Back to the Intercooler
Now that the exhaust is sorted and considering I'm still waiting on another exhaust manifold, I figured I would get back on those intercooler modifications. As I left it, I had not yet sorted the re-oriented barbed connections, nor the mounts, b/c I was waiting on my uprights; plus I got distracted with the exhaust.
Here is how that went.
Some close ups on the welds. I'm still practicing, for lack of further explanation, so they're not exactly pennies; yet.
With the intercooler modifications finished up, I needed to sort the piping and body mounts for the upper bosses. I cut an area out of the core support so that the pipes will pass right next to the radiator but noticed after doing so I severely weakened the rigidity up there. Also considering I won't have a center strut (which houses the hood latch) and that my side struts are only bolted in place, I got to work on that a bit. The engine is back in for mock-up.
Due to the angle of the picture, the pipe looks closer to the radiator than it really is. Also, if you'll notice, I sorta stretched the original fender well floor to meet the remaining of the core panel. I'll weld that later to help with some rigidity but I also plan to add some struts from the frame rails. More on that later.
Luckily I only needed to drop about a 4" section out of my cold pipe, so I took that out and tapped it together for now.
Since none of my original hotpipe will work, I'll have to come up with what I need and have it bent up.
