Anything new?

 

Since this thread involves welding, thought I'd pass along this link. Basically, beware of brake cleaner brands that use tetrachloroethylene as vapors can decompose or turn into harmful or FATAL Phosgene gas under argon gas (TIG/MIG welding) with no antidote and/or hydrogen chloride. Phosgene gas is fatal in as little as 4-ppm (a wiff of smoke).

Be careful.

http://www.brewracingframes.com/id75.htm

:-) neil

 

Hey mate, just finished reading your build thread so far and i am absolutly loving it, keep it up and i cant wait for the next installment
Cheers

 

waiting.........

 

I know some of you have been wondering what's been going on with my project, well rest assured progress has continued, I'm finally able to post some updates.


Here you can see I'm mocking the radiator shroud out of chip board.








Here is the finished product in aluminum







You can expect regular updates from now on.

BigAl...

 

Here you see the mount I made for the oberg style filter between the engine and the coolers.









Here is the filter mounted

 

here you can see the oil manifold I made to feed the engine.




here you see how it mounts from behind







here it is with the lines that feed the different parts of the engine





after a visit to see Carlos at CLR, I had to make some changes to the oil manifold, here you see where I added provisions for the filter between the engine and the pump.







here is the filter that will be plumbed between the pump and the engine









more to come
BigAl...

 

here you can see the late model GM coils that I decided to use already mounted

 

Love it!

 

That oil manifold is badass.

 

thanks for the kind words!

here we have the expansion tank as well as the overflow tank, I looked up some of these on the usual race part sites and found them to be ridiculously expensive so I decided to make them myself.











here they are installed










more to come later...

 

can you make me an expansion tank to? haha

 

Looking good Al! Let's go racing!

 

Beautiful work. I know you have heard that before a couple hundred times.. but seriously.. Very nice work.
I think.. if I was building a FD to race.. you are doing all the things I would do with VERY little difference.

It is very nice.. one of those things where someone asks.. What all do you have done to your N/A FD? You can HONESTLY say Everything.
There are very few people who can say that.

Quite impressed.

 

Fantastic Al. . .Bad *** indeed!

 

Coming along together quite well since the pictures in the first thread. Good stuff!

 

thank you again for the kind words, below is the seat I'll be using, it's the same one in all of my post except I gave it a face lift. I bought some suede leather at the local leather shop and went to town.










I'm very happy with the results.

more to come...

 

Here you can see the tool I borrowed to figure out wheel fitment.










I can easily fit a 10.5" wheel, I could go bigger as well but I don't feel a need (especially considering the cost of bigger tires).

BigAl...

 

The wrapping process has started!






fenders next...

 

FENDERS!!!

excuse the whiteout on the wheel, I was using that to photo shop different wheels on to the pic.

BIG thanks to my buddy CUDA who made the wrap process possible!

The process isn't too bad, it can get a little frustrating at times, good thing Cuda and I go back a long time, so we didn't kill each other

 

we felt inspired so we did the bumper also.

 

Hm, you save some weight with the chip board shroud May also catch fire. Just saying.

 

I added a NACA duct to the door to feed the tranny and diff cooler with fresh air, as you can see I added a Gurney flap to catch maximum air.







Here you can see the hoses that route the air to the coolers






BTW when you open the door the NACA duct stays attached to the roll bar and the door just has the hole in the shape of the NACA, that allows easy access from the passenger side without having to deal with any hoses.

BigAl...

 

I installed all four air jacks, these things are really cool (expensive but cool).









On these next two pics you can also see the plastic shrouds for the tranny and diff coolers as well as the pump.









BigAl...

 

Looks awesome man.