Looking really good Aaron!!

 

Update:

Well Needed to get the car over to the fab shop to re-do my lower radiator mounts. The new fan and shroud added to the over-all length of the radiator/shroud/fan assembly by an inch and a half. So it hit the lower coolant inlet. I moved the whole assembly forward, re drilled and tapped new mount holes and decided I was going to try and drive the car to the Fab shop 10 miles away to get the mounts done. I really wanted to test the new fan set up out. It was 91 degrees F out. And I am pleased to say that the car saw no more than 86 Degrees Celsius on my journey. I sat at red lights, cruising at 2800RPM in 3rd, coolant temps were no mroe than 86 C. coming to a stop the temps would always drop quickly back down to 83-84 degrees Celsius. I'm VERY happy and this was a HUGE step and improvement. Now I'll add ducting and Call the system complete.

Stopped by my girlfriends house on my voyage home... Made the 20 Mile round trip, problem free...and without getting pulled over haha.

Here are the new lower radiator mounts. Left a little room for rubber

While I was there I put the tools to good use... and made a new Gauge plate. The old one I made was too short by 1/4 inch haha..bad measurement..

holes and measures

gauge holes complete but needed to get my dremel out for the 2 rectangle cut outs for the PBM EGT displays

Also got BJ to whip up a Mid pipe so the bottom of my car wouldn't get caked with oil and the like

Installed and complete

Ordered 2 more 4" 90's and i'm going to look for a nice muffler tonight.
And worked on my alignment a bit more. This is a pretty damn tedious process..and I can't wait to get the damn thing to an alignment shop.



I stopped and got a full tank of gas at chevron and drove back to the house. Pretty sweet actually driving the car but I'm not going out again as the car is beyond loud. Ringing ears just from the short trips. But the Carbonetic Metal 2-way LSD was finally done being broken in so I changed diff fluid


And I finished dremeling out the gauge panel but I havn't taken any pics yet. So i'll have to snap a few later on today.

Thats where I'm at currently. I'm still having problems bleeding the brakes......even with speed-bleeders. May need to bench bleed the master again. We'll see. But the car is VERY close to being ready to tune. I'm going tomiss my deadline completion date this weekend. Thunder on the lot....I wanted to drive so bad, but maybe I'll just plop the car in the show just for kicks. Can't wait to get this car on the dyno, registered and ready to rip!! More updates soon! stay tuned!!

 

Update:

Well I guess there has been quite a bit of action since I last got on here. Been very busy tidying up everything and getting ready for tunning. The car Runs, the cooling system is beyond what I hoped for. I had a check list of things I had to make sure were in tip top shape before hitting the dyno. Those things were:

-No leaks
-Coolant system in check
-No Vac Leaks
-All couplers nice and toight...like tigers..
-Full tank of 91
-Pre-mixed at correct ratio^

And so I scheduled my dyno tune after I had everything....or what I thought was everything in check.

Got the car loaded up

Then got a flat tire on the way there and ended up being an hour late because of the traffic as well. Also the tune was scheduled with Nelson at RRR.
After he asked me a few smaller questions about the build we strapped the car up

It was exciting and hard not to be my own fanboi. I kept thinking to myself....."is that really the car I built in my garage?" Nelson got started right away. And everything went smooth...Until about 4500 RPM The log would just cut out. The communication between the ecu and the lap-top would just cut out completely. After about 30 min of trying new usb cables and even a new lap top... Nelson told me that we should just stop... I should take the car home and figure it out, that way i'm not paying for a problem I could fix on my own. So it was a bit dissappointing..but we spent 4 hours on the dyno and Nelson must've done 13-16 pulls. He tuned the car fully N/A without boost to make sure our next session was quick and since it's all V/E... theoretically I should be able to install the charge pipe and get mashing. I'm not going to do that though... I'm going to take the car back down to him so he can keep his eye on it. But Anyways.. He said that the set up was really unique.. and he was surprised I built it in my garage...and it didn't blow up. I couldn't help but be proud that there were no leaks, no mechanical failures.. and that he said my Cooling system was working excellently and he didn't even have to watch it after the first few pulls. It was about 85-90 degrees F in the shop and we didn't even have a snail fan on the radiator... Just a shop "Costco" fan blowing over the bay haha. SO with ducting I'm giong to say that the cooling system...IC and Radiator will function even better. Even close to the "Optimum level" as some of you guys are so gaylee set on achieving haha. <--thats another rant for another time though.
Anyways.. Here is a teaser video of the car on the dyno... It was so loud..and Nelson had the car humming at 6-7k rpm N/A smoothing things out for a good min or two.. It was rad to see the Long runner Header glowing BRIGHT RED. And for anyone who ever doubted the "gold heat reflective Tape. I will Stand by it for the rest of my life. Because Where I put it... my paint didn't get damaged. Theres a small area down on the frame rail that started bubbling and the paint pretty much boiled to **** because it was bare. But everywhere I put the reflective tape.. the paint was nice and smooth still... so yes It works. ANd if you don't think so...then I don't give a ****.
Also.....when your car is on the dyno at higher RPM's you start to really second guess if you torqued everything down correctly haha. Luckily... everything was good to go! ..but here is the teaser vid of the car N/A on the dyno


When I left the dyno I made another check list of what to fix so I could get some boost into this skeezy lady.

