Now all the preparation was done I took the car to the garage I work. I took 2 weeks off from work so I had time enough to install all the parts appropriately. The first day I installed the manifold, the turbo and the intercooler to check out how to route the intercooler piping from the turbo to the intercooler. At first I installed the piping equipped with the Peakboost turbo kit but unfortunately this was not going to connect easily to the turbo. So I had to think of something else. The turbo had to be 'clocked' and I attached a '90 degrees silicon reducer hose'. U can see the reducer hose below the left headlight on the picture. U can also see the intercooler piping part that came with the Peakboost turbo kit.
On the pictures below a front view of the intercooler installed. As u can see enough air can pass the intercooler to get to the radiator.
After I was sure all the parts fitted and I figured out how to route the
intercooler piping I disassembled the parts again. This because the manifold,
dumbtube and the downpipe had to be heat wrapped. This helps a lot to keep
the underhood temperatures as low as possible. An other advance of heat wrapping
the manifold, dumbtube and downpipe it will slightly improve flow. To wrap the
parts I used a black Cool-it heat wrap and Cool-it Hi-heat black coating. The
coating will prevent other fluids like oil or water will be adsorbed by the
heat wrap. It also helps the heat wrap won't fade, and keeps his nice black color.
The result of the heat wrapped parts:
The downpipe is painted with a special black exhaust coating. Also to keep the heat inside and increase flow. It will also prevent the downpipe for corrosion. The reason I didn't wrap the whole downpipe is because I was afraid I would damage the warp to much when crossing a speed bump.
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