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Street Build bkrathwohl's Galant VR4 #1228/2000

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I mean it's electronic vs cable driven, there are obviously differences. STi's have had this setup forever, along with Evo X's. I prefer it to my older cable driven WRX, personally.

It's nice to be able to monitor various parameters that you can set to impact throttle input, a limp mode if you will (cutting throttle with low oil pressure, temperatures, knock, etc). A cruise control that actually works would be nice too!

As I said, this is more of a side project once shes up and running.
 
I finally have the radiator mounted. It is a little more difficult to make brackets without having a vice! I just picked up some different sized flat stock from Menards to play with. It turned out pretty well!

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I had to drill a small hole on each side.

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I like the placement!

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I bent the piece of flat stock at a 90* angle, I did a few tweaks from here (a slight angle).

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Here are both brackets fabbed up. I used my powder coater on these small pieces as well! Turned out great.

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Next up is the oil cooler. It fits in front of the radiator with no issues.
 
Sorry I haven't had a chance to get into the garage lately. I've been busy with work trying to finish up some projects before 2017.

I'll try to get out there and get my oil cooler mounted, soon!
 
Update time! I've had some pictures I could have added here and there, but I wanted one post with all of the pictures.

I've finally mounted my oil cooler! It's more exciting to me than it should be, but it was really the last big "custom" hurdle that I had to deal with.

I toyed with the idea of mounting it with some fabricated brackets, like I did with my radiator. I just didn't know where I would mount the top portion (as the bottom already had factory holes). A friend suggested to just do bars going straight up and down, which seemed like a great Idea but I still didn't think there would be a place to mount the top.

The next issue was mounting the oil cooler to something else. The Derale oil cooler didn't come with any mounting hardware, nor did it look like there was really an area to fasten it to anything. After some googling I discovered that their "mounting kit" was nothing more than zip ties. Even if I were to buy that mounting kit there wouldn't be enough of a gap between the radiator and the cooler to thread on fittings (without damaging the radiator).

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There were tiny holes on each side of the cooler that the zip ties were supposed to go through. Luckily none of those holes intersected a cooler circuit pipe. So I drilled 8 of the holes bigger and found some fasteners that would fit through.

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I went to Menards to find some flat stock to use for the left and right brackets. I believe it was 1" x 3/8" x 36" that I ended up using. One bracket ended up being around 17 inches, so I basically cut it in half.

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Next I drilled a hole in the bottom to line up with the lower hole on the chassis. Then found a hole on the top of the upper radiator support that I could stick a bolt through with a nut on the other side.

Then I had to measure how far up I needed the cooler to sit to clear the center radiator support. I believe it was about 2" up. I drilled four holes to line up with the cooler, and the left side was done!

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I started on the right side the same way that I started on the left. I lined up the bar with the lower hole and picked the best spot to mount it on the upper radiator support. I drilled the lower hole so I could thread a bolt in to line things up easier.

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I had to pick a spot on the chassis to drill a new hole, as there was nowhere around that I could mount it to while lining the cooler up with the bracket. This required some trial and error. I had picked a spot on the chassis and drilled a hole in the bracket, only to find that there was other parts of the radiator support behind the hole I had marked. I ended up grabbing some more flat stock from Menards and redoing the right side, lowering the spot for the hole on the chassis (you can see the original marks on the chassis).

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I'm not even going to begin to tell you how I had lined up the holes on the oil cooler with the right side bracket. Long story short I used the piece of flat stock that I screwed up as a template and then finalized it on the new piece.

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End result!

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It clears the center radiator support perfectly! Ill need to find spacers between the bracket and the body on a couple holes (to push it out a bit further from the radiator).

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I need to trim off some pieces and get them powder coated. Then the cooler is finished!
 
I've placed an order for some 8an twistlok hose, various fittings and a coolant reservoir. Once I receive them I should be able to finish up the power steering and oil cooler plumbing.

Pictures soon!
 
