Louis19's Build Thread

[GeorgeMK1]

Using 304 stainless by the looks of it?

Will look dope

[louis19]

Using 304 stainless by the looks of it?

Will look dope

Nah, just alloy tubing because I want it powder coated like the rest of the bay and pipe work. It does look like stainless in the pics though as it’s the brighter finish tube

[louis19]

Got the other side of the cooler piping in the car today for a test fit after welding. Worked out spot on, very happy with how it fits. Lots of room for the intake to run under it and app still have access to the shifter cables. Now just have to mark where the outlets need to go for the DV etc once I’ve made the intake up tomorrow then it will all go to the powder coaters to match the rest of the engine bay

[louis19]

Intake made up today. Will get it welded up this week along with some barb fitting for the DV and n75 etc. Also going to make a heat shield up to partially enclosed the pod from the rest of the bay and a support bracket to take the weight of the pipe work and filter itself.

[sambb]

Good stuff. Its amazing how much room you have to play in with the battery out of the picture. All looks like a nice fit. Looking at it you probably haven't added that much extra induction piping even though it looks like it. I doubt a double pass FMIC would have much less of a pathway than the way you've done it. Boy its going to be loud through that K&N pod. Mine sounds like it has a BOV and whooshes even with a pissy little K03 so yours is going to make mums pull their kids away from the road side when you come past.

[louis19]

Good stuff. Its amazing how much room you have to play in with the battery out of the picture. All looks like a nice fit. Looking at it you probably haven't added that much extra induction piping even though it looks like it. I doubt a double pass FMIC would have much less of a pathway than the way you've done it. Boy its going to be loud through that K&N pod. Mine sounds like it has a BOV and whooshes even with a pissy little K03 so yours is going to make mums pull their kids away from the road side when you come past.

Haha! Yeah noise doesnt bother me, the exhaust was never overly quiet either Ill be making a heat shield/air directing plate at the front to section it off a little.

I was just thinking that the other day when I was finishing the pipe work. Overall it wouldn't be to far off the stock route pipe work but being that its now 2.5" pipes the volume of air would definitely be larger.

[Sydneykid]

Looks like a candidate for adapting one of the Commodore over the radiator air inlet systems. K&N make a long skinny filter that sits along the top of most radiators.
You can make or buy the housing.



Cheers
Gary

[seangti]

How are you planning to control airflow through the IC/radiator cores and into the pod? At speed, air is going to follow the path of least resistance which means it will go around the intercooler and radiator rather than through. There's a big gap across the top of the radiator, along with the sides. Having a low pressure behind the cores will aid airflow through.

[louis19]

How are you planning to control airflow through the IC/radiator cores and into the pod? At speed, air is going to follow the path of least resistance which means it will go around the intercooler and radiator rather than through. There's a big gap across the top of the radiator, along with the sides. Having a low pressure behind the cores will aid airflow through.

Planning to use some black plastic board that we have at work to section off the sides and direct the flow onto the radiator and intercooler. Also going to make a heat shield/air directing box up where the pod sits to have as much fresh air going to that as possible. Being that there is no longer an A/C core, it gives there a little bit of a gap between the IC and radiator which should hopefully reduce heat transferring between the two as well as just give both cores more air being that there’s one less core to flow through

[louis19]

Pipe work back from being welded. Had some outlets welded on for the n75, DV etc. Now I can make the support bracket for the intake and start mapping out the head shield bracket I plan to make. I ordered the new MAF sensor I’ll be running which includes its own flange so once that arrives I’ll get that welded onto the intake as well and that along with the other IC pipe can be sent off to the powder coaters.

Injectors are the last main bit of hardware I need to buy before I can start plugging in the last few bits and pieces.