so, today work, didn't get too many pics, but worth posting up anyway I guess:
First job for today, was to change the pressure plate. The clutch plate was only 2k old having gone in in July (3rd one this year!) so I didn't change that, but to be sure the clutch held up to the increased power, I fitted a 40% uprated Excedy vr6 pressure plate:
then the horrible black box went in, it doesn't look great, but anything's better than white!
a little over an hour later and the engine was hung on it's mounts once again:
I went to fit by badger5 80mm TIP, and came across a problem I'd not seen before, with the 5spd gearbox, the bottom of the TIP fouls the gear linkage bracket and deforms the TIP when it's all bolted up. For now I've left it on, but I've got a spare bracket in the garage that I'll modify one night this week to lower the cables as I'm not happy with how it sits currently.
As a temporary measure, I'm running my 70mm MAF. Being an 80mm TIP, I needed to make up the 10mm difference.
The reducers from my old IC setup came in very handy for this indeed!
5mm wall thickness takes up the 10mm gap perfectly, so they're all nice and snug:
Looks like some sort of reducer in the inlet to meet class regs:
Finally getting an idea of how the bay is going to look when it's finished:
No more pics after this, I spent ages finalising the wellycooler position, and trimming the bumper to fit over it, by which time it was dark!