Top notch! Looks great!


PERFECTION!

Also did you seriously remake the shitty plastic door handle that always breaks because it's made out of plastic, out of ..... PLASTIC? You know the original problem with it is that it's made of plastic right?
http://muibubbles-design.com/index.p...r-door-handle/


This thread is like watching a kid play in a sandbox, with no adult supervision




Sorry, I'm just a Mad Hatter

 

wow you sakebomb guys are lame

 

What, I can't comment on what you're posting? Just look at your own pictures . IDK, maybe I care about my car too much and don't like to hack projects... you post pictures of IC pipes that don't line up, god knows what happened to the manifold with the hole, a destroyed door panel (NLA), a hard/cheap plastic remake of a part that broke because it was plastic.... and my impression after just skimming through your thread as a fun read is... "what the hell is going on here" . I personally know how much time sweat and blood it takes to physically do all the work you are doing, but on lots of this stuff it seems like you're just spinning your wheels because you insist on going against the grain (to your own detriment it seems).

Yes it's your car and your project but it boggles my mind why you post pictures of failed "experiments" ... I guess I'm just wondering about the impetus? You've got shirts, and bubble this and that... it's fun and all but I guess at the end of the day I'm just genuinely trying to understand what your doing Then you post comments about how the sub in your trunk is "so gay" and proceed to sprinkle pink on everything (which is fine, except at the same time you come off as kinda homophobic). I'm just trying to understand where you're coming from, cause I don't get it

P.S. haters gonna hate... means like, if someone hates on what you're doing, let them and keep on doing what you're doing... but you get all defensive

 

Anyone can cut that piece out of their UIM with a drill and a file. It's just left over casting, it doesn't interfere with anything, the runners are closed off to it. It's actually a cool little touch that not many people know about.

 

ah I thought the rough line around the next set of runners was the "slit" that he was talking about (I guess that rough line is actually debris from trying to remove the pink ... thought he sliced it with a dremel cutoff wheel or something). My mistake

 

I think he meant this:


I guess it's just metal dust from cutting? I also thought these lines were cuts - like he was trying to cut out the center runners or something.

 

Of course you can and he can respond to what you're posting.

Yea but at least he tried and he can show people the results and in the end, this is a great all encompassing build thread with successes and failures. I don't even have the resources to attempt the stuff Benny is doing. I'd love to at least have some failed experiments under my belt. Benny certainly has learned alot from his successes and probably even more from his failures. Also, I think some of the stuff he is doing is for a class and he only has a limited amount of time and resources to devout to it.

I don't think he is using the term with homophobic connotations. The word sort of takes on different meaning in different contexts. Sort of like how you're associating pink with being gay when I think you mean it's associated with being a feminine color. I missed some stuff in this thread so maybe you're right but knowing Benny, I don't think so.

He's still doing what he's doing.

 

-comment all you want, your sarcastic and ignorant comments will just receive a one back

-i dont edit my photos. its a build thread it shows progress i dont sugar coat the things i do. if my "poor picture looks like ****" guess what, it looks like **** in real life and then it goes to the next step.

-exactly, you skim, make assumptions and dont read. the manifold slit has NO affect on anything, this was done a while back by phil (atleast he is the first i saw it from)

-manifold- the finish got damaged so i was in the middle of stripping the paint and its not easy to remove PC. what "crack" you see is abrasive from a sand blaster

-yes the handle is plastic. yes i was trying to cast it out of resin. yes it isnt the best solution. yes it beats pay 200+ for a door handle i could make for <$5 per cast. I was just testing the idea if i could even cast it. I was learning how to make a 3 piece mold. is it a final product? no where close. i just wanted to see if i was even capable of casting it. now that i can, i can further develop it with adding metal inserts and then casting the handle if i so choose to do. either way it beats paying $250 for my use.

-youre nit picking at my shitty pics. like it matters... manifold, you didnt even know what you were talking about. door panels? theyre spare tan door panels that i got to test out upholstering them. it was my first attempt ever and you wanna make fun of me? lol okay.... my intercooler pipes dont line up? are you retarded? THEYRE NOT EVEN WELDED, it was a MOCK up. like if you want to really nit pick on something i do, make sure its something thats finished not something i practiced on, a process im learning, or something still in progress.

-my sub box is gay because its temporary and its a generic huge box that takes up way too much room. i just finished repairing my sub so i will finally replace it.

-Yes my car has pink, get over it.

-how do i come off as homophobic?

