The mother of invention and a God to us humble men, lol.
That book could not be more appropriate! I love it!!!
The mother of invention and a God to us humble men, lol.I am the mother of invention when it comes to using what's laying around. Don't know if its visible, but the book under the jack stand is titled "Working alone"....and comes with all kind of tricks for lifting, and handeling heavy, and long loads alone.
kind of appropriate that I use the book to hold up a long span of exhaust tubing I think.
Yes, I plan on creating a retainer ring for each raw end of the tubing to keep it from blowing off.
That book could not be more appropriate! I love it!!!The mother of invention and a God to us humble men, lol.
My "new to me" headers, just finished with the VHT black. They will be receiving the black DEI wrap too.
Joe
I'm no expert, but have read of all sorts of problems of metal fatigue when headers are wrapped in a turbo application, might want to look into this
I've always heard that too. It keeps too much heat "in" and promotes heat related metal fatigue on thin gauge stuff. Fortunately for me I used stuff that is coke bottle thick, and I do not intend to wrap the stuff that gets hot,.. I'm gonna wrap the stuff that I don't want to get hot.I'm no expert, but have read of all sorts of problems of metal fatigue when headers are wrapped in a turbo application, might want to look into this
I love custom turbo piping. Gives me a chubby every time. I'm glad to see you went with dual wastegates. You have two very distinct collectors at the turbo flange, but you'll have excellent boost control with the way you have that setup. Good call on dumping the gates into the downpipe.I just hope those cheap ass gates last for you.
Its not like you are building this car to run a certain trap speed, so a little extra weight on the street will just help it ride nicer. It will also help balance out the 30-40 lbs youve been meaning to lose off the driver.
Chapter 3: Powertrain:
This has been a point of contention for me for some time,...as I want it to be different while trying to keep it Ford. After considering about 4 different paths (one of which was an LS option),...
I think I've decided to do all the work required to make the 3.3 liter, 200 c.i inline six that is currently in there work with a turbocharger. It's looking like I'll use Chinese turbo stuff,.blowing through two 1 bbl carbs mounted on a custom intake. An A2W intercooler w/ maybe a small (Schirocco style) radiator mounted w/ a dedicated 10" fan, coupled to an aluminum 1 gal fuel cell as a water storage vessel.
Adapted bellhousing to allow a SBF pattern trans to back the engine to handle the anticipated 350 whp/rwtq.
a couple of things here, unless you have the low mount starter six, you cant use the V8 bell housing, unless you in fact build your own adapter, as none is available, unless you are planning to use a manual trans, in which case first try to search up a T4 trans bell housing from a fox body mustang with the 3.3, and you can use a T5 without an adapter.
as for using turbos with the one barrel carbs, i wouldnt recommend doing that, you are limiting yourself too much. a better idea would be to use two CFI throttle bodies from a V6 or V8 mustang or Tbird, and run them with a megasquirt controller. the nice thing about doing this is that the CFI throttle bodies is that you can mount them in a side draft deal increasing hood clearance for the blow through bonnets.
Man,..you are in for one hell of a long wait. I still have a bagillion things to do before the engine,..and most of it isn't even bought yet. I'm entering the "no-mo money" phase of the build. There are so many things that just require "sweat" in front of me, I'll have work for months to come.Got this thing started yet? Hurry up, I can't wait anymore!!!
and this car starts even lighter than a 4 cylinder notch. I probably can add 200 pounds, and it'll still be lighter than a notch.
Dude, you read chapter one then skipped to the end of the story. The engine "evolved" to a 250, and now there is a megasquirt MSII in a box. If you are the same Rbohm that is on classic inlines, then you have commented to me there w/ respect to the same. Although all you had to do was read on here. the thread over there details the same. So,..no need for an adapter, or trying to blow through an emissions hobbled era one barrel carb.
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