DISCLAIMER: Do at your own risk, I'm showing what I did. If you screw up, its your own damn fault
backgroundMy goal with this project was to make a frount mount as cheap as I possibly could, doing as much as I could on my own. It was a painful learning experience but I think it was worth it. This was done for a 1G with a 14b turbo. I wanted to show people what a 14b can do, so one of the things I needed was a front mount.
I decided I wanted to make a custom Front mount, so I decided to get a Diesel IC and a patsy to split it with to cut down on cost. My patsy was Andrew Scott
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Please note that some pics are from Andrew's car and some were from mine, I didn't get a paint job half way through
CreditI cant thank Ryan Lore enough for all his help (I'm sure everyone has said this at least once
) with the endtank design, fabrication help, and putting up with both myself and Andrew hanging around Kinetic for countless hours
Thanks also goes to Lowell Foo at L&R for some parts we needed ASAP, thanks to my old man for his help with the install and the ideas, and Andrew Scott's dad for the leads to a decent aluminum welder
How we did itWe took this IC....
and cut it to get 2 of these....
we then made a cardboard cutout to get the dimensions of how we wanted the endtanks to look and got this....
so then we bought some scrap sheet aluminum and made the mock ups for our endtanks
We ended up having these as all of our endtank pieces
after searching for about 3 days for someone that would weld our endtanks on for us (I'm not skilled enough to do aluminum and dont have the facilities to do it, but I'm working on that :wink: ) we ended up going to North Road radiators in Poco. It took them a good 2 weeks to get ONE done. But they did decent work.
welds are fat but its better than I could do, plus it makes sure it wont leak
This was the only place we went expensive style. We ended up getting Kinetic J pipes.
We went with this because we were short on time and it was a relatively hard peice to align properly.
we wanted to go with bigger throttle body elbows so we went with L&R ones. The size difference is quite noticeable
so now it was time to cut the bumper. first we made a hole in the driver side by the rad.
then the passenger side one
note that we had to take out the inner bolt hole for the support to get it to fit (more on that blunder later :roll: )
The AC fan had to go, because it was in the way, so remove that. We could go for slim fans, but that comes later, since both Andrew and I are broke students. Now the AC line (if equipped) had to be bent out of the way because it was blocking the hole for the driver side hole. Its the black into silver one in the front. CAREFUL NOT TO KINK IT!!!!
next on the agenda was IC pipes. We bought 3 j pipes from Lordco and we used spare BOV flanges we had lying around to make these. Too bad we ended up with press bent pipes, this made welding a bit difficult because the diameter of the bends was smaller than the straight sections. Stupid Lordco for not being able to read my mind when I wanted mandrel bent
afterwards we needed couplers to put it all together and to get everything beaded. Again, Kinetic to the rescue.
we bought: -1 45 degree 2.5" coupler
-1 2" to 2.5" reducer
-2 2.5" bumped couplers (not pictured)
This is what the pipes looked like when it was all said and done
Here is how we routed the LICP