IMPRESSIVE work! Well done! I just about nutted when I saw the welds on the oil pan!

 

Nice work!

wish you woulda posted something like this a few months ago before i had my car rebuilt, i've always wanted a PP turbo setup, but most people seem reluctant to fabricate it. good luck!

 

are you going to be filling the coolant areas where the PP sleeves are?
it seems like you might have issues with boost leakage if you don't, but i don't actually have experience, i'm just speculating

 

can't wait to see where this goes. good job so far.

 

Looking good. Nice work.

 

Man... SO cool. Fantastic write-up and pics.

 

damn! your work is immaculate. i wish i had half the skills and access to machines that you have. very impressive, man. i can't wait to see this thing put together and fired up.

 

nice job., looks like it is going to be butters.. big r

 

Pics sent, if you need more info or pics let me know

 

Realy nice work Zero R

 

i'm interested in these pics

 

When might you get the intake manifold done??? I'm excited!

 

Zero, those pics are sick! I hope my stuff turns out half as good as that! Almost makes me think I should have went bigger...

For now I will be running two gasoline 1000cc primaries, two gasoline 1600cc secondaries, and two methanol 1000cc secondaries. The coolant jacket will be filled with aluminum Devcon. The e-shaft and transmission are what should be holding me back power-wise. Two very expensive upgrades that I cannot afford right now, maybe next year when I graduate.

I should have the velocity stack half of the intake manifold welded up and ported this weekend.

 

woahhh, this thing is gunna be a ******* monster

and i need to see these pics!!!

 

LOL, not my work sir I emailed pics of my work to the OP.

 

No worries your well on your way for it to turn out as good. And sometimes I wonder If I should have went smaller!

 

can you send me these pics too?

 

Couldn't you make your own e shaft, maybe cut an Rx8 e shaft in half and add a bearing in the center.

Would it be possible too add a bearing to the center of a 1 piece eshaft, something like a 2 piece plain bearing?

 

i'm sure its possible to do it, but not in the way you just described..

i could see mabey lathing of one of sides of the e-shaft with a keyway in it. then adding a bearing there. then take a second e-shaft and cut off one of the lobes, drill a hole through it, and put a keyway on that as well

i could see it working if you got it balanced afterwards

 

I told you it was a stupid question!

 

Very nice project man....I only wish we had a shop like that when I co-op'd....I couldn't even mill a 2"x2" aluminum block accurately without measuring it with calipers 90 times....worthless machine.

 

This thread has me re-evaluating my career choice.

I wanna make car parts!

 

props to ya my friend... I've got piles of projects just like the oil pan.. full custom stuff is the ****.. its so easy when you've got the skillls... currently outfitting my large hobby shop with the toys that make it easy...

 

love this thread so far. Ive been thinkin of doing a crazy FD build like this and i just might have the motivation to do it.

 

Not a whole lot of progress last week.

Wasted an entire night trying to rework some shitty 5" aluminum tubing I bought from Airflo.com. They had a cheap price on it and it looked decent in their picture, but what I got was complete ****. Tubing was way out of round and had a nasty weld seam. I made a mandrel to press through it to make it round, but the grooves in it were too deep to sand out. Finally said screw it after 3-4 hours of wasted time and dropped the $70 for a foot of tubing from Burns Stainless.




I got the holes bored in the TB block. Rough drilled the thru holes, then bored to size. CNC'd the barrel holes.






Finally able to inspect my new turbo! Left turbo is a GT4202: