After seeing all the RW V-mount "kit" horror stories I've decided to post up some pics of my alternative to such shoddy craftsmanship. The mostly done KTEC (Sen2two) V-mount setup. It's "mostly" done because some companies ship faster than others and I had to pic the car up before all the parts had arrived...
Anyways....
So I was lookin for a FMIC and I figured I could prolly build one pretty cheap...
The EVO core I got from an evo forum, the aluminum "radiator hoses" came from 80's and 90's turbo volvos.
Total cost $87 [the EVO 8 core did NOT come from the yard, lol]
I didn't want to remove the front crash bar, nor did I want to lose A/C and I wanted to install fog lights, so mounting was getting ...tedious
I started experimenting w/ different setups, this looked promising...
until....
Then I did a little research and found that the dimensions of the Corksport FMIC core are just a little bigger than the EVO core, and they route the piping in such a way that you don't lose fog lights or any structural supports.
But short of buying their whole piping kit (if they even sell it separately) I would need to either weld or use a stupid amount of couplers to duplicate that setup...
Enter KTEC aka Sen2two... after seeing what he did to the stock top mount I was confident he'd be able to figure something out.
http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=907746
Apparently its more difficult to weld decade plus old oily volvo piping lol, so I'd have to buy new (uniform diameter) piping for the front mount. Even the cheapest piping kits were $100 after shipping, however a v-mount would only require a 90* a 45* and a straight pipe .... Plus I'd planned on going V-mount when I upgraded turbos anyway.
After the battery relocation, the only thing left was to find this guy...
Want a V-Mount? Don't want to give up anything? -^-KTEC-^-
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