corivus
Hey Shiny!!
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2004
- Location
- Tempe, Arizona
I'll post a picture soon but I took it out on its first test drive yesterday.
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I realized going back in this thread a lot of things are missing, looking through the previous posts I didn't post anything about the intake, trans cooler, or the trans mount also going to include some photos of the radiator.
Intake: The intake was also something I thought about a lot, thelostartof was thinking of just routing it down by the battery tray and relocating it. I kinda wanted a different look but how to pull that off wasn't in my head until he came over and jokingly was like "Well why not just put it here behind the grill? Its not like you are going to get the hood to fit normally and once we start cutting we start cutting!" I said what the hell and put it in and damn I liked that look a lot. I have 3 different hoods so I can always put it back to stock for those purist out there.
Radiator:
Ugh this was such a pain in my butt, I tried to get the stock unit to fit but in the end I decided that I was going to use an aftermarket LS swap radiator for better cooling. through trial and error I ended up with this giant beast. Oddly enough I was able to go into the back of oriely's and grab the upper front hose from a prius and the lower hose from a lexus 200h. I saved the parts numbers somewhere. Fan control is done via the ecm so its all temp controlled. I initially was getting so pretty high temps but after burping the system, refilling it, burping it and refilling it some more I realized this new radiator and engine setup take a LOT of fluid. I think I was at around 3 gallons iirc? Also if you are wondering I have about an inch of space between the old mech fan housing and the efan
Trans cooler: i've been going back and forth with using the stock lines or using some 1/4"npt fitting to -6 an banjo adapters to run lines to the oil cooler. In the end I used one of the coolers I had laying around along with some hose that I had some rolls of and the stock hardlines but chopped up so they go back and then loop back to the cooler.
Once I got that done it was a matter of filling the transmission up (that was a lot of fluid) and we were good to go.
Transmission mount:
So things go hectic for both myself and my friends helping me on this but we eventually got the trans mounted to the volvo cross member. and this is the spacer/adapter we came up with.
edit:
I realized going back in this thread a lot of things are missing, looking through the previous posts I didn't post anything about the intake, trans cooler, or the trans mount also going to include some photos of the radiator.
Intake: The intake was also something I thought about a lot, thelostartof was thinking of just routing it down by the battery tray and relocating it. I kinda wanted a different look but how to pull that off wasn't in my head until he came over and jokingly was like "Well why not just put it here behind the grill? Its not like you are going to get the hood to fit normally and once we start cutting we start cutting!" I said what the hell and put it in and damn I liked that look a lot. I have 3 different hoods so I can always put it back to stock for those purist out there.
Radiator:
Ugh this was such a pain in my butt, I tried to get the stock unit to fit but in the end I decided that I was going to use an aftermarket LS swap radiator for better cooling. through trial and error I ended up with this giant beast. Oddly enough I was able to go into the back of oriely's and grab the upper front hose from a prius and the lower hose from a lexus 200h. I saved the parts numbers somewhere. Fan control is done via the ecm so its all temp controlled. I initially was getting so pretty high temps but after burping the system, refilling it, burping it and refilling it some more I realized this new radiator and engine setup take a LOT of fluid. I think I was at around 3 gallons iirc? Also if you are wondering I have about an inch of space between the old mech fan housing and the efan
Trans cooler: i've been going back and forth with using the stock lines or using some 1/4"npt fitting to -6 an banjo adapters to run lines to the oil cooler. In the end I used one of the coolers I had laying around along with some hose that I had some rolls of and the stock hardlines but chopped up so they go back and then loop back to the cooler.
Once I got that done it was a matter of filling the transmission up (that was a lot of fluid) and we were good to go.
Transmission mount:
So things go hectic for both myself and my friends helping me on this but we eventually got the trans mounted to the volvo cross member. and this is the spacer/adapter we came up with.
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