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I just know I'm going to melt the cat media at some point with the tuning and fuel I'll be running. I'd rather remove it than run the risk of it fucking up an expensive turbo that took too much of my blood sweat and tears to install. Stinky exhaust be damned! But, I still want the catted version for visual inspection, when needed. I can trick the OBD scanner at the emissions place with a CatSim or similar. That combo there solves all of my problems for me.
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Ok so I added the final touch to the intercooler this weekend. I put the plastic flap I cut back in place with this flex tape:
Which I found at my local Home Depot. https://www.homedepot.com/p/Flex-Tap...0405/302634866 It's pretty durable, it's sticky and it's a flat black finish. You can stretch it pretty far before it rips apart. I used that flex tape only on the top side. In other words when you look from the outside of the bumper through the grill you can see it. I used a black 3M tape on the bottom. Something thin. The intercooler slides against the flex tape going in and out so I knew it needed to be something durable. When you stick it on make sure you have the flap straight down so that the tape does not hinder the flap from the full motion you'll need. Ok so this last week I've been working a little each night when I got home on my flap 'retainer'. I used some C channel aluminum and cut it into a couple of 11 inch pieces facing each other and clamped them to the diffuser plate by 'interlocking' them. I used some of that Loctite Metal & Concrete Epoxy I used earlier to sandwich in some 1/8 inch flat aluminum into the C channel piece that I tapped as it needed to be a little thicker for that purpose. I used stainless steel M4 allen bolts for clamping them to the diffuser plate. Then finally stainless M6 allen's to clamp the retaining plate. I added some #20 stainless washers (3 per bolt) as I found without them you can bend the C channel when tightening the M6 bolts on the plate. I just slid the washers in there and when tightening the M4's they held the washers. Any care to guess what that white plastic plate is? Last edited by ThomasR; 03-04-2018 at 05:00 PM.. |
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Cutting board?
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Yes. Ok that's it. You are the second person to guess that quickly. I'm breaking open the McMaster catalog as I write this to order some plain black ABS.
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I was going to post my intercooler Install here but it’s a CTS thread
http://x3.xbimmers.com/forums/showth...4#post23360464 Last edited by E90705; 06-21-2018 at 05:23 PM.. |
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Intercooler up for sale since car was sold
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