Bay shots with a little wire tuck...

**thygreyt** · 09-22-2011 03:51 AM

Originally Posted by TylerO28

Dude knowing you, you'll pull the motor, scrub every crevice, tuck every wire and then a month later do it again!
You get down on cleaning things up! Like your audio install...and your battery relocation, I'm gonna tell you I expect to see a nice execution from you!

How long til you get your car back? Pm me the details of what happened asap!

PMed

i have been cleaning by hand... soon enough when i get the car (1 week) then i'll clean a lil better... then pics...

i may take pics on the way, but i'll make em public all at the same time.

**TylerO28** · 09-22-2011 02:25 PM

Glad all is well! But yeah I'm going to probably go to my apr dealer and have them re load my factory program... I had heard that this could happen...didn't realize the ecu was so smart/safe

**empirerider** · 09-28-2011 02:20 PM

Here is a tiny update. I'm relocating that hole bundle of wire deleting my windshield wiper setup completely.
Also I want to relocate my coolant holder. Dose any one have suggestions as to where I can put it?

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**kevin FaKiN spLits** · 09-28-2011 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by empirerider

Here is a tiny update. I'm relocating that hole bundle of wire deleting my windshield wiper setup completely.
Also I want to relocate my coolant holder. Dose any one have suggestions as to where I can put it?

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Run a Moroso inline for the cooling.

**timmiller05** · 09-29-2011 02:16 PM

Anyone know the part # for the R8 oil and coolant bottle caps? There is a vin# split and a different part# for v8 or v10....

coolant cap would either be 420-121-321 or 4B3-121-321

oil cap either 420-103-485-B or 079-103-485-A

I am thinnking its the 420 ones cuz the r8 always uses a 420 to start there part #'s but of course etka makes my life complicated... thanks guys

**kevin FaKiN spLits** · 09-29-2011 03:35 PM

Originally Posted by timmiller05

Anyone know the part # for the R8 oil and coolant bottle caps? There is a vin# split and a different part# for v8 or v10....

coolant cap would either be 420-121-321 or 4B3-121-321

oil cap either 420-103-485-B or 079-103-485-A

I am thinnking its the 420 ones cuz the r8 always uses a 420 to start there part #'s but of course etka makes my life complicated... thanks guys

Check ECS

**TylerO28** · 09-30-2011 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by empirerider

Here is a tiny update. I'm relocating that hole bundle of wire deleting my windshield wiper setup completely.
Also I want to relocate my coolant holder. Dose any one have suggestions as to where I can put it?

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How about extending the lines and hoses down to just inside the area the windshield washer reservoir was? Its gonna be a pain to re fill, but if you made a quick release bracket it'd be easier to pull up and out. Like a cotter pin or whatever

**empirerider** · 09-30-2011 05:34 PM

^ i like your idea, i wasn't sure if the coolant bottle needed to be at a sertain position or not.
thanks.

And one more question. be for i start cutting wires and ****, what size wires do i need to buy?
I can't really tell bye looking at it.

thanks again.

**TylerO28** · 10-01-2011 06:22 PM

Most are 18 gauge...

**TylerO28** · 10-01-2011 06:23 PM

But I would use 16 or 14. Because longer wires have more resistance. Not gonna cause problems though...whatever you find will be ok

**empirerider** · 10-01-2011 06:57 PM

^^Thanks a lot buddy.

**TylerO28** · 10-03-2011 05:55 PM

No problem! I expect pics now once you've done it!

**empirerider** · 10-08-2011 12:19 PM

Here's a little up date on my car.
Nothing has been connected yet.

**TylerO28** · 10-08-2011 01:29 PM

Looking good!
The only reason I decided not to run this way.was first because its a huge undertaking.and second I was worried about collision from debris and what not. Also once I have my fmic it'll be tight in there. But from the looks of it, it is protected and looks really nice!

Glad to have helped!

now go finish it!

**empirerider** · 10-08-2011 01:49 PM

Good help is hard to find.

Next to go A/C lines.

**TylerO28** · 10-08-2011 03:33 PM

I've been trying to figure out a way to delete my ac and have the alt moved down in it's place. I never use ac.

Or I was considering just tearing out the internals of the ac. I
Think the ac lines are nice though at least they are hardlines and clean in the bay. However I have no need for them.
Plus removing it would allow a better fan to be placed on the rad. That could then be controlled via the ac button in the car.

