So I've finally finished the engine related work on this car.
The last piece of the puzzle was the hot side intercooler piping.
I've never liked the way ASG had routed the pipework. It went along side the engine and then down over the headers at the point where there are two primaries close together so the heat generated from there is substantial. This then radiated through the pipework and all of the hotside pipe work was very hot.
Not only that but it was routed in such way that one of the joins was always under pressure and no matter how tight the clamps were they would work loose eventually. Usually at a really bad moment the worst of which was during over taking once.
Here's the original route the pipework took.
So I had my best mate who owns a stainless steel exhaust making business to make the new pipework for me.
As luck would have it we managed to make it a single piece from core to turbo.
I may revisit the cold side at some point but only to elimate a join or two as I'm not keen on the silicon elbow.
But for now the engine side of things is finished.