Gingea1pom's Build Diary

[twinturbo]

it looks so tweeee in there. I am used to trying to work round engines that only just fit in the sierra bay

TT

[gingea1pom]

TT,

It’s great isn’t it, especially when you can cut the front of the car of.

I am more used to working on big diesel lumps in landrovers, trucks and tanks!

[AshG]

as for moving it that's what the range is for.

[gingea1pom]

Ash,

Do you know I hadn't thought of that!!

[twinturbo]

There's no way I am cutting the front of either of my two sierras.. I just have to be trebble jointed and have see round corner vision.

TT

[mark]

The first pic are the core plugs as previously discussed

And the second are some pics of my water outlet, im mounting the dash temp gauge sender in the same pipe as the original was mounted to the donor inlet manifold, you can also see the by passing thermostat from car builder solutions

The pipe is angled upwards so there is approximately 15mm of clearance between the pipe and chassis rail. I decided to take the plumbing under the inlet manifold instead of running on the hotter exhaust manifold side

Although my outlet will be smoothed out and powder coated, using a 1600cvh thermostat housing would probably look a better job but after some thought i didnt want to chop the chassis above the gearbox to gain enough clearance to fit one as they are quite bulky and to me (just my opinion ) that looks like the weakest part of the chassis as it has to be open with no support underneath for the gearbox to fit in so i thought best to leave it alone

[gingea1pom]

Cheers Mark

Those pictures really helped, is the thermostat in the new pipe coming of the back of the engine?