To be honest, I was convinced that by this time the latent heat of vaporization would be automatically released thanks to my hobby project. However, holidays have their own rules, and the whole thing has been slightly delayed. Nevertheless, some very minor progress has been made.

I replaced the original four-liter tank with the Spec-C version, which has a capacity of twelve liters; I also removed the stand on which the smaller one was mounted - seems like a simple thing, but there’s one nut hidden underneath, in a rather non-obvious spot.

Almost there — just about ready to go. I’ve gathered all the missing parts. A local machinist came to the rescue and turned a custom adapter fitting, modeled after a T-joint, to make everything connect neatly. He’s an old-school kind of a guy — the type who can tell you the thread pitch in turns per inch without putting on his glasses and we mostly use metrics here.

The T-joint:

For a moment, it looked like this:

But I got it under control fairly quickly.

I get to go to the UK every now and then for work. Last week was one of those trips — a bit of office work and the company’s Christmas party. The UK is great for JDM parts because of the left-hand drive cars, and I took advantage of that. On the flight back, I brought this with me — a 12-liter worth of “this”:

Spec-C, brand new intercooler water tank with all the attachments and water pump.

For now, just a trial fit, but I’ve found myself a new wee project.