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Old 30 Dec 2004, 09:47 pm   #5 (permalink)
Sp3aK
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Yeah just some info about what my dad and I did tonight:

We finished taking the oil cooler off of the old Volvo(turns out its an 84... woot?), and put it on my block. We modified the metal section of the cooler lines for my application(basically taking the 90* bends out of it). Front bumper has a "lip" or bodykit if you will(partially seen here, that pushes air in through several rectangular holes. The oil cooler will be mounted right behind that section as well we will be cutting 3 more rectangular sections out and putting a cover of some sort on the bottom of the car so that alot of air is going to be forced in that area.

The intercooler is going to be mounted upsidedown for airflow purposes as well. The tranny cooler will also be mounted somewhere near the bottom front of the car. We took off the entire exhaust system as an entire unit and after i dropped it on the ground(accident) and got it out of the way, we took off the exhaust manifold and then test fitted the turbo. My dads measurements were off and it turns out we have more than enough room, almost 3 inches between the side of the engine compartment and the turbo.

Anyways we are making quite a bit of progress and will be working on it through out the weekend. I'll have more updates and I'm going to take lots of pictures when its done(also maybe some pre-turbo shots and some video if im not lazy). Also we've estimated with adding the turbo on it adds about $500-$600 worth of value to the car -- Plus everything is being custom mounted and fabbed for my application and based on what my dad thinks is best(this is more of his project, he loves stuff like this).
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