Just a little update. I havnt been able to get much done with the car as ive been knocked about with appendicitis.
However, tonight i felt up to tapping a few holes and mocking up the GTR manifold:
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Pretty simple. The two centre ports match up perfectly, while from my measurements i think i can swap the runners of the outer two (i.e. 1-6 and 2-5) and have it line up.
This one is Gavs, but mine will be almost identical.
Well i didnt make a jig. However, i drove past a welding store up the road today which was having a closing down sale. Pity, as it was a good store. Bonus though that he had a random 1/2kg Alu spool and a little mini-argon bottle around, that i scored cheap… cheap enough to be worthwhile for tacking stuff together.
So i found out my MIG can indeed tack Aluminum with the right bits, although it struggles a bit with getting heat into a join enough to lay a bead.
Regardless of that, i made this:
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Runners 1 and 6 are swapped, and 2 and 5. Its overall around 90mm long including the flanges. Angles up slightly due to the natural angle of the runners:
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Nothing really significant though. Will have to try and testfit it on Gav’s 2JZ and maybe see if we can get it to hold together long enough to get into the bay, although the tacks seem reasonably strong.
Still no progress on the car, cant curl up under the dash to finish the wiring yet 🙁