Finally, I have everything installed

Mods added:

Mocal laminar laminova "large" heat exchanger
Turbo blanket
Exhaust wrap
Mishi Radiator w/ fan shroud and fans

And for the paranoid oil pressure guys, I moved my oil pressure sensor to the block where my turbo oil feed line is.

Some thoughts. The overall install is a royal pain in the ass. The radiator + fans are easy but everything else, ugh. The heat exchanger requires you to run a lot of coolant lines and you have to figure out how to bolt them down so they don't move around. I followed the kraftwerks install guide but instead of oil lines, I was running water lines so basically the flow goes like this:

Out of engine -- heat exchanger -- turbo -- engine

This way, the oil is the first thing to be cooled.


The turbo blanket sucked to get installed. Being that I have a bottom mount, the squeeze is very tight. Also the heat wrap is a pain to install when the DP is still mounted to the car (I didn't want to uninstall it).

I also found out why my coolant lines kept leaking at the turbo. Turns out the heat basically dry rotted them, the inside layer of rubber was basically welded to the nipples and the outter layer of rubber was cracked and crap. With the turbo blanket and endless amounts of heat wrap on the lines, I hope to avoid this in the future.

As for performance, I don't really know yet lol. I finished the install last night only to find out I'm not the best bleeder so I've been battling with getting air out of my system. So far, so good though. Oil temps are holding at about 220F and water is cycling between 190-200F as it should. The real test will be once I get her on the highway and see what temps shoot to. I'm waiting for the air to get out before I do this. Everytime I let her cool down I have to add a lot of coolant back into the system . Consumption seems to be getting less though so that's good.

As for the new oil pressure location spot, it def reads different then when it was up on the relocation block (which I expected). Due to the T favoring the turbo (see pics for what I mean, turbo feed is the SS line), the pressure I'm reading isn't nearly as high as before. At idle I read the same 20psi, but driving I'm reading 60-70psi. GOOD NEWS is that when I hit 6k+ pressure increases unlike when I was reading it at the block it would decrease. I can now rest easy knowing my pressure has been fine all along. -10an lines are fine. I should note I switched to 5w-40 for turbo diesel trucks.

Anyway, here are pics...feel free to ask any questions












....think I need to clean my engine

 

Clean!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Looking forward to seeing it in person

 

Does the mishimoto fans plug into the stock plugs?

 

Depends on your definition of "plug in" lol.

No, they don't really. I put spade connectors on the tips and used them to plug into the existing connectors.

I should note, they are very powerful. I didn't have anemometer handy, but comparing side by side with the OEM fans, they are just as powerful (if not more) and 1/2 the size

 

thx

Under the hood temps are VERY high now. I think a vented hood is required for a mod like this.

 

clean install.. Hope it works out for you.

 

I guess I should try the fans also to help cool down my baby.

 

Beautiful engine bay.

 

looks great man!!!! I also can't wait to see it in person and talked to you about it. I want to see how it does at the track! LMK next time your planning to do an HPDE.

Can you just wrap the blanket around the mani and turbo or do you have to remove them? I wasn't sure if you were refering to just the dp when you said you didn't want to remove it.

 

Not going to help, in fact they make things worse. They pull cold air through a very hot radiator so once the air hits the engine...it's very hot.