I finally got around to test fitting the engine. Auto Illusions still has my exhaust manifold, so I didn't test fit the turbo in the pics. I used a subframe and solid engine mounts made by 20B 3rd Gen. It fit great!
PICS...

 

I Hate You I Hate You I Love You

 

lol, thanks... love you too.

 

g-day

how well does that fit looks awesome im from australia the extra room your get having a left hand drive car is unbelieveable. Sucks having all the brake booster etc on the turbo/inlet side.Good luck with the build

cheers dave

 

congrats on the engine, if u don't mind me asking u, how much did u get it for and where??????

 

I paid $3000 for everything I needed out of the cosmo front cut, because my friend decided he didn't want to do the swap, so I kind of lucked out with that. I forget who imported it for him.

I wish I would have had the turbo kit to try on in the pictures. I haven't tried it on inside the engine bay yet, just while my engine was sitting on the work bench. I will post them up as soon as I get the exhaust manifold back.

On a funny side note, my stupid self made a plate in the back of the car where the spare tire well used to be to hold my fuel cell... out of galvanized steel. I didn't realize it was galvanized, so I just welded it like normal. WOW was I sick that night. Damn galvanized poisoning.

BTW, does anybody have an 8 point roll cage installed? I'm having trouble clearing my seats with the two front bars. They are hitting the seats by about 3/4 of an inch and I can't move the bars over any more, because they will hit the door panels! Does anybody have any thoughts about this? Should I maybe use a thinner bar? I don't want it to make it a weak point though. Stupid car.

 

The 'six fingered hand' look of the upper manifold looks good in your engine bay.

 

looks good bro

 

Thanks!

 

any updates

 

lol, not yet. I'm waiting on my tax return to buy some more stuff, haha.

 

sweet. someone in pittsburgh getting a 20b fd together. i remember when george was going to put one together but never got around to it....very nice


how far is the intake mani from the firewall?

 

it doesn't seem much closer than the 13brew's was. O, and by the way, that is George's old 20b, hehe

 

are we talking about george that owns the red evo 8 with 700whp?

 

no, we're talking about george that used to own sevenspeed. (unless he bought an evo recently, haha)

 

double post... doh!

 

here is a better shot of how close the intake manifold is to the firewall (or should I say not close)

 

hmmm, looks like it could go back a couple inchs, but i guess that is just where the stock tranny bolts up

What turbo are you going with? Saw earlier that it is stock port. Still tons of power without any porting at all. but the stock twins are garbage unless theyre modified themselves.
On stock twins you're running about 3psi by redline

But man, you need to get that Fram off of there. poor 20b haha

sweet car

 

It doesn't look like the tranny was bolted in. When it gets bolted up to the engine it will probably move the engine down and back a little closer to the firewall.

-Destin

 

I have an Innovative GT80R BB that I'm going to be running. After buying all the turbo "kit" stuff I ran out of money, so it will be keeping the stock ports for now, haha. It shouldn't move very much when the tranny gets bolted up, because I have solid engine mounts .

 

should be a friggin' ANIMAL when you get it finished, running and tuned. i shudder to think of that thing ported.

good luck.

PS ...
i don't know you, but i hate you, too!

 

is 20B 3rd Gen a board member or a shop?

 

lol, I am hated!

20b 3rd gen is a board member. He did an awesome job with the engine cradle!

 

poor fd! what have you done?!

 

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