Mr. G. Brettin's Slow Motion Leg Hump

gbrettin

Few shots from the past couple nights. The shock tower cleaned up nice. It didn't take to long to sand because I have a lot of aggressive sand paper left over from carbon fiber mold making. I even used the 60grit orbital in a few spots, which made extremely quick work.

The wheel well was opened up more. I'm using a bit more caution because my eyes had metal debris from Sunday to Wed. Yes, I wear safety glasses. I will be getting a face shield as well now too. My eyes have been flushed out so many times it made them dry (2-3 times an hour flushing Mon - Wed). So yeah, that sucked. A lot.

I made a couple mounting tabs for the bottom of the hole. I will also need to do the same for the top. TBH, the tabs turned out like **** and the welding sucked because I was in a weird *** position. Top tabs should be a whole lot easier. I'm not cutting the tabs out. They work. Only thing it's doing is holding aluminum.

madwi

Be sure to let medical staff know if you go in for an MRI anytime soon. Metal in the eyes is scary deal and they will snap a pic of your eyeballs to make sure no metal and you are good to go in the magnet.

Rusty

Every time I get a MRI. I have to get x-rays of my eyes. The MRI makes the metal hot and pulls it around inside your head.

Be thankful that you didn't have to go to the hospital to get your eyes flushed. Not something you want to do. Been there.

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BettyZ

Face shield is a must. I damn near blinded myself when I was 14 shooting at my school bus with roman candles... which is how I learned that if the candle doesn't go off, the one thing you Do. Not. Do. Is turn the candle around to look and see why it didn't go off...

Off-duty fireman was driving by, saw myself shoot myself in the face, and gave aid until EMS showed up. The candle ball hit right between my brows and my eyes got a nice blast of gunpowder. Contacts saved my eyes. I pulled them out right after bc pain, and when I got to the ER docs thought I was blind bc I failed vision tests.

Ever since, I put on facepro when I use anything that has a power source, be it wired, battery, or muscle.

Uvex Bionic is a nice one.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001VY3ACE...ing=UTF8&psc=1

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gbrettin

Remote oil mount with access panel completed. I filled in the tabs with some fiberglass and knocked them down. That cleaned up the appearance quite a bit. Top tabs were had issues getting welded in. It turns out the welder was having issues and that's why my welds were not taking like they should. The grounding cable is having issues grounding I think.

Also, my BTR shaft mounted rockers came in. This is one of the components that will allow for my engine to spin up to 10k RPM. I need to send my transmission back in to get 1-2 billet parts and then it will be golden.

All-in-all... I really like how the remote filter turned out. It was a PITA, but worth it.


Edit - If it looks like I used a hammer on the aluminum panel.... Yes. lol

JARblue

More win here

Badass work as usual, G

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Not much to report other than I'm changing the location of the water pump. -20 is ridiculous. So the -20 is going to be capped off on the radiator (located on passenger side) and moved to the lower back side on the inside. I'm including a few of the -20 pictures just to show you how uncontrollably it is Also, -20 only comes in 90deg or straight. It's seriously a pain in the A$$.

I ordered a swirl pot/expansion tank(Merlin Universal Swirl Pot), bungs (-16), Davies Craig mount, and a fitting that will allow for a return from the heater core.

I'm likely going to notch the frame and weld in plate so that I can have a nice cove to mount the water pump. I just want to be sure that it's the final home before I take it to hack town.

So remember when I made that mount for the water pump so I could mount it to the front of the car... well, I'm not going to use it. Lovely right? Oh well. it happens.

I'm 75% sure the frame will be notched right near where the pump is at in the last picture. just need to firm that last 25% up.

gbrettin

This weekend I changed the remote oil filter location. The brake booster wouldn't work and I would also run into issues attempting to use manual booster, not impossible but more fittings and fab work. F that.

I must have had a rash of irritations because I removed the billet water manifold. The pump mounting was being a real pain in the a$$, as you have seen. Instead of cutting the frame and plating it in, I grabbed my buddy's Meizure water pump to test. Turns out it fits pretty well. The belt system touches so I will get the F body underdrive dampener and sell the current dampener. The Davies Craig pump will still be used for the A2W intercoolers.

Speaking of intercoolers... I found out that the intercoolers had a manufacture flaw by using half inch NPT fittings. I set up a jig on the drill press, clamped angle iron to stop it from spinning, and drilled to allow for 1" NPT. The inner end caps were cut off so that water can flow effortless to either end. 1" NPT will feed the coolers.

I'm thinking an expansion tank will go where the battery use to be. We'll see. Also, the pictures I take are always in chronilogical order. Don't think I ever said that.

Rusty

Putting 12 lbs of crap in a 10 lb bag is hard to do.

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BettyZ

Can't be too hard. Ew does that to his azz daily.

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Zezus

So umm...
Updates?

Ghostvette

I think he posts most of the updates on his IG page, then will do a mass dump here. He last posted there 2 days ago. His IG is the same as here.

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Zezus

Yeah but IG is blocked at work!

gbrettin

Sorry it took me a bit longer to get the pictures up than normal. I try to get them up the next day after the IG post normally. Also I try to add in a few additional thoughts and more pictures here.

From IG@gbrettin:
separate posts:
(Install of waterpump)
Not a bad swap from the water manifold to the Meziere electric pump. Both have the chrome to break up the black. The biggest perk is not having to mess with a remote pump. I'll use the Davies Craig pump on my air to water system. Win win.

(testing a threaded inlet)
Couldn't be simple. The pump has to be disassembled to screw on a threaded aluminum pipe which has an outlet for my heater core. A -16 bung also needs to be welded on so that the line coming from the CSF radiator can connect. All this will be done when the engine gets pulled.

(drilled the new oil pan)
Pan needs an oil drain. Drill the new pan. The aluminum welds are piling up.

(bracket making 1)
Making the mounting bracket for the expansion tank. The bracket has space for two, one for the coolant system and the other for the intercoolers.

(bracket making 2)
Welded and grinded, per usual. The mount will work beautiful. It will be made perfect when the engine is pulled, which is coming up soon.

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Another swirlpot has been ordered. That should be here in a couple days and then I will chop it up like the last one. Nothing better than grinding up 120 part. The aluminum is thin... so DONT SLIP! lol

I need to order a few more -16 bungs... I'm going to order a few extra. The shipping is getting silly.

Well. I am officially "that guy"... I reached out to CSF and see if they wanted to partner up with my build in some sort of way. They had expressed a little interest and asked what coolers I was looking for.

Options were sent to them for the oil cooler, trans, steering and an additional radiator for the air to water coolers.

I made it clear I am not looking for free stuff; although, I wouldn't turn it away. Additionally, I would sell my other fluid coolers to make sure their products would be ran.

Honestly, I'm not sure what to expect. I'm somewhat torn on even going that route because I don't want to be beholden to anyone with my build. Having the option to rip something out because it sucks is a pretty nice option. Then again... if you see me wearing a CSF Tshirt in every picture... You'll know what happened.

Man.... who discloses that type of information above. Me, I guess me. I simply don't care to hold back anything about this build. I have no shame.

redondoaveb

Could have been worse, you could have said Mishimoto

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