Yeah I go to some every now and then. I live up in Fort Collins tho, and as I'm sure you're aware of, most of the meets are in the Denver or Co Springs area so they are a haul for me but I go. I haven't seen Mike B in a long time. He did pick up a minty fresh SSM tho IIRC.

That's some nice sheetmetal work too man!

 

There is nothing wrong w/that oil filter. Change your oil & filter every 1ooo miles and use the top of the line Fram oil filter. There is no need for anything else. I use Fram oil filters & never look back.

 

I had to change the direction of the line coming off of the AC condenser coil and after failing to find a shop willing to do it, I decided to go ahead and give it a shot. I was really nervous to try to tig that line but I managed to get it done without blowing a hole in it. It even passed the leak test!

Here's my home made tubing bender.


The tube I bent on that wonderful bender


And the finished product with the really ugly welds.

 

That hellbent on keeping A/C, eh? I'm ditching mine, I never use it here.

 

Yeah, black car, black interior, and a wife that would never go anywhere with me in the summer without it kind of makes it mandatory.

 

thank you for being sensible and keeping a/c

 

Oh yeah, you have a black car? I guess that makes it a bit warmer. I always just put my windows down and drove faster. Moving to Colorado from Phoenix I don't feel like I need it, anyways. Low heat and humidity.

 

Turbo8 - That's funny, I moved here from Mesa, Az.

I couldn't bring myself to put the ugly, plastic, stock oil filler neck back on so I decided to fab my own since the aftermarket ones out there are so overpriced.

Here's the flange I just finished making with my trusty old DeWalt drill, jigsaw, and hole saw. Hopefully the elbows will be here in the next few days.

 

I also decided to make a new thermostat housing neck since I'm eliminating the AST.

I had to make another flange.




An odd aluminum piece out of the scrap bin in the machine shop at my old job.






Ready to weld.


Flange welded on.


I ordered a weld on aluminum radiator cap neck so I won't be able to finish it for a few days but I'll post more pics tomorrow when I get the radiator hose neck welded in.

 

It's not the Prettiest thing in the world right now but it will look better once it is all polished up.

 

I converted my harness to a single turbo harness minus emissionsequipment last night.


I also got in my 1.5" tube today for the oil filler neck. Now I'm just waiting on the cap and thread to weld on.

 

That's awesome looks real clean, around how much money you got in it so far if you dont mind saying?

 

It's hard to say on this go-around if your just asking about the motor. If you're asking about the whole project, I'm somewhere around $19k in. I'd hate to know how much it would be if I were paying someone else to build it and do the fab work though.

 

Thanks gmonsen. I enjoy the fab work very much, I just wish I had a mill and a lathe so I could REALLY make some parts. Even if I had the money to buy them, I don't have the space for them.

 

Idler pulley and oil filler neck thread and cap showed up. Time to go tow work. As I was typing the UPS guy dropped off the neck for the Radiator fill cap too.

 

get rid of your Fram oil filter! Anyway very nice build! If you ever want to make another oil filler neck let me know I would love to purchase one.

 

Just some finish polishing to do. Not bad for a couple hours work and $35 in parts huh? I think I saw a used one from Re-Speed for $200!

 

Awesome build, you have skills!

 

Oscypek1007, now that I told everyone how much I spent in parts, I could never sell them for enough to make any money on them, so I might as well give up the details.

I bought the tubing at www.anfittingsdirect.com which was $14.99 (great prices on aluminum tubing by the way) http://www.anfittingsdirect.com/shop...7fed0522fff6b9
...and the threaded cap at www.mofoco.com (slightly different version in the link than the one I used) for $11.99
http://www.mofoco.com/item/EMPI_8904...On_Cap/341/c78
As far as the flange goes, I had some 1/4" aluminum plate around that I got out of a scrap bin at a previous job. I made it with a roll of painters tape, (to get the pattern) a cordless jigsaw & drill with a decent hole saw kit, a can of WD-40 for lube, and a grinder with some 3M pads. Of course you will need a tig welder to weld it up, but I literally have about $27 in parts (not counting shipping) into this thing and honestly about 4 hours worth of work at the most.

If you want to do this sort of thing, the best investment you can make is a tig welder and some time. Do some reading (or take some classes) and teach yourself how to tig weld. For me it is like meditation, I could spend all day in the garage tig welding and walk out with a big smile on my face. That is, as long as I have good ventilation. I made that mistake once and felt like I had the flu for the next week. Not good.

 

Done

 

Water neck welded onto the thermostat housing.

 

Partially cleaned up and drilled/tapped the hole for the water temp sensor.

 

All polished up. I think this might be one of the prettiest parts I've ever made.

 

Nice man! You want to weld up an oil filler neck for me now too? I wish I had a TIG, I just have a crappy MIG.

 

Sell that mig and put the money towards a tig welder. You can weld anything with the tig but your pretty limited with a mig.