love this engine. just needs some touch up. cant wait till i get to pull it out and drop something awesome in there.

 

still a workin progress.

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New race header installed:

 

 

lol ****. are you using the 4port turbo block?

 

looks like something kahren got his hands on.

 

No, it's a complete 6 port N/A S5 motor.


Kahren built and tuned

 

bought july 11th 2010 my first 7.

 

Made a small mistake when ordering a new air filter.....

 

me thinks you need something alittle bigger!

 

filter looks almost as big as the keg, lol

 

Nice buy.
Clean, simple, and neat.....I wished my engine bay looked like that LOL

holy hell....please tell me thats Photoshopped because it definitely looks like it hahaha

 

Quinn I love everything about your car.

 

lol, it's not Photoshopped. I think I was sleeping or something when I ordered this filter or I ordered the wrong one by mistake. I can't stop laughing at it when I see it.

 

LOL WOAH! haha

 

This started out as a stock 88 convertible, and over time has gone from emissions free N/A, to stock turbo, to this. In its last stage, it had an 87 TII drivetrain w/ 3in exhaust and a front mount, apex'i SAFC I, everything else stock. Now it's getting a megasquirt ecu w/ custom wiring harness, hybrid s5/to4b (.60 A/R) turbo, 720cc secondaries, walbro 255, aluminum radiator, and just generally cleaned up. I still gotta work on cleaning up the engine bay still, but I'm very meticulous, and will be cleaning, media blasting, and powdercoating where possible.

This is the engine bay after tearing off the turbo and manifolds. Ugh..






This is it today.

 

^^wow that **** is hott

 

What e-fan are you going to use?

 

Pretty nifty what you did w/ the overflow bottle, how is that mounted?

 

That's actually the windshield washer bottle. I found a rubber plug to cap off the
top so it won't evaporate. I had to move it for the front mount.

I'm going to use the same 16" Hayden fan that I've been using. I made a writeup in the archives about how to make a fan shroud for it. I'm probably going to re-do the fiberglass shroud to make it more aesthetically pleasing.

 

agh i posted all the links and forgot which picture is which and i'm lazy to edit.

so there is some of the air intake mocked up as i will be cutting a hole next to the radiator and placing the intake filter where the radiator reservoir was. before i relocated it.

enjoy.

 

that area under the hood is sealed off, seems like mazda might have put some thought into the placement of that intake, wondering if you will see any advantages? I just ran a K&N drop in instead of a open filter in the engine compartment

 

well if you look at the stock intake the air is pulled from the bumper and up to the engine compartment then makes a hard left to the filter box and up past the filter to the throttle body. That seams like alot of restriction to me. Putting the intake filter directly in front of the source of air and running it as straight as possible seams like the better alternative to having a cone inside the hot engine bay. But hey I'm just talking out of my *** right now

 

definitely better then a cone in the bay

 

agreed. and it will be a much cleaner look. specially when i install the electric fan and powder coat as much as i possibly can i'm talking suspension and brackets.