Project Spirit

[Guest Casey-G]

meh i thought it was on the small side to be honest..

 

 

Haltech, map sensor and plugs got payed for today, with trade in of my sprint500 it was $1200 for the lot.

 

 

can't wait!!!

[carbonboy]

It might look small on something like a massively boosted GT-R or Supra for example, looks about right :wink:

 

Going to run a screamer pipe out under the passenger side door? :laff:

 

Edit: Mmm, new toys to play with :D

Edited May 26, 2011 by carbonboy

[Guest Casey-G]

Screamer will be in that vicinity ;)

 

 

 

Started on the intercooler mounts tonight:

 

 

 

 

then i ran out of gas for the heater in the shed... so i called it a night :P

[Jesseb369]

Sweet stuff bud!

[jimi91]

Looks good as mate and I'm sure she will go good :dance:

 

keep up the good work !!!!

 

 

see ya

 

jimi

[carbonboy]

Screamer will be in that vicinity ;)

 

then i ran out of gas for the heater in the shed... so i called it a night :P

 

Screamer pipe = Win! (& shit-scared pedestrians!) :wink:

 

Soft! :P Nah, it was friggin cold last night!! I had a little electric fan forced thing going, kept the dust out of my eyes, me warm & got my bog to cure :D

 

Your work's looking neat man! :y:

[Guest Casey-G]

Le'Updateo

 

 

hatech arrived:

 

 

and installed:

 

 

Header flange has been made (took fo'eva)

 

 

My soon to be runners compared to my cusco powerball headers:

 

 

 

 

That is all

[Guest Casey-G]

Fiddled around with a bit of wiring tonight, got the injectors fitted off, TPS, CAS and the 4bar map sensor also :) Got the coils, Air and water temp sensors to go, then Main power to the starter and a few other lil bits n its all done wiring wise B)

 

 

Also kinda half got the front end partially together to see what will need bracing ect..

 

 

 

 

 

 

RE: manifold

I have been doing quite a bit of reading ect of late in preparation of this manifold, obviously not intending to stay mainstream i have canned a "regular" type manifold such as you see with most custom set ups and have gone for a more "out there" style, aiming for very high flow and hopefully allowing some bigger numbers to be made.

These are a few taken from turbosmart that are sorta like what I'm aiming for:

 

 

 

 

 

you kinda get the idea

[Guest Casey-G]

So yeah forgot about all that :P

 

Engine bay wiring is done, just finishing up under the dash tonight, rigged up an antilag switch on the clutch tonight, luckily enough parts from the seca were used!

 

Wideband gauge and controller are all installed and working, air temp, coil packs, 4bar map sensor, and the turbosmart dualstage controller are all installed and functioning.

 

No pics as such really, I tacked up the collector for the turbo and made a strut off the old engine mount to support the snail, there will be more added but i will wait until i fab the runners and the dump before i add another one off the block.

 

 

 

Ill take a few more pics n shit after work n shit later this week..

[ninja-philbo]

progress????

[Guest Casey-G]

Small le'update..

 

had a few big weeks of work lately, slept in till 2pm today, went n did a bit of shit in town, then finally got home n had a tinker with the boot/how I'm mounting my fuel cell..

 

 

 

As you can see, the tire well is gone, i took a bit of time thinking what height the cell will sit at in relation to the boot floor, decided on sitting it about 150mm below to the bottom (sits lower than pictured), as opposed to some setups ive seen with it just sitting at floor level. Hopefully this will keep whatever negligible weight/center of gravity issues that would/could cause any tankslap or the likes from being noticed. It also cuts down on a lot of length of pickup and return hose, with will keep things tidy in there.

 

I also welded 2 more cross members, across the rear chassis:

 

 

From what i found the only real "bracing" across that part of the shell/chassis was the boot floor skin and the matirial that makes up the rear of the car, so this will hopefully stiffen it up a bit.

 

So tomorrow should see the cell mounted fully, and me sorting out what I'm doing with the top rad/IC support, as i changed my mind... again.

 

 

 

I canned the stainless turbo mani idea, going back to sch40 38nb steam fittings, had some flanges laser cut out of 12mm mild steel so all that will get cracking shortly too..

Edited August 11, 2011 by Casey-G

[Guest Casey-G]

Put my ass into gear a bit more this week even though i had a heap of other shit to do:

 

Its gon' be a tight schedule the next two weeks!!

 

but! theres always a but..

 

Shit is moving forward, shit is getting built, and very shortly it'll be ready to start, all i need is to fab a surge tank and plumb everything up.

 

Manifold is done except for the waste gate (couldn't ninja the old one as its under vito's bed) as well as the dump pipe complete, of course it'll need the system made but since the dump only took 3 hours to fab and it had a lot more cutting and welding involved i can't see the system taking too long.

 

home stretch lads;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

yep yes, fingers crossed i make it to toyofest!!

[carbonboy]

Yay, update!!! :D

 

Nice work on the exhaust manifold mate :y: it's things like that that make me want one of those on my car! :wink:

 

It's looking to be real close to firing up?

[greenmac80]

quality build i love it. keep the updates coming.

[Guest Casey-G]

Thanks guys!

 

 

Haha you know you want one ;)

 

 

It is very very close to firing up, in respect just a surge tank and fittings stopping it