I cleaned and installed my oil relocation kit. Note the gold fitting on the filter housing, which connects to my mechanical oil pressure gauge.
I then installed my standard exhaust manifold + heat shield, turbo and dump pipe. You will see that i installed a T piece for the vacuum between the turbo, waste gate actuator and back to the standard boost controller.
Radiator
I wasn't really ever happy with my radiator setup. It was a cheap Chinese radiator and it was just that little bit too physically big.
Lucky for me though, my friend Alan had gone out and had a few custom ones made up. Still from someone in China but custom sized to fit neatly in a Mini engine bay and a large enough volume to suit the 4EFTE engine.
Upon opening the box the radiator was definitely a lot nicer built than my previous one and had seemed to be polished as well. Alan had designed the radiator to allow for custom mounting and once again i was lucky that it ended up fitting nicely and installation was relatively easy.
The radiator was mounted to the inside of the engine bay by M6 bolts through a rubber grommet and flat washers on either end.
It was then supported underneath by a bracket that bolted to my previous radiator mount. This was rather lazy of me but seeing as everything has already been painted i didn't want to damage anything. The bracket is similar to Alan's (image) but is fixed slightly different to the front sub frame support bar.
Next i mounted the 10" radiator fan with a simple fan mounting kit.
The new radiator all snug in his new home.
One of the major reasons for replacing the radiator was its original vicinity to the dump pipe. As you can see now there is more room and hopefully less heat on the radiator.
And finally.. How the mini currently sits.
