A night working on the 89colt GT

[Calvin Ng]

haha thanks john, i think it was 122.4 mph

brendan ive been meaning to take more pictures of my engine bay for ya but no time. I actually had to crush the intercooler pipes a little to fit the huge aluminum rad, I also had to get a slim fan to make everything fit. My bet is you might want to go with a smaller battery or relocate the battery to the back. If you do relocate it to the back you need a cut off switch from the outside. and a secured, vented battery box to race at mission raceway. That way your intecooler pipes will clear nicely and clean up the engine bay. I'll try to get some pics later on in the week for ya! sorry for taking so long but hang in there k!`

[Calvin Ng]

hey brendan here are the pics sorry for taking so long

[Brett Haviland]

damn that looks good!  Pimp car calvin!

Brendan doesn't come on here everyday like me, so i will post some of his progress for him

I was over at his house last night and he has the OEM front bumper off now and he is starting to plumb the intercooler piping.  He has the J-pipe to go over the manifold made already... but we still need to plumb everything else.  He figures that he will have to use 2" piping to be able to clear the radiator and headlight on the hot side.  The routing will be a bit different then what yours is i think on the hot side of the pipe. Her is going to run his pipe down right in behind/under the driver side headlight down to the intercooler.  The cold side will be the same routing as yours. We got his intercooler to fit in nicely so just the piping left to fab in.  The battery will more then likely be mounted in the rear with a switch on the outside.

[Brendan Kelly]

looks really good, I have started making mine.   I am going with 2' from turbo to first side of ic, then 2.5" straight up like your way.  How did you fit it with the stock rebar?  Did you go just under it?  I was looking at it and looks like that is the only way to do it the way u have it.

the reason I am using 2" on one side is because I already have the turbo output pipe made for it that I had on my talon.  I should really make it 2.5" all around, but I am still running 14b I think it will be fine for now, until I put a bigger turbo on.

[John Hartman]

Brendan, even on a medium to big turbo the side between the turbo and intercooler, 2" is lots.

[Calvin Ng]

2 inch should be fine brendan as John says, Im still running a stock J pipe

the stock rebar fit right over it, I didnt have to trim anything. Than again I have a tiny rebar for the JDM bumper so that cleared up a lot more room

good luck!

Cal

[Brendan Kelly]

ok here it is.  I am going to have to make a new J pipe and I am going to go 2" acroos the manifold then convert to 2.5 while curving down to the intercooler because I have a tight turn.
I am going to have to get curved 2.5 cuplers for down by the intercooler.  Those are 450cc injectors on the hood I had left over from the talon.

[Mark Guthrie]

pictures dont work

[Brendan Kelly]

still not working?  I can see them

[John Hartman]

unless your car is a black square sponsored by PicTiger, then, no its not working here either