-Ps haters gonna hate, means you're a hater and hate on things regardless. all you haters have to say is "its pink" what are you racist too? I'd LOVE to hear something you hate on my car that is legit. In all seriousness. Tell me you think my exterior looks like ****, tell me my x y z part doesnt work well, something substantial. then ill respect it. I know my car is no where near top of the line, but i know have a lot better custom parts and quality parts then other people but you wanna knock on me because my car is "pink" thats a hater.

i dont get how calling sbg lame was "getting all defensive" im pretty sure i just brushed you off like everyone else. NOW, im clarifying things for you since youre so ignorant. if you want me to get defensive, i can throw it right back at you too.

What really erks me the most is how all you chumps that are on your high horse wanna **** on people for doing things themselves and learning. You act like you knew everything you know now since day one. Guess what, you're not gonna make something perfect on your first try and im sure you've messed up, broke, or fucked something up. Sorry princess, we cant all be as perfect as you.

 

eshhhh, where are the good ol days were all the old dawgs would hate on the newbs and actually discuss custom work rather then bash it before it is understood

miss those days

i tell you what though, benny may not always have the most main stream ideas, but his build is a hell of a lot more interesting and creative then "hey i just bought R1 dual oil coolers, time to install them" "cool their installed look at how cool i am i can turn a wrench"

on another note, benny i no why u went with that vmic setup, and how, and your reasons behind it...but its always been my opinion that that IC is far too big to be in a V configuration, unless you do some sick ductwork your dumping hot air right back into the intake...and yes i know rx7store sells that same kit....but i thought theres wasnt very effective either...especially for the price....but i know thats why your doing it, no hatin just plain old discussin

i would actually love to see how u end up doing your ductwork, really like the hood idea

but i was thinking you might need to find a secondary source of air if you do that

theres a reason mazda stopped using hood scoops on their cars...besides the drag coefficient
ive talked with a lot of drag guys and from what i understand, unless the hole is at the right degree of sweep and size, after a certain speed the air goes right over the hole like it wasnt even there

idk if you have thoughts on this or you werent even at that stage in planning, just food for thought...

god i hate that phrase lol

 

Benny did you ever get the problem fixed with the reverse light coming on when the car is in neutral? If so, what was it?

I think I'm going to do a wire tuck job on my car while it's down, but I'm a little nervous about it...

 

Wait, is there any problem with the pink color ?!?

Still a good thread, keep it up !

 

Don't hate on Benny!



Benny get very very angry

 

actually i never even though of the VMIC "blowing hot air into the intake" i guess it makes sense now that i think of it.. im at the VERY early planning stages.. more like ideation stage. it was mainly sparked by the M2 CF intake i just sold (man those super easy to make......) and the race car FD (i forgot the name of it again) its the one with the hood scoop as their duct.

In that car they actually had a secondary air source as well.. im not too sure how i will do this yet but that is my "inspiration"

No... ive played around with all the ideas of ghetto fixing it, splicing wires, de-pinning and swapping them at the connectors but ill just end up doing it the proper way. and thats why ive really just put off doing it.

Wire tuck looks awesome IMO. really will clean the engine bay up especially hiding all the fuse boxes and relays.

you've done the tailights, your side markers, understand electronics and youre nervous?!?!

lets put it this way. i understand, power and ground, i can wire things up and install a HU. i have no understanding of ohms and all that techy stuff. i did the wire tuck and everything works.

mazda was really good with color coding everthing different. if you can tell your colors apart, you will be fine. plus a member posted a diagram/labeling of all the connectors.


bahahahahah thanks dale

 

Yeah I think so .. ^^
I don't wanna hurt anyone as it seems the pink can do some damages, so there is a less-pink-picture :

 

Haha yeah but that was only dealing with a couple of wires at once. I'm just worried I'll neglect one wire, do everything else, then have to retrace all of it just to find that one god damn wire. haha

 

ahh coolio, nothin wrong with using it, im just puttin more things in ur brain to think about, ive been scheemin how i wanted to make my kit and i thought about doing it that way as well since i have the same FMIC, but i spoke with dan and he brought up what i mentioned to you

which makes sense, after all in that configuration you dont actually NEED all that surface area since ur better cooling the radiatior and removing more engine bay temps your cooling everything off in general greater the air shouldnt need to be cooled off so badly as it used to be...at least in my theories

what i was planning on doing was breaking it down into 3rds(lengthwise) 2/3 goes to the IC with the radiator under it, then duct off the last 1/3 and use that whole area for intake

just havent really thought much further since im still working on other projects

 

tom- its really self explanatory. i got inpatient and sick of the knots that i just cut the harness all together at once... if i can figure it out from that, it will be cake if you take your time.

dave- if i understand that correctly, i was going to do the same thing except that required me to buy a new IC. from my understanding youre planning on using something along the lines of the SMIC kits and shifting it over correct?

