**A Massive Engine Swap and Turbo Installation with Friends**

It's been an epic couple of days working on Marty's love org, surrounded by friends with mad skills. We've got Benny from Benny's Custom Works and the boys from the Skid Factory here to help us bring this project to life. As we were getting started, it became clear that engines need to breathe, and specifically, flat ones require some extra attention. The air in the crankcase and heads needs to get out so that it doesn't try and blast oil into the combustion chambers or out the seals when adding boost and extracting more power.

To tackle this issue, we've added a catch can setup to capture any oily air that might escape. This will keep the base clean and prevent damage from excessive oil pressure. To make this work, we need to add some fittings to the rocker covers, as the factory one just isn't going to cut it. We've also locked our turbo in place and worked out where the hot side intercooler pipe is going to fit in relation to all the other parts.

**Adding Custom Fittings and Installing the Oil Drain**

We're now working on adding custom fittings to the rocker covers, as we can't find a suitable replacement part. We've used an old fitting, soap bennings machine, and the lathe to create our own solution. This involves drilling a hole in the rocker cover and creating a makeshift drain for the oil. It's been a great learning experience, and we're excited to see how this will all come together.

One of the most challenging parts of this project has been working with us-known fittings that are suitable for an oil drain. Unfortunately, it seems like these just don't exist at the moment. We've ordered some new parts over the last couple of days, but they haven't arrived yet. In the meantime, we're making do with what we have and getting creative.

**Turbo Installation and Exhaust Work**

The turbo installation has been going smoothly, with most of the components already in place. However, we still need to add some finishing touches, including welding up the manifolds and connecting everything properly. This is where Benny's expertise comes in – his custom fabrication skills are coming in handy here.

In addition to the engine swap, we're also working on the exhaust system. This involves installing a big intercooler and getting all the piping and fittings sorted out. It's been a busy couple of days, but we're making good progress and enjoying the experience.

**The Future of the Project**

As we wrap up this section of the project, it's clear that there's still plenty to be done. We've got some bits and pieces that require welding, ordering, and adding – the usual suspects when working on a build like this. The turbo setup is almost complete, but there are still a few more tweaks to make before we can call it finished.

We're not exactly sure when the project will be finished, as it's one of those things where you don't know what you need until you get there. It's been an eye-opener, and we've learned that sometimes, you have to build half of something before you realize what the other pieces are supposed to look like.

**A Big Thank You to Our Friends**

We want to thank our friends Benny, Marty, Kane, and the boys from the Skid Factory for their help and expertise throughout this project. It's been an absolute blast working with such talented individuals, and we're grateful for the experience. As always, if you want to support the show, check out Mighty Car Mods and the individual channels – links will be provided below.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enevery year we try and work on something absolutely epic and this year is no exception we've just been in Japan shooting turbos and temples three it's an absolutely Epic feature film it comes out on Christmas Day we know not everybody has a great Christmas so that is our little gift to you plus this year it comes with topos and temples three the book it's available right now at mightycarmos.com I've covered the car so you don't see what it is but right now people we're here for the borgs Martin we're here for customization and modernization of the Subaru modernization that's right this episode we are going to continue engine swapping out of org thank you welcome to another episode of Mighty carmel's last episode all the boys came down and gave us a hand getting the engine out this one out and getting the Mad built H6 in we also started fabricating some stuff it's all going to slow down now as we start fabricating all this stuff is a lot slower than bolting things on now when you are bolting things on somebody has actually already done the r d it's only bolt on by the time you buy it but before you bought the bolt on someone actually had to customize that so that is what's happening this is not a swap that's been done before so all of this stuff has to be done from scratcher Rooney hence why we're so happy to have the boys here helping us because that is what they do this episode is going to be absolutely huge there's going to be lots of time running around getting stuff finding things that have gone lost in the post picking things up and basically making sure that everybody has everything they need to keep this mad conversion burbling along without a hitch no more burble though boxer rumble's gone that's true in the bin nothing perfects this kind of fabrication more than practice hours turboed more cars than I've blown up in my life so I'm pretty excited to see what he comes up with I'm just working on the driver's side of the well driver's side head part of the exhaust manifold so that's the tight bit that comes around and it goes up towards your up pipe which goes up to the turbo so we're keeping the traditional Subaru method of going between the cylinder head and the and the cross member like the EJ engine was I haven't done it like this before but it's still doable so let's go this is head coming out does obviously a 180 heads up into the between the cylinder head and the cross member that's where a merge will be to obviously receive the opposite side I've already cut this one so that'll get connected like that welded on we'll then cut this back that'll turn into a two and a half inch up pipe this will continue on and head over to the other side cylinder head there's lots of different ways you can get the exhaust gases from the exhaust ports out into the turbo but there's some important factors to think about like managing heat clearing sensors and solenoids and not hanging too low where it can all be taken out by a speed hump Al is slowly building the manifold using stainless mandrel bends which he's tacking together he's then merging the pipes with the two Banks meet this is all two inch stainless tube but we'll go to two and a half inch where the pipes merge that's about the biggest pipe work we can fit in the space that we have foreign is looking great so now we can start thinking about wastegate placement can we have dual like ax44s here can I ask you a question what how do we Plumb that back it's plumbed to atmosphere and then out of the atmosphere back into the pipe yeah well it all ends up at the back it ends up at the back but we plump we plummet back yeah but then