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A shop in lewisville did the work on the SM-T yellow car, and it looks incredible. I've considered letting them do that work to my bumper...but I could just buy the super-jdm-vtak-type-R scoop thingie from japan for the same price.
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In our prototype, we have fashioned a couple of unique pieces for the cooling system to allow the coolant from the back of the head to go to the radiator rather than re-circulate as hot water back into the block. IF we ran an H2O cooled turbo we could splice in here.We are also running custom Ron Davis Aluminum Radiators that mate well with the IC. Airflow into the radiator/IC is maximised by blocking off escape routes.
Not shown in this photo is the Setrab Oil cooler that will be mounted in the passenger Head light area nd vented out the top of the cover.
Not shown in this photo is the Setrab Oil cooler that will be mounted in the passenger Head light area nd vented out the top of the cover.
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Seems there is a real "issue" with the fuel management. The ECU we are using has a very user friendly interface with table resolutions of 7% load steps and 250RPM increments. Injector tuning is in millisecond increments, with % duty cycle real time display. It has a closed loop mode if you want, and even turns on and off the CEL appropriately. Will run a fan if you like, and has user definable inputs and outputs to run just about anything ( even the IACV if you wanted to, with idle control logic).
This unit may become available outside the series if there is enough demand.
Oh, and it fits inside the OEM box and can run off the stock MAF for NA applications.....
This unit may become available outside the series if there is enough demand.
Oh, and it fits inside the OEM box and can run off the stock MAF for NA applications.....
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I still want to hook up and make that splitter, if I ever come home, which I won't. BTW, there's a PCA day at Harris Hills on 11/08...let's crash it.
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Man, if you gays are so bored that you want to go ahead and knock that **** out, go for it and let me know where to send the money for the bushings. I think John wants my car together so he can drive it and convince himself to go FI. Are you sure that working on my car is something you guys want to get into?
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John had mentioned it and I already committed....soooooo.
Yes, I'm thinking he's still open in the FI department; although his car is extremely well sorted out in NA form.
If you are wanting to upgrade the bushings, we are both using the Poly-pros from Gary. The Delrin bushings had some height differences that I was concerned with and chose not to use them. They are prolly fine though.
Let John know and he'll get 'em and we can get the housing off and over to Bo's for your gearing needs.
Yes, I'm thinking he's still open in the FI department; although his car is extremely well sorted out in NA form.
If you are wanting to upgrade the bushings, we are both using the Poly-pros from Gary. The Delrin bushings had some height differences that I was concerned with and chose not to use them. They are prolly fine though.
Let John know and he'll get 'em and we can get the housing off and over to Bo's for your gearing needs.
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Do you paint professional quality??? or just your own things? I have a miata that needs painting. I thought about doing it myself. But I would have to build a temporary paint booth in my friends large garage. It is a 30X60 and I don't want to clean overspray for the whole garage. LOL
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no one in Dallas thinks its necessary. As far as I know, I'm the only one who's done it, and I constantly hear about how useless it is...that's when the locals aren't talking about turbo unreliability, typically that comes after they tell me that I should have used PCPro because MegaSquirt is unreliable. This is also entertaining because there is at least one guy with Hydra who's injectors peg open and it smokes like a diesel...yet nothing is wrong with it.
A shop in lewisville did the work on the SM-T yellow car, and it looks incredible. I've considered letting them do that work to my bumper...but I could just buy the super-jdm-vtak-type-R scoop thingie from japan for the same price.
A shop in lewisville did the work on the SM-T yellow car, and it looks incredible. I've considered letting them do that work to my bumper...but I could just buy the super-jdm-vtak-type-R scoop thingie from japan for the same price.
Only time it has been an issue is over 300whp, even in August @ 110. We built a NB 1.8T drift car with 480whp, and we did the coolant reroute on it.
Same here. It works well, too.
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I'm with ya, sanding sucks.
Do you paint professional quality??? or just your own things? I have a miata that needs painting. I thought about doing it myself. But I would have to build a temporary paint booth in my friends large garage. It is a 30X60 and I don't want to clean overspray for the whole garage. LOL
Do you paint professional quality??? or just your own things? I have a miata that needs painting. I thought about doing it myself. But I would have to build a temporary paint booth in my friends large garage. It is a 30X60 and I don't want to clean overspray for the whole garage. LOL
5 coats and wet sand blocking between each coat with 1 day dry time between each session. Last sanding session was with 2000 grit and some Mequiar's expenso waxing sessions. Pics to uploaded soon.
Car looks better than the day I brought it home over two years ago.
The end is finally in sight for this build.
Aside from FI of course!