FD budget..ish track day build

DieselDakota · 03-30-2015, 01:01 PM

fender roller showed up yesterday, so today I threw the car at the lift and tackled rolling the front fenders.
The fronts were in real bad shape, as the rim at the top was pretty much pointing straight down, they have been since i bought the car. The tires must have been catching on them and pulled them down, that's probably why the old front tires were messed up. the fender roller wasn't ideal for the FD all the positions for the pins seemed to be in posistions so that it would bairly work, if i drilled a new hole through it to change one of the pin locations it would work perfectly. but I was to lazy.
either way it took me a bit cause I needed to figure out how to roll the lip back up into stock location in the opposite direction than the fender roller is supposed to go. I got the driver side done pretty easily(forgot to take pictures) and then rolled it up a little past stock while I was at it. By the passenger side I thought enough to actually take some pictures.
Before

The painted cracked and chipped really bad on the passenger side as I had to bend it from pretty much straight down. Not sure the best budget way to deal with this as I haven't learnt how to paint worth a shit yet, even rattle canning simple parts I seem to do a shitty job but I've been wanting to learn some bodywork stuff for a long time now. anyways here's some pics

I threw some black silicone to seal it up in the meantime

Alright, update time
I decided to do the half track day on Sunday so on Saturday I decided to duct in my rad a little better since I've always had water temp issues on the track. and the new setup wouldn't make much of a difference.

made the top plate out of scrap aluminum

looks like some horrible childish drawing.

Putting the aluminum under the bumper brackets caused the bumper to lift slightly and fit a little worse, I eventually ground down these points so it wasn't as bad

Getting closer

Thought about painting it black but gonna leave it sandblasted for now, not like the rest of the engine bay looks anywhere near immaculate anyways.

I filled in some of the side and bottom spaces with piping insulation, stayed in place pretty good.

I had a great time at the track I still had overheating issues so I could only run a few laps, 2-4 before it got up to where I felt I should let off (110 Celsius water temp). I could then do slower laps to cool down and get another few good laps in. my best time was a 1:37.36 according to my Go Pro. I also had a little whoopsy that I'll post up when it finishes uploading.

As far as temp issues go I'm going to try to switch from 50/50 to straight distilled and water wetter.
I also wore my breaks right down, my bad didn't realize they were that low, just in case anyone was wondering why I was squealing all the way around the track. Gonna google rx7club best street pads right now and get some ordered.

Also I've been using a straight atmosphere bleed for my oil system, bought a catch can but the hose sizing isn't even close. Either way my turbo's must be leaking quite a bit cause this is what I fond after the track day. I'll need to hook up the catch can before I come back. never seen much oil before this.

Some Video's from the track day, I was new to this track so I was taking it pretty slow
http://youtu.be/dkS0CY3WPvc
http://youtu.be/QyuF7PYTDac

DieselDakota · 03-30-2015, 01:07 PM

Alright on to the more recent stuff, so far is up to the end of the 2014 season and onto my current project.

Turbo

I tore out the DP, the stock twins, etc and did a test fit with my friends manifold made by turblown.

Here is my friends manifold on the engine without the turbo. it keeps everything super low.

Blocked off the rear turbo oil drain.

Since I don't have my manifold materials here, might as well start getting ready to copy.

My early reading week project was to fab up a welding cart and get my welder off the work bench. I didn't take any pictures building it but here is the final result.

This runner is a pain in the ass.

Started practicing little tacks since I hadn't done it before.

Started tacking the first runner together, its shortly after this that things started going wrong on this side. After tacking the pipes enough, I started heating and trying to bend the pipe to match the T4 flange and its a bitch, it also has the nice side affect of ruining all the fitting I had already done but that was to be expected.

I fucked up this runner as well and took to much material away. guess I get to start that over again. on the bright side I managed to get my little 90 to match up with the turbo flange somewhat.

here you can see the gap on the back where I took away to much material

Its also going to take a long time to get the two pipes to come together nicely as they now interfere.

