post your interesting mods or mod ideas....
 

thought id bring this topic back, but this time only realistic or preexisting stuff, like rotor beveling and coolant passage ribbing....

id like to create a upper intake that would allow the n/a to use the t2 hood as a cold air intake point

That would be hard, due to the intake being on the passenger side, and the hood scoop offset to the driver's side... If you wanted to keep the stock clutch fan/shroud, you could use the factory intake snorkel and run it "factory style" to a cold airbox with a dry ice chamber...

Here's a pic of my water jacket mods. BTW the hood things not going to work very well since your intake would have to do a 180.

Brent

If he made his own uim he could make it shorter so it wouldent have to do a 180 possibly

thats the plan or make a adaptre plate for the t2 uim and use a hollwed out intercooler with a drop in k&n filter

I'd like to use a Ford MAF sensor in place of the factory flapper door - didn't someone try to make one work? Needed to make -12vdc for a reference voltage but couldn't figure the circuit out? I may have the answer now...

Would also like to find a 4 speed / OD tranny with an aluminum housing that will bolt up with minor mods. ~rich

Btw, he should look at the dellorto UIM for dellorto carburetors - then all he needs is some injector bungs welded in and make adapter plates to mount some throttle bodies if he wanted to stay EFI.

maybe a TII Intake would help?

I am making my security/AAS/side view mirror panel, behind the shifter pop up and flip open to hide switches for various things that I do not want seen. I bought, from Home Depot a small hinge, a pop out magnet (used typically on glass doors on entertainment center) the pop up is gorilla glued to the hinge and that is gorilla glued to the panel you simply push down then flip open the panel to reveal switches.

Not a bad idea... :)

interesting stuff guys. my plan is sort of like the mariah motorsports idea, but i plan on getting an extra hatch, busting the glass out, and fiberglassing a tonneau cover across the bottom, as well as side "walls" if you will, kinda like the back of a mr2. ehh thats all i really have at the moment. it looks good in my head, havent tried to bring it to life at all though...


Zak

not fc related but i want a 20b powered c5 vet to smoke v8 guys all day long with. on the fc side of things a second gas tank to replace the spare tire for the cross country drive i am planing.

Kinda like the Wisesports hatch? I'm liking the switch idea also. I'll probably do that w/an iginition & fuel kill switch =)

One word, Rain. If you don't drive in the rain then don't worry about it.

I thought it would be neat to use manual door panels and route the drivers switch to the center console like a miata. No need for the passenger switch at that point.

Chris

Edit. Drivers power window switch.

When I get finished sorting out the mechanical bugs, and get around to doing the interior, mine will have one switch that opens the windows and the sunroof.

I like that one I'll have to steal it.

you would be better off just using the stock intake duct and making an extension to duct it to the front bumper rather than the hood.

But what if you get rear ended? :(

Is it just because the filter would get wet or is it also not possible to set up a NA engine for water 'injection'?

Mud puddles...

It's not the puddle that really hurts it... It's the mud... :)

:D

Haha that guy is the best too... :D

i have always had the idea of makeing the t2 hood scoop into a intake. the way i always thought it could work would be like a mustang shaker hood scoop like the mach 1 has. but even on the mach 1, the intake only give like 5-10 hp only in high end

Im loving that pop open magnet idea, its brilliant.
Im gona put a coupler of switches on a relay or two so that i can have my headlights, dashlight and fog lights on but have no rear/brake lights on.... for when im upto mischeif and so it will make it that little bit easier to get away from the pigs coz they wont be able to see you if your far enough ahead of them as you cant see the front lights anyway from a little way back

I have made 2 protocals of the hood scoop/cold intake, although school and the lack of funds have limited my project. :(

I made a dock for my iPod nano in the center consol, near the side mirror controls. There was a change holder there that I cut out. I think some models had other things there, that shouldn't be cut out. And no, the shifter does not hit it. It's not even very close.

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Its because it would have to travel thru the AFM which is very sensitive and would probably damage it. Perhaps rusting things like your throttle body plates and no telling what else you have. And water injection is in small amounts and its regulated, not just a flow of water in to the combustion chamber.

