well the latest installments are now all fitted
easy peasy ............

looking up



managed to fit it all in

.........with a little bit of work

had to:
cut and realign the exhaust to mate with the new downpipe, this involved welding ...something i had never done before !!, but hey ho never to old to learn
then do it all again as i didnt measure enough times
realign turbo oil feed
realign turbo water feeds
fit new radiator and fabricate a housing for the fan
fabricate a bracket for the downpipe brace
fabricate brackets for the new radiator
realign turbo water feeds after finding the wastegate brace needed their space
cut and reweld intercooler pipework to meet new turbo position
scratch my head trying to work out where the filter was going to end up(eventually deciding on a temporary position straight below the turbo (this however turned out not such a great decision)
fabricate internal wastegate clamp
heat wrap screamer pipe
watch heat wrap fall off !!
finally top up oil, fill up with anti freeze
and guess what it started first time
took it for a test drive (private road of course)
the power is fantastic, slightly more laggy but as soon as it hits boost its like a rocket
stops dead on 0.95 bar, no creep at all
all was going fine
until ...a smell of burning !
and a little bit of smoke !
opened the bonnet to find oil sprayed everywhere
suspect there is a leak through the oil cooler pipework as it seems to originate from the front, hard to know where exactly as everythings covered in oil
oil pressure remained ok throughout
air filter is now covered with oil !!!
oil to the left of the engine bay

oil covering drivers side wheel

oh well another weekend working on it coming up