So finally had some holidays and been slowly chipping away at this. Firstly finally got the rest of the turbo lines made up out of 200 series AN Line and heat wrapped, then mounted the turbo and lines back up to the engine, which with all the heat wrap and lack of space took so much longer than it really should of. Next was mounting the intercooler more solidly than it had been previously, made some wedges up out of rubber for the top mount to correct the fact that the mount is bent on 90 degrees and the intercool is rolled back slightly.
From there the fuel pressure reg needed to be finally mounted securely as its spent far too long floating in the engine bay with zip ties. I drew a mount up in solidworks and then transferred it to a piece of alloy. Its too thick really as it doesn't allow for the circlip but its a starting point. And enough to get the car mobile and all the lines/wires run to the correct length. If it wasn't the middle of the christmas break I'd be able to get thinner material and access to a folder, but because I didn't it was angle grinder and bending it on whatever I cound find it the garage. The first bend on the timber work bench went averagely as expected and was rather crooked so swapped to a metal pederstal which is meant to be holding my vice which is also still in progress.
Next up was cleaning up the hole in for the cold side cooler piping in the engine bay which was a hacked up hole saw and grinder job a couple of days before my first event back in 2019. It worked but always looked crap, so it was cleaned up with the die grinder and a flap disc, beaten flat where required and finally trimmed with some pinch weld. From there the ECU needed mounting better than it was, at some point I removed the factory mounting pieces from the case and have since misplaced the important ones, so again the too thick sheet of alloy came out and made up this mount. Its not installed yet as I only got bolts for it today, but will get done if its not too hot to push the car in and out of the garage tomorrow.
Got the turbo drain sorted with 400 series AN line.
Made some wedges out of rubber to correct the angle with the intercooler and the bracket that holds it
Makeshift FPR Braket
The roughly cut hole on the cold side
Tidies up and flattened where required
Pinch weld rubber added (pegs holding it in place whilst the epoxy died)
Makeshift ECU bracket
Threw the bumper back on to save space, see the long to do list on the bonnet, though some at least is crossed off now.
