FD budget..ish track day build

[DieselDakota]

So far this brings us to the end of 2012 I was always running hot, even at 6psi, on the track, I would regularly see 100 degrees C coolant temps and air temps into the 60 and 70's.
This lead to that winters project of upgrading the intercooler with a greddy front mount kit I picked up from a friend, the idea was that bringing the air temps from 60-70 down to a more reasonable 30 or so should reduce the overall combustion temp and hopefully help the coolant system. anyways here some more stuff.


Here's the start point, a friend of mine stole a bunch of parts.



my battery blew up during 2012 track day season, you can see the mess the battery made. lots of cleaning and repainting to do



Alright, got back at it again. Started by tearing the car apart.

Dropped the wheels and took the front bumper off
Here's the future home behind/in the crash bumper. I already installed this intercooler on a friends car before he decided to go wild with his build. We had to cut into the crash bumper so I will probably have to again, I'll see what I can do though.



Crash bumper taken off and rad taken out, spilled some coolant




I'll miss you my friend, maybe even ore if it had worked right in the first place.


This is the rad I was using before, I'll stand it up more straight rather than having it at the stock tilt.


Power steering cooler gone


Power steering pump gone


AC compressor gone




Pulled out the steering rack to de-power it



One of the boots was fucked


Steering rack de-powered and almost put together, needs a new boot before I put it all the way back together.



Started test fitting the intercooler.



The brackets I gotta fab up and weld on