it's plump but it's plump back it equalizes the pressure difference because the exhaust is sucking like it's sucking the thing it'll just end up at the back through the exhaust pipe yeah we're sticking with the STI cross member meaning there's a cutout where our up pipe can go the lower part of the manifold is now all tacked together and looking excellent ready for its Purge welding in the meantime Benny and I need to work out what to do with the fuel system as the factory pump and lines are going to go in the bin a car that's going to be making this much power is also going to need a whole heap of fuel because it's running on ethanol we need to make sure it's getting enough corn juice to turn that into Tire frying power so this here is the uh Factory uh fuel hanger system basically one pump in there Benny we're going to two going for the Big Sticks uh anything that we need to do putting these together it's just the same as anything else except we're running two pumps just take a bit of time make sure it's all right we do need to change over our fuel level sender this is actually the wiring for the sender although it looks like a fuel pump plug it's not um so we're going to do a little bit of wiring with that and we've got to add a Barb in here because currently this is only configured for one pump so we've got to do that before we do it basically just work it all together and put in the car we're using a radium twin pump hanger that fits into the Factory location which means we don't have to take up space with external pumps or surge tanks you can fit two pretty big pumps in here but we're planning to Stage ours so they aren't running flat out all of the time the hanger then drops straight in via the rear seat but we'll need to upgrade the fuel feed line to take all that extra flow so Benny's going to make a new feed line out of Dash 8 hose and fittings and run it up to the engine bay foreign is looking amazing thanks to Alan's amazing skills now it's time to actually weld this it's all been tacked in place in the carnivings in the right spot but we are going to purge weld it can you give me the 101 on Purge welding I think we've done this here before no we haven't I I only really do it on stuff like this like manifold like pre-turbo where there's going to be like pretty intense heat yeah so when you weld stainless steel it the the alloy of the steel like the compound of it you get a reaction on on the inside where the air can get to it Like Oxygen it will sugar they call it Sugar and it's like where it looks basically black looking corally stuff yeah so purging is basically filling the inside of the pipe with argon so there's no Oxygen so there's no reaction the same Argan you're squirting at the top of it that's right yeah so you're protecting it from oxygen yeah so this is I mean it's a good idea to do it in this case you don't have to we didn't do it on super Gramps many many years later but it is kind of the right thing to do in in this sort of high temperature area but it's mainly its purposes for stuff like like food service milk factories anything that that's got it's to stop bacteria growing inside the inside of the world so they can clean it properly so we always have the joke it's not a milk factory you don't have to purge everything just because it's stainless steel sure you don't have to purge mild steel at all you don't have to purge aluminum it's it's not really a thing that's just for Instagram so you need an extra bottle or a different way to divert gas out of that bottle and so we are feeding it into here through a little something you just made right like a little yeah these are just aluminum off cuts from cutting hole saw holes and when you've got this v-band you can just use the v-band and clamp it and it's just got a fitting in the engine argon through there and then you've just taped up got another one and taped it with a couple of holes so we let it Purge out for a few minutes basically push the oxygen out oh okay and then restrict it so it sort of creates a little bit of pressure in there not much but um the other advantage of purging is it makes a welder a lot better because that argon in there will help your world it helps the management of the heat Riders as well it also the pressure of it will stop the stop your filler falling into it so right you can get away with a lot more when it when it's perfect and otherwise we're just the tigging we've got to do our gas lens on this it's like a unimig TIG what kind of amp 60 you've got it set to is that the kind of thing you'd be doing no pedal required for this uh no Kenya is a pedal but not so much required on this sort of stuff is with aluminum because because this doesn't lose heat the aluminum is a great radiator so it all the heat you're putting in half of it's leaving really quickly so you have to manage that heat a lot more so that's just your 2.4 mil tungsten on there it does have a gas line so it distributes the the gas a bit nicer also you can use a perspex cup like that or Pyrex whatever it is Pyrex actually and then it'll uh it means you can see what you're doing yeah you should see what you're doing and also the bigger this is the better because you can have more stick out which is going to be required but it's still going to need you're going to need to stick that tungsten out a long way to get inside here and do a better job yeah and so and filler rods we just sort of gone up a grade right so if it's 304 stainless we go up a grade and you like these little thin ones as well yeah it's just uh with thin tube it's better to have the thinner the thinner Rod thinner Rod all right man well I'm excited to see how this turns out go your hardest all right urge away oh foreign we have the intercooler and luckily because this is based on a VA STI almost because this is based on a vasti we can use a kit for the front part now it's going to be different at the back we think luckily the kit came with raw pipes which is awesome so it can cut and Weld and do what we've got to do so we're just going to work out what to do and what are we going to do woody I reckon it will be pretty close I know the turbo is going to be here so it's going to be in our way I do believe that piping goes yeah it goes that way that's going to be basically just the top there look that that looks like it's going to fit pretty well that might even be usable and even if it's a matter of shortening some stuff and just because we've got big holes to send it through right having a kit is so handy because someone's done the hard work already yeah always have been mandrel bent in the position you need them so there's no spinning hours doing it how big is the core what's the size of the core I don't know big I've got the instructions here so maybe it'll be good should know that's pretty big and look it goes in one side and it's got like offset thingos that's pretty that's oh it feels weighty dude I'm so happy with that that's excellent that's big man look how huge that is it'll work for sure so we are doing silicon joiners um up to the power level that we're aiming for if they're clamped properly and you do it right uh we shouldn't be seeing if any of them blow off