RXtacy's slooow build up

[RXtacy]

Originally Posted by chibikougan

Oooooh!

Thank you sir for the tips! I'm no welder by profession!

[speedjunkie]

Originally Posted by RXtacy

Yea I put an empty keg in my engine bay (on engine mounts and connected to transmission) and test fitted everything before tacking the manifold together. The wastegates have a lot of clearance to the frame rail and subframe and the dump tubes can easily exit through the opening in the subframe.

This is Mike I think we met at DGRR last year. At the BP on the last day before we left. I was driving Brian's (TitaniumTT) FC. Love your FD

Sweet!

Yeah I remember you! I didn't realize this was you though lol.

Thanks! I'm loving your FD as well. And those welds do look really good. I still have to learn to do that myself lol.

[Fendamonky]

Looking badass Mike!! I can´t wait to see this baby running

Do you have a (guestimated) eta for the initial start-up?

[RXtacy]

Originally Posted by speedjunkie

Sweet!

Yeah I remember you! I didn't realize this was you though lol.

Thanks! I'm loving your FD as well. And those welds do look really good. I still have to learn to do that myself lol.

Haha no worries. Is it Eric?

Thanks man! I still have a long way to go, but it just takes a lot of seat time.

Originally Posted by Fendamonky

Looking badass Mike!! I can´t wait to see this baby running

Do you have a (guestimated) eta for the initial start-up?

Thanks Levi. Haha no idea. I hope to have it done by Deals Gap.

[RXtacy]

Small update:

Made the cut outs for the wastegates. Used a plasma cutter, then cleaned up with a carbide.



Set up dual flow meter/regulators so I could backpurge the manifold during final welding.



Did the finish welding on the wastegate flanges.





While welding the second flange the foot pedal control for my TIG crapped out. I had to finish it with the 2T torch control I hate using the torch control. Had planned to finish all the welding today, but will have to wait until the new foot pedal comes in.

[chibikougan]

Teee Heee! That setup seems to be perfect on the bottle awesome..

Love it looking great!

[JhnRX7]

Awesome project!

Looking forward to see if you will be able to re-route the wastegates... I have been putting off going single, but I have been getting tired of replacing twins so a single will be in my future soon. I absolutely want a short runner manifold but for me the deal breaker is being able to reroute the wastegates. I have yet to see it done on a short runner like this.

[RXtacy]

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

Awesome project!

Looking forward to see if you will be able to re-route the wastegates... I have been putting off going single, but I have been getting tired of replacing twins so a single will be in my future soon. I absolutely want a short runner manifold but for me the deal breaker is being able to reroute the wastegates. I have yet to see it done on a short runner like this.

Thanks John

That won't be for a while. I'll be running open dump initially. The only forcing factor for going re-route will be whenever I wanna hit up LRP. Stupid noise restriction I think it will be doable, tough but doable.

[Turblown]

Interesting! Looking forward to the results!

[RXtacy]

Originally Posted by Turblown

Interesting! Looking forward to the results!

Thanks! Me too

Got my clutch. Exedy twin disk. My buddy Tyler gave me a unbeatable deal on it. Thanks brotha!



Also finished up the turbo manifold.






Will have more pics once it's cool.

[speedjunkie]

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

Awesome project!

Looking forward to see if you will be able to re-route the wastegates... I have been putting off going single, but I have been getting tired of replacing twins so a single will be in my future soon. I absolutely want a short runner manifold but for me the deal breaker is being able to reroute the wastegates. I have yet to see it done on a short runner like this.

Originally Posted by RXtacy

Thanks John

That won't be for a while. I'll be running open dump initially. The only forcing factor for going re-route will be whenever I wanna hit up LRP. Stupid noise restriction I think it will be doable, tough but doable.

I'm planning on plumbing mine into the DP too, but I've been putting it off because it seems like such a huge project and probably be a PITA to do with a short runner manifold.

Good work on the manifold btw!

[GySgtFrank]

Originally Posted by RXtacy

Will have more pics once it's cool.

Sig: "It allows me to secks them before they're cool"

Those should be interesting pictures.

[RXtacy]

Originally Posted by speedjunkie

I'm planning on plumbing mine into the DP too, but I've been putting it off because it seems like such a huge project and probably be a PITA to do with a short runner manifold.

Good work on the manifold btw!

Good luck with the re-route. I bet it won't be as bad as you think. What size is your downpipe?

Originally Posted by GySgtFrank

Those should be interesting pictures.

[TitaniumTT]

Looks good Mike! I <3 Pics

Originally Posted by JhnRX7

Awesome project!

Looking forward to see if you will be able to re-route the wastegates... I have been putting off going single, but I have been getting tired of replacing twins so a single will be in my future soon. I absolutely want a short runner manifold but for me the deal breaker is being able to reroute the wastegates. I have yet to see it done on a short runner like this.

Hey John..... Lets put it this way.... the mani Mike and I built for my car is almost a carbon copy of the one we built for his.... difference beeing because of the motor mounts and firewall placement... fitting a 4" DP in my FC was a MOTHERFUCKER...... but I built a LimeRockPipe to recirc both dump tubes back into the DP.... while it wasn't fun, it took about a day to build to use it for like 20 minutes..... hopefully I can extend that this year

So.... planning on taking this to LRP eh? LOVE IT!!! That should make up for the lack of rotaries on the track this past year

[JhnRX7]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

...... but I built a LimeRockPipe to recirc both dump tubes back into the DP....

Yeahhhhh this year was pretty weak for track events. I do have a Thunderbolt day planned for Nov 10th BTW. I have a trailer now, so LRP is even more tempting now!