| Beings that it seems like a pretty slow picture night, I took a few pics of the engine bay as things are coming together. Been working on getting some things finalized while I have some time here and there. Getting all the big items together is almost simple in comparison to addressing all the little things.. I purchased a Caswell Copy-Chrome plating kit last week and finally set it up this weekend and have been plating a lot of fasteners and a few cosmetics here and there to put the final touches on the finish of everything. Still have a lot of things to finish: radiator needs a few final things done to it and then it is off for powdercoating - just been having a hard time tracking down my welder :-/, the shroud for it needs to be built and electric fan mounted, have an appointment with my CNC guy tomorrow AM to re-cut the front bearing/shaft seal housing (the original ones he made had issues - the shaft seal bore wasn't centered to the bearing bore, which definately wont work - the seal bore was off center by about 0.050"!... Still a number of small things do to that I wont bore you with, so, here's the pics. Frontal engine bay shot:
 Lots of little things copy-chrome plated: All bolts, nuts, coil pack brackets, throttlebody return spring covers.
 Fuel system: I decided to tie the two fuel pump outputs together within the fuel tank and use the single OEM feed line vs. going with two seperate fuel lines. I felt that by using two seperate lines to feed each fuel rail independently would unnecessarily complicate the entire setup and give rise to a number of potential problems down the road. I had a Nismo adjustable fuel pressure regulator here and decided to put that into use; I'll just have to see if it has ample bypass to maintain proper fuel pressure in low-load conditions and go from there.
 Coolant overflow tank: Finally got ahold of some proper diameter aluminum tube to attach the OEM reservoir fill neck. Yes, I need a new hood prop bushing. :)
 Passenger side shot: The fuel damper has been moved to the back of the plenum to meet up with all the -6AN braided line.
 This little guy is the new power steering pump reservoir I built last week at my welder's shop. It is the same capacity as the OEM unit and it also contains a de-aerator (sp?) to aid in removing any air bubbles from the fluid. The aerator was fabricated from some 2.0" diameter aluminum tube that I drilled out with a large unknown number of holes of 1/4" diameter. This inner pipe runs from the bottom to the top of the main reservoir body. I need to acquire the AN fittings to install a -10AN in the bottom center of the res to run to the PS pump inlet and a -6AN into the side of the res for the return. I used a billet radiator neck from Howe to top this baby off and picked up one of the pressure-relief caps for it from the local auto parts store.
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