same fittings as the truck, actually had to rod the truck cause only one fitting came in	the orange stuff is called "firesleeve", the keep the water lines from getting too hot and to make them last longer	not my choice for an oil drain but will work until he swaps it for the j-tube
		it's starting to look like a car again	see, no clearance problems from using a dsm turbo with our header design, the c/s turbine housing would stick up about one inch higher
		that coating shop is going to get allot of business from me!
Kurt has the mas at home, he had to assemble it
	this is my favorite part		stock heat shields will fit with some persuasion

3/26/6 all the parts are in, the head was retorqued that next day after he took it home, the oil was changed today and so far he has driven just about 400 miles.  The header was removed and the mating flanges ported to match each other.  There was so much added flow and low end torque.... boost comes in around 1200 and full boost at 1800rpms and you can chirp the tires into 2nd gear at just 6psi boost.  The car has averaged 22mpg and that has been with a many high boosts upwards of 20psi.  Boost creep has been the only problem, today the wastegate flap and turbine housing was ported and that creep was cut back to about half was it was.  It was stopping around 9psi then creeping up to around 18-20psi depending on the rpms.  Now after that porting it stops about 13psi.  The problem is the exhaust is flowing so well the gases would rather go out the turbine wheel and not the wastegate so after the boost limit hits, there is a pause and it slowly climbs-this is called Boost Creep.  This only happens if you let the rpms go high by not shifting or just do it on purpose.  The problem is the wastegate flap was ported to allow it to open fully 90 degrees from the port but the wastegate actuators only will allow about 1/3 of that since their movement is so small, about 3/8" and it needs to be moving at least an inch.  We are going to make a triangular intermediate plate to attach the actuator arm to the wastegate flapper arm.  That will be the project for Tuesday.  The opened up hot side has been a HUGE inprovement.  You can put in hardpipes or a larger intercooler or a 1G mas or a different injector or a cam -well we have tried all those on other motors but this by FAR has surpassed all those combined, the cam in here is stock, the lifters are hydraulic, the intercooler and the pipes behind the header panel are stock as well are the injectors that have been cleaned.  Starting from the exhaust and going back to the air filter has resulted so far in more gains than going in the opposite direction.  We can only guess now the other additions will continue to show greater gains.  Most just ignore the exhaust manifold and say it's fine because they won't go the expense to make or buy a header.  You need to experience one; you'll change your mind.  See the header link for the porting we did on that.

			turbo plumbed by flexible hoses	tightening the header back on, all accessible from the top side
	the EGT probe is in the downpipe
two brackets were cut from the body to allow the air can lid holding the 1G mas to go all the way down and touch the bottom

3/29/6

The boost creep went mostly away after the porting and the tuesday linkage change we didn't do.  Today he put on a MBC and the creep is gone, it was partially the boost exciting the actuator and pushing it open causing the lag before the creep but when the MBC stopped that pressure from loading up the diaphram in the actuator it built boost even quicker so he set it up for 15psi ( the creep was stopping around 12psi if you just used the stock actuator without a MBC and just hooked it all up stock ) and ran that a few times then in the evening took it up for 20 a couple more times.  Still a few bars in the green.  We are going to put in a series of Hobb's type pressure activated solenoids to control some boost levels from inside the car and get ready for some water injection next.  The  shop here we got most all of the fuel parts for truck from that has the dyno moved last winter and their open house is Saturday and the dyno is going to be open so we are going to see where we are at hp wise.  It's a 4x4 shop and seeing a Japanese car come in...well we'll see.