decided that although im going to be under powered regardless of what i do, i wanted to try and be competitive as possible with the original engine. so i ditched the nasty restrictive inlet manifold and throttlebody for the free flowing 325 items.
old ones off
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swap bits from the old onto the new. notice the different width's in the chambers
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going to be finishing the fitting this weekend as ive kinda forgoten where some of the hoses go...me bad. Also brought a scorpion cat back system and a de-cat front pipe for it which ill be heat wrapping to help compensate for lack of heaters/cooling
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joining all this will be a carbon airfilter/intake and a spal race fan to ditch the viscous item. once running correctly ill aim to get a remap.
to meet regs also fitted some boot and bonnet latches i brought of jord(cheers mate)
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riveted in so should be nice and solid.