Keep your bumper with Spool Stage 3

[Little Beavis]

I recently finished the install of my Spool Stage 2/3 kit.

I didn't want to leave the bumper out for fear of soccer moms in parking lots. So, I had the bumper cut in half (lower square tube removed) and repositioned the intercooler "upside down". There was a little bit of trickery, but in the end it worked out very nicely. It cost me $70 at a local machine shop. But the intercooler is protected and fits perfectly in the lower grill area.

 

[PaulMP3]

Where does it usually sit? in front of the black steel brace? ?Whats it gonna look like with the bumber on? will it still be centered in the opening?

 

[spoolinmp3]

In our kit it basically sits in the same place sans the angle. However you have to remove the bumper support to get it in there.

 

[spoolinmp3]

By the way Jeremy that looks very crafty

 

[Kooldino]

Good stuff. I may do that eventually.

 

[igdrasil]

Can you post more pictures of you progress???

It will help me hook mine up too!!

 

[Little Beavis]

What would you like to see. I have a ton of pictures and can easily take more.

Here's the final package.

 

[igdrasil]

AWESOME,

where did you hooked up the EGT sensor and what temps are you seeing?
Man you can send all the pictures you want, this way I can use it along with the instructions and make this easier. Specially intercooler piping.

I will thank you a lot!!!!

You can send the pictures to my email:

igdrasil@coqui.net

Thanx in advance

 

[spoolinmp3]

looks good

 

[YP5 Toronto]

great job.....

I have a dumb question....the pipe leaving the waste gate is going...to?

I ask this only because I have seen a variety of Spool pics and this is the first time I have seen this.

 

[spoolinmp3]

This goes down and vents to the atmos.
The regular dumptube does not look like that one its just an L bend, Little Beavis is different

 

[spoolinmp3]

by the way, the manifold looks gorgeous wrapped do you have any closeup pics of this?

 

[PaulMP3]

also do u have a close up of the intercooler piping. That looks real sweet.

 

[YP5 Toronto]

and just to confirm, Beavis had to "tweak" the setup and arrrangment of piping due to his unique and creative FMIC setup.

 

[Equinox]

I imagine taking off the bumper rebar normally with the spool kit would reduce a signifigant amount of weight, although yer adding it back with the kit. I bet the stock cast iron header is pretty heavy tho, that you take off.

 

[Little Beavis]

The bumper isn't really that heavy. As I said, I was afraid of someone bumping into it and smashing the intercooler.

Yes, the pipes are tweaked a bit. You basically need them both to be about two inches longer to get the angle I have on the intercooler. I added 2" to the turbo to intercooler pipe. But I cut up the original intake tube to mount the piping to the throttle body and to give me the 2" I needed on that side. Plus I got a lot better seal because of it.

I managed to have no idle problems until just this weekend. I started a new thread because of that. My BOV is stalling the car. Sucks big time.

 

[Little Beavis]

Here's a closer pic of the manifold.

Also you can see the original intake "hose" cut in half with half at the top right attached to the TB and the other half on the lower right attached to the MAF. Worked pretty slick. Also kind of helped my alignment issues (the ones I created mind you).

 

[Equinox]

crazy. Beavis, you are crazy. Heh, I'm just glad I don't take risks liek that in my car. As for the bumper - I figure if something hits me hard enough to hurt my rebar, it wont matter if I have it.

 

[Little Beavis]

igdrasil

I have an autometer EGT. Now that I have it, I will have to say it is a POS. Very sluggish. Terry tried to warn me, but he never really explained why I shouldn't get it, just that he didn't like it. The thing is so slow to respond that it isn't useful for taking readings at WOT or under boost. I run about 1100 F when cruising and maybe 800 in town. Nothing too major. My understanding is that I could expect up to 1300 F or something as being normal, but I think I'm running rich.

As for its location, you can see that in the following picture. It is directly behind the O2 sensor and about 1-2 inches from the outlet of the turbo.

 

[YP5 Toronto]

what type of material did you use to wrap the manifold? Brand?