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[CocoPops]

it is impossible to do it for 2k with new parts.

2k?! Who managed that? I thought the £4k each for JG and I was good going.

Or did you think that JG meant 2 conversions for £4k total?

[The Batman]

ah i thought he was implying him and you did 2 conversions for 4k my mistake

[CocoPops]

Haha!! I doubt even with your favours you could do it for £2k Joe The 'chargers were £1450 new on their own!

[OneYet]

I feel stupid but it's not.
Where do you put it?
And where do you put the sensor that was in the plastic inlet pipe?

Don't worry; there are no stupid questions on a conversion like this.
Have a look on lhe left side, where you see the map sensor in the inlet manifold.


As for the plastic pipe your oem setup has; it currently has 3 connectors in it:
- air sensor (which has to be moved to a location before the throttle)
- valve cover breather (either reroute to to the same locatino as the air sensor, or put a filter on it. (which can smell a bit more), or an oil catch tank, as on boost it may spit out goo, instead of just fumes.
- Fuel pressure hose. That is also present on the SC manifold. (make sure to use a vacuum type hose)

Thanks Smiley!
I thought that might be the place. But I've seen a couple of pics where they have put it where you have your 90 deg elbow on the upper side of the S/C.
Did you make that bracket for the map-sensor yourself?

Where do you put the air sensor? Do you make a hole in the slicone pipe?

There is also a small brass connector on the inlet (in the middle of all the injectors) Is that used for something?

The valve cover breather. Would in be nice to breathe the oil catch tank to the inlet to get rid of the fumes?

[JG]

This is Lee's car, but i've done the same on mine, the breather now exits at the back of the car. you can see the pipe running along the subframe.

[smiley]

Did you make that bracket for the map-sensor yourself?
No, exmantaa who did the conversion made it.
Where do you put the air sensor? Do you make a hole in the slicone pipe?
No, i have a 70mm piece of pipe between the silicon hose on the throttle body and the air filter. Drilled a hole and put it in there.
There is also a small brass connector on the inlet (in the middle of all the injectors) Is that used for something?
Yes, that's the fule pressure pipe i mentioned earlier. That goes on fule pressure regulator which is on the end of your fuel rail.
The valve cover breather. Would in be nice to breathe the oil catch tank to the inlet to get rid of the fumes?
yes.

[OneYet]

Thanks so much. Two more questions for today. My TB has an 8 mm brass pipe on it. Usable? The TB is 75 mm diameter on the outside while the silicon pipe from Courtenay is 70 mm on the inside. I've tried to put in on to the TB by a little force. Maybe I should use more force. Or do I gaffatape the pipe to stay in place?

[The Batman]

Use more force Yes the brass pipe is for the carbon canister vent valve

[OneYet]

Use more force

Yes the brass pipe is for the carbon canister vent valve

Force, here I come.

The carbon canister vent valve, is that the hard plastic pipe with the wierd square connector that is always in the way of my supercharger pulley on the other side of the engine?

[smiley]

The carbon canister vent valve, is that the hard plastic pipe with the wierd square connector that is always in the way of my supercharger pulley on the other side of the engine?

yes.

[OneYet]

The Map sensor rattles around a little bit in that hole. Is that normal or should I use some thread tape or something like that to make a tighter fit?

[JG]

you need to do the Joe mod. I'll let him explain.

[techieboy]

The Joe mod

[JG]

how on earth did you find that so quickly?

[techieboy]

It's just you that's running a little slowly of late.

[JG]

tis true. Virtually every post is about 1 to 2 min late. Just happened again in the time attack thread.

[techieboy]

It's a conspiracy.

[OneYet]

Insulationtape is armed and ready for tomorrow. Thanks a lot boys.

[Anarchy]

Of course the gasket goes on, before putting it on the engine:

A couple of question about this.
I have been reading something about modifying the gasket before putting it on. Did you do this and if you did, how?
What is all that blue stuff in the middle of the gasket?
Did you use some kind of gasket-seal to glue the gasket on the manifold?

I think my new gasket from CMS is different to that, the two end bolts do no match the hole position in the gasket so I will obviously have to modify it. The rest looks to line up OK but what is the 'other' modification (which we dont do) to increase air flow, something to do with the smaller round hole?

[Exmantaa]

That's a standard Saab B207 (or Z20NET) gasket. Not modified, but the PCV passage is blocked by some silicone sealant as the Courtenay SC mapping cannot cope with a working PCV system. (To properly work the gasket should be modified a bit to make a passage from the Z22SE head PCV port to the LSJ manifold port. Different castings that do not line up..)