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New update: Been working on an intake manifold for the last two days...just experimenting and stuff. I'm not sure if it's gonna work good or not, but whatever...I've been guinea-pigging for too long to even care about the wasted money so I'm going crazy and reckless with it, LOL.

It's cool how everything starts with a bare aluminum pipe.


I'm installing ARP head studs tomorrow for extra safety and hopefully break-in the engine this week to take it to the dyno. A few pics, since I never provide visual stuff.

The weapon.


Bye-bye, EGR.


Welding the pipe to the stock manifold.




Not aiming for prettiness.


My hands are too small for belonging to a male...I know.


A teaser.


When it's properly polished, it'll look awesome. We had to fabricate a piece to be able to secure the transmission cable to the throttle body. The engineering was tricky but we achieved it.

More later.

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Thanks, mate. She's breathing thank God...but I got scared because at first the engine wouldn't run. Turns out I forgot to connect the positive terminal of the trunk battery. Whoops. That's where the fuel pump is taking its constant power, LOL. The engine was surprisingly quiet with the open downpipe. We just got done welding the downpipe to the muffler.

Downpipe completed. Gotta send it to get ceramic coating.


New midpipe.


Look at the restriction on the old one. It went down under 2.5". Amazing that the engine worked fine for so long with that crazyness.


3" vs 2.5", woo-hoo. Car is surprisingly quieter now despite the increase in piping diameter.


Look at that half-ass job. Six years with that BS installed and never noticed until recently. You can tell I don't use the car, LOL.


Flexible connected to midpipe with a v-band.


Looks so clean now compared to the previous muffler shop hackjob.


I love the aggressiveness of the new FMIC.


Gotta take care of small details, like wiring the TPS and installing a catchcan.


A little vid. Enjoy the Spanish "gibberish", LOL.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rpEW6LnfYY

This post has been edited by OOBE: Oct 11, 2009 - 10:28 PM