Mr. G. Brettin's Slow Motion Leg Hump

gbrettin

Man, I REALLY like Spooler's car. Also, some of the availability of parts were not available when I started my build. Personally, I would have loved to run the CJM adapter plate for the BMW ZF transmission and then sleeve the OE block. Then build my own turbo system ... probably the same style setup.

But... I'm where I'm at now and wouldn't change for anything.

Speaking of spinning high R's ... I'm literally waiting on 2 parts from BTR. New rockers that are specifically made for the shaftmount (and probably work with OE just fine) and then push rods. I need to measure After I get the rockers in, because they are custom length.

I also need a billet sprag and converter for my transmission to spin above 7500rpm. I can put that in anytime though. 7500 will be fine for the first year.

I'm just going to concentrate on making this parts bin run. I'm done taking detours.

jchammond

You know Jesel can hook you up on an Extremely Stable valvetrain.....just get out the check book

Yeah, the TH400 & 4L80’s can really spin up & hold some power + installing a transbrake

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gbrettin

video of the cold side constructions. 21min long. I try keeping them 10-15min long but I simply couldn't keep this one short. It's a week worth of work but it looks like it's nearly the same day because I wear pretty much the same clothes when I work on my car. LOL

I feel that these videos give a lot of depth specific to the pictures you have been seeing and should be used with the text that I have wrote through out the process. I'm not so sure the videos would be that great on their own. Meaning... if someone were to happen to land on the video through a YT search, they would probably thumbs down it to the ground. Let's be honest. My video presence is pretty bad, but I'm pretty much the same guy in person. What do you guys think?

FYI - I had two copy right issues with music. I wanted to stab someone in the face because it takes 40min to package the video and then about 60min for YT to process the video. I did that three times.

Rusty

I've got nailed a bunch of times for copyright over music in the background that you could hardly hear. I even had one banded in German.

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gbrettin

Exactly... I was using remixed songs from sound cloud... I was like "COME ON MAN! SH!T!!!!!!" 6 hours of BS.

madwi

I use vimeo now for vids with music playing in the back.

gbrettin

I attempted to drill 3" holes in my pipe and learned two things.

1. use a new sharp hole saw.
2. have a lot of weld, if not all welded where the hole will be drilled.

The first hole was semi decent. The second hole.... Well, that grabbed and ripped the pipe in half. Some of the pies got bent (in areas that didn't matter much). I pretty much rage quit when that happened and came back on my Birthday (Sunday) to work on the intake pipe a bit more.

I tried using a new hole saw and then bent the tube a bit more so I ditched that. I then opted for Mr. Death Wheel. Chunks were cut out pretty close to where I needed. An air grinder was used to clean up all the edges.

The intake is ready for final tacks and then full welds. The tube is not perfectly symmetrical but that's something I can live with due to the level of efforts to go back and rework a few spots.

gbrettin

JARblue

I think it is pretty fuckin good for building a one-off part learning as you go. I'm with you. Wouldn't bother me at all... at first. Hell of an effort sir! Who knows how you'll feel after some time has passed.

Maybe later on you can scan the finished product into 3D software and fix it to be symmetrical. Then you could 3D print a plastic mold with slightly smaller diameter to account for the thickness of your material to use for accuracy. Cause that would be less work lol

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I've decided to post the ENTIRE photo dump album, uncompressed, here and on the first page. It might help someone that needs a high def photo for their build or something.

COMPLETE PHOTO LIBRARY OF Z BUILD... PHOTO HEAVY

gbrettin

Front of the car broke down and parts have been brought to my house. A2W intercoolers, Intake and oil pan are out for welding. Crash bar has been dropped off for powder coating. I saw that the powder coater can do high lighter yellow so I'm going to have him accent a couple parts with that color. For sure the turbos. I was thinking about doing the shock tower trim and coil bracket.

The engine and transmission have been dropped out for final inspection and build. BTR rockers have been released so those have been ordered:
https://www.facebook.com/brian.toole...52909588054463

An ATI 10% under drive was also ordered so that my belts can route past the water pump. I hope that's enough... Push rod length will be measured this coming weekend if all goes well.

AutoDynamix was cleaned and organized because it was getting out of hand. It's hard to do good work in a dirty shop.:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CKKTIZvH..._web_copy_link

gbrettin

One year later... I find myself painting the engine bay. again. This time I dropped the k member. The engine bay was degreased and then scuffed. I found some issues with the paint that required attention, nothing major because I got after it now.

Today was a long *** day. Paint prep SUCKS. 9am - 9pm. Don't even feel like writing much... lol

Rusty

Looking at that front with nothing there. You wonder how is that a stiff chassis? But it is.

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BettyZ

Gotta get those SoulFunction braces.

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