3 With Japan in the state that it’s in, my wife traded her summer trip home for a family trip to Seattle. So I’ve been out of town for the last week and haven’t actually gotten anything done on the car. I did get in a few minutes before leaving however, to finish off the turbine outlet flange. As I said […]
2 It used to be the case that all the Japanese hachiroku drivers I knew, scoffed at anyone who needed forced induction or more displacement. It seems that now more displacement is acceptable. This is Masaharu’s response to hearing that I’m turbocharging my car. Somewhere along the way I decided that I don’t like the Beams motor… I did consider a […]
Actually… this only took me about 20minutes to put together. Anyone else would give you the obligatory close up shot of nice bead… but no way I’m embarrassing myself by doing that. My fear of pinhole leaks necessitates multiple passes on occasion. Meh. It looks well enough from a distance, and will be fine once painted. Not like I’m building […]
2 Yah. Stuff’s here. Now we’ll see if I can actually make anything out of it. From the compressor outlet to the throttle body will be 2 inch, while the AFM into the compressor and the downpipe will be 2.5 inch. I bought a tubing cutter this time, and am looking forward to not using a messy grinder! I think about […]
2 Recently, I imagine that this is all going to bolt together nicely, make good power, and be totally drivable right from first start up. Certainly, all this research and planning will add up to something right? And I now completely understand why I’ve had these same parts on my shelf twice in the past, and never gotten around to installing […]
1 Last thing I said was that turbocharging would wait until 2012… but I’ve ditched that. It’s happening… but with only 6 weeks until the first auto-x, I feel like the rush is on. It really shouldn’t be a problem assembling everything and making the car look like it’s turbocharged, the concern is getting it running to a point where I’m […]
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