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Drift season started and my oil cooler relocation to in front of the intercooler did the trick. Good cruising and pulls, until my electric fan shorted and melted straight though it-self.
*Involved me taking my oil cooler out of stock location and making brackets and two, lengths of three feet hoses and just simply moving it forward. The easier option would just leave me with a top mount intercooler... Best yet placing the intercooler back into the engine bay and running two extremely simple piping routes straight and down. But that involves lots of cutting of the frontal supports, essential a tube frame. One day.
Lost of gross JDM paint cracking and flaking, curb hopping, rail squishing and hard lines from tape and re-spraying on top of factory orange peel.
Season end up date for those interested.
I've got some new experiences and skills from this year which provided lots of fun and pics!
FYI I ruined my paint job from this but it's the fun we all deserve with the style providing the complete entertainment of the sport we all need to acknowledge and follow.
In my mind I plan on being out driving this year more and more lately. Good otherwise to do a few track events soon (May 14)?.
Awesome build! What's imgH? I can't help but have flashback's of potential energy.
Back on Toyota Nation when I was being a online ricer with no licence. imgH was meant to associate with large or HEAVY due to the largely European user-base slang or interpretation to others. LOTS OF PICTURES!@#!@ stupid un-compressed images that would literally tax all of western computers.
Doing this outside, on a hot day in the sun so that; I can actually remove it as, without any proper support from the original base metal the fiberglass will sag and form bigger.
Still very flexible like a piece of melting plastic.
Hardened and cut to a rough size as the laying of many pieces of strand cloth will change size once finalized.
leftover fridge paint/enamel to keep it from soaking up too much liquid.
Duck taped on and set for testing with a piece of grill. Feels like tarp material, so thin. The black color is from temperature resistant paint on-top and bottom to not burn away.
Need to get some more venting for stock oil cooler location during stop and go traffic. I closed-off the full under-body with a pan and now once again need to let the heat escape more now...
Testing the suspension setups and doing some drifting, otherwise not much for the car beside a few track days.
Broke my bumper and fenders, fiber-glassed again. Re-aligned the steering wheel straight and rewired a few things.
The rest I have some pictures for Something I bought a few years ago, and never wanted to install; because I didn't think it would work well as a short shifter.
It's a C's short shifter with a mechanical lockout for drag racing. It feels good after you setup the plates to hold it out.
I found this electric fan at pick n pull, along with this I took the headlight motor and trim, which shattered and I tossed. Burned that money quick...
I had done this singular fix a-long-time ago and now just put back on a factory connector, but just on the one side.
I also had gone and replace the headlight motor while the void was open. I never used the motors in years because this one failed.
Here you can see the spirit leave the dead motor.
Fender off, from cracking on previous wheel setup
Fender on, just patch and resin with some sanding.
Here you can see the cut out in 2nd, where it locks you out of 1st and ready to shift into 3rd and 4th. but the plate on the right aligns the shaft to not move over or on-top.
So after drifting practice, I did an oil change like your suppose to after a high rpm night in a rotary...
I had issue with heating while moving? So I put my under-tray on, also a air channel plate in on the biggest area in the engine bay, and I attempted to install some air-ducting with lots of failure. (The duct kept unwinding and ruining it self.)
I also repaired my turn signal and had to make 2 new lenses out of the reflectors on the rear S5 Taillights. *Cool look, smoked yet allows a-lot of light though with clear style. I'll be taking some pictures later too show how it turned out as I over-sized them and will grinding them down tomorrow to fit in the aftermarket bumper.
Posting pics as we all enjoy looking verses reading:
People laughed at me for checking my front tires after a round... You'll see why.
Editing the Turn signals as I'm not a post wh%*$, I post a question and I get freeking people just repeating non related information for a post count...
Doing this outside, on a hot day in the sun so that; I can actually remove it as, without any proper support from the original base metal the fiberglass will sag and form bigger.
Still very flexible like a piece of melting plastic.
Hardened and cut to a rough size as the laying of many pieces of strand cloth will change size once finalized.
leftover fridge paint/enamel to keep it from soaking up too much liquid.
Duck taped on and set for testing with a piece of grill. Feels like tarp material, so thin. The black color is from temperature resistant paint on-top and bottom to not burn away.
Need to get some more venting for stock oil cooler location during stop and go traffic. I closed-off the full under-body with a pan and now once again need to let the heat escape more now...
The plan is to make a FMIC setup work for those you see it for more ascetics then function. My setup seems to hold alive on the cheapest coolant money can buy, I'll edit new post next with more progress. The Plan is to get this done in C/F or Kevlar but paint for now.
Last edited by rotor_veux; Nov 18, 2017 at 09:35 AM.
Getting shape with some body filler for painting or molding. If there's interest I could see about getting it done in CF or having someone else finish it.
Majority I want to cut out as, this setup doesn't do much for the fan setup without a Shroud to direct it all.
From the back you can see it's decent looking.
Built up again for last time.
Cut and clean/ trim out the edges, The shape wasn't 100% so I have added more to repair. Plus the sag in the middle sections wasn't very even.
Things that have happened: DYNO, hood scoop and end of build.
Finished first product
The shape was close but, I was going to add a carbon fiber face and side. The idea behind this is to raise the lip on the front so it becomes functional. (50% at the moment)
For the locals if your interested, lots of resin and metal patch plates.
The Dyno results are around 280-320, was reading around 292. 9psi stock turbo with 6psi-9psi at top of 2nd and up. This is due to stock internal waste-gate and MAF sensor. 7,000RPM.
Once the road/track tuning was complete, I may have been around 260-280WHP 7,700RPM. Reasoning: Pretty well beefed the whole fuel system and intake/exhaust options explored with OEM s5 turbo.
Last edited by rotor_veux; Aug 9, 2017 at 07:50 PM.
Reason: Grammer?
The blue bushings shown in the Control arms on the bench and the last picture, don't really add too racing performance. On Highway and street use at lower speeds, I feel more confident on lane changing with direct inputs. Though this is a rare part replacement in the first place, so I would just do it along side other bushings if money is not a major concern.
