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

[TitaniumTT]

Fuel cell is obviously done and installed and as far as I can tell, working just great so I thought I'd share the last few pics of this nightmarish RE-REbuild... that's well, not entirely finished just yet. Problems from the first few miles are as follows
Rear end is fragged
The front right ABS knuckle that I picked up is out of shape and causing the rotor to contact the caliper. Yes, that is accurate. I though after I put everything back together that it was a frozen caliper becuase it wouldn't turn. So I bought a new caliper, bled it and the problem was still there. WTF? Fuck it, maybe with some heat she'll loosen up. What a fucking NOISE! Investigated and found the problem. Chewed into the caliper by ~.05". I removed the shim so it would work but still need a new knuckle. Bill's getting a PM shortly.
T/O bearing making some noise - not so concerend because I still need to get that 6-spd in.
Front heat shield for the cell.
better install on the Alpine PDX-5
New battery. I'm starting to hate Optima batteries.

So, onto the last few set's of pics.

I decided to be a baller and get some Mil-Spec fuel cell bulkhead connectors. in hindsight, they're dead sexy, but very pricey. Whatever. I got a tip from the engineers @ MoTeC - Crimp the wires, solder the terminals - cool The terminals are rated @ 13A. That's about what these pumps draw so I decided to double up on them. THe white and 3rd black wire run to a MetriPack connector so I can measure fuel pump voltage AT the pump while running. Pretty badass I think.



Completed pic of the Bosch pump. It's still loud, but I can live with it....... for now.



Completed pic of Denso pump, still quite, still love it.



Look at that heatshrink. WTF is wrong with Raychem, that'll never fit right. BASTARDS!!!!!!!!



oh wait - nmd - I still love those guys