One of the items on my To-Do list for some time now is the engine bay piping. The route of the piping when I first made it was not completely parallel & square with the engine so it was time to fix it.
It was a fiddly task that I wanted to get right so that the piping looks neater in the engine bay. I cut the airbox-to-turbo pipe into sections, added some small lengths and adjusted some angles. I also lowered the height of that pipe slightly so doesn't sit so high in the engine bay. The position of the intercooler-to-intake manifold pipe was also tweaked so it exits the intercooler exactly square and to provide a bit more clearance to the other pipe.
Before (old photo from when I first did it a few years ago) :
After about 3 hours hours of slow and careful playing, cutting, welding ...
The airbox-to-turbo pipe is now parallel with the valve cover.
The tweak to the intercooler-to-intake-manifold pipe moved it a little closer to the engine valve cover.
It was a fiddly task that I wanted to get right so that the piping looks neater in the engine bay. I cut the airbox-to-turbo pipe into sections, added some small lengths and adjusted some angles. I also lowered the height of that pipe slightly so doesn't sit so high in the engine bay. The position of the intercooler-to-intake manifold pipe was also tweaked so it exits the intercooler exactly square and to provide a bit more clearance to the other pipe.
Before (old photo from when I first did it a few years ago) :
After about 3 hours hours of slow and careful playing, cutting, welding ...
The airbox-to-turbo pipe is now parallel with the valve cover.
The tweak to the intercooler-to-intake-manifold pipe moved it a little closer to the engine valve cover.
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