6 PM PST Thanksgiving Day. Happy Thanksgiving... Done editing... and off for some more Turkey. Good night.
The car in the first three pictures belongs to Tim Allen in Tulsa Oklahoma. He's posted on Facebook and helped me all day with understanding and ordering the necessary parts. The job is an oil filter relocation along with an oil cooler upgrade and relocation. His car was my inspiration. As much as I don't need further delay, this has become "necessary" because having that bumper block the intercooler the way it does plays with my mind.
So unless removing the bumper skin makes a more acceptable intercooler installation possible, the bumper goes. I'm not going to leave it bumper-less and will be fabricating a tubular replacement. Face it, a crash that uses it is the finish for an old man
Here's his car. I believe we have the same intercooler, minimally speaking, pipes exit to the same side:
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Here's where he's mounted the oil filter housing and between that and the oil filter, the sandwich plate with thermostat, the necessary ports for the route to the oil cooler.
I have held off on trying to fit the hard pipes. This will be helpful to get started from the intercooler in, vs. completely waiting for the engine to be in. That is planned, in, not running, this year.
The oil cooler is much larger, 25 rows, 11.25" x 7.5" x 2", IIRC
I resized and uploaded pics of all the ordered components, but it really serves no purpose to display them. If you browse these pictures, the others are there if you care to look. They're just snip-its, not edited or complete spec. But, they are there.
Everything is ordered and will start arriving on December 3rd. This dictates a change to the driving light / fog light possibilities as the driver's side opening is a functional air duct to the oil cooler. It also dictates changes in my already modified undercover, since that's where you go to change the oil filter. Guess if I do the undercover correctly, it will be removable.
Now, if I just came across the right bumper skin with a wide-open mouth directly to the intercooler.
Things on the engine are coming along. I keep wanting to start the wiring harness attachment to the engine, but it seems best to get hoses and fittings done first.
Damn I hope the engine is solid! Every mistake I've made, I've made photos of the problem and the fix. I can track all the bogus little things I've done. Hopefully, I will never have to look for them, that the fixes were secure, and nobody need to know the difference. But I can track things, if I need to do so.
Fortunately, today I found one of those things I skipped, done because the water pump torque wasn't done. The waterpipe to the rear of the engine had no nuts and washers... it was just slipped on, tightened, torqued everywhere else. Stupid, but caught. The other thing that will bite me if I forget, the washers on the fuel filter. There are none. The filter is attached, but slightly cock-eyed, and the fitting therefore is a bear to work with. This is a frequent area where lines get kinked and then must be replaced. I don't want to take the gas tank off again either
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. Stay safe and well.