I wish I took a picture of tonight's progress, I got a lot done out there. Still a lot left to go though!
Got the coolant system wrapped up with pretty much everything new. New rad, out flanges, thermostat, hoses, and coolant bottle with the level sensor to be wired in to an LED in the future. Box of goodies! All of it for $160 shipped to my door, nice. On top of the coolant stuff previously listed there was a dipstick tube, intake manifold gasket, valve cover gasket, cam shaft seal, exhaust hangers, and three Bosch oil filters for the future.. I have three cars that run this filter, so its all good.
The oil system is pretty much done as well with the addition of the EuroSport external oil cooler, which looks like the oil cooler rad will fit perfectly in front of my coolant rad. Of course, the big 'ol dirtyawesome fan favourite Mann filter
. I ended up adding about 4 more threads to my original long oil filter mount and using a thick washer to take up slack to mount the thinner sandwich plate to the oil filter mount. Success!
The fuel system is well underway as well.. being that this was originally a CIS gas engine car, the metal fuel lines ran along the firewall with the brake lines and then up in behind the battery where they hooked in the fuel filter and CIS mechanical fuel distributor. So I then originally when swapping to diesel ran my fuel filter off the drivers tower and had the soft lines cross the engine bay to the pump. I have cut the metal lines back, re-bent them up towards the passenger tower and flared the ends. I didn't snap a picture as it got dark too fast, but I am now running the fuel filter over on the passenger fender. I am running the Mk1 spin on type, which I hope to upgrade in the near future with an additional filter after this one. Preferably a 2-micron Racor unit with water separator and a sight bowl. Does anyone know the thread off hand of the mk1 fuel filters?? The filter will be pressure fed with a 5-7psi electrical pump in the engine bay and clear lines used for all of it, so I can keep a close eye one all the air that shouldn't be there lol.