Actually traction isn't too bad once the car is rolling along, and I expect it will be much better once I install the rear camber kit and invest in some real tyres. This setup won't really come on song until the car is moving at speed anyway.
I had a go at properly mounting the manifold and turbo today. It turns out my cheapie manifold wasn't very well thought out - for starters three of the runners foul the lower manifold studs so I'll have to find some shorter ones, and even then it will be a struggle to get nuts on them.
Worse than that though, the turbo is positioned such that the oil drain is pointing directly at the collector and there's no room to get a hose in between the pipes. At the moment the drain hose is pointing forward to go around the runners and it has a big kink in it so I don't think it will flow at all. Not good!
One last potential problem is the height of the turbo, it clears the bonnet but I don't know if the intercooler piping will after I've put a 90 degree bend on the outlet. I may have to cut the housing and weld an alloy bend on it, which isn't so bad but I'd prefer to have the turbo mounted lower.
At this point I'm wondering if I should persist with what I have or try one of the many other eBay manifold designs out there? It's a bit of a pain but at least they're cheap.
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