Fitting the standard intake manifold with the engine in the vertical position leaves very little clearance between the throttle body and the strut tower. You can see making the cold side intercooler pipe was an involved process.
Here is a closer pic of the fuel rail mod with the pressure sensor and 6AN fitting on the rear.
The Provent 200 catch can has been plumbed completely now. AQP hoses from the valve cover and block are tee'd together to the intake of the can. The can is vented to the intake and drains to the block.
Hot side is all wrapped and heat sheilded;
All the interior wiring is done (tach, wideband, shift light, launch control momentary switch and map sensor) and now making progress on the engine bay (CAS, IAT, CLT, Fuel Press, Oil Press, IGN, INJ is all that needs wiring in there).
This is to be the street car so no DR-25, boots and autosport bulkhead connectors, just cheap raychem heat shrink and tesa cloth tape.
You might be wondering why I'm using an input for launch control with an auto gearbox on a street car, and that's a fair question. I'm not sure if this is even a thing that's done and I can't find any examples of other people doing it (probably for good reason), but because I have a pretty mismatched (big) turbo and (stock) stall converter I think I'll overcome the stall before I build boost on the brake? So my thoughts were to calibrate launch control such that when the momentary switch is depressed (presumably whilst on the brake and accelerator) it would pull 10 degrees of timing at say 2200rpm to keep the revs just below the stall converter speed, but allow the turbo to make more boost at those revs and the engine to make a lot less torque because of the retarded timing, being kinder to the gearbox and making a lot of pops and bangs no doubt. I don't really know if it will work tbh but worth a try. I also took a gamble on the tach and just wired the tach-out pin in the microsquirt to the tach input on the back of the dash. Some people say it works on early tachs, some say all tachs, some say no tachs. Time will tell.
