This is showing the lip on the inner fender that I had to trim for the intercooler pipe, also trimmed down the battery tray. The battery still fits fully on the tray. Perhaps in the future it will be relocated but for now this works fine.
This shows the intercooler pipe on the drivers side. Its tight, a lot of bends, and the DBW throttlebody is mounted on the intercooler outlet. The combination of bends and couplers should allow enough flex to not tear or break anything when the motor torques up, I couldn't really see another way of doing it with this intercooler and intake.
Overflow jug is now relocated for easier plumbing. Hopefully nobody mixes up the fluids between these two jugs haha.
Fuel pressure regulator location. I would have ran the hoses for it but I need to get one 45* hose end for the inlet to it. Still need clean the fender below it, its nasty.
Catch can locations. No room for a drain to be plumbed in, but there is enough room to unthread them and empty the bowls. I really like the design of these cans over what I had in the BMW, these have threaded dipsticks in them to check the levels.
Downpipe to the flex joint and flex joint to the first piece of exhaust pipe that runs to a resonator.
Its pretty tight in there for a 3" exhaust but it shouldn't rattle.
Just beyond this picture is the resonator, and I stopped for the day with the exhaust at the back of the cab... my saw blade bit the dust, broke a tooth off a spit out the cut off piece. Time to get a new blade. (You can also see that I haven't finished the trans mount, need to drill 2 holes and bolt it up.)
Bought a set of wire cutters and crimpers with long handles at Princess Auto the other day for the purpose of making a bead forming tool. I cut the wire snips off the tip, used the grinder to also round off some of the other edges in the groves. It works pretty well but I wouldn't want to put a lip on a full car build haha. I only needed to do a few fittings as the others I used already had lips on them. FYI, if you do this, don't go full send on the handles the first time around, it can poke through the tube material. I went one time around the tube going about half way then the next time around I went to the point I was happy with.
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