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Originally posted by DESIGN:
It looks like a good place to put an aftercooler would be in the window cowl area. Run the piping through the fire wall and viola nice cold air. BTW are those zip ties holding the upper section of piping to the firewall?
Thats given that there is suffient room there.
But yea, im with the rest of you:
Relocate Battery
Move resovior down a bit into the battery spot
remove 90 degree bend
move MAF farther up the intake tube
Route an intake into the wheel well
Go zoom zoom
Turbo is still the way to go tho, hopefully the new ADC kit isnt to $$$$
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Originally posted by MxRacer:
Originally posted by RawBurt:
I'll be keeping it to myself, until the time comes. It'll be hard to find. 
much like your weiner.
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I can't wait to get home so I can actually see the pictures. Stoopid work firewall... 
Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.
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Originally posted by Stazi:
Originally posted by todras:
Too late.
wow - two ugly bastards in one picture - Wicked awesome! 
If we are going on taste of modifying vehicles that isn't saying much for your taste...
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Originally posted by Y2KSVT:
Originally posted by RTStabler51:
that thing is down right ugly...
So are you, but I didn't want to tell the majority of CEG that's never met you. 
Mark
As long as your mom still gives it up I don't mind.
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"Absolut Rara."
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meh, color me not impressed. The price is good, but, it still doesn't seem worth even at the low price.
Poor execution, minimal gain, even less gain if you are already making decent power (seems like, as delivered, it can flow enough air to make 170-180whp, which isn't much mroe than a stock CSVT) Pete is right about the MAF placement, a 90* bend right in front of it, and being placed directly against the throttle body is asking for driveability issues. I think I'd rather deal w/ the durability problems of the Vortech kits, than try to make that thing perform.
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does the stock MAF even like to be blown through?
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Originally posted by RTStabler51:
does the stock MAF even like to be blown through?
Based on posts in the tubo developers pages for the Focus tubo kits. The two major suppliers solved some drivability issues by placing the MAF on the low pressure side.
I would expect the stock Duratec MAF to be similarly problematic.
Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.
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I Agree with what someone said earlier, turn it so its pushing though a FMIC and that way you can get rid of all the ugly piping, move the batt. put the intake in the fender and put a different pully to get more pressure. no arguments about poor maf placement. i suppose if we the designers it would cost the same as buying an ADC turbo kit(to match power output anyway)
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Originally posted by ButtonPuncher:
It's going to be pretty hard to fill up the windshield washer fluid too. I guess that's why they left the cap off...
Silly Ben- That's for the alcohol injection!
In all seriousness, I grant the problems that you guys have brought up, but there is a respectable amount of credit that needs to go to this fabricator just for the effort of making a kit for an EXTREMELY dead platform!
I think this is a good baseline kit. I think it's going to have issues converting the stock suck-through to blow-through. Injector upgrades are a MUST, and I would like to see a bit cleaner install. At least, for the sake of the tiny baby Jesus, use BLACK zip ties!
Bottom line: Kudos to the fabricator, I hope to see a "v2" kit soon!
Dan G. and his Cougar
Forged internal (Diamond & Pauter) full 3L, "Monster" Kinger F/I cut & P&P, T3/4 60 trim .82A/R ADC turbo, SPEC Stage 3, Torsen, Greddy Profec-B SPEC II, Apex'i Timer, Lots of Gauges!
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The best part of this kit is the Rotrex compressor and its mounting bracketry. If you take those by themselves you can imagine a much better lay out for the subsequent piping. That alone makes this a great addition to our forced induction possibilities.
A blow through MAF would not be a "major" issue if you reworked the piping before and after the MAF to include 6-8" of straight pipe. This would also go well with the talked about thinking of different pipe routing.
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