While waiting for some of my parts to come in I decided to clean up my valve cover to get it ready for installation. I'm pretty sure my powder coater sandblasted both sides, including the baffles. I don't really want to risk getting any debris in my motor so I figured i'd just take the baffle off and clean.

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It shouldn't take too much to get this looking pretty nice again. Luckily, Kevin at CompWorks just started a new batch of his laser cut baffles too!
 
Well i've been getting extremely impatient waiting for parts to arrive. So i'll post what I have thus far!

I had previously ordered a rear left Beck/Arnley brake caliper (the hard to find one) and had planned on getting a rear right at some point. Little did I know that I misplaced the rear caliper brackets. The new Beck/Arnley caliper I had purchased didn't come with one either. All of the caliper brackets that I found were about the same price as a new caliper with bracket...so I bought those instead.

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This was supposed to be a hard to find 90's water pipe, the one that didn't have an oil filter housing outlet. I can make it work.

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I picked up various length -3an lines. I had planned on building my own ABS delete kit (since my hardlines were in sorry shape). Instead I think i'm going to go with the JNZ kit.

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Now...on to the power steering situation. I needed a power steering reservoir with an fittings on it. A -6an feed and -8an outlet is ideal for my setup. I picked up a Jaz power steering reservoir and holy crap it is a lot bigger than I had expected. Peanut butter jar for scale.

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It's not going to work for me. Instead I picked up some steel weld on an fittings and brought a dsm power steering reservoir to have the fittings welded on. I haven't got it back yet.

I did however get a -6an fitting welded on to my high pressure power steering pump hard line.

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I didn't need 25 feet of -8an line, but it was about 20 bucks more than the 10 foot sku. I'm sure I will use the spare for another project.

Along with various fittings for my oil and power steering setups.

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Last but not least, after a HUGE fiasco with a previous seller and a 16g, I picked up a fantastic HX35 setup for an amazing price.

It arrived in horrendous shape, luckily this stuff isn't terrible fragile.

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A Punishiment Racing recirculated o2 housing with Turbonetics external wastegate (i'm not sure on the model), ceramic coated FP manifold, freshly rebuilt HX35 (by our very own Justin), and a BEP bolt on housing. The turbine housing and FP manifold look brand new!

I have a few other shipments coming in, I will update you then. Hopefully it gets a bit warmer outside so I can get some of this stuff installed!
 
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I slapped on my JNZ ABS delete kit. I was surprised with how short the lines looked off the car, they are plenty long once installed!

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I also trimmed up the Evo brake booster line. I need to get some clamps for it still.

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One of the thermostat housing sensors arrived as well.

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And my -10an drain from ExtremePSI.

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Your brake booster line, it has a check valve right. I ask because it wasnt untill i checked, that i found it was absent.

Yes it does, you can see right after the brake booster nipple there is a bulge in the hose. The Evo one comes with a check valve installed as well.

Nice I got a 12 an fitting. Looks good.

I should have went bigger, but my oil pan already has a -10an fitting welded on it. I know there is a huge debate as to proper drain size for the HX35, I am aware but I think this size will suffice.
 
I painted my new Centric brake calipers and installed my speedo cable today.

I was playing with the intercooler core today as well, I will need to do some cutting to get this to fit!
 
Looks awesome. I'll be interested to see how that intercooler ends up working out. Let's get some updates on that for sure.
 
I made the oil cooler lines today.

OFH to -8an fittings:

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Initial line mockup:

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Once I get my power steering reservoir back, those lines are next.
 
I'm going to try to get another load of parts to my powdercoater tomorrow.

First I had to get the snapped bolts off of the bumper supports. These guys were in there, so I just cut off the welded nut on the back and drilled a new hole. I will use bolt/nut or a rivet nut in its place.

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Heres my load of parts! I figure I might as well get the intercooler pipes powdercoated black to match the rest of my color scheme. I don't want anything too chrome looking in the engine bay.

The small box are parts that I want to get powdercoated blue.

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I installed my reverse sensor too. I wish I would have painted the transmission while it was out. It looks so grimy compared to everything else.

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