For everything that changes, that much more stays the same.
Even if I can stay positive, avoid controversial subject matter, and leave the surge of come and go noobs alone that come here and immediately want their bottles because they are too young to read,......
I still go about my day here just fckin stuff up.
You‘d think after all of the times I had to do sht over, I’d learn to think things through. After deciding to cut the end off of the intercooler, and relocate the hole for the water fitting to the inside nearer the fender well, It might have been smart to be sure which side was in, and which side was out...
Nope,...not me...I just drilled a big assed hole, ran a 1/2” pipe tap through it then set in in place on the back of the intercooler.
It was wrong.
I drilled it on the outside corner. And now I gotta plug it, and redo it on the other side. ( all past tense as of this writing though)
I went on a phone call campaign this morning, soliciting advice from experts..I called the turbo supplier, I wrote the intercooler supplier, I called Snow Cooler, all asking whether or not they thought I could completely bail on the A2W intercooler, and just run straight water/meth as my sole source for enrichment, and inter cooling.The advice I got back was unanimous.
All three told me it was a bad idea.
So that forced me back into fix the intercooler, and hope:
1. That after all of this, the tire clears.
2. My choice to use JB weld, instead of Heli-Arc was the right one
3. That it don’t freakin leak, or even worse, completely fail.
It really doesn’t matter at this juncture..I can’t go back.
The red plug was stupid is as stupid does, the middle plug was where it used to be, and the “I hope to God that it fits with the angle I’ve got it turned to” fitting is where I hope it’ll work. You can see the shiny part where the old tire orientation used to touch it on a hard right turn,...hopefully contact with the tire is a thing of the past. This is 6 hr JB, fully cured at 15 hrs, and rated to 500*f, and 5120 psi. All well within the confines of what it’ll ever get exposed to considering it only should see water recirculating that never has no pressure, and may get to 150 degrees..My only concern would be a leak between the core, and the air charge that’s blowing into it at 23 psi.
The main thing here is that like the sht I paint,......I gotta leave the damn thing alone till it’s dry.
And here I was...in the middle of an 80 degree day, with almost zero that I could do.
I could, (and probably will) try to straighten up the disaster garage.
( I’ll just fck it up the very next time I do something,...so there’s a strong argument against even trying)
The passenger side mirror for those paying attention before I was sent to Bannville, was missing and irreplaceable. It seems that the mirror on the 78 version was some Oompah-Loompah sized version that got made longer on all other subsequent models. I could’ve probably made a template and had some glass company make me one, or I could make a template, and cut out my own out of a .060” piece of mirrored plexiglas.
Guess which way I went
I don’t know if any of these undercarriage pics show my new and improved K member, but I’ll stick em up here nonetheless.
The one is does show though is a lack of drippage, from the “ I didn’t pay no $800.00 for a rear sump 2 jy Supra oil pan”.
finally..
Meh...You can’t see nothing that you haven’t seen before..