RX4 BridgePort Turbo

[Grant Monkhouse]

Here you go

[Grant Monkhouse]

And the other side.


LIM still needs porting to match the 2x 55mm throttle bodies and the side ports

[600gaz]

Looking good mate .

[Ed_RX7parts]

why did you change the plenum?

[Grant Monkhouse]

why did you change the plenum?

To make it fit up to my 4" piping. The inlet on the plenum had a 3" piece going into it and I didn\'t want to have to reduce my piping back down to 3" from 4" as it would have made me have to use tighter bends. By altering it I can sweep the piping into the plenum with a 45* bend. With the original plenum I would have had to use 2 45s and reducer

[12at]

4" piping is way over kill!!

Personally. Wouldn\'t touch those air/water coolers with a 10 ft pole know people who have had them and have inlet temp issues ..

Air to air few good luck with it though

[Grant Monkhouse]

4" piping is way over kill!!

Personally. Wouldn\'t touch those air/water coolers with a 10 ft pole know people who have had them and have inlet temp issues ..

Air to air few good luck with it though

Thanks, I have had a few discussions with the guys at PWR and they are quite confident with my system layout.

I was a little concerned about getting the temps down from what I have found with others using water air coolers. What I have found is that others aren\'t using a cooler big enough to start with, I have the biggest one available, others also mount there cooler rads within a couple of feet of the actual cooler, mine is mounted at the rear of the car underneath the boot where the wheel well used to be, other don\'t use fans and the cooler rads, I will be using a couple, on at all times.

There a couple of other things that people do wrong, such as mounting the filler neck in the wrong place, it should be in the highest point of the system to remove air. The water should flow through the cooler in the opposite direction to the air flow. And the pump should be mounted at the lowest point of the system. People tend to put things where they can fit and hope that it works when it never will.

Plus I\'m going to be running pre turbo WI so should be all good!

[Grant Monkhouse]

So a box of goodies turned up:D

Currently emptying my garage to move the car from my dads to my house, can work on it without having to go further than 10 steps

[drtool]

What\'s the advantage of that plenum/adapter vs the earlier design you normally see?

[Grant Monkhouse]

What\'s the advantage of that plenum/adapter vs the earlier design you normally see?

Don\'t know, don\'t care. It makes everything fit together easier.

However larger plenums help with top end HP. More air available.

[drtool]

I\'m talking about the electric water pump plenum/adaptor that fits in the front plate shown above my post.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Oh right, sorry.

The EWP is what I have to run as I have the side mount alternator kit, I could use the standard water pump but I don\'t want too. Steve Garbutt said I can\'t run the alternator in standard position as it looks rubbish. Gets in the way of viewing the engine block, which is what we all want to see isn\'t it?

I can also control the EWP off my ecu, I do this through one of the PWM outputs, pump will either run all the time time or switch on and off to keep the engine at whatever temperature I select on the ecu setup.

The main priority is tidying up the look of the engine though, the water pump housing looks pants.

[drtool]

I know what you\'ve got there.

You have to relocate the alternator when you fit a EWP.

My question was, why that design and not this one:

http://item.mobileweb.ebay.com/viewitem?itemId=120988041954

Any advantages?

[Grant Monkhouse]

I\'m not sure, when I did searching for alternator kit I found extreme rotaries so just bought all the stuff from there.

[Grant Monkhouse]

Wow triple post!! I can\'t view that item, I\'m on my phone. Could you post a picture of it?