Just thought I would share my progress so far, been working on it quite a bit over the holidays. I was boosted before with an Ultimate Racing kit. I am in the process of installing my new setup which is a pfab equal length and BB 6262.

Took out the old blown 3mm (lasted about 5000miles on 27 psi) blew out the way everyone elses did on the bridges.


Testing my luck with a SCE copper 2mm headgasket. I copper sprayed it, heat cycled, and re torqued the ARP head studs after the heat cycle to 85ft lbs. For those curious if this was worth the hassle, I went through the torque pattern probably at least 6 times before they were finally all tight again, I would say they all turned at least 1/8 of a turn which was pretty significant.

Picture of my blown IP 3mm (nothing new and exciting here)



I then started the wire tuck, I removed the windshield washer bottle and fed all the wires through the neck but was completely dissatisfied with the final result.



I hated seeing the harness do a short cut in the corner of the bay, seemed really half assed and not done properly.





SO I searched for some other options! What I found was an accessory indentation in adjacent to the firewall. I used a hole 2" whole saw to cut this indentation out perfectly.




I used a bit of rust proof paint on the raw metal edges to prevent any rusting. The oem grommet filled the 2" hole like a glove!


Next I was trying to figure out a solution to mounting the fusebox. To be honest I searched up and down on the boards and did not come up with any clean or easy solutions for the fusebox. With that being said I used both the oem brackets that are already mounted to the fusebox but turned them around and only had to drill one extra hole. The fusebox is easily accessed through the fender liner and didnt require any extensive fabrication of brackets.

I also did not have to extend any wires for the EPS or the fusebox by mounting everything in this location.


I routed the top wires through the windshield wiper channel, and used a 1-1/2" hole saw to bring the wires down into the fender area. Again the eps wires did not need to be extended which was nice and clean!

 

I had my fusebox that way and somehow when i washed it etc it got water in the relays and shorted out the fan relay and hvac relay. I replaced the hvac one then hot wired my fan, but i would just be careful with it "upside down" like that.
Otherwise, good job! looks clean

And good luck with the HG, I hope it works out for you!

BTW, what size turbo is that? seems like a ton of boost for the hp...

 

Thanks for the heads up on the fusebox, hopefully I don't have that issue but I suppose time will tell!

As for the HG its my final stab at lowering the compression that way, if it doesn't work I'll just go oem and spray meth. It only costs me my time and the price of the HG so not a huge loss if it pops.

The numbers in my signature are from my old setup, I was running a ultimate racing log setup. I purchased this stuff of Siadam and literally just put it on a few days ago. Car is in storage for the winter so tuning will happen in the spring

 

ohh okay that explains it, you were probably killing the efficiency of the setup with the log!

and yeah the HG may or may not work, i haven't seen too many successful setups using that HG, but hopefully it does for you!

 

Thanks for posting up some pics of your fusebox setup. I was looking around the other day but having trouble on the boards finding a decent thread about it, like you said. Good luck with the build, definitely looks like a nice winter project

 

Yeah my old setup was maxed out forsure. I think the amount of heat it generated probably provoked the 3mm HG to blow so quickly but who knows...

I didn't get much response from anyone on the boards about the SCE except that turbokev ran one and it blew. I took every precaution and step and extreme for it to be able to work so we'll see what happens...The retorque was a PITA having to remove the cams and rollers and reset the timing so hopefully it was worth it...If not though who cares its all part of the fun

 

Looks like it's coming along nicely, futher along than I am. I have literally done NOTHING in the past 2-3 months, lol.

Excited to see how it all turns out for ya man!

 

[QUOTE=siadam,Dec 30 2010, 12:34 PM] Looks like it's coming along nicely, futher along than I am.

 

Can't wait to see the final results- Keep up the good work man!

 

That's a great idea to run the wiring through that way. Wish we could get all the tucked cars together to share ideas and take pics...

I'm surprised you didn't need to extend the EPS wires. Where do they go from there? Up over the fender, and then in through the hole beside the headlight? Or did you send them into the engine bay another way? I ran mine over the fender and had to add over a foot of length.