TitaniumTT's I hope I make it to DGRR '09 Build

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

I think a few filters are definitely what you'll need for now! That is craziness with the fuel clogging up....

You may be a good candidate for a fuel cell, lol... this whole thing has me nervous about redoing my fuel tank over the winter.. I want to get it blasted and coated, but man not if its going to cause all these issues!

I thought about the fuel cell thing but decided against it. Alot of work and I want to retain the factory fill. That's the hard part is the factory fill. Aside from that, and talking to Tim Marren and him pulling sand, yes sand, from a few of his filters from the ethanol breaking down some of the plastic cells, I'm all for it

Originally Posted by vex

I wonder how fast you will have to drive before you pull enough vac to pull the air through it.

Not very, right before I blasted to Daves yesterday I stopped for fuel and one of those do-it-yourself car wash places was right next door so I stopped. It's like 20' from the highway. I got on and watched all these little beads of water hit that trailing edge and shoot up and way over the vent before they nose dived for the area where the washer nozzles once were. What I want to do is put a few telltales on the hood an go for a drive while videoing them. I also want to install my old steel hood, go for a drive, monitor intake temps, stop, pull the hood and hit say the UIM with my lazer temp do-hickey, go home, put the new hood on and repeat and compare the results.

Aight, I'm going to clean a fuel filter................. AGAIN

[WE3RX7]

Wait - so the hood is painted now and we still dont have new pics? I dont care if it is almost midnight damnit!

Now just send your hood to Shine so they can make a mold and our cars can have even more in common

[need RX7]

Those damn fuel filters. It's not even my car, and I'm getting frustrated .

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by need RX7

Those damn fuel filters. It's not even my car, and I'm getting frustrated .

No doubt! Look at the shit that I pulled from it tonight. Fucker sat in some lacquer thinner for about 1/2 hour before I scrubbed it with an SS brush, blasted it with carb clean and 135psi of air. She flows good now though, right around 43.7psi. Tomorrow I'm going to pull the MAP line from the reg, drive around for a bit and then pull the datalogs. They shoujld be steady @ 43.5ish psi. Also, need to do some work on my stereo so when I do I'm going to pull the pump and look at my brandy new prefilter and see what kinda of shit is clogged up in there. It never ends, where is this shit coming from?

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

Wait - so the hood is painted now and we still dont have new pics? I dont care if it is almost midnight damnit!

Oh yeah, shot her on Tuesday.... then worked until 6am on wed to get the vent area cut and buffed and the interior put back together. Then I drove out to Dave, hung out there for a few hours, BARELY made it home by 8, was asleep by 8:15 and woke up 8:30 this morning....... fun times

Regardless, here are some pics....








and one of my dog for ejay

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

Now just send your hood to Shine so they can make a mold and our cars can have even more in common

There is an evil forum member somewhat local to me that owns a fiberglass shop that was very interested in the PanSpeed hood that Shine was offering but more interested in an Atihun hood that an aqcuaintance had. I've given some serious thought to going to him and having him use my hood to pull a mold for a "stud" fee if you will. Mainly becuase I would love one in glass or CF and it would be nice to be able to have another one without actually making another one, in case of an accident or something. Fucking Shine man, I spoke with him on 7/12 and he said 1.5-2.5 weeks. Here it is almost 6 weeks later and not even an update. They had a starting point, I didn't. i was able to make one from scratch and get it painted IN MY FREE TIME, in about half the time that they have spent saying it'll be done........ That's all I'm saying about that

[WE3RX7]

Have I mentioned I hate you and your awesome fab skills?? Just checking... thats one thing I am not good at - bodywork/fab work. Mainly because I have limited experience with it..

That hood turned out great... and I'm with you on the whole Shine thing. Thats my frustration right now. I was in on a few GB they put together but they take FOREVER.. I want to place a bulk order for the parts to save on shipping... but they havent given a realistic timeframe on when to expect parts, so I'll probably just start ordering them separate and hope after the 3rd or 4th order they'll cut me some "slack" for being a repeat buyer so much.. they were awesome when I bought the fenders, but ever since.. not so hot..

If you get that hood to an FG/CF guy, I'd take one if CF tomorrow... and I could pick it up We need more east coast fabricators...