you can weld on those wiggin style things but this is just this is just going up towards where you might start thinking about it right I look even high horsepower application silicon still works fine yeah but the the clam shells out there easy for Associated getting it on and off yeah for the race car kind of things yeah yeah so if you've got a drag car you've got to pull a pop-up to change plugs every pass yes sweet but for what you're doing silicon's phone great all right let's bash this on dude let's go sweet foreign okay so what's awesome is this just bolts up even though the metal here is all of org it's the same literally went in the could be an awesome um it's literally the same as STI as we discover with so much other stuff so it fits and that's amazing that starting point that's all done we don't have to custom that's that one now isn't it we don't have to custom this stuff and now probably change a few bits of pipe up the front and then when the turbos in place we weld it all together and we've got a mount intercooler well we're busy messing with intercoolers Benny is in charge of Plumbing a stack of race Works fittings have arrived so we can complete the fuel system we're using gfb's fxd fuel pressure regulator and I scored a set of aftermarket fuel rails second hand for cheap this is the carbon fiber intake we installed when we did a bunch of mods on the STI converted levorg it is designed for the ej25 but luckily for us it still fits with the H6 in place but because our turbo setup is completely different the original filter this is the one it comes with isn't going to work that's I think a five inch filter we want to use a four inch because it also matches the size of our turbo just makes everything easier luckily for us also the aftermarket filter Zonk fits perfectly but this that goes over the top to hold it in doesn't fit so Benny is going to machine this out and then that will actually just sit perfectly over the top and secure the filter in there and then we've just got one run of hundred mil pipe to get from here to the turbo and we can recycle this excellent intake a lathe is one of those tools that opens up a world of possibilities when you're customizing stuff it's a bit of a learning curve at first but being able to accurately trim this middle plate and a bunch of other fittings we need for this build is just excellent our turbo manifold is also coming along nicely Alice adding a two and a half inch V band at the base of the manifold so the up pipe can be easily taken on and off foreign making some excellent progress it is awesome to have some mates here helping as well with all their excellent skills that they have we are um up to the stage where something's going to happen until other things happen so until we've got the up pipe done we can't place a turbo until we place a turbo we can't work out the intake which means we also can't work out where the cold side of piping is for the intercooler intercooler kit that Woody put on we can use basically the the core itself which fits beautifully I'm really happy with that and two of the pipes but then once they get into the bait everything's different because the six has a different size timing case here so we're going to have to work something else out with that luckily they're raw aluminum parts machine which is cut them weld them do what we have to do try and have as few silicon joiners as we can we are going to use silicon but you don't want to have too many points of failure you also need to be able to pull it apart if you need to service things and get to stuff the fuel rail setup I actually got a second hand set of these fuel rails which is great aftermarket ones which means you can make our own that Betty has put on here it came with some we've made the others we're waiting on one or two bits and pieces so he can finish the return on that and then also the feed and that's the fuel system completely done then it's just Place turbo Plumbing the oil and cool into the turbo put the inner cooler pipes on and then the only thing left to do with some water and oil and fluids is wiring so we're actually making some good progress it's been about a day and a half and we've got about that amount of time left before this needs to be as done as it can possibly be and then it will just be about wiring it up and getting it to run I've chosen a turbo that has v-band in and outs to make it easier to install onto the custom made piping the next challenge is to work out exactly where it's going to be placed on the up pipe this is by far the slowest part of the process as a few millimeters movement at the bottom end can have the turbo knocking into stuff at the top it would have gone in and out of the car at least 20 times before we were happy with it Alan this up pipe looks spectacular especially considering it didn't exist a few hours ago and you made it from nothing well some bends and some v-bands but can you explain the function of why we need one of those all right so this does the same job as all Subaru or you know all the older Subaru turbo engines the the engine's flat it's a boxer so the exhaust is at the bottom intakes at the top you have some manifolding down the bottom and then the turbo is normally placed here so this pipe goes from the manifolding down the bottom up to the turbo that's what's called an up pipe in this case we've kind of copied the four-cylinder design but much better because more cylinders and the manifolding then connects via a v-band this comes up and the Turbo sits on top around about in the same position nice and that locks our turbo in place which means we can do everything else now there are other positions we could have put turbos we could have put them over there some people put them at the front some people put them in all sorts of spectacular places but there's a few reasons why this ends up being a sensible spot yeah yeah so yeah I have put turbos in many different places on Subarus it's you know this is just this the spot where they go from Factory there's spaced in the firewall there's there's space for it there and if you want to retain all your functions like air conditioning power steering alternator that's kind of the spot that it's got to be otherwise you're doing funky stuff and placing them here but there's just too many compromises yeah you can put it here and it'll look cool but then you've got a big pipe coming over the top here melting everything yes so yeah it's it's just a sensible spot to put it and for maybe for race car because you're just going to dump and exhaust straight out the guard yeah sure okay yeah you're saving some time but actually yeah you're right that's where it all needs to go so from here we know where the turbo is going to be so what are the next steps to get it all plumbed in and connected right so we will clamp it down position the turbo because it's on v-bands it actually rotates around a little bit you know you can tip it back and forth so you've got to get the right position then we'll clamp it down properly take the turbo back off and of course it's a a long tube hanging off some other tubes so it's going to bend around like this yeah we have to brace it to the