!!5sfte!!, the second coming! Options

[6strngs]

yep, you heard me. I'm coming back to the 5sfte community. Doing things a little different this time around, here's what I can remember so far that I'm doing differently:

Genuine HKS BOV, the new 2007 design
Got my injectors cleaned and flow tested at witchhunter. They were is poor condition before and are great now!
Going with a SAFCII instead of a neo. I got it for about $75 cheaper, and it measures knock. I was gonna get a greddy emanage ultimate, but I don't have a laptop to tune it with and it just looked too complicated for me to figure out how to tune it by myself, so maybe I'll upgrade later.
Got a custom stailness braided oil feed and drain line kit made specifically for my 5sfte. I just gotta weld a fitting onto my oil pan but I'm having a hard time finding someone willing to do it.
I'm fixing my radiator fan which was broken before. the motor fell out of the blade cause it was hooked up wrong
I'm using a regular sized radiator instead of the koyo, for a little more engine bay room
I'm relocating the battery to the trunk
and I'm cutting my IC piping down a lot for a cleaner install, might even paint them like LewFX

that's all I can think of right now, pictures to come. hope to be running by the end of the week after 6 months of down time!

[6strngs]

having a couple days off from school, and a day off work, I've really been going at it today. I've gotten alot done. here's a pic of my crankshaft, notice the clean oil pan surface I spent probably about 2 hours cleaning!


here's a pic of all the parts that still needed to be installed, of course, I took this pic a few hours ago and have half of it in by now


here's a pic of my downpipie, wrapped with exhaust wrap and then painted with a high-temp silicone protectent paint. should keep the downpipe from rusting due to the exhaust wrap trapping moisture, plus it looks cool to have a flat black downpipe, lol.


and here's a pic of the front of my engine block. I cleaned it up a little bit, it still looks dirty, but it's waayy cleaner than before. and I put some heat wrap stuff around my oil cooler lines to keep them from melting again!


I've also got the filter relocation kit and the turbo, manifold, downpipe assembly installed. next up I'm going to get the IC piping all trimmed down and installed, then the gauges and SAFCII all wired up. after that, I just have to get an oil drain line made, get a battery and everything to relocate it, an intake set-up put together, then fill it up with oil and coolant and it'll be good to go!! hopefully...