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Replacing intercooler w Needswings coated IC Taa daa
waldig
September 22, 2016
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THis is the album I showed at Fontana When I met you for the fall meet years ago. Woody
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2017/07/29 12:21:41
waldig
Original testing and dyno of my design for Rob at needswings
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2017/07/29 12:21:28
waldig
The business end of the SC with the inlet housing off showing the bearing assemblies.
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2016/09/22 18:28:31
waldig
Crud in the inlet of the IC restricting cooling and AIRFLOW>>>>
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2016/09/22 18:28:30
waldig
Intake manifold off looking into head ports. TB is off also
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2016/09/22 18:28:29
waldig
Here is the insulated CROSSFED intake manifold assembled again
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2016/09/22 18:28:29
waldig
Hemostats allow bolts in SC to be inserted without dropping into the head !!. Some bolts are located deep inside. LOOK and see nothing is in the head or valves when you finish.
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2016/09/22 17:14:17
waldig
Here I adjusted the SC a bit to allow best match up. There is a little bit of slop - use it to get best fit.
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2016/09/22 17:14:16
waldig
See the lip between the head and SC passage
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2016/09/22 17:14:15
waldig
Down port view after being WOODIEZED note flow passage
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2016/09/22 17:14:14
waldig
Sensor moved to new IC !!
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2016/09/22 17:14:13
waldig
Rear is tight fitting and there all kind of bolts to fit in proper order
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2016/09/22 17:14:12
waldig
Almost done and ready to bolt up works, no grass or youll loose immediate memory and your screwed
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2016/09/22 17:14:11
waldig
Balanced lift made all so easy, gotta get a lift to do it, had to test fit IC 5 - 6 times to be sure all hoses and lines were out of harms way, its tight
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2016/09/22 17:14:10
waldig
Valley cleaned up before reassembly see knock sensors
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2016/09/22 17:14:08
waldig
Wanted to do something better and added a layer of insulation under IC. ONE LAYER THICK ONLY about 1/3" not more room available
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2016/09/22 17:14:07
waldig
Iam old and wanted to do this well w/o killing my self or pinching something. This idea was great with some rope to suspend SC
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2016/09/22 17:14:06
waldig
Tried to make use of having engine apart
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2016/09/22 17:14:05
waldig
Porting polishing shown
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2016/09/22 17:14:04
waldig
Gaskets glued and positioned using bolts to align gasket
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2016/09/22 17:14:03
waldig
Gluing the gaskets on ONE side to position them for installation so they wont walk
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2016/09/22 17:14:02
waldig
Matching ports to gaskets for more flow and less turbulence
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2016/09/22 17:14:01
waldig
Inlet ports of the heads with valley exposed
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2016/09/22 17:14:00
waldig
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2016/09/22 17:13:59
waldig
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2016/09/22 17:13:58
waldig
Here are the rotors of the SC after I washed them in paint thinner - not lacquer thinner. Rotated rotors to wash themselves
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2016/09/22 17:13:57
waldig
Outlet of the SC and the IC inlet ports exposed
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2016/09/22 17:13:10
waldig
TB mount after sanding and polishing cause I could
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2016/09/22 17:13:09
waldig
Cleaned with lacquer thinner and sanded passages to smooth flow.
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2016/09/22 17:13:08
waldig
Matched and polished the matching ports of SC
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2016/09/22 17:13:06
waldig
I gasket matched and polished the inlet ports to the HEADS
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2016/09/22 17:13:05
waldig
Housing inlet showing fittings and ports
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2016/09/22 17:13:03
waldig
SC side of the inlet housing AFTER CLEANING, was black with crud etc.
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2016/09/22 17:13:02
waldig
I had polished the input to clear out some restriction - more air flow?
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2016/09/22 17:11:49
waldig
New IC next to the original unit, showing the size and layout
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2016/09/22 17:11:47
waldig