Another interesting point, i was talking to my cousin who owns an s2000.. he's looking into a supercharger kit which includes a ram air intake, thus taking in engine bay heat. so one guy fabricated his own CAI and ended p getting 44hp!! insane! now im tempted to do an experiment to see if how much hot air it really is taking in and am i losing hp because of it.

 

technically i guess so, didnt really look at it like that...but im doing it to my specs, ive been searching for a specific size and im going to cut off the end tanks and weld on my own so the angles will be exact to help with air vectoring/remove hard angles, ive got it all drawn out in my fd notebook, my two biggest issues right now are finding the right intercooler and getting a turbo so i can mock everything up, ive got a vision were i can get zero 90* angles i just gotta see if i can pull it off

as for your cousin, why doesnt he just go turbo? kels going bigger soon he could just buy his kit from him

but yea thats really the biggest issue with the our current configurations, so much damn heat were gettin choked up by it all, dumping the twins and different IC setup helps but i still think having the intake completely duct off with its own air source will greatly improve power gains

actually if u look at Amemiya and feeds cars they always do some sick ductwork to keep the intake seperate from the cooling system

 

hmmmm actually, if you remember brian's FC, with the RE 13b his v mount is actually different then most kits out there (since he made it himself obviously) he has the IC dump all the air out of the huge hood vent so the intakes get pretty much nothing but regular air

now that i think about it thats probably one of the reasons he makes so much more power then most people do on twins

 

custom intercooler gets expensive.. instead of buying a IC and cuttting the end tanks, why dont you just but a core? spearco? makes em but theyre a lot of dough..... i have one 90 bend at the turbo outlet... i dont see how thats possible to have no 90 bends.. unless you angle the turbo but then your dp will have a 90............

sc is cheaper than turbo and can get him to his hp goals easily.

 

because ebay sells cheap intercoolers and i would fab up the endtanks myself, id only really have to cut off half the end tanks and just find the right pipes to weld back onto it, i see it in my head, i just havent bothered looking yet, but ive got all my dimensions

as for the 90* angles, i had that planned out, then i found a dude in australia (i think) that actually did it, well except he had a front mount so it looked a little different but it still went were i wanted it too and fit perfect

ehh just asking, i really feel like kel built his car for like 3k but u would have to ask him

 

Gotcha, i wasnt sure which route you were taking, seemed like you were going for top $$$ stuff at one point, glad youre back to effective/cost effective.

i think i just saw someones set up where he just had the turbo right to the IC... maybes its the same guy

my cousins high maintenance. he likes everything new and top top top top of the line..... his exhaust alone was almost 2k..... hes retarded lol

on a side note the vinyl was order............ eeks!

 

yea sometimes i get a little crazy, then my car shows me how much it hates me by breaking something retarded that should have never ever broken on any other car, which kicks me down a few notches on wanting to spend money on it...but somethings i like to get top of the line, others i dont think it needs it

speaking of dumb stuff that recently broke...you know those stinger battery cutoff switches we have? yea mine broke...fucken car

well basically im trying to have as little piping as possible, from the start ive been trying to build my car for reaction time and not peak hp, if it works out the way i plan i think ill have about 4 feet of total piping max with no extreme angles...but...well see how that goes when it actually comes to doing it

of course to make it harder on myself down the line i still have to rig up my WG setup since i want them reverting back into the dp lol

did u ever install that cage you wanted? i forget

 

roll bar is installed...

and becauseeee build threads suck without pictures!
new steering wheel! personal pole position 350mm. sold the old one cuz the red stitching was bothering me (didnt match) also sold the red nrg 2.5 quick release hub and ordered a black one


coiloverssssss, stance gr+ plus, used, cuz im cheap.


blox black lug nuts. from the woman for my bday. no more chrome! yay


Misc. fittings and adapaters for my r1 dual oil coolers (hard lines interfere with my custom VMIC) also hood pins for my "quick release" hood i will be working on in a few weeks


Mockinf up side skirts. i bought the oem 99 spec skirts a while ago (FG replica) and was an idiot and had them stored up right so they are a tad bit twisted and distorted. i will be running the feed side skirts underneath them as well. Because the skirts were twisted i forgot how they were mounted so in the MOCK UP PICTURE they are sitting way too low.

 

^I love all those wood shims LOL