Ick.Īll is well now, it cleaned up rather nice. When I hosed it off, the water running off it looked like coffee. The carpet under the seats was saturated with a thick syrup like mixture of Coke (by the smell of things) and moldy dog food. Apparently he fed the dog in the car too, while spilling his Big Gulp. The guy I bought it from thought it was funny to carry his Great Dane around in the car with its head sticking up above the windshield. Yesterday, my wife and I cleaned up the interior carpet. I had -08 fuel lines on my last car (), and it felt like running garden hose to the engine. I hope this is not an issue, as my ultimate goal is no more than 500 crank horsepower. Me gusta!Īs for the fuel lines, my plan is going with gas (as opposed to alcohol) and using AN-06 exclusively. Savington and patsmx5 - I found the fittings you were talking about. maybe the cooling package is going to be the most difficult. I had this notion that fitting the turbo and all the necessary plumbing would be the hardest part of this project. I think I am going to dismantle the front end after the exhaust manifolds are mocked up and see what will fit. Thoughts?:wave: Have you considered pusher fans mounted in front of the radiator ?Īll this talk about the intercooler has me thinking I want to make it fit. it doesn't generate any heat upstream of the radiator in traffic, and would probably have an insignificant pressure loss at the velocities that a couple fans would pull through it. In this case, it doesn't seem like the intercooler would hurt much. I'm not sure what this would mean for cooling, as it seems most of the problems are at low/no speed. I think I will need to completely cut out the front cross bar and fabricate my own to have any hope of making it work. I am still pondering the intercooler thing, just cause I have one that is about the right size. I assume this is what most others have done? This will also give me some much needed breathing room between the downtube and the driver's side of the radiator. My current plan is to forego the use of an intercooler since I will only be at 5-8 psi, and move the radiator and condensor forward enough to allow a fan or two. This option means that I cannot use any form of intercooler since there is just not enough realestate between the dampener and front bumper. I am going to have to make custom AC lines anyways, so I could also send the radiator forward a bit (ignoring hood latch issues for a moment) and allow the use of fans. Looks like I can mount the radiator and condensor in the stock position, and not have any room for (puller) fans. I have been reading the recent threads on cooling woes (tis the season, I suppose) with great interest. I think your cooling answer is going to be interesting.įunny you should say this. Oil pan mods (in retrospect, a sawzall would have been faster, and just as good)īig props for setting the bar with this one. Here's how it looked when we brought her home! I believe I have all the big chunks, for the build sitting in my garage, but I am learning that the hard part is putting them together! Here are a few pictures of what I'm up to. Transmission crossmemeber fabrication completeĭriver side exhaust manifold/turbo mount started Rear subframe polyurethane bushings installedĮngine in place while peripherals are mocked up I'm not going to pretend to know when this will be done, but here is where I am at as of today: I am currently in the beginnings of a 1995 turbocharged LS1 Miata build.
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