The intercooler piping that I got looked very much like it was for a Hahn same-side setup, so it wasn’t going to work out of the box. \u00a0I went ahead and cut it up and used some Aluma-Weld to put it back together so that I now have the hot side pipe dropping straight down, going between the oil pan and the transmission, and then crossing in front of the engine to the intercooler. \u00a0The other side remains the steel exhaust pipe for now. \u00a0To complete the piping, I needed to add a 2.5″-2″ reducer coupler for the turbo outlet, but the hot side pipe is completely constructed with aluminum pipe, silicone couplers, and t-bolt clamps.<\/p>\n
In the process of doing that I pulled the wire out of the connector for the intake air temp sensor. \u00a0I couldn’t find another connector like that in my wiring supply anywhere, so I decided to go to Rock Auto and for about $20 get the actual pigtail that fits the connector. \u00a0When that comes in, I’ll wire it up and should no longer have any problems with that sensor coming loose on me again.<\/p>\n
Speaking of wiring, I bought an 8-position barrier strip with an 8-position jumper strip from Radio Shack for about $5. \u00a0I took the MegaSquirt grounds apart, and replaced all the terminals with smaller round ones. \u00a0Now the strip is mounted on the side of the dash with a central ground, and each of the 8 MS ground wires attached. \u00a0This should prevent any more grounding issues. \u00a0I also took the opportunity to tuck up the MS wires a bit more.<\/p>\n
Another problem that I discovered was that the coolant lines to the turbo were leaking a bit, and all the fiddling that I did back there in replacing the pipes made the situation much worse. \u00a0I could just tighten everything up, but I dropped about $100 on some AN plumbing to re-do the water feed for the turbo. \u00a0This will allow me to clean up the heater core plumbing. \u00a0The water feed should come off of the heater core into a 90 and then shoot directly to the top of the turbo. \u00a0Then, the coolant return should come back to the coolant hard line, go straight into the existing heater hose, through the MS CLT sensor, and then back to the block. \u00a0This will shorten up the coolant lines significantly, stop the leaks, improve the flow, and reduce the amount of congestion over in that area.<\/p>\n
It’s not installed yet, but I also built a new coolant reservoir out of PVC and pipe fittings. \u00a0It’s J-shaped and should fit nicely behind the bumper cover. \u00a0In the meantime, I bolted the stock overflow bottle to the firewall along with the catch can.<\/p>\n
I still am not sure how to address the crankcase ventilation, so for now, I’m going to leave it open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The intercooler piping that I got looked very much like it was for a Hahn same-side setup, so it wasn’t going to work out of the box. \u00a0I went ahead and cut it up and used some Aluma-Weld to put…
Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}