I got my pistson off of FJT, he's the only person who sells them, you can also PM him on turbod16.com, I don't believe their's a trial period on that site.

Here's a pic of manifold/turbo/wastegate

 

[sm=redx.gif]idk maybe its my computer, but i want more pics from this build!

 

Aaron, did you happen to ask your fabricator about what I need done?

 

Yessir, the only info I could get for you was that he can do it, but he has no idea what the price range would be without more info.

Did a few things today. Mountd the APEXi earlier this morning.



Just got home from the shop not too long ago too. Pulled the engine out today.





Most of the meat of the install will be done tomorrow.

 

haha..you said meat

good luck with the intstall, I'm ready for some numbers without a boost leak

 

looking at that apexi unit, i've seen people use the 99-00 cupholders and they just fit right in. they look really neat if you ask me. but looks good though.

 

Woke up today at 6am and my dad and I drove down to the shop and got right to work. First things first, finish up pulling the little **** out and cleaned up the engine bay.



Installed the new radiator and bolted the crossbar from my traction bar on. Completely forgot some of the bolts for it though, so I only got the crossbar on.



Assembled the fuel rail, injectors, IACV, and TB on the new BLOX intake manifold.



Car was ready for the engine.



Engine's in and we started fitting up the intake manifold. The runners are very long compared to the stock IM, so it was a bit of a tight squeeze to get past the firewall. Nothing terrible though. =)







Well I think the next is the obvious.







^ That was finished by 11:30AM, took a lunch break there.

Ok, time to put on the exhaust. We weren't too sure if it was going to fit up right because the exaust was originally constructed for a coupe.



Piece one fit no problem. It goes from the turbo all the way to the rear axle. However, the small axle back piece needed to be shortened. This was a big issue being as the pieces didn't exactly want to line up and the muffler is rather big for the room it had to fit in. So we had to do some cutting and welding, mind we don't have much experience with this and with so little to work with it came out a bit crooked and slanted, but oh well, function > form.







Then moved on to the IC piping. I had to fab up the hot side.



I need to adjust it a bit, after I put it all together I realized... oh ****, the arms on the traction bar don't fit with this here. :| Ehh I'll fix it in the morn. Moved onto what I fabbed the other day.



Got to here and got mad at it and called it a day.



I need to put an extra long coupler on the 45 you see laying there in order for it to work since the throttle body got pushed back about 4" by the intake manifold. D'oh. I'll get it all welded up later, but I want to get it boostable.

Finishing up tomorrow, I'm so beat.

 

Are you kidding me? Holy ****. Its almost done!
Looks amazing! I thought you had a Apexi WS2 on there? what exhaust you runing now?

 

nice, and when i say that i/m, i was like dammmmm, that thing has some longass runners. ++ points for the valve cover as well.

 

i cant belive you did that all in a day

you and your pops make quite a team sov. i am pumped to see what she tunes to now that you got a bov that wont leak [8D]