firecran

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Not the best pic but you get the idea.
Manifold heat shield done. It's in two pieces and covers about 90% of the manifold.
I left about a 1/2" air gap between the heat shield and manifold.




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9krpmrx8

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^ That is a very nice heat shield setup.

firecran

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^Thx man, its good old junk yard heat shields from a Kia reformed to fit my application.

Also Thx Dan for the thread title update
Steve

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slash128

Nice!

GK1707

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Man, feels like I haven't been on the forums in years. Crans got a new thread title and all.

firecran

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The title didn't really fit anymore, after 4 years it wasn't new to me.
Also i've completely change my REW setup(turbo, manifold, downpipe, 5spd trans, clutch, ECU, piping, wiring, ect...) so I figured it's time for a title update



How it currently sits, been to busy to work on her.




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dannobre

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LOL....

All the time polishing stuff and you could have been done

firecran

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So dont do it right the first time.


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dannobre

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LOL again...

Polishing is the gift that keeps giving. Like Herpes....you never get rid of it

firecran

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oh no, I hope you're not speaking from experience.

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dannobre

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Merry Christmas 😊

firecran

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You too

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firecran

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I wasn't happy with the appearance of the UIM and components so I decided to sand & repolish.



Much better now



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slash128

So are you doing that all by hand?!? Looks great!

firecran

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Since it was polished already I hand sanded with 1000 grit then buffed with white compound.
Took about three hours to do all the pieces.
thanks

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slash128

Well now you're giving me inspiration to clean my pipes up!

yomomspimp06

...too lazy

firecran

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Get on it, winter is here.

firecran

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One more pic(not the best)of the heat shielding that I did.
Hoping that it'll keep the temps under control since going to a top mount.



And I polished/cleaned up the coolant pressure and overflow tanks.





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Ian_D

Again, beautiful work. My RHD steering column forces me to mount my turbo (EFR 7670 IWG) in the same top mount location as yours so I'm going through the same processes as you on heat shielding, albeit I'm a month or so off building it. I got some military aircraft heat shielding/fire protection fairly cheaply so will be using that. That said, I may have to use a ceramic coating instead/too to cope with the small clearances at the turbine exit; did you consider ceramic coating?

BTW where are you looking to connect the turbo water cooling hoses?

firecran

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Cool man, I'm so glad I don't have rhd vehicle... it would really suck, space is already so limited.
I'd do the ceramic coat and heat shielding... best of both worlds.
Make sure you have a air gap between the sheilding and manifold.

Coolant lines are attached to the FD water pump in the stock locations.
I removed the stock fittings and tapped in some 6an fittings.





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firecran

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Inner fender heat shielding....



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firecran

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it's alive.... started up with no delay.
breakin miles then tune


http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k87/firecran/20160112_140819.mp4

And yes the battery is staying put for now

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Williard

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Video isn't working....


Travis

firecran

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^Thx, I'll repost it up later.