back of the engine or the the bell housing in this case to sort of strengthen it up because it's going to have the weight of a turbo so 10 kilograms sitting on it yes it would soon been fail do whatever if you didn't do that so that's the next step following that we'll then find a place for the wastegate um you want the wastegate not plumbed to Atmosphere so we'll put it on atmosphere via the exhaust yeah yeah so we'll talk about it later you know it's not really the way to do it but we'll um you know make it acceptable just for your neighbors Benny's phone was already running hot and now the manifolds are nearly done we can move on to some more fuel system things these are our injectors these are our fuel rails that I got second hand these are pretty cool these are from fuel injector Clinic they're 1650s and they've been engraved with MCN which is so cool so custom made for this build thank you fuel injector Clinic that is excellent so I'm going to install these into the rails like that look with some adapters because they don't fit like that and then um yeah throw them in the car this combination of big injectors free-flowing fuel rails and an lines should add plenty of Headroom to when the Boost gets turned up being that we've added a new large feed line we can use the original lines as returns back to the tank the injectors go in with the help of some rubber grease then we can start to work out where everything else is going to fit in the engine bay this is a gfv ex-44 external wastegate so our turbo doesn't have a wastegate built into it like most of the factory ones do and like the one that came off the car does so we need to plug in an external one these are pretty cool so that bypasses exhaust gas around the turbo once the turbo gets to the speed you need to be to make the Boost you want and that's a 44 millimeter one which should be just about right what we're doing you can get 38 you can get 50s this is right in between it's a little bit tricky to plummet in and you've got a weld on VB and do some other tricky stuff but this is uh this is very exciting there is control on this thing's gonna be awesome have you noticed also that doing this kind of custom stuff takes ages and so when people go oh bowling on an exhaust that fits is really easy it's too easy it's actually really fun this stuff is really fun but the time is huge in comparison so making this first Bolton something in very very different it's starting to get a little crowded near our turbo and this isn't even a big one the wastegate will go on the up pipe and it will open to bypass exhaust gas directly into the dump which will be right next to it you also need to add Flex joints to some of this as the constant Heating and Cooling can crack it this side of the Turbo System is high pressure so we're going to continue to purge weld it uses heaps of gas but the results are worth it okay so our pipe is reattached after Allen has made his mad mounting system and attached to the wastegate so that's in there now turbo is going to go on oh let's do it together here we go the turbo is going to go on and then we can put the wastegate on and the up pipe is more or less done except for bracing it back to the gearbox so that it doesn't fall off which we definitely don't want thank you foreign T pipe is about to be secured properly for now using this cool technique that Al invented from in his brain somewhere which I'm always amazed by I just copied off someone else on the internet okay you're on the internet and I'm copying you um so we are now just going to tack it in place so you can probably see here that a pipe is sneaking against this bracket that we've made so now we're going to tuck that so it sits in the right spot take it all off again which is why this takes so long because it's going on and off constantly and then weld that up properly and then we are mounted foreign foreign turbo has a snout on it and it's mounted which is awesome the gates in there the brackets in there we now need to pull the rocker covers off to put breathers because it is going to breathe a bit heavy with all that boost in it and because the factory ones there's just not enough we also need a turbo oil drain which you breathe you drain back into the rocker cover as well bad news is these boys all have to get on planes uh in like four hours so we have maybe an hour lucky if we're lucky too to get this done and then we're just gonna have to hit pause on it and then come back to it when everyone has some more time and just pick away some other little jobs in the meantime so see how we go engines and particularly these flat ones need to breathe and by that I mean the air in the crankcase and heads needs to get out so that it doesn't try and blast oil into the combustion Chambers or out the seals when you start adding boost and extracting more power this only increases we'll be adding a catch can setup to capture any of that oily air so the base stays clean to do this we need to add some fittings to The Rocker covers as the factory one just isn't going to cut it we can also now lock our turbo in place and work out where the hot side intercooler pipe is going to fit in relation to all the other parts we still need to throw in there alright so we have only probably half an hour left with the boys we're trying to just get some of the really tricky stuff that requires expertise and lots of us like the oil drain and yeah bits that require Machining and expert welding I can I can well but not like how so um I'm just going to make this fitting work so that we have an oil drain and then the turbo setups are more or less complete and there's bits and pieces that I will do myself and then business pieces that hopefully I'll be able to come back and help us with at another point and Benny as well for some of the exhaust work that's what we're up to might be as far as we get with this part of the build you might come back later in days a week's time I don't know exactly and I finish it off but I'm getting very excited about that car I can't wait to hear it I can't wait to drive it I've never had a car with a proper mad built engine before very keen so we can't get any any well-known fittings that are suitable for the oil drain today today well we ordered them over the last couple days but they just they just don't exist for whatever reason at the moment they might be shot on stock so we're making our own out of some other old fitting soap bennings machine on the lathe an old fitting and then we're just basically going to drill a hole in the rocker cover which is what we do with super grams as well and drain the oil into that foreign it's been so awesome to spend some time with mates getting these engine swap and turbo install happening surrounding yourself with people with Mad Skills you can't help but absorb knowledge which you can then put to use yourself while we didn't quite get the whole thing finished in the short number of days we had together we will be coming back to it in the not too distant future after we finish off a few other nugget cars that have been begging for some attention it has been a massive couple of days working on Marty's love org it's been awesome to have