I would, but I aim to finish my car this week, and I have finals half-way through may then my internship starts. It's going to be a busy, busy, summer.

I love the pics, Brian. Especially the ones with you and AJ carving around. When he wakes up tomorrow (he is asleep on my couch now), I'll make sure he gets to see this thread. He doesn't even have an account over here yet.

Do you have Higher res photos? I would love to use one as a desktop background

Good to meet you Brian - great car, didn't dissappoint. I will need a ride next year though. I should be just nearing the end of my build by DGRR '10.

The belly pan is something that "seems" simple until you start laying it out. I'm not looking forward to it just yet, but luckily my future father-in-law has all the materials and tools I need since he deals w/ this stuff all day.


Good luck on that fuel setup and your next dyno session... we're looking for even more stellar numbers from that beast!

As it should be. Good luck with the car and the finals

Thanks Dustin. Poor AJ, is his ass still hurting from Ohio?

Him not having an account over here is something that needs to be fixed pronto

Alyssa (NeatoCheatoFB on the evil forum) took all the pics. There is a link to her photobucket dealie in the DGRR section over there. Aside from that, maybe PM her? She still has my camera. I didn't take ONE picture except for a few on my phone. She had the camera almost the entire trip and true to form, my car needed constant attention

Good to meet you too Bill. Gladly, I think I promised 3 rides and one person to drive her. I better not have any mechanical problems next year. Which means I better hop on the underbody cancer and the tranny swap EARLY so I'm not thrashing literaly the day we're supposed to leave.

Oh believe me, I know all about that. I expected to get all my duct work done in a weekend, took me two weeks. Ridiculous. The Belly pan I should be able to get done in a weekend though...... famous last words. It should be realatively simple. Ducting the big brake upgrade will be something interesting though..... :suspect: oops, I said too much :rofl:

Well I don't think the numbers will be all that stellar because the motor is hurt. She's low on compression because of the Hank Mays Goodyear overheating and busted oil line fiasco. Actually have an adjuster coming to the dyno session on the 16th (been booked) so we can run her on the dyno to prove to them that she's low on power and run a compression test to show that she is WAY low. Last time I ran a comp test she was @ 90psi when a week earlier she was @ 110 with 50 miles on the engine. They basically owe me a new motor. I'm going to run this motor for the rest of the year and enjoy the car. When I break her down for the cancer and tranny, I'll rebuild her then. I would still like to see 350 RWHP though. Even though the motor is weak, I THINK she is still capable of that. Time will tell..... like three weeks time will tell.

I'm really pissed becuase I wanted to do this motor in three stages and get HP numbers from all three stages.

Stage 1 - BONE stock twins
Stage 2 - Ported twins
Stage 3 - BNR Stage 3 twins.

With a hurt motor I don't think I'll have reliable data for stage 1. I suppose I could run stage 2 at 7k and wastegate and see what she does and make an educated guess as to the MAX the stockers wold make, but it's a guess, not a dyno sheet. Whatever, they're gonna pay.... and pay large.

Brian, I have never seen a more meticulous build. Wow is all I can say!

How do you like those Corbeaus? I have the same ones in my car

Between a Jeep and my car, my income is quite strained. Stay tuned for my build after graduation though, I should be pretty adept at TIG by then :) Baja SAE is providing a lot of seat time!

If my math is correct, you're 30? For some reason I thought you were much older!

If I had gotten my motor done earlier, I would have done a road trip out to DGRR as a break-in, maybe next year!

Dang internet!

I'll just bug Cheetos on AIM later.

Say Wot?

GREAT JOB on the FC Titanium!! I followed some of your build on the rx7club but have never had a chance to sit down and read the entire process. This forum doesn't get the slap from the super duper military firewall so I can actually enjoy my break time at work.

Your attention to detail and form over function inspires me. I always pay attention to every little detail on my FC and it is nice to see that the trend is common.

I would say go for the BNR stage 3 on this motor. She should hold up as long as the parameters are all conservative and in check. You will be getiing a replacement anyway right? Anywho, your engine is beautiful, your FC is gorgeous and you my friend deserve a beer! :)

Cheers!

Thanks Johnson, make the trip next year I'll give you a ride.

I like them, the non-reclinable thing is starting to bug me a little, and the lumbar could be a little more supportive. I'm getting old and after 16 hours in those things I was popping aleve like candy. Actually whenever I need to take aleve I usually take 6 at a time. There's a container of them in the car now :rofl:

I MAY look at some Brides, or some reclinable seats over the winter. Something that seats you lower but offers more padding. I dunno, we'll see. For 3 hour runs they're great, after that I tend to slouch a little and my back get's stiff. I did sleep in the passenger one for like 2-5 to three hours the first morning though and woke up feeling fine. I wouldn't rec it though. The honduh with the reclining seats was way better. I was able to curl up :lol:

NICE! TIG is a great thing to learn. I would definately be leaning as much as possible and building as much as possible out of AL. PITA to weld compared to MIG'ing mild steel but the weight savings are def worth it.

Yeah, I'm an old bastard. I was actually getting alot of shit about it over the walkies. There was one instance where we were getting off the highway, I was running 3'rd behind the FD who was behind the honduh, the honda made some smart ass comment about being old and slow so I dropped a gear or two, went roaring around the FD on the exit ramp, lite them up through the left hander onto the intersection to get around the honda and into the gas station first..... AJ (Duffman) in his FB bringing up the rear made some comment like, "what a jackass. Look at the old bastard in his midlife crisis mobile." I lol'ed, can't win for losing.

DO IT! It doesn't dissapoint. As far as I'm concerned there are nicer FC's and FB's there than there are a 7Stock. And the event itself is far better than 7Stock.

Did you get them?

:suspect:

Thanks!:icon_tup:

Thanks again, I think I did the fuction is as important as form... my friends rag on my pretty hard for my OCDisms

We'll see. The BNR's are ~$2500 and right now my primary turbo has ~3,000 miles on it and if the secondary goes we're looking @ $350 to replace it plus some gaskets. We'll see what happens though. If I get bored with the power and want more than yeah I'll do it, and if that get's boring I'll to tandem GT32's or something, but now we're talking 2-3 years out.

As far as the motor goes, as far as I'm concerned, the adjuster (if I can prove there is damage which I can) "my lawyer," and even Hank May as in Hank Mays Goodyear - yes I am entitled to a new motor. I still haven't had time to run a 3rd comp test but she's low. While on the dyno I was pulling ~18" of vacuum and now the best I can get is ~14 so the motor is def hurt and down on power. So with more boost and rev's hopefully I can get back to the numbers I want to be @, ~350 RWHP and if I can than the rebuild will wait until the winter. If she doesn't make that power, then we'll figure something out. More than likely though I'll just continue to run this motor for the next 7 months and enjoy the car. I'm not going to fix the ding until winter either.

I honestly think 350rwhp is PERFECT for the street. Anything higher in my mind is great for the track but really useless(besides freeway pulls) on the street.

I was shooting for 400 on my motor BUT since it is a S4 13BT and I have the dreaded thin rear casting, I am going to keep my tune conservative and my boost at 15psi. She already hauls ass so I am pretty content. We will see what the dyno says...

Anyway sucks about the motor. I wish you the best of luck and smooth progression with the hic-up.

yeah man hope you work everything out.

car is looking great!