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. 

Throttle body relocator

I'm sure that I mentioned at some point in the past that I would have to do something about the brake master cylinder hitting the throttle body.  I have debated on many different ways of doing this, but went with one of the simplest ways that I had come up with.  I simply made a new section of tubing to move the throttle body more to the center of the car.  It also aligns it with the intercooler so that I only have to use a short straight piece to connect the two of them.  And this was the first true test of the TIG unit to see if it was really working.  I had to open up the power output selector and manually move the contactors into the AC position, but after I did that it worked great.  The weak link was me, like usual.  I took a few practice welds on some scrap and then just went for it.  Since that worked, I will be able to reinstall the original braking components for now and leave that upgrade until later.  Here is the pic of the new tubing.

Its not polished or anything yet, but functionally done.  The brake parts that are visible are from the s6, so just ignore them.  As an unexpected bonus I think that the position is now correct to use the stock 944 throttle cable...maybe.  I also got a couple more oil lines made, picked the location for the oil cooler, mounted and plumbed the oil filter relocator, changed some belts in my mom's car, and replaced the gears in the Corvette's headlight motors.  Its been a busy weekend, but next week has a three day long one!

Clutch Arrived!

I finally got the clutch in.  It sure looks nice.  All this time we had been waiting on Tilton to make the disks.  I ordered all of these parts through Marc at EFI Express.  He has been a lot of help and I'm sure he will be glad when I get this done so I'll leave him alone.  Here are a couple of pictures of the clutch though. 

I'm heading to the garage to get started again.

Intake hoses

Here is a pic of some silicon hoses that I ordered online.  They look like quality parts, I just wish the colors of the two pieces matched each other better.  Kind of disappointing.  Oh well they should work fine.  I'm pretty sure that I have repaired the TIG welder.  The last of the new parts should be in tomorrow and I'll give it a shot on some steel this weekend.  Monday my Argon bottle should show up and in about a week I should have the aluminum elbow in for the throttle body relocator.  Moving that a bit should allow me to retain the stock brake setup.