Benny here from Benny's custom works and also the boys from the skid Factory we've been spending a lot of time basically just going and picking up lots of Parts etching getting stuff trying to find stuff that got lost in the mail exactly and enabling things to happen because all these guys are obviously really good at what they do and it's uh it's been really enjoyable to be a part of it and get it done and this is kind of how you often do build cars is with your mates helping you out which has been great so the car is the framework really is there it's got a big intercooler on it's got a big turbo on it up pipe dump pipe manifolds all being welded up all custom made which takes ages but now it's just little bits that we don't have so stuff that needs to be welded and ordered and added so we're going to pick away it we're not exactly sure when it's going to come back yet because there's a whole bunch of stuff that's not here I'm going to keep picking away at it and as we update the car we will update you I think as usual when we get to kind of this point in the project it's also a matter of you don't know exactly what you need until you get here it's not like kind of doing these projects where you go there's your bolts on exhaust there's your intake it's really simple it's a tried and test it doing something like this you've actually got to build half of it before you realize what is the other stuff that we need and so we're just kind of waiting on that now so yeah massive thank you boys thank you very much and uh see you next time of course if you want to support the show check out Mighty Car Mods and of course check out the boys channels as well the link will be linked below and uh see you next time sounds good kebabs for sure who wants kebabs yep Kane kebabs let's goevery year we try and work on something absolutely epic and this year is no exception we've just been in Japan shooting turbos and temples three it's an absolutely Epic feature film it comes out on Christmas Day we know not everybody has a great Christmas so that is our little gift to you plus this year it comes with topos and temples three the book it's available right now at mightycarmos.com I've covered the car so you don't see what it is but right now people we're here for the borgs Martin we're here for customization and modernization of the Subaru modernization that's right this episode we are going to continue engine swapping out of org thank you welcome to another episode of Mighty carmel's last episode all the boys came down and gave us a hand getting the engine out this one out and getting the Mad built H6 in we also started fabricating some stuff it's all going to slow down now as we start fabricating all this stuff is a lot slower than bolting things on now when you are bolting things on somebody has actually already done the r d it's only bolt on by the time you buy it but before you bought the bolt on someone actually had to customize that so that is what's happening this is not a swap that's been done before so all of this stuff has to be done from scratcher Rooney hence why we're so happy to have the boys here helping us because that is what they do this episode is going to be absolutely huge there's going to be lots of time running around getting stuff finding things that have gone lost in the post picking things up and basically making sure that everybody has everything they need to keep this mad conversion burbling along without a hitch no more burble though boxer rumble's gone that's true in the bin nothing perfects this kind of fabrication more than practice hours turboed more cars than I've blown up in my life so I'm pretty excited to see what he comes up with I'm just working on the driver's side of the well driver's side head part of the exhaust manifold so that's the tight bit that comes around and it goes up towards your up pipe which goes up to the turbo so we're keeping the traditional Subaru method of going between the cylinder head and the and the cross member like the EJ engine was I haven't done it like this before but it's still doable so let's go this is head coming out does obviously a 180 heads up into the between the cylinder head and the cross member that's where a merge will be to obviously receive the opposite side I've already cut this one so that'll get connected like that welded on we'll then cut this back that'll turn into a two and a half inch up pipe this will continue on and head over to the other side cylinder head there's lots of different ways you can get the exhaust gases from the exhaust ports out into the turbo but there's some important factors to think about like managing heat clearing sensors and solenoids and not hanging too low where it can all be taken out by a speed hump Al is slowly building the manifold using stainless mandrel bends which he's tacking together he's then merging the pipes with the two Banks meet this is all two inch stainless tube but we'll go to two and a half inch where the pipes merge that's about the biggest pipe work we can fit in the space that we have foreign is looking great so now we can start thinking about wastegate placement can we have dual like ax44s here can I ask you a question what how do we Plumb that back it's plumbed to atmosphere and then out of the atmosphere back into the pipe yeah well it all ends up at the back it ends up at the back but we plump we plummet back yeah but then it's plump but it's plump back it equalizes the pressure difference because the exhaust is sucking like it's sucking the thing it'll just end up at the back through the exhaust pipe yeah we're sticking with the STI cross member meaning there's a cutout where our up pipe can go the lower part of the manifold is now all tacked together and looking excellent ready for its Purge welding in the meantime Benny and I need to work out what to do with the fuel system as the factory pump and lines are going to go in the bin a car that's going to be making this much power is also going to need a whole heap of fuel because it's running on ethanol we need to make sure it's getting enough corn juice to turn that into Tire frying power so this here is the uh Factory uh fuel hanger system basically one pump in there Benny we're going to two going for the Big Sticks uh anything that we need to do putting these together it's just the same as anything else except we're running two pumps just take a bit of time make sure it's all right we do need to change over our fuel level sender this is actually the wiring for the sender although it looks like a fuel pump plug it's not um so we're going to do a little bit of wiring with that and we've got to add a Barb in here because currently this is only configured for one pump so we've got to do that before we do it basically just work it all together and put in the car we're using a radium twin pump hanger that fits into the Factory location which means we don't have to take up space with external pumps or surge tanks you can fit two pretty big pumps in here but we're planning to Stage ours so they aren't running flat out all of the time the hanger then drops straight in via the rear seat but we'll need to upgrade the fuel feed line to take all