I did the unthinkinable and bought a performance part from Autozone.
Well ok, it's just a silicone reducer, but I still felt ashamed even being in that aisle.
The reducer is 3" to 2.5", but the turbo inlet is 2.25", so I cut up a Home Depot rubber coupler and fit it around the turbo inlet to act as a spacer.
Like so.
Then fitted the Autozone coupler (after scratching the SPECTRE shit off the side).
And after painting over my red powder coating with flat black, I decided to use the 2G MAS again since I'm just on the 14b for now and I don't have the parts for speed density yet.
Painted my intercooler flat black.
2G AWD big brake upgrade with RRE Stainless lines.
Lower IC pipe fabbed together out of pixie dust and unicorn farts. (or whatever I had sitting around the garage). This only needs to get me by until I change turbos again.
Intake and upper IC pipes.
Finished engine bay. Looks stock appearing-ish to me.
Newly painted FMIC. I'm a little sad to lose the huge F-off silver grin, but I'll get used to the stealthier version. The camera flash makes it look a little weird. It's a lot darker and less patchy looking without the flash.
Almost done! Also check out my *brand new* headlight covers. They are the nicest part of the car now.
Things left to do:
- Buy a battery
- My balljoints actually appear to be fine, I just need to order new boots for them.
- Buy and add coolant.
- Locate driver side headlight assembly. This part is turning out to be harder than I thought. I went to the JY again this weekend and found nothing, again.
- Locate stock 1g AWD catback. This is going to be really hard too.
- Rear brakes
- Flush and bleed brakes, clutch, power steering
- Set up ECMlink
- Pray that I didn't screw something up building the engine on and off over the past year.