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Well, I am going to build my car again. The turbo should be here soon. Its big. And sweet. I cut the crap out of
my poor car: gone is the upper and lower rad supports, the headlight support, the crossmember, and a bunch of
other useless stuff. Well, there likely was a point to having that stuff, but I figure removing chassis bracing and
quadrupling the factory power output is a good way to go to hell with the quickness.

Here are a bunch of random pics with captions to show my progress.

Here you can see Tyler being a genius,
attempting to light us on fire at a gas station.
Pulled the turbo turd into the garage. It's ready
to get down and dirty.

Built another intake manifold. Building them
still sucks ass. 25.5 hrs of working time into it,
not including driving, getting parts, shipping,
painting, cutting flanges, etc. Yeah its fun.
But the result is always sweet, so I dont' mind it
much.

I tubed the upper radiator support. First I cut off the entire
upper support between the headlight mounts. They still
mount exactly as factory. I boxed up the factory frame ends
where it was cut, and used 1/4" plate to stiffen up the side of
the hood latching mechanism. I used thick gauge pipe to
connect them, and seem welded all the frame to brace
points. Then I used 1/4" thick angle iron across the top of the
center part and welded on the top and down the backside.
Its friggin strong. I didn't lose any weight, but I gained a ton
of space, and the car can really use some more chassis
considering the power we are running up front.

Below, you can see the lower crossmember
support brace I fabbed up. I used larger 2"
diameter tubing, L brackets, and angle iron. It
was a pretty simple piece, but I spent a long
time measuring everything up to make sure it
would fit well. The bolts are tacked to the car,
so the brace just slides on and the nuts tighten
it down. Easy on and off, with tons more
downpipe clearance. This should reinforce the
lower part, and I'll fab an upper strut tower
brace for the firewall area.

More work on the car: Finished up the front upper brace and mounted the turbo manifold only to find that, ta
daaaa! Nothing fits! Cut off both waste gate flanges and am extending them. Each will drop down and away to
their respective sides and dump straight down. The length of each extension actually works to equalize the
overall length of each collector, as they were not before. The near side collector to wastegate now runs longer,
and the far side has a shorter downturn. This will again hurt spool even more but hey, if it spools it should pull
like a banshee on crack with a bottle of nitro up its cracka ass! Thanks Dave, Ted, Kent, Tyler, and idiot for the
help. Mike for the manifold development and chris for the MS.

Here you can see dave cutting away more of the car. Everything in front of the front cross member (which I did the crossmember
delete mod, similar to your dads simply "member delete" mod), is just for crash protection. If I crash in this car, I want to die, and it
want it to be fast. What better way to go that choking on an impeller blade while farting pinecones of the tree you just
eco-rammed? The upper radiator support has been strengthened and I will build a modular unit (jigga!!!) to hold the rad/ic/fans/ur
moms fat ass. The intercooler is about 4.5" thick.

Well since the original wastegate design didn't fit, at all, I've re-routed
things around and now everything seems to work, so long as I don't
find any need for an intercooler headlight, bumper, radiator, or other
assorted goodies like the number 1 cylinder. Just joking, I'll keep the
headlight...

At any rate, the TIG welder took a messican crap on me so I can't
finish weld that, however you can see that more and more wires are
going away. The headlight/blinker light wires are all being re-routed
around the back of the engine bay and the grounds localized.
Hopefully they still work lol. The wastegates will just dump straight
down towards heaven and the radiator will be offset to the right. I'll
build some aluminum duction to direct air and small childred towards
it. Its from a civic Si btw.

Here you can see an underside shot of the ic, turbo, and left side
wastegate. I just top mounted the ic and checked for clearance with
the headlights and front bumper. The bottom portion of the front
bumper will have to be trimmed. The radiator will mount behind it
with a fan on it. I am working on throttle body placement to
maximize engine response without lengthening the overall intake
piping length. Now I just need a place to put the oil cooler... I'm
thinking right side fender. Also got the -8an stainless braided for the
return line and finished wiring up the main power cables from the rear
mounted battery. Ballz.

Here is my new oil return line. Hopefully oil will use
this to return to the pan. The problem is that its
basically flat. Solution? Err, "proposed" solution:
have a regulator valve and oil pressure gauge on
the turbo inlet... and drop the incoming oil pressure
down to about five lbs. Hopefully it works, cross your
lil jap fingers for me!

I had a perfectly good two core civic si half radiator
that worked well, but I didn't like how it looked. So I
build my own radiator out of a very expensive
intercooler core, all in the name of slowing things
down lol. In all seriousness, its thicker, stronger,
flows better, and looks better.