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My engine bay is almost up to my standard.

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Old 06-26-2017, 01:19 PM
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Sick dude. IS that a battery, I see the terminal leads and thick battery cables but the battery itself, what is that exactly. 1st time seeing something like that.
Old 06-26-2017, 09:39 PM
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Sick dude. IS that a battery, I see the terminal leads and thick battery cables but the battery itself, what is that exactly. 1st time seeing something like that.
That is a 15 lb Braille battery. To move the battery to the rear I weighed all the parts. It meant adding 20lbs on top of the 35 lb battery you are moving. So I figured I would go to 15lb battery and in fact be 40 lbs lighter than the guys who move the battery. I did fab an aluminum mounting bracket and add power distribution blocks.


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Old 06-27-2017, 07:21 AM
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Very nice setup and good looking engine bay.
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I really like the distribution block setup that's clean. Ioved mine to the back and you are right that kit is heavy. Mine was more for appearance though. My coils are mounted on the backside of the rad support. Speaking of you mind sharing specs on that radiator? I was wanting to upgrade but couldn't decide between doing a setup that goes in the rad support vs doing one in a stock location so I could keep my airbox.
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The rad is a Ron Davis rad. It cools a lot better than the Becool I had before. I made up brackets to mount a dual Spal fan set up. I also added a Ron Davis coolant to oil, oil cooler. It has 14 plates.

You can see a lot of the experimenting I had to do to get here in this link. Various adaptors and comparisons of the BeCool vs the Ron Davis.

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I highly modified a Canton remote oil adaptor to fit my 2" Kooks headers.

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It is routed thru a Hamburger remote oil filter housing, which uses the large Ford filter. Both are mounted right behind the rad down low.
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Thanks, preciate it. I wouldn't have thought about the 2" primaries eating up real estate beside the engine.



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