Fenda's uber garage Engine Build

[Fendamonky]

Anyway... Pic dump time!! I think the last pictures posted are from when we were still putting the oil pan on.

So here's a shot with the pan and engine mounts on. I've been holding on to these stock mounts for several years now. I went from damaged stock mounts to a set of Banzai's poly mounts (which were nice) then I switched over to a pair of solid aluminum mounts (which were not so nice) when the turbo side banzai mount began to warp.

So here I am, back to good condition stockers: I wanted to see what all the fuss was about



Garfinkle's Oil Pan Brace fit on like a charm!



And everything sitting there, patiently waiting to be installed..



We got the engine in and the turbo fitted:



When I bought my copper clad exhaust nuts I accidentally bought the wrong size So I had to put the manifold on with generic autozone nuts. Once the correct ones got in I swapped them out though.



And there she sat... patiently waiting:



I completely scrapped all the factory hard lines, and made new fuel lines from the tank to the injectors and back again. I used -8 lines to feed the engine, and -6 on the return. I went with the FuelLab filter that, following my buddy Vlad's suggestions, I mounted to the rear subframe between the fuel tank and the subframe, just above the differential.

Sorry for the shitty pictures, there wasn't much space to get a decent angle from:



Here's the inlet side of the filter:



I used a scrap piece of aluminum to mount my filter onto, then I cut a couple slits into the plate and used worm clamps to attach it to my subframe.

WAAAYYYY too much rust on that mounting arm for my diffuser I'll really need to pull everything out, brush it down, and coat it all one of these days..



Some pics of the feed and return lines running under the car:





The engine bay finally starting to look like an engine bay again:



We opted to go with nylon braided fuel lines for the majority of the routing inside the engine bay. I'd hate for any fuel line flex to cut through stuff...



Also, some last minute fitting/routing changes sent me off to the "local" performance shop about 20 miles away... 5x -6 fittings (in the wrong color, lol) cost me well over $160, but nobody ever said that doing a badass build (the RIGHT WAY) was cheap...

Here's a look at the parallel fuel lines routed the way we wanted them, just waiting on the UIM and FPR. The steel braided line is the return line going from the FPR back to the tank.



Those are Brian's hands, probably around 3am, making sure my AST lines are fit correctly in the two highest points in the engine (we'll be adding a third AST feed line in the top of the radiator).



Speaking of the radiator... Here's the little tiny hole that brought the operation to a halt, having us all wait until yet another weekend to take this little project for her first drive.





And.... The (mostly) finished project!






We started the car (she fired right off on the first try :happy_dance:, yay!) at about 6:30am on Sunday after beginning work at about 11am on Saturday. Needless to say it was a LOOONNNNGGGG weekend! But, with the engine firing right up and sounding very nice I'd say it was worth it.

Ideally there will be one more session which (unless I do convert the radiator to -16 lines right now) will entail lots of grabassery, some light mechanical work, and initial road tuning (you GTFO of here Mr. Murphy!!!)