Moving on I finally got my hot side of the turbo kit cermic coated. It's a shame to cover those fantastic welds but, it's for the greater good. Shot a quick pic when I dropped it off. Ignore the parts under the red x. They're not mine.





The hot side ended up looking great after Ceramic coating.

 

 

Tossed the newly coated kit back on.

 

I also installed a new shorter serpentine belt. Due to my fear that excessive heat would cause my serpentine belt to prematurely fail.


Old serpentine belt









New serpentine belt

 

To keep a clean look I chose to relocate my ignition coils. So I purchased Michigan Motorsports ignition coil relocation kit. Unfortunately it wasn't a plug & play install. Even though I had coils that were advertised to fit. They didn't. Here's some pics showing the Coils not fitting.







After some quick machining they fit perfectly. It's worth noting Michigan Motorsports did issue a reimbursement to cover machining costs. I couldn't be happier with their customer service.

 

Now to tackle making mounting brackets for them to bolt to.
Driver side

 

Passenger side

 

Another preventative step I took was the installation of new sensors & intake manifold gaskets. Also installed new steam port gaskets. The steam port gaskets I used were Dorman #56390. New stainless steel hardware was used to secure the TPS & IAC. The stainless steel hardware specs was M4x.7mm x 12mm & M4 washers. Only thing left is to weld the IAT bung on & install new oil pressure sensor.

 

Last but not least was the making of the spark plug wires. I didn't want my spark plug wires to take take away from my "clean look". With that said I chose to run them behind the exhaust manifolds. Accel Extreme 9000 wires were chosen. Due to not wanting to deal with melting boots all the time. These wires have cermic boots that withstand 2000 degrees. In kit #9001C the shortest plug wire was 31.5 inches long from the base of the cermic boot. This kit doesn't come with boots for LSX coils. I used Taylor Cable #46069 boots. For extra protection DEI Titanium Protect-A-Sleeve was installed to cover the portions of wire nearest to the exhaust manifolds.
Pics of the parts used to make my wires. I'm also posting the measurements of all the wires included in the #9001C kit. Maybe it'll help someone that stumbles on my build.

 

 

Spark plug wires complete

















Spark plug wires installed
Driver side

 

Passenger side
















Can't even see the coils or wires. Just the way I wanted




Thanks again to all for stopping by.

 

That's a beautiful project man, love how you did the plug wires. Great job!!!

 

Very nice man, Kudos!

 

Much appreciated guys.

 

Absolutely fantastic!

 

Thanks!

 

those wires are awesome man! im going to steal that idea lol.

 

Thank you. I'll keep an eye out on your build for them.

 

Looks great man! I still cant get over how similar our builds ended up being. I love hiding the coils and wires, looks super clean! Are you also running MS Gold? Heres mine: