Few more upgrades for my baby, Koyo, Blitz, Apexi, TRD... etc :) Options

[malpaso]

At last I had some time to work on my baby again. I have spend 12hours of working on it. Here are some pics and details...

Main goal was get rid of this stupid part. Big enemy of all engines and pony-killer Yes... cat.



I got replacement pipe from Blitz (so plug and play and proved solution). What a surprise was for me was I need to strip almost half of engine to unbolt it . So I decided to do more tasks at once. Because:

- to remove down-pipe heat shield is needed to remove charge cooler
- to have more space there you need to remove radiator
- to get to bolt on the back side you need to remove alternator... OMG!

So... since CC was removed...



...I have made few tweaks on it. Covered bottom side with heat shield, cleaned it inside and installed it back bit higher than stock position is (to let more air flow under it)





Than... since radiator was removed...



...I have replaced it with Koyo radiator and cleaned and painted fans a bit .





And... since I have removed alternator (and coolant was already bleeded)...



...I hat a lot of space for thermostat replacement (TRD one... sorry I have no pics ). Plus like a bonus I have painted heat shield, installed A'PEXi intake and added few more HP using few inches of real Samco hose . here are results:









Suspension will be next

This post has been edited by malpaso: May 16, 2010 - 9:10 AM

[Rusty]

nice ditching the cat, spooling much faster?

best of luck with your SS to McPhearson suspension conversion, are you going to run Tein again?