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decided the turbo wasnt gonna work the wrong way round and i refused to start chopping up a rather expensive bit of manifold so set about making an adapter plate.
went to see dave dixon at griffin autosport for a t28 & t25 flange then went for a small piece of angled 5mm wall 314 stainless. tacked it up and took it to be tig'd
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
few hours later i picked it up but the heat had warped the flanges rather badly
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
soooo dropped it off with my mate at the machine shop to have it faced
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
well done little pete for sorting the flange out!
got it mounted up and works a treat so set about piping up the intercooler, ideally id like to keep the charge pipes at 3" but ive used some 2 1/4" stainless piping i had to trial fit everything
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
its going well, id love to keep the engine bay looking like this with no wiring/pipework
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By heds28 at 2011-11-24
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woah thats going to be so good to see running what you predicting on power outputs? n that exhaust on the blue one was massive!?
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ha ha i loved the back box on the blue one, was a bit of a comedy thing, people would look at it and laugh like i was a 17yr old in his first car with a big cherry bomb on, occasionaly id give it some beans and watch there jaws drop other times id just sit there and let them laugh ;-)
power wise the turbo is good for 500 apparently and the engine should be upto that so as long as i can get someone to map the **** out of it it should see good figures
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Both the cars look beautiful, well done Sir!
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ordered a civic rad today to try and free up a bit room up front and hopefully allow me to not have a header tank and keep the engine bay nice and neat, intake is going to go down over and up into the drivers side arch, ill weld a box in there to protect the filter from tyre splash and to create an air box, i already have an air intake on the front bumper for it so thats a bonus.
ive ordered a couple of black silicone hoses to finish off the boost pipes that are on show up top and the intercooler is all piped up now just need to make some brackets to support it.
ill pick up the engine bay harness tomorrow and get it plugged into the in car harness and see if i have power to the starter motor then set about reworking the harness so its invisible
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What mk civic rad you got?
I looked into a civic rad and couldn't work how it could be plumbed into a nova bay
Also looked at 106 ones to get rid of the header tank
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not sure, went on ebay found one that was about to finish and bought it lol, it might need a little bit of modding on the water pipe locations but its still gonna be cheaper than a full custom rad setup
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looking good buddy :)
seen vid of it on youtube launching you old nova off the spot :)
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credit to you mate. the blue one was beutifull but words cant describe how nice the red one will be :)
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Coming along nicely mate, good work.
And taa for the pics of your old beast, looks a nice example, looks and sounds epic on the vids on youtube, especially the launch one :p
