Progress picture

Here is a picture as it stands tonight.  I have to finish up the IAC plumbing, but you couldn't see that in this picture anyway.

Oil Cooler

Okay last weekend I got the brackets for the oil cooler made and welded into the car, the hoses are made and the whole mess is installed.  That took a while.  I spent a lot of time just staring at it until I settled on the final spot for all the parts.  I'll put a pic up shortly.  I cut the end of the turbo housing off and welled in a bit of a bend so that it is angled towards the intercooler properly.  There is a 7a thermostat housing on the way so I can fabricate the neck that I need.  The AAN neck is plastic, where the 7a is aluminum.  So keep that in mind if you will need to change this part.  Maybe if I'm lucky all of the stock radiator hoses from the 944 will hook right up to this motor.  I also started on the bracket to locate the IAC valve, but my allergies got so bad I had to go lay down.  That sucked and tomorrow I head out of town for work.  Oh and there is only one hose left to make and the fuel system will be finished.  I will have to post those pics also.  Lots has been getting done, except for posting on the blog.

New Seats

I ran across a good deal on some brand new Sparco Evo seats that were being sold on Craigslist.  We actually took them out of the bubble wrap for the first time so I could check them out.  The seller has a nice BMW track car that I got to check out while we were talking.  Thanks again if your reading this!  Now I'll just have to pick up some brackets.

Power Steering Ressy

There is a nice place to put the res for the power steering on the drivers side of the engine bay.  That places it above the pump and behind the swaybar bushings, so hopefully my days of bad bushings are numbered.  I carefully removed the mount from the passenger side wheel well, cut some parts off of it, added some new parts, and now it bolts to two unused holes that already existed in the drivers side shock tower.