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Sai Li fuel system came in. It appears we are keeping with the theme as all of the fittings he includes are, well, made in China! Lol.


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Thanks for posting up your experience with making this all go together.

Was surprised to hear about header removal issue. When you say you raised the motor 4”, are you saying you unbolted from trans at bell housing? If not , check for cracks in block at bell housing flanges. Passenger side flange is very easy to crack. I busted a flange in a hurry pulling out a trashed moror (had already killed valvetrain and broken crank).
Safest way to pull headers in car is build a support frame(2x2 + 4x4 on each fender + 2x12 or 4x4 laid across) and use eye bolts from Lowes to hoist motor no more than 1.5” and then drop the sub frame. I have pulled both headers that way with plenty of room.
 
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Thanks for posting up your experience with making this all go together.

Was surprised to hear about header removal issue. When you say you raised the motor 4”, are you saying you unbolted from trans at bell housing? If not , check for cracks in block at bell housing flanges. Passenger side flange is very easy to crack. I busted a flange in a hurry pulling out a trashed moror (had already killed valvetrain and broken crank).
Safest way to pull headers in car is build a support frame(2x2 + 4x4 on each fender + 2x12 or 4x4 laid across) and use eye bolts from Lowes to hoist motor no more than 1.5” and then drop the sub frame. I have pulled both headers that way with plenty of room.

Did not separate motor from trans. I’ll check today for cracks and report back. Thanks for the tip!
 
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Finally done with cutting, welding, fabbing of exhaust and wastegates.


Had to re position wastegates on both sides driver and pass. Ugh! All good now. Looks bad ass and gave me renewed motivation after today’s progress.


Tomorrow is cold side mock up and then start fabbing oil feed and return lines.



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nice to see someone doing their own work! (before anyone gets upset, I also am not capable of this level stuff by myself)

thanks for the documentation also
 

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loving this!
 
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Made some headway on the cold side today. It is so damn tight in there holy crap.

Tons of new scrapes and bruised arms after today.

Gonna look killer when done tho!

I test fit the front bumper cover afterwards expecting the worst but nope— fit back on like a glove.


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Well... little progress to report today... not much.


Fabbed lines for trans cooler since I had to relocate them from pass side to dr side.


They came out great. They are -8AN black braided.


Giggidy!


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Little progress today.. not much.


Got around to pulling the oil pressure sender so I can install turbo oil feeds.


As luck would have it, Ford changed the thread pitch, thread size, and sensor on the gen 3 coyote (2018+).


Couldn’t find any info online about the size at all so took the sensor to hardware store and matched up a nut.


Size is m12 x 1.5. Ordered a m12 1.5 x m12 x 1.5 x 1/8 NPT adapter from summit so I can run oil feeds.


Also found a good spot to mount the oil scavenge pump and fabricated a quick bracket out of some steel I had laying around the shop. Not my best work but it’ll do! I’ll have it powder coated to match the intercooler piping in the next week or two.


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Couple pics of the finished trans cooler lines.

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Bad ass cost effective build! I was lazy and went the easy but expensive way out... Have $9K in my Hellion Kit alone..
 

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Holy details. Very cool man!

Just gonna be that guy for a second but I couldn't help but to notice the inside of the header on their page and cringe a little but hey, that's what it is right? :like:

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any updates?
It appears I was in time out for a few weeks on M6G but they've released me!

I gotta stop being so skeptical on the "tick tick, my engine is gonna blow" threads and just keep my mouth closed.


Bad ass cost effective build! I was lazy and went the easy but expensive way out... Have $9K in my Hellion Kit alone..
I like to wrench on stuff. If I have a project to work on, Im a happy guy.

This kit has certainly delivered in that department LOL.

Holy details. Very cool man!

Just gonna be that guy for a second but I couldn't help but to notice the inside of the header on their page and cringe a little but hey, that's what it is right? :like:

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No worries at all.

I can say my headers appear to be finished nicer than what is on their page. Their page sucks actually, and doesn't give much info at all which is partially why I deiced to do this trhead to begin with.

The headers are true 4-1 1 3/4" primaries all mandrel bent stainless. They should outflow the stock pieces and be just fine.
 

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awesome build love it!
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