Yeah please do. I would like to see it as I am doing this myself right now. Did you adjust the shims to remove bumpsteer?

well i made them with a stack of spacers to ajust for bump steer. i havent done anything with them yet though. i have a suspention guy who does my alighnments. ill talk it over with him. right now my focus is getting the engine running

btw i'm just curious, what size tube did u use? 1.25 od .125 wall?

as far as what ??

the original cage was 1.75 o.d .095 wall (main hoop+ rear section,front down bars)

all the new work is 1.5 o.d .095 wall( it might be .125 i cant rember its been a while) the include(door bars,dash bar, front end hoop)

next time I'll add the "looooooooololol" so you understand the context of jokes that must go not go unsaid.

Again, if you are taking this machine to Morgan for tuning, I implore you to post that up here or PM me. I wanna see this in action.

Because of this thread, I decided to move up my plans for my 1.8, and am having Morgan build me an exhaust mani, dp, and full exhaust this winter. He will tune me up again, as well.

sure, ill pm you. at the rate im going, i would expect it to be mid spring time

do you see it? i do


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coolant reroute? thermostat housing?

I see ya drugs home boy.

this is the 1st half on the thermostat housing. took 7 hrs of straight machining.

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it will use a 3/32 O-ring to seal. i will make the 2nd half and the sensor bungs and fill spout next weekend

seriously 7 hours? i would have been done with it in about an hour and a half, two hours tops with a polished finish :P.

No you Wouldnt have. Not with the equipment i had to use . The band saw blade popped off three times just cutting the blank. All the od was done on a manual lathe with crap tooling. All the id was done on a ezTrak.

Pretty slick, That would take forever to make if you had to do small cuts (like you have to do with a crappy lathe/ crappy tooling)
I cnat wait to see how its gonna be installed in the car

That is 6 min.Cnc Job,7 hrs manual is a bit long.I really want to see how this looks when done.I have something like That too.
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i want!

The AN fitting is pretty slick, was that the reason for making it from scratch? Otherwise this would have saved you a lot of time,

M-Tuned In Line Thermostat Housing with T-Stat M-Tuned

What's the ID on it anyway?

yeah, i was cutting at .05 a pass. my boss doesnt want me cranking the rpms, so i have to turn at a slow feed rate. and the chuck jaws are shit, he machined ten diff diameters into them, so i was only grabing on like a 1/2" i didnt want to push it, and i didnt want to put in a live center. once i got it in the bridgeport it went pretty good. i didnt have a 2 flute ball endmill of the right dia, so i had to use 4 flute, so that took a little longer. the pics dont do it justice. it looks really really nice. the mtuned thing isnt what i want. i have a vmount so i am gonna be putting in a fill, so that its the highest point in the cooling system. no one makes one to my liking so im making my own. if i had a cnc this thing woulda been done in an hour or so.

also its -16an, thats like .875 or something ID

From what I have seen so far, you know what the fuck you are doing.