**thygreyt** · 10-08-2011 07:23 PM

this is just the beginning.

it ws dirty

just polished a bit

wiring, relocated. SAI hoses removed.

a side look.

**TylerO28** · 10-08-2011 08:10 PM

Looking good man!

Just moving the harness by the radiator hoses really cleans things up...I've gotta post some recent work I think

**empirerider** · 10-09-2011 06:34 PM

Can you drive with the SAI hoses removed?

**TylerO28** · 10-10-2011 01:14 AM

You can...kind of...
You will run kinda weird. Start up is rough, you'll get a cel and fuel trim would be off... Its nothing super bad, but should be tuned out because your 2nd o2 will be freaking out
Edit...by weird...i mean different start up...again nothing bad though...i should have clarified

**thygreyt** · 10-10-2011 02:49 AM

Originally Posted by TylerO28

You can...kind of...
You will run kinda weird. Start up is rough, you'll get a cel and fuel trim would be off... Its nothing super bad, but should be tuned out because your 2nd o2 will be freaking out

um, maybe on a turbo'ed car.
on my NA, this is what happens:

as you can see, SAI was disconnected and the hoses removed.

Vag com shows 2 codes for the 2 disconnected SAI sensors.

it gets a lil rich on cold starts...

once its warm, its all back to normal at around 14.7... no fuel trim nor AFR issues.

but its all good. other than the cel, the car runs fine.

**TylerO28** · 10-10-2011 03:09 AM

Hmm so afr gets pissed but goes back to normal once the cat warms up?

When I ran without mine it went wonky on fuel trim...not bad, but still notable...

**thygreyt** · 10-10-2011 03:24 AM

ted said the same thing... so i'm guessing it has to do with the turbo SW..?

**empirerider** · 10-10-2011 08:53 AM

Cool, I'm ripping them out to day.
Every one has been very helpful.

**empirerider** · 10-12-2011 12:53 PM

This is what it's gonna look like until i clean out the a/c line. I started doing it, but it wasn't going very well. Also having a bracket made to hold the hoses on the motor mount.

**nothing-leaves-stock** · 10-12-2011 01:23 PM

Originally Posted by thygreyt

ted said the same thing... so i'm guessing it has to do with the turbo SW..?

no, happenson NA too. maybe not the map cars tho. not sure there. it did on my 07

**TylerO28** · 10-14-2011 07:14 PM

I'm in the process of tucking fuel lines... Post up pics everyone!

**TylerO28** · 10-23-2011 02:03 AM

Anyone ever wanted to do this? I like it smooth

**thygreyt** · 10-23-2011 02:41 AM

care to tell us what you did??

i see the fuel wires were tucked... but not much more...

**TylerO28** · 10-23-2011 02:44 AM

Look at the intake manifold lol no nipples

**thygreyt** · 10-23-2011 03:30 AM

love it!

i have been meaning to do something about those..

more pics!!

**tay272** · 10-23-2011 09:06 AM

Dont get rid of those, everyone loves nipples hahaha

**TylerO28** · 10-23-2011 12:45 PM

Originally Posted by tay272

Dont get rid of those, everyone loves nipples hahaha

I have those to play with inside the house lol! On a car it just bugged me that my car always looked cold! Lol

So a little nippendectomy was in order. Also got the valve cover nips taken care of with standard length bolts

**BlackRabbit2point5** · 10-23-2011 01:48 PM

hey Tyler, that easily visible hose off the intake by the TB on your previous intake is the one where I replaced the c2 hose with the ford focus coolant hose. Mainly cuz with the c2 kit it rubbed through on the battery tray and always got yanked out under hard acceleration with stock mounts. My car finally got finished on Thursday and my parents are gonna drive it up from Texas when they come up for Thanksgiving so we definitely gotta meet up. Looking like I'm gonna be working for the Monroe O'Reily's here soon so if you don't mind the trek up I should be able to help you out with parts for whatever. Can do outside buys on stuff not carried in stock plus I still got all my parts connections from working for the speed shop in Texas. In short I'm gonna make that O'Reily's be the place to come for parts if you don't like dealing with inept kids working the counter.

**TylerO28** · 10-23-2011 01:52 PM

Dude thats what I like to hear! Thanks dude! Yeah ok I gotcha so on the throttle body you were able to get a clean shot through. Now I have a smaller battery and tray, should I worry?

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