DieselDakota · 03-30-2015, 01:09 PM

I went back out after supper. I managed to close up the gap pretty good on the one runner by fooling around a bit, still a bit of a gap but not nearly as bad. I didn't manage to stretch the other runner much better so I fooled around and centered it.
From the start I knew I would be laying a ton of weld between the pipe and both flanges, this will be because I will grind the flow path smooth and I will have to build up at least past were I intend to grind, this is why I didn't care a lot about the flange fitments, I would have liked them better but I was getting tired of just wasting time.

So once I was happy with all the fitment I tacked everything together so that I could do a test fit tomorrow with the turbo on the car.

here is some pics. I really should have wire wheeled it before tacking it up, it looks so bad now. I'll have to make sure not to forget that when it comes apart for the final welding. I'm pretty confident it will fit just fine, now I'm trying to find some welding friends who will help me with the important bit for some beer etc.

looks good after some machining. not pretty but it will be strong and work good. the turbo is going into a pretty tight space and it was hard to test fit, I was fairly confident it wouldn't fit after machining. I was however happily surprised. it fits and now its onto fabricatinging the exhaust.

DieselDakota · 03-30-2015, 01:15 PM

Alright this brings me up to modern day. I should win some kind of award for the smallest scroll bar ever in a build thread.

1. Currently I need to build a bracket to hold the wastegate canister as the one that came with the turbo won't work because of how the turbo is clocked.
2. I still need to make up oil lines and coolant lines to the Turbo.
3. I need to buy a wideband, currently looking to find a good canadian source for the innovate motorsports 2 in 1 boost and wideband kit.
4. I need to fab ub the downpipe and midpipe as well as modify my catback, this is waiting on the 3"GT vband flange for the turbo that I mistakenly thought was the same as any 3" vband flange.
5. I'm trying to piece together a fuel system, I have a friends system with some old EV1 1680 secondaries and the stock 550 primaries. this will be my backup plan depending on what else I can piece together. I'm also still trying to find a cheap used datalogit.

03-30-2015, 01:01 PM	#1
DieselDakota The Newbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	fender roller showed up yesterday, so today I threw the car at the lift and tackled rolling the front fenders. The fronts were in real bad shape, as the rim at the top was pretty much pointing straight down, they have been since i bought the car. The tires must have been catching on them and pulled them down, that's probably why the old front tires were messed up. the fender roller wasn't ideal for the FD all the positions for the pins seemed to be in posistions so that it would bairly work, if i drilled a new hole through it to change one of the pin locations it would work perfectly. but I was to lazy. either way it took me a bit cause I needed to figure out how to roll the lip back up into stock location in the opposite direction than the fender roller is supposed to go. I got the driver side done pretty easily(forgot to take pictures) and then rolled it up a little past stock while I was at it. By the passenger side I thought enough to actually take some pictures. Before The painted cracked and chipped really bad on the passenger side as I had to bend it from pretty much straight down. Not sure the best budget way to deal with this as I haven't learnt how to paint worth a shit yet, even rattle canning simple parts I seem to do a shitty job but I've been wanting to learn some bodywork stuff for a long time now. anyways here's some pics I threw some black silicone to seal it up in the meantime Alright, update time I decided to do the half track day on Sunday so on Saturday I decided to duct in my rad a little better since I've always had water temp issues on the track. and the new setup wouldn't make much of a difference. made the top plate out of scrap aluminum looks like some horrible childish drawing. Putting the aluminum under the bumper brackets caused the bumper to lift slightly and fit a little worse, I eventually ground down these points so it wasn't as bad Getting closer Thought about painting it black but gonna leave it sandblasted for now, not like the rest of the engine bay looks anywhere near immaculate anyways. I filled in some of the side and bottom spaces with piping insulation, stayed in place pretty good. I had a great time at the track I still had overheating issues so I could only run a few laps, 2-4 before it got up to where I felt I should let off (110 Celsius water temp). I could then do slower laps to cool down and get another few good laps in. my best time was a 1:37.36 according to my Go Pro. I also had a little whoopsy that I'll post up when it finishes uploading. As far as temp issues go I'm going to try to switch from 50/50 to straight distilled and water wetter. I also wore my breaks right down, my bad didn't realize they were that low, just in case anyone was wondering why I was squealing all the way around the track. Gonna google rx7club best street pads right now and get some ordered. Also I've been using a straight atmosphere bleed for my oil system, bought a catch can but the hose sizing isn't even close. Either way my turbo's must be leaking quite a bit cause this is what I fond after the track day. I'll need to hook up the catch can before I come back. never seen much oil before this. Some Video's from the track day, I was new to this track so I was taking it pretty slow http://youtu.be/dkS0CY3WPvc http://youtu.be/QyuF7PYTDac

