in what we call "The Death of 77 Gloves" the old turbo came off.
i think its the first time the manifold has been off since i put the car together, i want to just slap the new turbo in, but i had to take a breath and do some inspecting.

first, the old manifold had been dying a slow death, the part where it looks like its sagging is because its sagging


next is the port match, the HKS manifold is a 48mm circle, and interestingly the stock manifold was oval, its about the same size, but its about 50mm wide and i think 44mm tall?

i decided it was close enough and left the HKS alone

also since i was in there, i test fit the HKS log manifold and 60-1 turbo,
i thought it wouldn't fit with the air pump, but it does, so fail-boat there


why didn't i run that setup? well i thought the air pump wouldn't fit, and then i would need to find a wastegate, or really the money for one
and then i would need to fab up a downpipe, or a dongle that would let me keep an unmolested stock downpipe.
the Greddy kit had something like that, so that would be an option

if i knew it fit with the air pump, i probably would have run it, lol

the Greddy kit gets funny, its like the adaptors have adaptors. although it did let them sell it in California legally, as you keep the stock exhaust and you can run any turbo from a TD05, TD06, TD07 and T78's

 

i have it in, its WAY down in there, there is more room between the turbine housing and the intake too, which is kind of awesome
heat shielding is on the agenda, but in part 2

its hard to get a picture, its dark down there

 

Since Sevenstock is so close i decided to do a bunch of work at the last minute

first: when it rains the spare tire well fills with water. usually this isn't a problem, as it doesn't rain here, but the last three years it has.
it was actually kind of hard to figure this one out, it wasn't really obvious where the water was coming from
i ordered and replaced the 3rd brake light gasket, but the lock cylinder was really loose, i kind of wonder if it was that.
while the lock was out, i pulled it apart, greased and painted it, tightened the clip and maybe we're ok?
who knows, i didn't check



i also polished my pipe. i installed the very rare one of one K2RD AFM block off plate. i had the AFM in there the whole time, even though it wasn't hooked up
polished the HKS RS pipe and filter, and it got a new air filter and wow, it makes the rest of the car look dirty and old, lol

polishing the filter cage was, um awkward