that extra flow so Benny's going to make a new feed line out of Dash 8 hose and fittings and run it up to the engine bay foreign is looking amazing thanks to Alan's amazing skills now it's time to actually weld this it's all been tacked in place in the carnivings in the right spot but we are going to purge weld it can you give me the 101 on Purge welding I think we've done this here before no we haven't I I only really do it on stuff like this like manifold like pre-turbo where there's going to be like pretty intense heat yeah so when you weld stainless steel it the the alloy of the steel like the compound of it you get a reaction on on the inside where the air can get to it Like Oxygen it will sugar they call it Sugar and it's like where it looks basically black looking corally stuff yeah so purging is basically filling the inside of the pipe with argon so there's no Oxygen so there's no reaction the same Argan you're squirting at the top of it that's right yeah so you're protecting it from oxygen yeah so this is I mean it's a good idea to do it in this case you don't have to we didn't do it on super Gramps many many years later but it is kind of the right thing to do in in this sort of high temperature area but it's mainly its purposes for stuff like like food service milk factories anything that that's got it's to stop bacteria growing inside the inside of the world so they can clean it properly so we always have the joke it's not a milk factory you don't have to purge everything just because it's stainless steel sure you don't have to purge mild steel at all you don't have to purge aluminum it's it's not really a thing that's just for Instagram so you need an extra bottle or a different way to divert gas out of that bottle and so we are feeding it into here through a little something you just made right like a little yeah these are just aluminum off cuts from cutting hole saw holes and when you've got this v-band you can just use the v-band and clamp it and it's just got a fitting in the engine argon through there and then you've just taped up got another one and taped it with a couple of holes so we let it Purge out for a few minutes basically push the oxygen out oh okay and then restrict it so it sort of creates a little bit of pressure in there not much but um the other advantage of purging is it makes a welder a lot better because that argon in there will help your world it helps the management of the heat Riders as well it also the pressure of it will stop the stop your filler falling into it so right you can get away with a lot more when it when it's perfect and otherwise we're just the tigging we've got to do our gas lens on this it's like a unimig TIG what kind of amp 60 you've got it set to is that the kind of thing you'd be doing no pedal required for this uh no Kenya is a pedal but not so much required on this sort of stuff is with aluminum because because this doesn't lose heat the aluminum is a great radiator so it all the heat you're putting in half of it's leaving really quickly so you have to manage that heat a lot more so that's just your 2.4 mil tungsten on there it does have a gas line so it distributes the the gas a bit nicer also you can use a perspex cup like that or Pyrex whatever it is Pyrex actually and then it'll uh it means you can see what you're doing yeah you should see what you're doing and also the bigger this is the better because you can have more stick out which is going to be required but it's still going to need you're going to need to stick that tungsten out a long way to get inside here and do a better job yeah and so and filler rods we just sort of gone up a grade right so if it's 304 stainless we go up a grade and you like these little thin ones as well yeah it's just uh with thin tube it's better to have the thinner the thinner Rod thinner Rod all right man well I'm excited to see how this turns out go your hardest all right urge away oh foreign we have the intercooler and luckily because this is based on a VA STI almost because this is based on a vasti we can use a kit for the front part now it's going to be different at the back we think luckily the kit came with raw pipes which is awesome so it can cut and Weld and do what we've got to do so we're just going to work out what to do and what are we going to do woody I reckon it will be pretty close I know the turbo is going to be here so it's going to be in our way I do believe that piping goes yeah it goes that way that's going to be basically just the top there look that that looks like it's going to fit pretty well that might even be usable and even if it's a matter of shortening some stuff and just because we've got big holes to send it through right having a kit is so handy because someone's done the hard work already yeah always have been mandrel bent in the position you need them so there's no spinning hours doing it how big is the core what's the size of the core I don't know big I've got the instructions here so maybe it'll be good should know that's pretty big and look it goes in one side and it's got like offset thingos that's pretty that's oh it feels weighty dude I'm so happy with that that's excellent that's big man look how huge that is it'll work for sure so we are doing silicon joiners um up to the power level that we're aiming for if they're clamped properly and you do it right uh we shouldn't be seeing if any of them blow off you can weld on those wiggin style things but this is just this is just going up towards where you might start thinking about it right I look even high horsepower application silicon still works fine yeah but the the clam shells out there easy for Associated getting it on and off yeah for the race car kind of things yeah yeah so if you've got a drag car you've got to pull a pop-up to change plugs every pass yes sweet but for what you're doing silicon's phone great all right let's bash this on dude let's go sweet foreign okay so what's awesome is this just bolts up even though the metal here is all of org it's the same literally went in the could be an awesome um it's literally the same as STI as we discover with so much other stuff so it fits and that's amazing that starting point that's all done we don't have to custom that's that one now isn't it we don't have to custom this stuff and now probably change a few bits of pipe up the front and then when the turbos in place we weld it all together and we've got a mount intercooler well we're busy messing with intercoolers Benny is in charge of Plumbing a stack of race Works fittings have arrived so we can complete the fuel system we're using gfb's fxd fuel pressure regulator and I scored a set of aftermarket fuel rails second hand for cheap this is the carbon fiber intake we installed when we did a bunch of mods on the STI converted levorg it is designed for the ej25 but luckily for us it still fits with the H6 in place but because our turbo setup is completely different the original filter this is the one it comes with isn't going to work that's I think a five inch filter we want to use a four inch because it also matches the size of our turbo just makes everything easier luckily for us also the aftermarket filter Zonk