Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
All right. Today was a good day. I got two huge packages and I went to town.
All the stuff I ordered from my sponsor, Mishimoto arrived. IT feels nice to get some quality stuff in to this build instead of ebay junk.
They don't do any brown cardboard box junk, so that you can feel like your getting cool stuff right from the getgo. It's not boring.
So anyway, since this stuff is not cheap, I'll go ahead and show what you get for your money here.
First thing I opened up was the coolant overflow canister, P.N. MMRT-CA.
Their stuff is very well packaged. It came with a mounting bracket, all the hardware you need, and a short length of tube to hook it to the radiator. You just find somewhere that the can fits and install. I put mine next to the outlet side of the intercooler tubing I have, and had to bend the bracket 90* to mount it to the top of the radiator frame - totally easy process.
The canister itself is super nice with an easy to remove unscrewable lid, and nice welds on the inlet tube at the base, and the aluminum is a nice polished finish with "Mishimoto" laser engraved into the top. They also sell a red and black one, but I opted for the aluminum.
Next up was the intercooler, their Z-line model, which is the smallest one they sell in their universal options, and this one comes in either black, or aluminum.
The intercooler dropped right in to the same spot the old one was, and wound up being the same length. This is a bar and plate style intercooler with nice cast aluminum end tanks, and good welds. The old one was thin pieces of aluminum welded together everywhere to make the shape. Here's the inside of the intercooler.
It's a way prettier, and nicer made intercooler. But the other one was $60 off ebay... so it did its job for a bit.
Also a good thing to note, is you can drop the intercooler out of the car and run over it and they'll likely allow you to return it and get a new one. Each one is marked and has a lifetime warranty and from everything I've read - they mean lifetime.
Once I put the grill in, the intercooler sits pretty nice in the space I intended. It's about 1" lower than I wanted, but I can cut more of the radiator frame upwards later. For now, it's in. I also used their silicone tubing and T-clamps to install. The T-clamps worked great, held on tight, and do not strip threads like the cheap ones, so I'm happy with that. It was way easier to assemble this time around with good clamps.
Now I just have to wait for my next paycheck, I'll be getting a couple more parts from them, and that other slant six and start pulling it apart.
All right. Today was a good day. I got two huge packages and I went to town.
All the stuff I ordered from my sponsor, Mishimoto arrived. IT feels nice to get some quality stuff in to this build instead of ebay junk.
They don't do any brown cardboard box junk, so that you can feel like your getting cool stuff right from the getgo. It's not boring.
So anyway, since this stuff is not cheap, I'll go ahead and show what you get for your money here.
First thing I opened up was the coolant overflow canister, P.N. MMRT-CA.
Their stuff is very well packaged. It came with a mounting bracket, all the hardware you need, and a short length of tube to hook it to the radiator. You just find somewhere that the can fits and install. I put mine next to the outlet side of the intercooler tubing I have, and had to bend the bracket 90* to mount it to the top of the radiator frame - totally easy process.
The canister itself is super nice with an easy to remove unscrewable lid, and nice welds on the inlet tube at the base, and the aluminum is a nice polished finish with "Mishimoto" laser engraved into the top. They also sell a red and black one, but I opted for the aluminum.
Next up was the intercooler, their Z-line model, which is the smallest one they sell in their universal options, and this one comes in either black, or aluminum.
The intercooler dropped right in to the same spot the old one was, and wound up being the same length. This is a bar and plate style intercooler with nice cast aluminum end tanks, and good welds. The old one was thin pieces of aluminum welded together everywhere to make the shape. Here's the inside of the intercooler.
It's a way prettier, and nicer made intercooler. But the other one was $60 off ebay... so it did its job for a bit.
Also a good thing to note, is you can drop the intercooler out of the car and run over it and they'll likely allow you to return it and get a new one. Each one is marked and has a lifetime warranty and from everything I've read - they mean lifetime.
Once I put the grill in, the intercooler sits pretty nice in the space I intended. It's about 1" lower than I wanted, but I can cut more of the radiator frame upwards later. For now, it's in. I also used their silicone tubing and T-clamps to install. The T-clamps worked great, held on tight, and do not strip threads like the cheap ones, so I'm happy with that. It was way easier to assemble this time around with good clamps.
Now I just have to wait for my next paycheck, I'll be getting a couple more parts from them, and that other slant six and start pulling it apart.