Hi everyone. Trying to image how my turbo installation gonna look. Below is what it looks so far.
It is clear a/c lines are too close.
Should I care about high pressure line?
Can I bend away low pressure line, will it be enough if I also wrap it well with that reflective thermal thing?
Is there a way to cut a hole in fuse box (then plastic will be like an inch away from exhaust piping) and put some insulation there to keep it from melting?
Think it is possible to pull wires to a safe distance or should i cut them and run around?
Thanks for advice.

 

If you relocate your battery, you should have enough room to simply tilt/rotate the fuse box in the passenger corner of the engine bay. Just put some reflective tape over it and you should be fine. Don't try to add insulation inside or cut a hole in the box.

I'm not sure about the AC lines. You can try pulling them out of the way and getting some distance from the header, but I'm not sure how much room you have to work with.

Edit: Actually give me a second, the AC lines may be manageable.



If you look at my bay, you can see all I did was tilt the fuse box to get some distance away from the turbo. My fuse box sits pretty close to the exhaust housing on my turbo, but holds up completely fine as long as I keep a blanket on the turbo. I have tape over the fuse box.

If you look at my AC lines you can also see that all I did was pull them higher up over the strut tower (and away from the turbo/manifold). They're very easy to pull with your hands. Your header is going to be quite a bit closer to the lines but I'd try doing this first and seeing how that works out.

Either doing like what I did with your fuse box may work, or turning it 90 degrees the other direction should work.

 

Thanks. Where are your wires going? I got bunch of wires right between two exhaust pipes - need a solution for this.

 

I'd need to see exactly which wires you're talking about. Outside of moving my fuse box though, I don't think I did anything in the way of moving wires/harnesses. Since you're on a forward facing manifold you're a lot closer to the VTEC solenoid and all of the wires around there.

Not sure what to tell you about that; maybe someone else with a FF manifold can respond as I'm sure this has been dealt with before. Also, definitely make sure you invest in a turbo blanket. I'd also recommend wrapping your header, or getting it ceramic coated.

 

Those passing underneath fuse box, front right wheel break fluid line, a/c lines and go around strut tower.

 

Unbolt the AC line from the shock tower and rotate it as necessary (reflective tape is also prudent for the AC lines/wires/etc).

 

Managed to move wires like this:

Now here is situation with a/c lines:


thick one almost wont budge unless i pull really hard. Is it even safe ?

 

Take the silver clip off of it. You should be able to move it a bit further than that; you definitely still need more distance from the header.

Keep working at it, you definitely want to do this right the first time and avoid heat saturation problems later on, or burning through a line. A pressurized freon leak from an AC line also doesn't sound like a super good problem to run into in the middle of driving either.

 

Exactly ... hey, does freon burn ? Low pressure one will cool hose (it is actually liquid and supposed to draw heat like crazy, but the high pressure is gas and isnt so much of a heat conductor. These are aluminum hoses... 1200f to melt. Shouldn't get to this. I'm thinking exhaust up to 1800, pipe probably around 1500, coating removes another 500-700? Is my math about right? What is actual header wall temp? How much coating drops it (one like http://www.ebay.com/itm/172033610482)?