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Originally Posted by TitaniumTT
Rookies!
Change everything to-16 or -20 AN lines, this makes building lines much easier and get's rid of the SS bendy stuff. I've seen some people get away with never having leaks, then there are others like myself that use hardlines and silicone clamps and fight leaks FORFUCKINGEVER! First year I had my car on the road after the swap in 2008 or 2009 I fought leaks all year. That following winter cut every nipple off and welded on some -16 bungs and never had another coolant leak again.
Now for the air pocket problem.... here's my suggestion - Build an AST.
I would mount it on the shock tower and make that the highest point. Run a line from the rad to the AST, and then from the nipple on the top of the WP housing to the AST as well. I went a little farther and ran one from the turbo as well to make my thermal siphon a little more effective. I had in the past a line running from the nipple on the rear housing back to the WP housing, and now I have that as the feed for the water cooled WG's. The return from the AST should be a -10 and plumbed into the heater core return into the lower portion of the WP housing.
Trust me, you'll appreciate this advice 
I never have to burp my cooling system. Seriously.... never.... last week when we were leaving for DGRR I opened the AST, dumped in a gallon of coolant (and when I say dumped I mean as fast as I could pour it into the AST was as fast as the cooling system would accept it because all the air was being pushed out and into the AST from the three air bleeds - the rad, the WP housing, and the turbo cooling line), dumped in a gallon of dist water.... thought it would've been overfilled but it wasn't so I added maybe a quart of Poland spring water... not pleased but it was all we had... never burped it, just started it, checked for leaks and kept on going. |
This seems like a very nice add-on and possibly down the road i can see myself doing something like this. Right now the focus is getting it out of the garage though haha
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Originally Posted by TitaniumTT
Nice work though Mitch! I like it.
That huge tank that is on the normal drivers side I'm guessing that's a tank for a mechanical water injection system? |
Thank you and yes thats exactly what its for. You might recognize it from the original RICESP buildup
After a long as time of trouble shooting some issue (mostly spark but other things as well) .. its alive.
Theres not much a picture update i could post at this point so i have a few videos. First is just idling, second i try to rev it a bit. It cuts at 2k rpm which is (hopefully) because the timing is not calibrated properly and is retarded somewhat. Im having someone come over this weekend hopefully who can help me set this properly on the ecu then I can drive it and break in the engine.
I know for a fact there is a slight exhaust leak right at the v-band connection to the turbo which probably contributes somewhat but this car as it is is fucking retarded loud. I hope fixing that exhaust leak tones it down a bit. I know its in a garage but still.. just nutty.