03-30-2015, 01:07 PM	#2
DieselDakota The Newbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	Alright on to the more recent stuff, so far is up to the end of the 2014 season and onto my current project. Turbo I tore out the DP, the stock twins, etc and did a test fit with my friends manifold made by turblown. Here is my friends manifold on the engine without the turbo. it keeps everything super low. Blocked off the rear turbo oil drain. Since I don't have my manifold materials here, might as well start getting ready to copy. My early reading week project was to fab up a welding cart and get my welder off the work bench. I didn't take any pictures building it but here is the final result. This runner is a pain in the ass. Started practicing little tacks since I hadn't done it before. Started tacking the first runner together, its shortly after this that things started going wrong on this side. After tacking the pipes enough, I started heating and trying to bend the pipe to match the T4 flange and its a bitch, it also has the nice side affect of ruining all the fitting I had already done but that was to be expected. I fucked up this runner as well and took to much material away. guess I get to start that over again. on the bright side I managed to get my little 90 to match up with the turbo flange somewhat. here you can see the gap on the back where I took away to much material Its also going to take a long time to get the two pipes to come together nicely as they now interfere.

03-30-2015, 01:09 PM	#3
DieselDakota The Newbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	I went back out after supper. I managed to close up the gap pretty good on the one runner by fooling around a bit, still a bit of a gap but not nearly as bad. I didn't manage to stretch the other runner much better so I fooled around and centered it. From the start I knew I would be laying a ton of weld between the pipe and both flanges, this will be because I will grind the flow path smooth and I will have to build up at least past were I intend to grind, this is why I didn't care a lot about the flange fitments, I would have liked them better but I was getting tired of just wasting time. So once I was happy with all the fitment I tacked everything together so that I could do a test fit tomorrow with the turbo on the car. here is some pics. I really should have wire wheeled it before tacking it up, it looks so bad now. I'll have to make sure not to forget that when it comes apart for the final welding. I'm pretty confident it will fit just fine, now I'm trying to find some welding friends who will help me with the important bit for some beer etc. looks good after some machining. not pretty but it will be strong and work good. the turbo is going into a pretty tight space and it was hard to test fit, I was fairly confident it wouldn't fit after machining. I was however happily surprised. it fits and now its onto fabricatinging the exhaust.

03-30-2015, 01:15 PM	#4
DieselDakota The Newbie Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 29 Rep Power: 0	Alright this brings me up to modern day. I should win some kind of award for the smallest scroll bar ever in a build thread. 1. Currently I need to build a bracket to hold the wastegate canister as the one that came with the turbo won't work because of how the turbo is clocked. 2. I still need to make up oil lines and coolant lines to the Turbo. 3. I need to buy a wideband, currently looking to find a good canadian source for the innovate motorsports 2 in 1 boost and wideband kit. 4. I need to fab ub the downpipe and midpipe as well as modify my catback, this is waiting on the 3"GT vband flange for the turbo that I mistakenly thought was the same as any 3" vband flange. 5. I'm trying to piece together a fuel system, I have a friends system with some old EV1 1680 secondaries and the stock 550 primaries. this will be my backup plan depending on what else I can piece together. I'm also still trying to find a cheap used datalogit.