I'm starting to feel like road blocks with certain aspects of this rebuild are fueling distractions... That, and with typical fashion of South Eastern US climate, the weather is just about useless this time of the year. You don't really want to be too far from warm air, and it becomes everyones de-motivator to "do things". It's equally annoying when your trying to finish something that's stored in an un-insulated garage. Either the case, the painting is on hold and I started working on a turbo brace/actuator mount.
With the last expreme cracking at the runners I feel it couldn't hurt if I braced the assembly this go around. I still wish they would change their welding up a bit but that's apparently beating a dead horse...
I came up with a brace that will be affixed to the motor mount frame on the engine side. This is a rigid foot hold and is also the mount location for the factory brace. What is some-what funny is that 2 years ago, I ground the brace mounting locations off the compressor housing b/c they gave conflicts with my braided stainless coolant hose routing. I never had the brace and just did away with the ugly bosses. I also, around that time, coverted over to the HKS actuator and made a some what mediocre mount that I wasn't too proud of. Solution? Combine and rebuild.
I machined the main plate from 6061 1/4" plate and the foot from 3003 1/8". The plan is to tap respective metric threadings in the mount and weld the two together. Unfortunately I didn't have time to weld them tonight, and won't get too until the weekend, but you get the idea. The next update I should have the bay shot. Aw shit; COLOR!
