroud 

Much cleaner now without the buttons 

 

[chris r]

Boring daily maintenance update. Replaced the trans fluid with liquid moly stuff and found the crush washer I ordered and forgot to install last time. That hopefully had fixed the weep I thought was a axle seal on the trans. 

I've noticed a small bit of oil sitting on the transmission and corner of the head gasket and kept cleaning and ignoring it. Finally had a look and it was distributor o ring. Finally got around to replacing it so that should be fixed  now 

[fletch]

On 26/07/2024 at 19:56, chris r said:

 

I'll need to make bit of a ugly collector but if log manifolds work and make power a less than perfect collector will also be okay

This.

It will be sweet. Just snip the ends off those elbows so they can all fit onto the flange and bobs ya vagene

[chris r]

The orthia is now on marketplace. I've got my eye on another car which is most likely a stupid daily and a liability but where's the fun in that 

[chris r]

Orthia has been sold and will be on its way to the new owner at some point this week.

New daily has been acquired (E500 merc wagon) 

[chris r]

Got lucky at zebra the other day and a concerto had come in, same ac lines as other ef Civic stuff but it's a concerto so noone wants bits off it. 

Got the un cut factory lines and reciever drier mount so I don't have to run my welded mess. Found a new reciever drier locally too 

 

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