[need RX7]

Hood came out awesome

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by need RX7

Hood came out awesome

Thanks man

[QUOTE=WE3RX7;94754]Have I mentioned I hate you and your awesome fab skills?? Just checking... thats one thing I am not good at - bodywork/fab work. Mainly because I have limited experience with it..[\quote]

Yeah, once or twice. I had no experience when I started either. Looking back at some of the things I built when I first started, they're disgraceful. But practive makes perfect and all that shit. My car was the first car that I ever painted too. Looking at some of the pieces that I painted first, well, they were painted more than once lets just leave it at that

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

That hood turned out great... and I'm with you on the whole Shine thing. Thats my frustration right now. I was in on a few GB they put together but they take FOREVER.. I want to place a bulk order for the parts to save on shipping... but they havent given a realistic timeframe on when to expect parts, so I'll probably just start ordering them separate and hope after the 3rd or 4th order they'll cut me some "slack" for being a repeat buyer so much.. they were awesome when I bought the fenders, but ever since.. not so hot..

If you get that hood to an FG/CF guy, I'd take one if CF tomorrow... and I could pick it up We need more east coast fabricators...

Ken seems like a good guy and he puts out a decent product. The one thing that I CANNOT stand is, "Oh yeah, it'll be done in two weeks," and then 6 or 7 later all we have is a rough glassed scoop. Something that should've taken 3 days. Whatever, I'll be surprised if it's ready to be shipped by the end of the year.

[FC3S Murray]

Man you really do great body work you mofo!

WTF is going on with your fuel system? I am trying the think where the foriegn contaminent could come from..??...?

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by FC3S Murray

Man you really do great body work you mofo!

WTF is going on with your fuel system? I am trying the think where the foriegn contaminent could come from..??...?

Thanks Sean.

I dunno where this shit is coming from. The only thing that I can think of is that I missed it when I cleaned this tank out. That shit is dirt and grit. This is my buddies tank that sat for a year or two, somewhat opened. It also had 2 or 3 holes drilled into the top of it. I dunno. She's on stands right now, I'm going to clean the main filter and the pre-filter again before tomorrows dyno. Should have some numbers, pics, and a vid or two up tomorrow night or sunday morning.. woot!

[EJayCe996]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Should have some numbers, pics, and a vid or two up tomorrow night or sunday morning.. woot!

Don't keep me waiting

[WE3RX7]

I've got the vid camera all charged up

I hope to practice painting and fab work more in the future, right now, my two car is too tiny, lol...

[Nismo]

What are you Running for a fuel pump Brian? Just thinking the impeller might be eating it self, fuel lines could be eating it?

[Duffman692002]

He said 'should' EJ, damn... Give 'em a break, lololol.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

I've got the vid camera all charged up

I hope to practice painting and fab work more in the future, right now, my two car is too tiny, lol...

Awesome, pray for me, I'm going outside to drop the tank, AGAIN

Originally Posted by EJayCe996

Don't keep me waiting

See above, I'm trying my best.

Originally Posted by Nismo

What are you Running for a fuel pump Brian? Just thinking the impeller might be eating it self, fuel lines could be eating it?

Cosmo fuel pump. I found that the short little piece of fuel line in the tank connecting the pump to the fittings ate itself, along with the sock being clogged again as well as the main filter. I grabbed my buddies full S4 TII assembly to snag a sock and that short little piece of fuel line from his.

Originally Posted by Duffman692002

He said 'should' EJ, damn... Give 'em a break, lololol.

BLAST! You jynxed me!!!!!

So I had a few little things to finish up today, hardwire the GPS, replace a trun signal bulb, little shit. I figure once I get those done I'll clean the filter and the sock again as the Fpsi was down about a pound. I dunno what the fuck I did but I put everything back together and there was like 10-15psi......... limped home and now I've got the tank drained and cleaning the tank, replacing the sock, the little piece of fuel line, I've cleaned that main filter a FEW times with just about everything I can think of as well as blasting fuel through it bakcwards. I think what I may even do is run like five gallons through it backwards, as in hook up the fuel filter in reverse, throw a bunch of gas in the tank and run it through the filter in reverse back into the fave gallon container and then run that through the lawnmower or something..... Every time before I head to Dave's something happens and I'm up almost all fucking night.

You can bet your sweet sweet BAW ass that I'll be pulling that filter once I get to Daves though before she gets strapped down.

Oh, filled the lines with brakeklean and blasted 135 psi of air through those as well and some ..... interesting shit came out. Repeated that until the entire can was spent........ so fucking pissed...... SOOOO FUCKING PISSED!!!!!!!!!!! I'm not an angry person but I think I may have to find a circus midget to rape and then stab in the eye later on tonight