My list:
Fix ECU cut-out
New Plugs
More Gold reflective
Change tires (had a flat spot) so nelson was vibrating
Install Flex Fuel Sensor
New Battery because I had cranking problems from a 60% charged battery. I accidently left my dome light on over night.....<dumb Fduke
Install this

and this

and possibly Complete Radiator Ducting =-)
So I got to work and got everything but the radiator ducting, flex fuel sensor and Racepak installed. I may hold off on the race pack display until I get tuned just so I'm not rushed. That way it turns out really nice instead of "getting the job done." So Updates will come soon. I'll try and get back to the dyno in the next couple weeks to make some power.

Progress!!

 

oh yea.....the glitch in communication was dumb. I forgot to download the newest Firmware update for the adaptronic. I was actually running one of the first versions... So I downloaded the Newest 10.126 and was blown away...because it was like night and day. Sooo much quicker. Inj dead times automatic too! But the ecu no longer lost communication after the update and everything was dandy. Loving this ecu!

 

Advan TCIII!

 

Glad you got the display safe and sound.

 

i thought flaco was supposed to tune your car? what happened?

 

so when are you going back to the dyno?

what turbo are you using? also, what numbers are you expecting?

 

What front fenders did you go with again ?

 

It's hard to say what I like most most about this car. If I had to pick, it would be the wheels and flared arches first, the rack of coolers at the front second and the sound third. Epic work mate.

Is most of the welding mild steel or other?

 

I had everything lined up, and when I contacted him he just never got back to me. Nothing against the guy, he really knows his stuff. I just decided to go a different route is all.

^man you really don't read threads!!! I'm going back as soon as I can. when that is? I don't know..hopefully in the next couple weeks. I'm using a Garrett GTX3582R..A/R 1.06 divided, dual synapse 50mm gates with 8.5/60lb springs each. 4" exhaust

These are SHine-auto Burnout fenders, Thanks! I love them ......look wicked!

Hey thanks much!! I know A lot of guys on here think the build is stupid because i'm not building it their way....but really....I just don't give a **** haha. Built a car the way I saw it in my dreams and this is what i came out with!!

Are you talking about the exhuast ? or most of the welding done on the car? Truthfully most of the welding done was about 50/50split between alum and Steel. THe exhaust mani is ofcourse steel... Radiator and Intercooler Alum, exhaust is All Stainless from APT turbo. Let me know if you have any more questions!

Thanks much!

Updates soon!

 

sorry didn;t have time to read 63 pages manny!

 

How's the spool on the GTX been?

 

That is an awesome build. Good luck to you!

 

well i am excited to see how this thing does on the dyno.

i actually have that exact same turbo for sale right now (got a new garrett CHRA via Turblown)

 

Update: Tune date is set for early July!! Will drive the car around to make sure everything is dandy and ready! In the mean-time I made a radiator duct!

Check it out!


made a break out of some scrap metal/wood and a vice

roll cuts


nice roll...not too shabby..

measuring and spacing


side plate template..

cut them out with my angle grinder haha..not the most nible of tools

clamp

rivit

noice....

almost done

 

almost done

inside metal tape to keep it air tight and cover rivits

and used door weather stripping as the base so it's not metal on metal

pretty much done.....

forgot to take a picture of it trimmed so the nose isn't sticking out like a duck bill but i'll snap some pics later

 

looking good man

 

Aaron's car is going back on the dyno now, good luck!

 

Nice,

 

dyno results!!!!!

 

results please!

 

^ Yea

How did it do? Did it make the broad torque curve like you wanted?

 

^ No, Trouble shooting a flow restriction somewhere in the set up. The car made 300 WHP and 270 Tq at .8Bar. Pulls " Normal" till about 6K rpm then dies off. I'm about 60-65 WHP short of where I should be compared to any other 35R street port dyno graph. I'm working on where the restriction could be and After it's fixed...i'll be back and ready to turn up the boost. Stay tuned!

 

Here is the dyno video of the .8Bar pull. Still nice to see some forced induction into the car. And yes the gates still shoot flames. You can see a little bit of flamage action at the end of the pull.

- Ap