Fenda's uber garage Engine Build

[Fendamonky]

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Had a little bit of head way last night. I spent the weekend down in Charlottesville taking care of some (looming) wedding planning. Sunday afternoon was for the car though.

Vlad came by and rescued me from my seized clutch slave cylinder, that was (surprisingly) a bitch to get out. So the clutch got fixed, then I focused my attention on the engine bay.

I flushed out the radiator after Brian (TitaniumTT) did some badass welding on it. The radiator is now rocking 2x -16 bungs and 1x -4 bung for the radiator hoses and an AST input (respectively).

Radiator fit in the engine bay.



The lower mounting point, and my (not so shiny) new radiator line.





You might have noticed that I seem to be missing my T-stat/coolant filler neck. Technically that is correct... Brian wasn't satisfied with my old t-stat housing and AST arrangement, so he figured "what the hell" and decided to combine the two parts into one! I'm pretty impressed with how well it worked out, and def satisfied!!

Test fitting the new AST.



Here's where my "AST/Filler neck" will connect to the upper radiator "hose", with the Tweakit Idler pulley in the background.



Testing out the length needed for my upper rad hose.




This afternoon I finished putting the belts/alternator/etc on and gave the AST one more (last) coat of silver paint, than came upstairs to change out of my uniform. After dinner I'll go back down and cut my last radiator line, then modify my AST lines to fit.

Once that's done it's just a matter of mounting up the intercooler, installing the battery, then firing her up for her (second) heat cycle!!