Finishing the racecar blog. Yes?

[vrinner]

Well...

Officially my car WAS running when I dropped it off at the fabshop hell. However now that I've droped another umpteen hundred on re-doing the dash, mounting the pedals properly, and all of my wiring torn up and re-done by a company who I HOPE knows what they are doing...I'm not so sure that it will be running when I get it back...PLUS I still have to take it to the dyno. Can we say freekin' money pit. At least to keep myself in the running to win a freakin bet, I may have to pull a motor out of some stock POS I have, put in the stock computer and get the car on the track! At least with the stock stuff I know it will make it around the track for 15 or so laps! LOL

Raven855...I certainly hope that you have more sense than the rest of us! Put a roll cage, 5-point harness and a fire system in that thing and kick our sorry a***s! I'm Jone's-en for something more than Auto-X and co-driver for enduro's.

[Horsewidower]

I feel your pain, I feel your pain.

You need to get your NASA license, I think it would be a kick to get a bunch of SVOCA guys together to run a 6 hour enduro. Or 12 or 25??

[Horsewidower]

Drilling safety wire holes again today. I hate this. Gave up last night after I broke two bits in the same bolt. Ran out of bits earlier and ran to the
Ace, because everyone else is a long way away. The Ace bits, besides being twice as expensive, have an unacceptable amount of runout. And I bought six of them.

The jigs and drill press make it a lot easier, its still time consuming. I might just put the car together to hear it run and then take selected parts off and safety wire.

[Raven855]

Just curious, what parts are you safety wiring? What was your determining factor in deciding what to wire?

[Pat_in_L.A.]

Just curious, what parts are you safety wiring? What was your determining factor in deciding what to wire?

Don't question him. If he's spending time drilling and safety wiring stuff, he ain't blowing things up.

[Raven855]

he ain't blowing things up.

Some people can break a crowbar in a sand box(me). I would probably need to be safety wired in.

[Horsewidower]

Don't question him. If he's spending time drilling and safety wiring stuff, he ain't blowing things up.

Oh you're killing me!!

I safety wire anything that can't be done with nylocks or loctite. I generally don't like to loctite things that go into threaded aluminum, at some point you pull the threads, anything that gets really hot I safety wire. Anything that we have experienced loosening also gets safety wired.

[Horsewidower]

Do the drilling with a mill and center-drill start the holes first. Less breakage that way. But it is more time consuming.

Alternately you can just buy fasteners already drilled for more money. After all, what were you planning to do with that extra money? Anyway?

I have a bunch of centering drill bits that I bought for this purpose, they don't work with the commercial jigs. I made a jig for them, and after breaking another two ACE drill bits in the commercial jigs, I'm going back to the centering bits.

Unfortunately I didn't get as far as I wanted today. When I went to the store to get a bit of hose for the racecar, I found the BMW pissing coolant on the ground. Damn I hate plastic end tanks on radiators.

[Horsewidower]

A couple of pictures:

1. Safety wire drilling.




2. new turbo on left, old turbo on right.






Bob

[Horsewidower]

Alright, its raining, its too wet to work outside. No reason not to have this thing running by the end of the weekend. Looks like its an all garage weekend.

[Raven855]

Alright, its raining, its too wet to work outside. No reason not to have this thing running by the end of the weekend. Looks like its an all garage weekend.

Well?

[Horsewidower]

Well?

Well, its correct, its rainy, its too wet to work outside. No reason not to have this thing running by the end of the weekend. Looks like its an all garage weekend.

Ummm, just not last weekend. Ran into a problem with the coolant fittings on the turbo, the 3/8 NPT used on all the rest of my turbos didn't work on the new one. I took it over to the local XRP dealer on Wednesday and we found an obscure carb fitting with a 16mm-5/8 to -8an fitting that worked. So there should be no more impediments.

I'm taking tomorrow off, Saturday I might go to Sears Point to watch the AI race and then have Sunday and Monday to finish.

I'll try and take a video of it running, the only person here that has seen it run is Greg, and it wasn't running worth **** when he saw it.

Bob

[Raven855]

I'm taking tomorrow off, Saturday I might go to Sears Point to watch the AI race and then have Sunday and Monday to finish. Bob

Cool! We can celebrate the 2nd anniversary of this thread with a video!

What kind of turbo has those fittings?

[Horsewidower]

Cool! We can celebrate the 2nd anniversary of this thread with a video!

What kind of turbo has those fittings?

{Best Tim Allen appreciation) Huhhh!!!

Second anniversary!! or should it be

Damn thing sould have been done by now!!!!

The turbo is a t3/t4 hybrid that my turbo rebuilder order a new CHRA for. Don't know why it came with those fittings. But it does make me wonder.

[Horsewidower]

Alright, intake side done. Downpipe rewrapped and painted, Bob's log wrapped and painted, WG resprung, turbo plumbed and safety wired. Starter in. Getting ready to hang the turbo and mani. Safety wired stuff 'til I'm cross-eyed.

Gotta go get some more beer.