Louis19's Build Thread

[louis19]

I made a trip up to Brissy today to pick up my wastegate and oil line and fittings. Motorsportaccessories in Brisbane had everything I needed and were an absolute pleasure to deal with. I also made up some custom oil drain flanges by cutting the old plates off the old line and getting some -8 fittings welded on.

I ended up deleting the aircon in the car due to the pipe work that runs along the firewall being in the direct line of where the exhaust manifold and wastegate will be sitting. The new belt size I measured up and ended up going with was 925mm which fitted brilliantly. Weight wise there's only about 9kg removed from the engine bay between the aircon core, condenser and the lines. An added bonus should be a bit more direct flow over the radiator core with the aircon core no longer sitting in front of it.

More progress and pics to come in the coming days

[rgvlee]

Yeah but with no air con it's a race car now

[GeorgeMK1]

Really loving the updates man, thanks for sharing

[louis19]

Really loving the updates man, thanks for sharing

No problem at all, thanks for following. I got to time to do a test fit this afternoon. All is looking pretty good. The main thing is that.. IT FITS!

A few little things to order to keep me moving forward and a light massage of the firewall, then it shouldn't be too far away from going back into the car with the gearbox attached.

[louis19]

Yeah but with no air con it's a race car now

Now when I say #becauseracecar, you know I mean it

[HaydEn]

In for 5kg sledgie action

[louis19]

In for 5kg sledgie action

I was going to say a rubber mallet, but whatever works I guess

[louis19]

Today I bolted on the turbo with all turbo lines now completed. Moving onto tidying up a few last things in the engine bay before I get the clutch and then gearbox onto the engine and the lot can go back in.

[LZY13B]

Been seeing the photos of this on fb and I gotta say this looks nuts amazing work mate can’t wait to see some videos of this things frying tyres haha looking at it makes me think this would give my rx7 a run for its money lol

[louis19]

Been seeing the photos of this on fb and I gotta say this looks nuts amazing work mate can’t wait to see some videos of this things frying tyres haha looking at it makes me think this would give my rx7 a run for its money lol

Thanks mate, appreciate the kind words