{"id":546,"date":"2017-02-22T07:27:34","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T12:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/wordpress\/?p=546"},"modified":"2017-02-28T07:28:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T12:28:12","slug":"installation-of-the-manifold-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=546","title":{"rendered":"Installation of the Manifold, Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The order is placed for the new suspension. Front and rear adjustable dampers with 2.5&#8243; diameter springs and camber top mounts for the front. He&#8217;s telling me it&#8217;ll be 2-3 weeks before they ship, so in the meantime, I&#8217;ve got other stuff to do.<\/p>\n<p>Starting out tonight was this mess:<\/p>\n<div class=\"picwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/piwigo\/_data\/i\/upload\/2017\/02\/22\/20170222213409-7644299f-me.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The 2.0 intake manifold came off and I cleaned up the RTV that was previously used to seal things up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"picwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/piwigo\/_data\/i\/upload\/2017\/02\/22\/20170222213447-22e5eae8-me.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>At this point, there are no gaskets in place, I just wanted to test-fit and see what problems I&#8217;m going to run in to. I like the way it looks, though:<\/p>\n<div class=\"picwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/piwigo\/_data\/i\/upload\/2017\/02\/22\/20170222213324-f20d52d9-me.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve got a lot of clearance problems, though. The radiator inlet is rather unfortunately positioned:<\/p>\n<div class=\"picwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/piwigo\/_data\/i\/upload\/2017\/02\/22\/20170222213339-4830192e-me.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>And with that manifold in place, I only have about 2.5&#8243; of clearance behind the radiator so the original fans aren&#8217;t going to fit. I&#8217;ve mocked up leaning the radiator forward to get that 2.5&#8243; of space and that gives me a somewhat suboptimal, but maybe passable amount of clearance for the radiator hose. I think that the original throttle cable just might be long enough, so that&#8217;s good news. There isn&#8217;t much clearance between the throttle lever and the transmission, but there is just enough to make it work.<\/p>\n<div class=\"picwrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/piwigo\/_data\/i\/upload\/2017\/02\/22\/20170222213351-d0f5be51-me.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What I need to figure out is moving the radiator forward, getting a slim fan to replace the existing ones, and then coming up with a new pipe to go from the intercooler to the throttle body. I&#8217;ll also take the opportunity to re-run and clean up the wiring a bit, since it&#8217;s an ugly mess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The order is placed for the new suspension. Front and rear adjustable dampers with 2.5&#8243; diameter springs and camber top mounts for the front. He&#8217;s telling me it&#8217;ll be 2-3 weeks before they ship, so in the meantime, I&#8217;ve got&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=546\">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-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","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=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}