Diary of a Madman; TitaniumTT's see you @ DGRRXI RE-REbuild

[TitaniumTT]

When Glenny did the clutch in his S2k he sent me a pic of the tranny, they are not the same at all. Same manufacturer, same family, but VERY different externally. Bellhousings are totally different as well.

[RXtacy]

Originally Posted by JL1RX7

Or find a S2000 and swap the ends. Heard they are all the same center sections. How true that is I don't know.

Gotta love the internet

[JL1RX7]

I saw it on the internet so it must be trues!

[Prodigy]

Originally Posted by JL1RX7

I saw it on the internet so it must be trues!

Quoted For Truth!!!


Seriously Brian, get some more pictures up of this dirty girl..


J.

[TitaniumTT]

Will do... she is a fucking FILTHY whore... I didn't get a chance to give her a bath before she went into the shop for the winter.... oh well.... maybe a wipe down is in order... we'll see....

So I'll get some pics up but here's where we stand with this bitch... she's on jackstands and I dropped the tranny to take it to Speed1 yesterday when I went out to tune a car... It lasted longer than most people though... I figure there's about 25,000 miles on this trans at around 400rwhp with REPEATED 1st gear clutch drops, highway runs, track days etc etc etc.... it held up pretty well I feel. Ever since June 2012 when the thing separated and lost all it's oil @ 143mph on the front straight @ LRP, it's been getting worse and worse. A hub finally over extended and the springs and balls popped out. The result was a chipped 3rd gear, a dented 5th geat, all the syncro's are kinda worn, the input shaft bearing is FUCKED and all the forks are worn pretty good. So with 86 Days remaining..... I start looking for a new tranny.... actually 2... because you're only as good as your backup So if anyone knows of an S1 tranny kicking around.... lemme know....

Hopefully I'll get a few hours tonight to work on the bitch a little bit, there's some fabrication to finish up in the engine bay, the exhaust, and the entire interior needs to be stripped out as well.....

[TitaniumTT]

So with 85 days let I really didn't get a lot done tonight... Managed to get the turbo and manifold off and on the 'vert engine with a Cosmo intake. This way I can mock up the coolant hardlines for the turbo and wastegates on the engine stand and then just transfer them over. I'm also going to rotate the CHRA 17* to create a thermal siphon when the engine shuts down. The way I had the turbo plumbed before when you shut the engine down, the heat from the mani and the turbine housing soaks into the CHRA and I've heard the coolant bubbling before and had one or two coolant lines fail.... oddly... they only fail when the engine is off.... sooooo yeah... need to address that.

Once the CHRA is rotated and locked down, back on the car with all the new lines I'll build an inlet pipe to get the air filter up into the corner behind the headlight and rebuild the AST. The coolant line exit is going to feed straight uphill into the new AST. I'll also build a new overflow tank out of sight just to clean things up a bit and not hinder the location of the air filter.

I think for this round I'll focus one area at a time. Breaking it down into four segments we've got all the mechanical and electrical under the hood. I've got some shit to do to the interior, and some mechanical stuff on the exterior. Then there's always the misc stuff that's nice to do but not required.

So the list for under the hood is as follows.
Coolant hairlines for turbo and wastegates
Swap springs out for 10psi
tweaking the open dump tube
New turbo drain hose
4port dual solenoids and braided Teflon hoses for wastegates.
New AST
New overflow tank.
Turbo inlet tubing with AIT sensor
TiAL BOV with braided lines
New open element AIT sensor
New clutch hardline
New plugs and wires
Quick swap mounts for Quicksilver and D585 coils (yeah, I'm still doing this)
New Overflow tank
3" Vbands before the cans (right now the exhaust is still one piece and it's a MOTHERFUCKER to get in and out with as big as it is....
New alternator - fuck you all
Tranny.

Pretty sure that's everything that needs doing under the hood. I want to up the size of the oilcoolers and remount them farther back and re do the brake ducting. However that will wait. After that list is all done I'll move onto the interior and the wiring that I've got to do.... Anyway... all I really got done tonight was removing the turbo and mani, reclocking it and figuring out all the bits and pieces that I need to order tomorrow so I can keep at it on Thursday. Love Verocious Motorsports... their standard shipping is usually overnight if they have everything in stock

[TitaniumTT]

84 days and counting.....

Decided to do a little fab work tonight.... I got a new TiAL BOV in as a replacement for the old greedy unit which I have little faith in.... I'm hoping to put it where the old BOV once lived.... if it fits there it'll fit by 1/16 of an inch.... decided not to press my luck with that... instead I moved onto the coolant lines for the WG

Pulling from the rear housing they're run in parallel. On the side Tee fitting into the rear WG. From there it runs to a street union on the front WG. The exiting coolant from the rear WG meets the exiting coolant from the front WG with another on the side tee fitting and from there it runs up to the lower portion of the waterpump. Hopefully this extends the life of the WG. I was hoping to NOT have to do this.... but as you can clearly see, the rear WG is getting much hotter than the front. It's not from EGT's either. Those stay within a few degrees of each other.... it's just being surrounded hy heat and baked.... hopefully this helps.