I swapped in Miata gears. The shorter ratios are great for road racing, and the swap was not difficult at all. I love it, and would never go back to stock ratios. RX-7tII88, I like the ipod dock!!

how well is that holding up? the miata box

It's doing great. It was in excellent condition when I bought it, I didn't have to replace 3rd, or any sychros. Absoloutly no complaints.

i found myself using a large (LARGE) ubolt around the rear differential for drag racing purposes because i keep dominating my diff. mount.

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i need some pics of my current engine bay. you would be impressed...( i got REALLY bored)
this is the old one. now, imagine, no top mount, no engine wiring harness, no chassis wiring harness, or coils, or relays......


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Thats uber sick man!! Trailor park pinion snubber - haha

As far as the T2 hood scoop being used for you intake collector, I believe most of the T2 guys found the scoop to be a low pressure area and had much better luck with a reverse scoop at which point you'd want to use one of the ram air hoods like some of the old muscle cars.

I've got a convertible for my parts car, and was thinking about swapping over some of the chasis reinforcements, but not sure it'd be worth the weight (my suspension is already more stiff than the sidewalls on my tires can handle.)

If I had tokico illumina's instead of hp's I'd run some stepper motors to adjust each individual shock on the fly.

I've also considered running a regulator on a bottle of compressed air that feeds into the intake, sort of like a cross between Nitrous Oxide and Turbo. Not sure if it would work or not, but kinda fun thinkin about recharging your "NoS" system at any ole gas station.

you would need a lot more psi than a gas station could provide try 3000.

I have heard of people using compressed air to run a directed nozle that points at the turbine to keep it spooled during shifting or off the line.

[QUOTE=Low Impedance]i found myself using a large (LARGE) ubolt around the rear differential for drag racing purposes because i keep dominating my diff. mount.

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i dont see how that does anything? looks like its just dangling there.. do you have any other angles of it?

my psp stereo system

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i dont as of right now, but its held against the red crossmember quite tightlightly.

what was happening is wheel hop was murdering my mount, and becauasei honesly dont have the money to redo the entire rear suspensoion. this helped to keep it attahced to the crossmember and reduces the flexing and shocks. Datsun guys did stuff like this.

I have heard about newer cars shutting down half their cylinders to improve gas mileage on highways.

I was thinking.... if you got up to speed on the highway, what if you could stop 1 of your rotors? Would it mess things up if you stopped the fuel and spark on 1 rotor? Just thoughts..... :)

^ pretty sure its been attempted before

would have to ensure the oil injection system would still work...

What tools did you use to do the water jacket mod?

wouldn't it be easier to just use a solid dif mount? wouldn't look like there's something hanging from behind.

in pic #2, where's #3??

I suppose this qualifies as another chance to whore my car out. If you cant see the mod then your blind . . .
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pretty sure its been tried, and pretty sure it didn't make any power, since i have never seen anyone actually do it, but i thought rerouting your AC back into the intake might make some power. probably the parasitic drag overcomes the power gain from the cold air.

another idea i had was using an electric supercharger, but i don't think the stock charging system is up to it. then i thought about making a conversion kit for a 42V system.

again. money related constrants and time. the ubolt was on hand. been working well too.

and there was a few pictures. the #3 was on a seperate picture as there was a list showing what the numbers meant.

i did that modern taillight mod last night. looks sweet!

pics

oooooohhhhh, i didnt realize it was pressing on the subframe. the angle its attached makes it look like it not on there, but i see now. pretty cool :bigthumb:

S0tatic i envy your targa FC, problems and all. It is very unique.

My idea is to have two DSM turbos mounted directly onto exhaust ports. Sure, there are better ways, but the turbos are like $20 each at a junkyard, and the manifold would be fairly cheap. the turbos have internal W/G and an ebay intercooler would be ~ $200 plus pipng. Use a stock DSM BOV from the junkyard, and you have a very cheap twin turbo setup that would give decent numbers as well.

stupid double posts...