| | Coolant system plumbing is done finally.. didn't even waste too much silicone hose hehehe. Took me a few days to get the parts ordered, but they were shipped fast. RockAuto sent me a fuel pump without the wiring harness, so I had to solder the wires.. so after the AAA flatbed dropped the car back off at home, I found that the wiring failed! WTF. the pump was fine. So I resoldered them and used some different insulation and it works again, but I'm still not sure what went wrong on the previous wires. owell
The clear hose is just temporary until I find an overflow bottle and a place to mount it. I had to change the front hood pin location, so I took the opportunity to switch to captured torsion pins. Shitty thing is, that at about 50 mph, the thin IE hood starts lifting in the middle and gulping in more air.. might have to add a 5th pin. I really dont want to add extra glass the middle.
I added this adapter I found from moroso to tap into for the bleed line. Works perfect, it's a reducer and is tapped.. although it was meant to be a bottom tube drain. I saved the petcock. Oh.. and I had to make a trip to the pick-ur-junk for some BMW hose clamps..
and I forgot, i moved the intake air temp sensor from the throttle body to the back of the intake plenum. It was protruding into the worst spot on the intake, I don't know why I did that other than being lazy. I guess I do know.
from here:
to here:
I moved the MAP sensor vac input from here to just behind the butterfly.. a better spot I think.
and then I mounted this!
..always wanted one.
Oh, and the car still runs a little warm? but nothing like before. Now it'll level off @ 180deg and it'd probably take 20min idling to get to 200deg, but I'm gonna sum that up to poor idle tuning. Right now it idles @ ~1100rpm.
next time I'll be lowering this 4x4 a touch and doing a little idle tuning.
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