We got the rear end fully assembled tonight minus the brake lines and ebrake. She’s sitting on all 4s finally.
One issue we ran into when mounting the engine was the outlet tube on the cold side of the turbo. It was hitting the top cross bar so the engine wouldn’t sit flush on the mounts. So my fix was remove it until we got to that point to mount the intake stuff. My partial fix was to cut down that tubing (it was held on with a vband so removed it before cutting). After that, I could mount it back on under that bar. Next problem now is the silicon angle is able to go under it, but it would also put a big dent on the charge line of the intake and I’m sure that would mess up performance with that intrusion. So I will see about clocking the cold side with that vband clamp in the above pictures.
This to complete tomorrow:
-install last 2 AN fittings for the radiator lines and connect them to the engine.
-install the fuse box
-install the rear brake lights
-install the license plate mount
-install the external oil cooler and lines
-finish plumbing the intake heat exchangers/dual pass
-plumb the BRFPS
-add oil and coolant to the engine and loops
-FIRST START!!!!!!!!
If time permits:
-install the manual master cylinder
-install the SS brake lines
-install the parking brakes
-install the steering column
-install the rear transmission mount
-get a bolt for the front transmission mount (don’t know which goes there from my old donor bolts I kept)
-install the tunnel cap
-install the stock shifter (the cool one will be installed at a later date, it’s still in the box from the group buy)
-install the heat exchanger cooling fans and wire them
-install the seats
-install the fire wall (got rivnuts for this and the tunnel cap)
-install the footwell cover
-install the hood
-cut the side panel shapes
-wrap the hood and side panel pieces
-do an alignment
I’m sure I’m missing some more of the to-dos