My weekend full of blood, sweat, and a LOT of cursing

Shift518 Automotive
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I think thats exactly what i used. Its the same stuff we use on our compressors and i guarantee they run hotter than this turbo

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High temp Teflon paste

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Are you sure thats a boost ref port… not the coolant ports?

http://www.tialsport.com/prod_wg_mvr.htm

http://www.tialmedia.com/random/watercooling.jpg

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EDIT: GUESS NOT. I see in the pic it says “H2O” on the square machined surface. so yeah i think thats a boost ref like you said.

EDIT EDIT: I can see the red bladder in the port too… you are 100% correct plug that ISH!

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clearly a lot of period blood spill/seepage in this thread

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Just looking at that engine compartment makes me claustrophobic. I definitely don’t miss working on cars. Good job though. I’m interested to see how the instrument cluster finishes out. Its a nice change-up from seeing A-pillar sets.

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The cluster won’t be finishing… No matter how I messed around, it was never going to look like I had hoped. So I started on a completely new setup.