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6-12-2015
Soon after I got the turbo system on I got the clutch and trans mounted up, ready to drop in. I also had a bunch of the brackets in the engine bay powdercoated satin black. This had to be done because the brackets were beginning to oxidize and drove me insane when looking at the engine bay. Powdercoating really does become an addiction.
When I dropped the motor in everything went as planned. There was only one fitment issue that may or may not be a problem. The heater hard line runs very close to the turbine housing and manifold flange. not a big problem as it is a hard line but the hard line ends and changes to rubber fairly close to that area. I brought up the concern to Ihor and he was nice enough to send out some silicon line to re-route the heater line. Only problem is that the line he sent is blue and doesn't really fit my color scheme. For now I will heat wrap the line and keep a close eye out for issues.
A day later I looked at the engine bay and realized I had one other fitment issue. The FPR was obviously above the hood line. I could tell I had room to adjust my bracket so I put the hood on quick to measure how much I needed to bring it down. One program later on a piece of scrap and I had a new FPR bracket made out of 16 Ga 304. I also shortened my standoffs by .500" to gain a little more clearance. Fuel lines were adjusted accordingly, not ideal but these will work just fine and can be re-made when the car is down for another extended period.
Once the motor was in It came time to wire a new engine harness. I needed a custom harness to fit exactly how I had my engine harness set up. I wanted my coils triggers to run though the harness to make sure all wiring was organized and I wasn't pulling pins from other connectors in the engine bay as the Sakebomb kit does. I also new anything off the shelf wasn't going to fit as I wanted it to and I was not paying $650 plus for something trivial(but time consuming). About $200 in parts and a few hours mapping and I was ready to begin wiring. I have these charts in PDF format if anybody would like to do the same.
Disclaimer about my charts that I am going to provide here. Some things may be wrong and I have found and fixed mistakes since uploading these pictures to the host site.
