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The Car:
(pics coming soon, no good ones at the moment)
Taking the plunge for the first time
Throttle Body Coolant Elimination;
I did this because I hate clutter. This is one of MANY MANY steps you will watch me take over the span of this cars project to remove and relocate things.
The TB coolant lines come from the coolant outlet pipe on the back of the engine. Its a cast aluminum pipe that collects the hot coolant from the rear of each cylinder head and feed it into a pipe that runs down the center of the V in the block to come out where you see your radiator cap housing.
From this pipe it enters one throttle body, then to a small metal crossover pipe, to the other throttle body, then to a coolant return pipe on the passenger side of the engine.
Here is the aluminum pipe where it starts:
I pulled out the pressed in barb:
I ran a 1/8 NPT Tap in there and put in a stainless plug:
UNFORTUNATELY I did not take a picture of where we cut the barb off the coolant return pipe and welded it shut. I will one of these days.
Heres all the hoses that are no longer in my engine bay:
next time I am in there I will also remove the metal tube that brought the coolant from one throttle to the other on the back of the intake manifold. Its welded to the same brackets as the EVAP vacuum pipe, so you would have to cut it off to remove it, which is cool with me.
Turbo Oil Manifold;
Ive been building cars a long time. I HATE seeing Tee fittings for oil lines. I wont go into it really, but its just not racecar
So I took a hour to hand machine a little oil manifold that mounts to the front of the oil pan. Its ugly, but its racecar.
Basically, I removed the oil pressure sensor. I made a short line to feed the oil manifold from the oil pressure sensor port. I put the oil pressure sensor on the far end of the manifold. I put a fitting for each turbo on the manifold.
the back has a groove for the oil pressure sensor wires to tuck in
Here is a terrible picture of the test fit. This is before adding the fire sleeve to each oil line, etc. Sorry it was hard to photo with the radiator and fans right in front of the engine.
Oil Filter;
I modified an already great oil filter to make it more suited for the ultra high performance of a TT 370z by adding the "Xtreme" to it. This was done by hand.
Turbo System;
Drivers Side turbo installed with custom MVS wastegate adapter installed
Passenger Side turbo installed with custom MVS wastegate adapter installed
Photo of some of the preperations made to passenger side to increase my comfort of heat management etc Notice main fuel feed line is entirely rerouted away from turbo system heat.
Passenger Side with wastegate installed
Drivers Side with wastegate installed
Intercooler On there.. Things to notice... Oil cooler is now stuffed behind it
Tial BOVs we welded on there. Little bracket securing oil cooler lines from movement and rubbing.
Custom open dump tubes up there:
Done from the top - Yes the TB coolant barbs are still on the TBs... I will be yanking those barbs out next time I pull the intake off.
Clutch and CSC;
Removed
Installed
Installed
Vacuum and Starter Cable Tuck;
Start cable... youve got to be kidding me. They run that ugly thing over the top of the timing chain cover just draped across the engine. GTFO starter cable. I ran it through the cowl with the AC pipes and etc, it comes out the brake boost compartment, and down the drivers side of the bay to the starter. You cant really see it in any of my pics, because its pretty much tucked.
In this first picture you can see my vacuum manifold setup and the starter cable going under it in that wire loom. My vacuum manifold and hose configuration replaced the brake booster hardpipe and handles all my vacuum sourcing needs and is tucked out of site.
with the cowl panels and compartment covers on, here is all you see of vacuum lines... the bulkhead fitting going from the boost controller to the wastegates.
Interior Stuffs;
nothing to out of this world, im not really into super decked out interiors. just an aluminum panel we made to hold the wideband and EVC. of course the cubby door shuts if I dont want to see it. Other interior mods would be the AVIC x930bt, I am not a car stereo guy this is the first expensive head unit I have ever bought, its one of my favorite parts of the car now. I have a PWJDM shift knob that you cant see in the pic. The fuzzy dice, and thats pretty much my interior mods.
