retained the bumper support ends, welded some extra support brackets to them and bolted the passenger side on but had to gut the drivers side so I could run the intercooler pipe inside and welded that it on the body.



painted the intercooler black

 

put the bumper cover back on a ran into a new problem



this is how I fixed it, I extened the light harness and moved the buld from the center to the end of the lens

 

how it looks with the bumper back on

 

Love that IC pipe routing. Very clean.

 

This is nice sleeper

 

Nice... Is there a particular paint needed to paint the intercooler?

 

Pretty sure there is but I just grabbed something off the shelf seeing how it's guaranteed to get chipped from rocks and road debris

 

tinted the fogs

 

added a stillen front lip

 

You are a Cardiologist for sure

 

Dang, that car looks good now.

 

thanks, wait till you see that next few updates

 

Ibewaitin...

 

running the rest of the intercooler piping

 

made a intercooler pipe bead roller so I don't have to keep running to the shop

 

intercooler piping from turbo to intercooler is done and rolled, yep one pipe that's it

 

3inch intake pipe so I can retain the iacv

 

rolled

 

What welder do you us to fab all of these.

 

me

 

solid one piece cattman maf adapter

 

turbo came so I ran the intercooler piping to the tb

 

 

I meant the welding machine. I'm wondering this could be done with home TIG/MIG

 

yeah I have lincoln welder from home depot

 

Get a turbo blanket or else that relay box cover will melt. Ask me how I know..lol. I'm about to pick up one of those $40 deals on ebay.

 

How much longerrr? Nice progress btw

 

Nice progress. Love how simple it looks in the bay.

 

I had a turbo blanket on my white maxima and sold it, felt it retained in too much heat. The only reason I had it on the white car was because the exhaust was in direct contact with the upper rad hose and if not for that would never have purchased it. On this setup I moved the turbo over to fix that problem but I am going to get the housing swain coated one day. FYI the car is much farer along than the updates show and I've already put over 600 miles on the setup with zero issues related to heat and the fuse/relay box

 

legit.

 

found a good deal on some coilovers with one blown strut so I sold my blues and stechs

 

 

had to make some brake line brakets out of some sheet metal I had sitting around

 

awesome!

 

You sir, are f'king awesome. I'm going to have to learn to weld and fab things up like you. AWESOME!!!

 

scored some 5.5gen calipers, brackets, pads and rotors for cheap

 

4gen vs 5.5gen

 

all buttoned up

 

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