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Manners226 12-12-2019 10:13 AM

Manners226 Exocet
 
Building an Exocet on a budget 101. Take a 14 hour road trip to trade my E46 M3 for a stripped down, barely rolling Exocet Sport chassis with no driveline. Because Racecar.

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Picking up the parted-out, stripped, roller chassis in Indianapolis from Rich. List of parts removed from the chassis: Entire 1.8 Turbo motor & transmission, differential, axles, driveshaft, steering shaft, exhaust, radiator, roller skate brace, big brake kit, Suspension arms, wheels, MS ECU, Digital dash, etc. You get the picture. It’s basically a chassis needing to be built. He temporarily put on some stock NB parts so it could be rolled onto the trailer. Control arms, hubs, dirty old stock wheels/tires, etc.

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Home and in the garage. The fun begins. Lots of work to do to get this Exocet driving, let alone track worthy again.

Manners226 12-12-2019 10:25 AM

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The chassis as originally delivered to Rich (boileralum) from Exomotive. Sped'd with the double diagonal cross roll bar and welded steel floors. Emerald Ice with a pearl top coat.

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Driving to GA to pick up a 1999 1.8L donor car.

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Finally home and ready to donate it's guts.

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Pulling the motor out of the donor car.

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Lots of degreaser was in order.

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Replacing the timing belt, water pump, front and rear main seals, drive belt, valve cover gasket, spark plugs, pcv valve, thermostat housing and gutting the thermostat.

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Lots of WD-40 and scotchbrite on the valve cover.

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First test fit in the Exocet.

Manners226 12-12-2019 11:00 AM

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The mess of wiring I’ve got to work with all looks a lot like this... It was originally running an MS3 with an AIM digital dash, so this is mostly useless to me. Probably going to start over with a stock harness to eliminate gremlins.

Manners226 12-12-2019 11:05 AM

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I built an intake to use for the time being while it’s naturally aspirated. The plan is to get a running, driving car and then add the turbo kit once it’s sorted. Also mounted up the NA radiator.

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Stage 1 clutch and 10.3 pound lightweight flywheel going in.

Manners226 12-12-2019 11:07 AM

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Found a significantly less expensive Interstate AGM battery to replace the dead Odyssey that was in it. $60 FTW

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Manners226 12-12-2019 11:09 AM

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Two of my good buddies came over to check out the Exo and the current mess of wiring I have going on. Time to chuck that harness and start over.

Manners226 12-12-2019 11:11 AM

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Test fitting the JNC003 15x9 zero offsets

Manners226 12-12-2019 11:14 AM

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Race rubber ready to go on. Went with V720s. Should be a great do everything 200tw tire for Street/Auto-X/Track for now. Plus they aren't expensive and budget is the name of this build.

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Happy with the fitment and the look.

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Manners226 12-12-2019 11:19 AM

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Prismatic powders Emerald Ice pearl

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350mm Momo prototipo w/ NRG short quick release.

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CF APR GTC-200

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Looking mean. Probably going to run the stock spring rates for now until I get a feel for the chassis and have some driving to base a coilover decision off of.

IanIsInTheGarage 12-12-2019 01:43 PM

That is going to be so much fun. Like the chassis color choice.

Manners226 12-12-2019 02:03 PM


Originally Posted by IanIsInTheGarage (Post 1557008)
That is going to be so much fun. Like the chassis color choice.

Thank you! I’m itching to drive it already. I hope to be driving by New Years.

LukeG 12-12-2019 02:35 PM

Love the color! Good looking build!

Check out the speed circuit deep tray, way more room than the tiny factory tray for wiring and ecu.

Manners226 12-12-2019 03:26 PM


Originally Posted by LukeG (Post 1557014)
Love the color! Good looking build!

Check out the speed circuit deep tray, way more room than the tiny factory tray for wiring and ecu.

I'll check it out!

HarryB 12-12-2019 03:55 PM


Originally Posted by Manners226 (Post 1556988)

Found a significantly less expensive Interstate AGM battery to replace the dead Odyssey that was in it. $60 FTW

Looks like a NP battery (NP17-12I is the closest one I could find). These are intended as UPS and/or tractive batteries. Nevertheless, a Yuasa datasheet I found claimed 500A for 1sec/150A for 1min as dischare limits, which got me thinking... Have you (or anyone else in this forum) already used the one you purchased?

Manners226 12-12-2019 04:06 PM


Originally Posted by HarryB (Post 1557025)
Looks like a NP battery (NP17-12I is the closest one I could find). These are intended as UPS and/or tractive batteries. Nevertheless, a Yuasa datasheet I found claimed 500A for 1sec/150A for 1min as dischare limits, which got me thinking... Have you (or anyone else in this forum) already used the one you purchased?