fits perfectly but this that goes over the top to hold it in doesn't fit so Benny is going to machine this out and then that will actually just sit perfectly over the top and secure the filter in there and then we've just got one run of hundred mil pipe to get from here to the turbo and we can recycle this excellent intake a lathe is one of those tools that opens up a world of possibilities when you're customizing stuff it's a bit of a learning curve at first but being able to accurately trim this middle plate and a bunch of other fittings we need for this build is just excellent our turbo manifold is also coming along nicely Alice adding a two and a half inch V band at the base of the manifold so the up pipe can be easily taken on and off foreign making some excellent progress it is awesome to have some mates here helping as well with all their excellent skills that they have we are um up to the stage where something's going to happen until other things happen so until we've got the up pipe done we can't place a turbo until we place a turbo we can't work out the intake which means we also can't work out where the cold side of piping is for the intercooler intercooler kit that Woody put on we can use basically the the core itself which fits beautifully I'm really happy with that and two of the pipes but then once they get into the bait everything's different because the six has a different size timing case here so we're going to have to work something else out with that luckily they're raw aluminum parts machine which is cut them weld them do what we have to do try and have as few silicon joiners as we can we are going to use silicon but you don't want to have too many points of failure you also need to be able to pull it apart if you need to service things and get to stuff the fuel rail setup I actually got a second hand set of these fuel rails which is great aftermarket ones which means you can make our own that Betty has put on here it came with some we've made the others we're waiting on one or two bits and pieces so he can finish the return on that and then also the feed and that's the fuel system completely done then it's just Place turbo Plumbing the oil and cool into the turbo put the inner cooler pipes on and then the only thing left to do with some water and oil and fluids is wiring so we're actually making some good progress it's been about a day and a half and we've got about that amount of time left before this needs to be as done as it can possibly be and then it will just be about wiring it up and getting it to run I've chosen a turbo that has v-band in and outs to make it easier to install onto the custom made piping the next challenge is to work out exactly where it's going to be placed on the up pipe this is by far the slowest part of the process as a few millimeters movement at the bottom end can have the turbo knocking into stuff at the top it would have gone in and out of the car at least 20 times before we were happy with it Alan this up pipe looks spectacular especially considering it didn't exist a few hours ago and you made it from nothing well some bends and some v-bands but can you explain the function of why we need one of those all right so this does the same job as all Subaru or you know all the older Subaru turbo engines the the engine's flat it's a boxer so the exhaust is at the bottom intakes at the top you have some manifolding down the bottom and then the turbo is normally placed here so this pipe goes from the manifolding down the bottom up to the turbo that's what's called an up pipe in this case we've kind of copied the four-cylinder design but much better because more cylinders and the manifolding then connects via a v-band this comes up and the Turbo sits on top around about in the same position nice and that locks our turbo in place which means we can do everything else now there are other positions we could have put turbos we could have put them over there some people put them at the front some people put them in all sorts of spectacular places but there's a few reasons why this ends up being a sensible spot yeah yeah so yeah I have put turbos in many different places on Subarus it's you know this is just this the spot where they go from Factory there's spaced in the firewall there's there's space for it there and if you want to retain all your functions like air conditioning power steering alternator that's kind of the spot that it's got to be otherwise you're doing funky stuff and placing them here but there's just too many compromises yeah you can put it here and it'll look cool but then you've got a big pipe coming over the top here melting everything yes so yeah it's it's just a sensible spot to put it and for maybe for race car because you're just going to dump and exhaust straight out the guard yeah sure okay yeah you're saving some time but actually yeah you're right that's where it all needs to go so from here we know where the turbo is going to be so what are the next steps to get it all plumbed in and connected right so we will clamp it down position the turbo because it's on v-bands it actually rotates around a little bit you know you can tip it back and forth so you've got to get the right position then we'll clamp it down properly take the turbo back off and of course it's a a long tube hanging off some other tubes so it's going to bend around like this yeah we have to brace it to the back of the engine or the the bell housing in this case to sort of strengthen it up because it's going to have the weight of a turbo so 10 kilograms sitting on it yes it would soon been fail do whatever if you didn't do that so that's the next step following that we'll then find a place for the wastegate um you want the wastegate not plumbed to Atmosphere so we'll put it on atmosphere via the exhaust yeah yeah so we'll talk about it later you know it's not really the way to do it but we'll um you know make it acceptable just for your neighbors Benny's phone was already running hot and now the manifolds are nearly done we can move on to some more fuel system things these are our injectors these are our fuel rails that I got second hand these are pretty cool these are from fuel injector Clinic they're 1650s and they've been engraved with MCN which is so cool so custom made for this build thank you fuel injector Clinic that is excellent so I'm going to install these into the rails like that look with some adapters because they don't fit like that and then um yeah throw them in the car this combination of big injectors free-flowing fuel rails and an lines should add plenty of Headroom to when the Boost gets turned up being that we've added a new large feed line we can use the original lines as returns back to the tank the injectors go in with the help of some rubber grease then we can start to work out where everything else is going to fit in the engine bay this is a gfv ex-44 external wastegate so our turbo doesn't have a wastegate built into it like most of the factory ones do and like the one that came off the car does so we need to plug in an external one these are pretty cool so that bypasses exhaust gas around the turbo once the turbo gets to the speed you need to be to