Hotdogs into a fujitsubo on an Evo 8 with 400 awhp.







Dann

 

MERKURS:
Truth. I built 3 MS1's for those. They are crazy little german/american bastard children

 

Winerack

Garage has less junk parts now.

 

In response to the wine rack:

 

Just a particularly nice set of cat delete pipes for a Lamborghini Gallardo Superleggera

 

I saw this on fab life page.

I asked what cup and gasflow you used to get the excellent colour.

What I didnt ask though is what filler you are using. It looks like 308, but only a tiny bit of filler?

thanks,
Dann

 

I know this is a small request, but can I see someone's valve cover that has been welded with a fitting for a catch can? just curious to see the configurations and am being lazy at sifting through build threads

 

How I did mine

 

that looks sweet, I was thinking something just like that but wasnt sure. Were those weld on bungs or just a threaded fitting cleaned and welded on once threaded in? Also, is that a mount for dedicated coils? So clean!

One more question, how did you get all the steel pressed in there on the hotside, did you just drill it out or somehow pull it out?

 

A little heat and a pair of pliers with some pulling and twisting motion and the steel nipple will come out. Those were weld in bungs and yes that is my coil mount. Finished result is this:

 

damn that is sexy, thanks for showing me and telling me how. Time to attack my cam cover.

 

I'm running what looks to be the same catch can. I have both lines T'd into each other then into the can on one side and the other side runs to the intake tube between the air filter and the turbo. I don't see a vacuum line on yours? Nice looking work.

 

Thank you, and no problem. Good luck on yours.

I never even thought about vacuum, it seems to be working great as it is now. I drain it once a week, a lot of water from the E85. Not trying to be a smartass, but how would vacuum to the can help any when the can is vented to atmosphere?

 

I was thinking the same thing, but everyone I've seen done at the track is that way. Mainly on high psi force inducted cars, maybe it helps. Maybe it isn't needed, but can't hurt I don't think. Anyway probably not necessary now that I think about it, one less hose.

 

I've always wondered why you would have a vacuum hose AND breather too, surely the breather seriously diminishes any vacuum effect?

I suspect it just makes it easy to plug the breather when you need to be legal again.

 

Some mid process bullshit.







Letting it cool while it's clamped so it doesn't warp. Then i'll finish the last bits with it unclamped.

 

Been chipping away at the front end. Cut forward of the strut towers to transition to round tube, and laid the radiator forward more to give me the clearance to duct out the hood.

Had to reclock the inlet on the radiator to work with the water pump and weld some mounting tabs to it, but no real drama. The new front end is fiberglass, so that bar and two mounts hanging under the frame rails are part of the front end mounting kit from S&W. The whole front end can just slide into the receiver mounts, and then dzus around the fenders for easy removal.

I picked up a few clamshell mounts from A&A that I will eventually weld the splitter brackets to. I'm going to attempt to support the splitter far enough forward this time that I won't need the cable supports. Basically, there will be four brackets that clamp around the lower frame rail, and each bracket will have some round tube struts to support the splitter.

Old fenders are just dangling there so I can ballpark some dimensions while the nose is being made. I'm estimating about 100 lbs of weight off the stock front end with the new setup, maybe more. The core support area was surprisingly heavy, as was the plastic nose itself, headlights/motor assembly, etc. Will lose about 15 pounds or so from the hood as well.

 

Just a regular gas lense, 15 on the regulator, about 30 amps. It's just fused with a perfect fit, no filler.

 

Ah ok. Makes sense then. I thought it had filler.

Dann

 

I just noticed. In my pictures above, the welds show a perfect example of welding a 304 flange to 316 pipe. That's why the welds were getting gray, while down around the flange they had nicer color to them.