The radiator and main coolant tubing is now complete. I am almost finished with all the plumbing in the bug’s front nose compartment. The MR2’s electrical power steering requires both a supply line as well as a return line. The supply simply dumps into the pump but the return comes off the rack and returns into the reservoir. I will be removing the radiator so I can finish everything behind it.
Now with the AC unit installed, I am working on the VW bug’s front nose compartment. There are quite a few things to fit in this area (AC lines, battery, fuse box, power steering reservoir, overflow bottle etc.). I finished mounting the power steering reservoir, so next up is the overflow bottle. I am trying to plan everything out so it fits and I can get to it.
After making sure that my brackets fit OK, I removed and painted them. The AC unit is now in for good and I can start to route the plumbing. 1st up is the heater core, this proved to be challenging, I used -10AN braided steel lines to snake through the chassis and attach to the core as well as the outputs on the engine block.
While I am waiting on the throttle cable to be made, I can start installing the classic auto air unit. The toyota air conditioning unit is way too big to fit in the VW foot-box. The plumbing and everything else still needs to be figured out.
I am still plumbing up the engine. I must have a throtle cable manufactured soon, so I am using some semi-rigis tubing to mock up the length of the cable sheath. Once I have the sheath length then I can determine the cable length. I will create a diagram to send to the cable manufacurer for them to build the custom cable.
I now have 4 new slide shows on the new “MR2 VW Bug pics page 8” page. MR2 VW bug pics page 8
They loaded kinda funny but if you click on them they come up. Still trying to fix this.
Engine pumbing continues. The turbo oil lines are complete although I will put an oil pump on the return later. There is still alot of plumbing left to do and wiring as well. All I can do is keep moving on and I hope some day I will get the engine running.
Plumbing, plumbing, plumbing. There is more plumbing on this engine than in a house. The main hard-line tubing assembly has been modified to remove all of the nipples for the water cooled turbo as well as the water cooled throttle body. This plumbing will take awhile but its gotta be done.
I now have the turbo installed and connected to the intake plenum. I need oil to my turbo so I have a 4an inlet from the block and a 10an hose for the return to the oil pan. I will have to install an oil pump later for the force return to the oil pan. So far so good everything seems to be lining up nicely.
Now that I have all of my turbo parts painted and the gaskets in, I can go ahead and assemble everything. I started with putting some high temp heat barrier between the turbo bracket and the frame. I also put in the gaskets and bolted it all together. Next up the turbo…