Originally Posted by stevensimon
(Post 10935314)
i think their stuff is ok. maybe for fc guys its ok. i know fd guys are like zomg i have to do work? fuck that, your product sucks. but i mean, you have to think that these cars are over 20 years old by now. a million different variables are in play from car to car, especially when we are talking about things that are supposed to be bolted to the front frame work. maybe their stuff isnt clearanced well or maybe they just have qc improvements to make but still. they sell a lot of budget bang parts that would cost me a ton of time and money to make.. or a little bit of time and money to massage their stuff.
That being said, some of the rotarworks parts (cough...v-mount) are thoughly documented failures of both design AND execution. If something is advertised as bolt-in, it should, period. I appreciate that RW provides a selection of budget parts that at least provide a good starting point, (I'm buying the RW coolant tank myself). This is not an issue for talented fabricators such as yourself, but for people that lack the skills/resources to properly correct blantant design/manufacturing errors themselves it is understandably infuriating to have to pay someone to partially fab something you budgeted to be bolt-on. The v-mount is a perfect example, Tuscanidream bought the "kit" and then had to pay at least (judging by the quality of the work) another $1k to have it worked over by a shop into something acceptable. He could have just taken the car down there and had them build the setup from scratch for a lot less than what he ended up spending had he known (hell, I got mine done locally for under 600 and most of that was labor). Wow, that looks dangerously close to a rant, how'd that happen :scratch: Anyways, back to the topic at hand...Why did you weld the coolant tank to the thermostat neck? space? Also, compared to the original piece it seems like your entry to the tank is a little higher up thus making the tank sit lower why is that? If anything I would have thought you'd want it to sit higher so you could have avoided having to weld that access port on the side |
Originally Posted by banme4it
(Post 10938841)
Nice car collection. I'm guessing the new FD runs?
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Originally Posted by sharingan 19
(Post 10939282)
Anyways, back to the topic at hand...Why did you weld the coolant tank to the thermostat neck? space? Also, compared to the original piece it seems like your entry to the tank is a little higher up thus making the tank sit lower why is that? If anything I would have thought you'd want it to sit higher so you could have avoided having to weld that access port on the side
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Ahhh, I forgot all about the Panspeed hood (looks badass btw). That placement makes perfect sense now. I have the sexy style hood and I've got my fingers crossed about the AST fitting, hopeing the neck on the outlet is shorter than stock.
I'd mount the coolant overflow on the rearview mirror if it was needed to run a 20b :lol: |
updates!
so i decided that my ball joints have pissed me off and being the king that i am, i cut decapitated them http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/IMAG0048.jpg then i felt bad so decided to make them feel a little bit better by making them taller http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/IMAG0049.jpg then welding back together. http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/CIMG2163.jpg no harm no foul right? http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/CIMG2165.jpg right?! http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/CIMG2164.jpg and then some more random stuff http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/CIMG2168.jpg http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/CIMG2169.jpg only thing left that i need is a vband clamp. i broke mine. the nut seized on the bolt for some reason. the tee part of the bolt spun out of place and then after trying to be really gentle and slow and back the nut off.. it broke anyway. stupid chinese garbage. also tried to take video of it humming along but stupid camera died as soon as i pushed record so that will have to wait till this weekend i guess. |
brother came over to look at my work. he sent me this video. sorry for the poor quality. thought an iphone 4 would have better quality?
oh well. here it is http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...h_IMG_1216.jpg |
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...n/IMAG0058.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...n/IMAG0059.jpg http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...n/IMAG0060.jpg off to the dyno on wed to get tuned and then cornerweighted on saturday. actually thinking i have a chance to make the feb 18 event in vegas now. excited |
Dude im jizzing about the FC man, planning on doin some drifting?
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yep! vegas pro am
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Nice work on the ball joints
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Originally Posted by stevensimon
(Post 10957733)
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/IMAG0060.jpg
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/IMAG0059.jpg http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...s/IMAG0058.jpg off to the dyno on wed to get tuned and then cornerweighted on saturday. actually thinking i have a chance to make the feb 18 event in vegas now. excited |
hood pins are backwards, but overall, badass! can't wait to see what this thing does on the dyno.
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people keep telling me that. it doesnt bother me.
i too am excited to see dyno |
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5..._VIDEO0003.jpg
just starting to tune. horrible exhaust leak from egt port being open http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5..._VIDEO0007.jpg things starting to smooth out hopefully in the next few days we will get some actual dyno time in. |
sweet ride bro i like your style
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starting to load the engine more and more
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d5...h_IMG_1283.jpg today netted in 250hp and 200lbft at 4500rpm(rev limit) and 3psi |
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Not sure why I havn't seen your build thread yet lol
Glad to see you finally got it on the dyno... so exciting! I hope mine will be running again by May. Let me know when you get some pics of the dyno charts, I'm curious to see how your torque comes up. |
Torque is pretty instant and the curve is amazing. 100ftlb right off idle, 200 by 3500 and 300+ by 5500 and I never saw the top of the curve. Pretty sure I'm stalling the compressor too.
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You can pull a lot of fuel out, too. Moar!!
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Yeah afr's are around 10.5-11. I don't have any more time to mess around on the dyno so it will have to get me through the February event as is.
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Originally Posted by stevensimon
(Post 10976290)
Yeah afr's are around 10.5-11. I don't have any more time to mess around on the dyno so it will have to get me through the February event as is.
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well locally there are no feb events but vegas decided to start pro am early this year.
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Just fell in love with first gen Celica on valentines day that thing needs a rotary in it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I need one and will have one soon.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tDEb...7bAUAAAAAAAAAA
last weekend was a blast. went to u-drift on friday to do a shakedown. few problems arose. went to karacks shop and spruced it up a bit and drove all day saturday at vegasdrift with basically 0 issues besides blowing up tires. |
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