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Past Projects

In the fall of 2001 Ryan and I started assembling and modifying cars together.  All started in different forms, some from scratch, others from near full build requiring only tweaking and tuning.  Nevertheless, all of these cars have been ours… we have a tendency to go through a lot:  lots that never even made mention here, and some that I spent hours writing and thinking about.  It is some form of A.D.D…. really.  In the first few years after we teamed up, neither of us managed to make it through a single season with one car.  They came and went. Mostly it was because we liked to dream, but it was also partly because there was always someone willing to buy.  Cash just looks so good.

Note: These charts are for fun.  Don’t confuse them for us being hard core and bad ass.  Check it out.

Q'S Power Wagon projects-bc62 projects-fjz80 Andrew's Trackick Qs Daily Still Qs AE86 Ryan's VZN170 Mochi's ZJ Mochi's UCF10 Arews BC6 projects-sabi project-aw11sc RN66 Boroi AW11 RNN14 Ryan's NA6CE GZ20 AH Civic projects-a1 Original AE86 All My Other AE86

So I toyed with deluding you.  Telling you it’s all perfect… running out there with 200hp.  Tweaked and going strong…  BUT IT’S NOT.  Here is a cut and paste of an email I sent to a curious friend this morning. Maybe not dead, but definitely damaged.  Hard to tell why though… and part of me wonders if it wasn’t related […]

Tick Tock

Shake Down.  Got the car out on the road this afternoon.  I should have recorded the drive… because I was so elated it would have been a noteworthy video.  The car actually sounds turbo-charged.  Somehow I didn’t think it would be so pronounced given my low boost level.  Wrong.  AFR’s seem safely rich 9-10:1  WOT although I never let the […]

I’ll Get Tired Of This?

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When I disassembled the car last fall, I hucked the OEM plastic undertrays.  They are pretty important pieces for cooling and aero, and function relatively well (so some say), but mine were almost torn in half and missing large pieces.  That’s why I’m making a splitter now, when I probably should be tuning turbo bits.  I used white carbon fiber… […]

White Carbon Fiber

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I think this picture looks good…for something to come off an iPhone… I might have to come make another camera purchase.  The doors on the barn have finally unfrozen (half at least) and I let the car sit and idle while I once overed all the bolts and tweaked the alignment in preparation for being out on the road this […]

Fancy Lights

There isn’t really any content here.  This past week has been spent looking at details: things like gauge mounting, learning turbo plumbing, vacuum and engine lubrication… and why my first start attempt never actually started.  The downpipe is on and fitting good, although it took a 5 pound sledge to get a safe distance off the firewall, and Dave Coleman’s […]

Nothing

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When you have the right tools, nothing is really that hard.  Making a downpipe, is what I’ve dreaded the most since I started turbocharging the car.  Between the irregular shape of the turbo outlet, and the tight confines of the steering column and frame rail I was quite fearful of screwing up and wasting time and materials.  Hammer forming the […]

Downpipe Dekiru?

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8 thoughts on “Downpipe Dekiru?”

  • Paulcorolla

    That’s pretty cool Q,
    Did you post this before or after I saw you?
    Nice work, looks like you took your time and made it fix right.
    I’ve seen some people put a small divider to separate the wastegate flow from the main exhaust for a few inches, supposedly to ease any turbulence from the two flows merging closer to the wastegate flapper.
    That might be the only thing I would add, just my totally Theoretical turbo knowledge, from a guy who doesn’t like turbos 🙂
    Haha

  • Q

    Posted before we clashed at MOPAC… but it’s not like I expect anyone other than me to read here. A divider sounds like a good challenge… and something to slow me down even more. Bah. I’ve seen metal gaskets that had a divider built in… but strangely never for T25 flanged turbos. As I said… one missed auto-x already, getting really damn impatient.

  • Neil

    Looks good Q, only thing I can criticize is it looks a little tight to the unibody rail, if you have firm engine mounts might not matter….

    Neil

  • Q

    I do have some stiffer mounts… I guess if it bangs around I could add a torsion link or something. It’s full welded now though… and actually pulled away from the rail a bit during that process. Good? Maybe not because now it’s closer to the column. I’m still figuring out how slow and careful I need to be when adding real heat.

  • Devin

    Did you weld this up yet?
    Bolt it to the turbo first so the flange dosen’t warp with the heat.

  • Q

    I did use my spare turbo for that purpose. But welding the full thing on the car would have been a real PITA.

    It’s damn strong though. 16 gauge is thick? Dunno… but it’s what I used. I ripped the vice off the bench when I only had it tacked together and was trying to tweak it. It’s pretty heavy. I kind of wish I went with something thinner.

    I wonder how much fatter the car has gotten? Probably a solid 40kg despite the removal of a few other items.