I would've liked to have gotten more done tonight, but whatever.... hardlines are FUCKING TIME CONSUMING!!!

[Whizbang]

Like a down payment for house in AN fittings

[TitaniumTT]

Yeah.... they do add up... wait till you see the fucking WG lines.... all -4Braided Teflon lined and SS fittings Hopefully I get a few more parts in today and can make some decent progress...

[JhnRX7]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Love Verocious Motorsports... their standard shipping is usually overnight if they have everything in stock

Ditto to this statement ^ I love Verocious, fast shipping and the prices on fittings cant be beat. Also I have to option of driving down and picking up my order


I'm in the middle of the same project, only on the fuel system side. -6 hardlines from tank to injectors. Setting the car up for Flex fuel and decided to go all out.

Side note, I have noticed the same thing on a few dual wastegate cars now... the rear wastegate gets discolored from the heat yet the EGT's were even between both runners.

[RXtacy]

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

I'm in the middle of the same project, only on the fuel system side. -6 hardlines from tank to injectors. Setting the car up for Flex fuel and decided to go all out.

You're doing hardlines from the firewall to the rails also? What are you doing to mitigate vibration/displacement?

Side note, I have noticed the same thing on a few dual wastegate cars now... the rear wastegate gets discolored from the heat yet the EGT's were even between both runners.

On Brian's car especially that rear WG is crammed in there. Very tight fit.

[RETed]

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

Side note, I have noticed the same thing on a few dual wastegate cars now... the rear wastegate gets discolored from the heat yet the EGT's were even between both runners.

Nature of the ambient air flowing over the engine...
Cooler air hits the front of the engine first.
By the time the air gets to the rear of the engine, it's already heated up a lot.
Typically, the rear of engine runs hotter than the front - shoot an IR thermal gun and take some temps...


-Ted

[JhnRX7]

Originally Posted by RXtacy

You're doing hardlines from the firewall to the rails also? What are you doing to mitigate vibration/displacement?
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I guess my last post was not entirely true... I am running a short run, 10"-12" (or so), of soft line between block and firewall for vibration/flex.

Mr. Ambrosio (RENESISFD) is coming over this weekend to lend his expertise and hopefully help minimize the amount of trashed lines... Hardline Party!

[speedjunkie]

My goodness, I love those hardlines on the wastegates. Definitely stealing that idea at some point.

And I like the setup of your manifold more than mine also.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

Ditto to this statement ^ I love Verocious, fast shipping and the prices on fittings cant be beat. Also I have to option of driving down and picking up my order

I'm so jealous.... have you ever? I really want to meet that Adrienne chick

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

I'm in the middle of the same project, only on the fuel system side. -6 hardlines from tank to injectors. Setting the car up for Flex fuel and decided to go all out.

Nice.... how are you mounting the hardlines? I've got a machining project going on that you may be interested in... shoot me a txt if ya wanna know

Also.... If John is gonna be with you this weekend... check out one of the pics I'm about to post.... it's the MAP sensor mount that he was asking me about.... I'm having a dozen of them cut. I know John was down for 2. Mikes down for 2 I need 4 so there will be 4 left over until I have another run made... price will be in the $40 range last I spoke to him about them... we'll see after he gets them cut what the machine time is. Yeah, I know its not the normal way things are done, but I've been doing business with him for like 8 years so we take care of each other....

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

Side note, I have noticed the same thing on a few dual wastegate cars now... the rear wastegate gets discolored from the heat yet the EGT's were even between both runners.

Originally Posted by RXtacy

On Brian's car especially that rear WG is crammed in there. Very tight fit.

Very tight and completely surrounded by heat with little airflow.... nothing else is really getting killed with heat back there so I'm happy about that. Removing the seal between the firewall and the hood probably helped with that a little as well...

Originally Posted by RETed

Nature of the ambient air flowing over the engine...
Cooler air hits the front of the engine first.
By the time the air gets to the rear of the engine, it's already heated up a lot.
Typically, the rear of engine runs hotter than the front - shoot an IR thermal gun and take some temps...


-Ted

Rear of the engine as in housings/irons etc or are you referring to rear rotor EGT's?

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

I guess my last post was not entirely true... I am running a short run, 10"-12" (or so), of soft line between block and firewall for vibration/flex.

Mr. Ambrosio (RENESISFD) is coming over this weekend to lend his expertise and hopefully help minimize the amount of trashed lines... Hardline Party!

NICE.... He bought one of those MasterCool hydraulic flaring tools correct? I fucking love that thing.....

Originally Posted by speedjunkie

My goodness, I love those hardlines on the wastegates. Definitely stealing that idea at some point.

Thanks man!

Originally Posted by speedjunkie

And I like the setup of your manifold more than mine also.

Why? Yours is pretty badass