didn't really get a whole lot done today. lots of cleaning, painted the rad mounts and got the bumper finished up and put on.
the rad is still missing top brackets. the charge air piping I'm not a big fan of as they don't line up real good. Something for me to try to figure out later though. They definitely need to be cleaned up and repainted though.
the charge air piping aren't the best but here it is all together
Front bumper cut away and back on
The upper rad hose solution. a cut stock hose.
the lower rad solution, or at least temporary solution, will be these two pieces cut and joined in the middle.
a little higher then the rest of the car but I will need to figure out a new under-tray solution as the stock one will no longer work.
a picture from below as I was down there
lots of room between the rad and the engine
Now that I'm finally done finals and school for 8 months its time to get back to work.
didn't get a whole lot done this weekend, basically just got the stock undertray modified to work with the new setup and got the bottom rad hose made up.
to do list before its driving:
-Upper rad mount
-Battery mount (questions and discussion below)
-Add coolant
-Some fine tuning of the intake piping
-Need to figure out the intake setup
to do list for after its driving:
-Idle air valve
-boost controller
-Stereo and speakers
-buy spoiler
-Rims(RPF1's) and tires
-probably some other stuff.
Alright on to getting this thing running.
the next major hurdle is the battery in my mind. I see two decent options that should be fairly clean.
Option 1
mount the battery between the engine and rad against the LH frame rail. this is fairly close to the stock position, I still foresee some fucking around to get the power cable hooked up but shouldn't be the end of the world. The easiest way I see to make something like this work would be to use something along these lines.
And where it would go
This would be fairly easy to implement, the only difficulty would be extending the wiring but 'a necessity with either option. Negatives would be the heat the battery would see. Could maybe use an optima battery arn't they supposed to take heat better?
Option 2
mounted right behind the rear seat in the trunk, as close to the seat as possible.
Wires would have to be extended through the car and stuff which is a pain. and I probably would be to lazy to vent it outside unless you guys convince me to, I've never really researched it I just know they are supposed to vent outside but tons of people seem to without issue.
as for the actual mounting There are these 4 bolts that go through to mount stuff underneath. I'm picturing building a plate to connect them all and then welding on some studs to go up from the plate through the rug to the battery box.
I would replace their brackets with my plate. something like this would work good.
making some parts for a friends FD
back to my build
Spent the last two night fabricating a bracket to hold the battery and this is the final result.
the bottom bit bolts to the two rear seat supports, and the batter tray will bolt to it with the rug between the two. the tray will also hide the holes in the rug so it will look fairly clean.
The battery cable should be in tomorrow plan is to route the negative to the strut bar mount for grounding.
the positive will also run by there and up through the car hidden
pulling the panels off I pulled one of the back speakers as the first project after its back on the road is installing deck and speakers. it was in pretty rough shape.
also found some mystery wire. this was not the wire connected to the speaker lol
the bottom of the back seat was in pretty rough shape as well. some of the wires on one edge had rusted away. where would someone find these or get these redone? I imagine it would take someone with the right tool 15 seconds to do.
