Project STurdteen, Plumbing the Motor and Getting Her Ready to Run!

To plumb the oil cooler we used this Tomei N2 block adapter from Enjuku Racing. The Tomei block adapter had provisions for an oil pressure sending unit, and for A/N fittings for the oil lines. This allowed us to run Earls Autoflex dash 10 line to an Earls Remote Oil Filter Mounting kit. We also used all Earls A/N fittings to make for bulletproof leak-free oil plumbing.

The Earls remote oil filter kit makes oil changes a snap and allows for us to use common large American oil filters for added oil and filtering capacity with less flow loss because of a larger less restrictive filtering element.

We used Earls Teflon lined hose and fittings for the critical turbo oil supply.

We could salvage the previous intercoolers mounting points and made new brackets to hold the Spearco intercooler in place.  We mounted the engine oil cooler and the power steering cooler behind the intercooler and in front of the radiator off of brackets attached to the core support.

We plumbed the power steering cooler the low-pressure return line going back to the reservoir.  We used some extra Earl’s -10 UltraPro hose we had extra from a previous plumbing job.

Here is the Earls hose terminating back at the power steering pump. You can also get a peek at some of the AEM Electronics’ stainless steel pressure sensors we will be using to keep an eye on key engine parameters. You can clearly see our manifold pressure sensor (part# 30-2130-50). AEM Electronics has a full of line of high quality stainless steel PSIg and PSIa sensors, so be sure to check them out for your build.