make the Boost you want and that's a 44 millimeter one which should be just about right what we're doing you can get 38 you can get 50s this is right in between it's a little bit tricky to plummet in and you've got a weld on VB and do some other tricky stuff but this is uh this is very exciting there is control on this thing's gonna be awesome have you noticed also that doing this kind of custom stuff takes ages and so when people go oh bowling on an exhaust that fits is really easy it's too easy it's actually really fun this stuff is really fun but the time is huge in comparison so making this first Bolton something in very very different it's starting to get a little crowded near our turbo and this isn't even a big one the wastegate will go on the up pipe and it will open to bypass exhaust gas directly into the dump which will be right next to it you also need to add Flex joints to some of this as the constant Heating and Cooling can crack it this side of the Turbo System is high pressure so we're going to continue to purge weld it uses heaps of gas but the results are worth it okay so our pipe is reattached after Allen has made his mad mounting system and attached to the wastegate so that's in there now turbo is going to go on oh let's do it together here we go the turbo is going to go on and then we can put the wastegate on and the up pipe is more or less done except for bracing it back to the gearbox so that it doesn't fall off which we definitely don't want thank you foreign T pipe is about to be secured properly for now using this cool technique that Al invented from in his brain somewhere which I'm always amazed by I just copied off someone else on the internet okay you're on the internet and I'm copying you um so we are now just going to tack it in place so you can probably see here that a pipe is sneaking against this bracket that we've made so now we're going to tuck that so it sits in the right spot take it all off again which is why this takes so long because it's going on and off constantly and then weld that up properly and then we are mounted foreign foreign turbo has a snout on it and it's mounted which is awesome the gates in there the brackets in there we now need to pull the rocker covers off to put breathers because it is going to breathe a bit heavy with all that boost in it and because the factory ones there's just not enough we also need a turbo oil drain which you breathe you drain back into the rocker cover as well bad news is these boys all have to get on planes uh in like four hours so we have maybe an hour lucky if we're lucky too to get this done and then we're just gonna have to hit pause on it and then come back to it when everyone has some more time and just pick away some other little jobs in the meantime so see how we go engines and particularly these flat ones need to breathe and by that I mean the air in the crankcase and heads needs to get out so that it doesn't try and blast oil into the combustion Chambers or out the seals when you start adding boost and extracting more power this only increases we'll be adding a catch can setup to capture any of that oily air so the base stays clean to do this we need to add some fittings to The Rocker covers as the factory one just isn't going to cut it we can also now lock our turbo in place and work out where the hot side intercooler pipe is going to fit in relation to all the other parts we still need to throw in there alright so we have only probably half an hour left with the boys we're trying to just get some of the really tricky stuff that requires expertise and lots of us like the oil drain and yeah bits that require Machining and expert welding I can I can well but not like how so um I'm just going to make this fitting work so that we have an oil drain and then the turbo setups are more or less complete and there's bits and pieces that I will do myself and then business pieces that hopefully I'll be able to come back and help us with at another point and Benny as well for some of the exhaust work that's what we're up to might be as far as we get with this part of the build you might come back later in days a week's time I don't know exactly and I finish it off but I'm getting very excited about that car I can't wait to hear it I can't wait to drive it I've never had a car with a proper mad built engine before very keen so we can't get any any well-known fittings that are suitable for the oil drain today today well we ordered them over the last couple days but they just they just don't exist for whatever reason at the moment they might be shot on stock so we're making our own out of some other old fitting soap bennings machine on the lathe an old fitting and then we're just basically going to drill a hole in the rocker cover which is what we do with super grams as well and drain the oil into that foreign it's been so awesome to spend some time with mates getting these engine swap and turbo install happening surrounding yourself with people with Mad Skills you can't help but absorb knowledge which you can then put to use yourself while we didn't quite get the whole thing finished in the short number of days we had together we will be coming back to it in the not too distant future after we finish off a few other nugget cars that have been begging for some attention it has been a massive couple of days working on Marty's love org it's been awesome to have Benny here from Benny's custom works and also the boys from the skid Factory we've been spending a lot of time basically just going and picking up lots of Parts etching getting stuff trying to find stuff that got lost in the mail exactly and enabling things to happen because all these guys are obviously really good at what they do and it's uh it's been really enjoyable to be a part of it and get it done and this is kind of how you often do build cars is with your mates helping you out which has been great so the car is the framework really is there it's got a big intercooler on it's got a big turbo on it up pipe dump pipe manifolds all being welded up all custom made which takes ages but now it's just little bits that we don't have so stuff that needs to be welded and ordered and added so we're going to pick away it we're not exactly sure when it's going to come back yet because there's a whole bunch of stuff that's not here I'm going to keep picking away at it and as we update the car we will update you I think as usual when we get to kind of this point in the project it's also a matter of you don't know exactly what you need until you get here it's not like kind of doing these projects where you go there's your bolts on exhaust there's your intake it's really simple it's a tried and test it doing something like this you've actually got to build half of it before you realize what is the other stuff that we need and so we're just kind of waiting on that now so yeah massive thank you boys thank you very much and uh see you next time of course if you want to support the show check out Mighty Car Mods and of course check out the boys channels as well the link will be linked below and uh see you next time sounds good kebabs for sure who wants kebabs yep Kane kebabs let's go\n"