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Pictures - October 5, 2005

EIP Stage 1 turbo - Day 2 of installation.

Installation performed by ImagineAuto.


Oil feed line stuff:

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Downpipe and wastegate output tube connected:

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Bracket that secures the wastegate output tube is supposed to bolt up here (look just to the left of the blue wastegate):

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More of the downpipe:

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Oil feed line connected:

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Turbo heat shield in place, downpipe bolted on, and oil feed line connected:

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Bumper cover removed:

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Relocating the power steering cooler from in front of the radiator to below the car:

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Lip removed...

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...To facilitate flush mounting of the EIP banner--er, I mean intercooler:

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Solution for the wastegate output tube bracket:

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Where the oil return line will go:

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Removing the oil pan:

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Um.  Yeah.  Fun with used oilpan gasket material:

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As shown above, the bracket that secures the tube that routes the wastegate's output into the downpipe didn't mate up with the engine block/tranny like it was supposed to.  Took some extra time to correct it.   Stephen also said that it was a PITA to get the downpipe and that tube to line up and mate up the way they were supposed to.  Yesterday, he had to clean up the threads on a couple flanges that mate up to the wastegate, because the bolts would start in them and then get stuck.  Once he chased the threads out, the parts bolted right up like they were supposed to.

He was a little irritated by these things slowing him down, but he also said that that kind of stuff is inevitable when a jig is used for mass-producing pieces like this.   He said he had used some similar tools to make some tubes once, and they didn't line up like they were supposed to, either.  <shrug>  "Bolt-on kit".

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