the throttle bodies are happily mated up and are perfectly port-matched etc, looks factory, really is good. vacuum rail is also sorted, fuel rail is more or less sorted too. trying to shoehorn in an s14 plenum is proving a nightmare though. Problems are as follows:
-m42 sits too far back in the engine bay, so the plenum hits against the brake servo
-alternator bracket is bloody tight, as is the starter motor
- m/c tank and coolant hoses into cockpit v close too
with the throttle bodies at the angle they're at atm - which is the best position for them in terms of flow, injector angle etc, in order to mate up to the plenum, the trumpets require quite some kink... may fibreglass up the trumpets at the angle i can get them to fit, not very happy with this.
you'll see what i mean in the following pics. have to somehow attach the plenum to the engine too...
i may have to get someone to build me up a custom alloy plenum and get some tasty trumpets. this would probably be the best solution. as far as trumpet length and plenum design is concerned, my info so far seems to suggest that basically i want the longest trumpets and biggest plenum i can physically fit. if i go for a custom effort, it'll be an e46 m3 csl style slanted design.
fuelling is looking likely to be done by megasquirt, not sure whether to go alpha-n or speed density, and whether to leave the sparks handled by motronic... haven't heard back about the bottom end at the mo, will ring them tomorrow.
anyways, the pics.
any advice much appreciated, if anyone fancies building me an ally plenum or some clever trumpets to make this work, please let me know!
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