I have not used this battery yet, but my friend has this exact battery on his Evo 8 race car and it works fine for him. It is also very similar to a battery I have used in a Yamaha side by side. I believe this is an approved battery for certain powersports applications, which is what many folks use for lightweight auto racing applications. The PC680 it is replacing ran this chassis fine before.

alienmiata1 12-12-2019 05:45 PM

Where are you located in Tennessee?

gesso 12-12-2019 06:53 PM

Please rotate your tires so they are oriented correctly and repost your pictures. :)

Manners226 12-13-2019 08:38 AM


Originally Posted by gesso (Post 1557044)
Please rotate your tires so they are oriented correctly and repost your pictures. :)

Haha, they aren't even torqued and will be taken on and off the car 20 more times before they ever see the road I'm sure. V720s have an inside and outside. So one side they point one way, the other side they look backwards, but they aren’t.


Manners226 12-22-2019 07:50 PM

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Found a radiator hose to fit the NA radiator. Was able to use the stock NB upper hose with some trimming.

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Got my -3AN banjo fitting and stainless brake lines all on and routed.

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Slightly different banjo for the rears.

Manners226 12-22-2019 07:55 PM

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Converting my 1999 motor to a return style fuel system. It’s using a Holley hydromat and a Walbro 255 external fuel pump with the stock ‘99 fuel rail and injectors via an Aeromotive adjustable FPR and a ‘97 NA return style stock FPR.

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Manners226 12-22-2019 08:03 PM

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Running a BP5A JDM ECU while it's NA until I can get an MS3Pro and install the turbo kit.

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Unfortunately, my body harness plug pins had already been taken out of their plug previously. So I cut the pigtail off the JDM BP5A harness and mateD it to it.

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All soldered together and shrink wrapped!

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Finished product.

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Time to tackle this mess...

Manners226 12-22-2019 08:08 PM

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Tidying up the wiring/hose routings and installing the battery.

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Finally on the ground and ready to bleed the clutch & brake, add engine oil & coolant then fire it up and set the fuel pressure!

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All buttoned up and ready for a test drive!

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Cockpit

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Like the sticker? Haha

Manners226 12-30-2019 09:21 AM

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Well the first actual drive out on the street didn’t go so well. Come to find out the alternator wasn’t charging. I had to hitch a ride home to get the tow rig...

After about 5 hours of wiring diagnosis, we came to find out that grey/red alternator wire from the pcm to the alternator was not a complete circuit. Re-wired that and now we’re charging! Car runs pretty well, but it needs a muffler!


Manners226 12-30-2019 09:25 AM

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I replaced the upper control arms, lower ball joints, tie rod ends and wheel bearings today and we did an alignment at work. Went fairly conservatives for now. Drives much more stable and composed. I’m hoping to go on my first longer drive this week, maybe on New Years Day. So far I’ve just been driving the quick 5 miles back and forth to work.

Manners226 12-30-2019 09:31 AM

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Fireindc 01-05-2020 02:47 AM

Sick build man. How's she drive?

Manners226 01-06-2020 12:38 PM


Originally Posted by Fireindc (Post 1558774)
Sick build man. How's she drive?

It's a blast. The limits on a back road are pretty darn high. I cant wait to do some events. It's going to be a handful once I add boost.

Manners226 01-08-2020 12:52 PM

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Towed the car out to a wet cars and coffee this past weekend. It was fun to get out and about with it, even if I couldn't do any driving. I hoping to get the car down to my buddy's fab shop this week to have him do up a custom straight through exhaust. I have a 16" SS Milltek resonator that I'll have him use. Going to do the exhaust with no muffler, just the resonator in prep for the turbo setup in a few months.

Leuz 01-08-2020 01:40 PM

It looks great and a great fun to drive.

alienmiata1 01-08-2020 04:08 PM

What shop are you taking it to for the exhaust?

Manners226 01-09-2020 09:49 AM


Originally Posted by alienmiata1 (Post 1559111)
What shop are you taking it to for the exhaust?

RISE FAB SHOP
Chris Miller did it for me. His fabrication skills are great. I asked him to do a budget friendly exhaust using part of the stock down pipe for now. I think it came out pretty neat. The Milltek resonator is definitely a quality piece, sounds really good. He TIG'd a cool end section/tip to the system to give it a little curb appeal.

Manners226 01-09-2020 09:50 AM

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tomrev 01-09-2020 10:59 AM

Nicely done, very clean!

Manners226 01-10-2020 09:35 AM

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