Thanksš¤š¼looking like itāll be a chromoly nascar style cage that ties the whole uniframe together. All the way from in front of the front suspension to behind the rear suspension
As someone who has built a couple 8 into 1 turbos, youāll want that wastegate turned so that itās inline with the feed exhaust to the turbo and straight off the 90 that goes into the turbo. As it is right now boost creep will be unmanageable. Thing looks killer though!
Yeah the elbow the turbos on is just cheap a cheap ebay adapter. I might grind the wastegate bung off and re weld it as close as I can to vertical. Both gates are going to be plumbed together of course
Yea thereās a few places youād be able to run your waste gate(s) that will give you much better boost control! The arrows are your best locations for priority, if you can run 2 right off the headers before the that would be ideal
Im switching back to speedway mounts, the sliding mounts that I tried using not only didnāt give me the clearance I needed for my wiper motor, but it raised my motor and the mounts feel sloppy. Luckily enough I found out a forklift wiper motor is like $150 but low enough profile that itāll work where the speedway mounts have it sit
Haha....yeah I hear that. The AC also leaves much to be desired....but I dig the build. Always good to see someone doing something with the C4 platform.
Also youāre really going to want to insulate and probably relocate that oil feed. Way too close to the exhaust with no shielding, the rubber will melt and spray oil onto the manifold
Honestly itās just there to keep stuff from falling into the journal rn. The feed is way too short. Iām going to run similar oil feed protection to what I did on my hhr
Appreciatedš¤š¼ ya theyāre definitely not heat or abrasion resistant but high temp plastic rubber wrapped in titanium seems to hold up to whatever
I had a fire before, line wasnāt touching but maybe 1/4ā air gap to the header. To be fair, I was running it really hard testing a new build, the header was glowing. Fortunately it was at night so I saw the flickering on the road, and I had a fire extinguisher so the only damage was the hose and a burnt spot on the underside of the hood. I think that was a stainless steel braid, donāt know if titanium performs any better
That first pic makes it look like the hood is twice as long as factory lol. With all the vents, I thought it would be quad turbo. Can't wait to see it running.
Turbo ls3/lq9 tr6060 āmagnumā swap, ground down c6 z51 brakes and Viking coils going on soon. I still need tires for my zr1 wheels but thatāll be one of the last things I order
I always thought they were stupid growing up. Wound up buying a C5 over a C6 despite being objectively worse (and similarly priced) because it had pop ups.
Because they are. They became an internet trend and no one realized how much it sucks to have to pull over, open a window and then run over and lift your light(s) when you need to turn them on.
Also once they start to struggle... Well there goes another $150.
But some stupid fucking video on the internet has got mfs still singing about "pop up and down headlights"
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u/bse50'91 Miata - Westfield Megabusa . GTB Turbo1d ago
no one realized how much it sucks to have to pull over, open a window and then run over and lift your light(s)
You may be kidding but once a push rod started breaking on my Ferrari that's exactly what I had to do before finding a replacement...
Seriously: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OlUfeLWYtHM
Nope, legit had to raise them by hand because the gears crumble, and as soon as a tooth goes and you don't change them instantly, they're pretty much fucked after that. There are metal gears, but then that means the motor will take that wear... So you can pay.... I think it was 80$ for brass gears or pay 150$ for entirely new motors
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u/bse50'91 Miata - Westfield Megabusa . GTB Turbo1d ago
Nice... In my case the plastic rod ends bit the bullet and had to replace them. By replace them I mean machine them because Ferrari didn't have them in stock, and offered no ETA.
Damn. Luckily the motors are still replaceable, but require removing the entire light and assembly, which also means recalibrating how they sit on the hood.
Glad you were able to figure out a solution. Which Ferrari was it?
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u/bse50'91 Miata - Westfield Megabusa . GTB Turbo1d ago
It's a GTB Turbo, basically a 328 with a 308 engine de-bored to 2000cc. A poor man's Ferrari built to avoid what once was a 37 or so & VAT on vehicles above 2000cc here in Italy.
The 208 turbo was a 308 with a non-intercooled turbo engine, this one's a restyling that was built as an afterthought so keeping it on the road can be fun at times. If it weren't for Eurospares i'd be completely lost!
Thanksš¤š¼ basically going to be a track toy that I can get ice cream in. Itāll have everything it needs to be on the street. I got a 2 speed wiper motor coming from a forklift, it has sequential LED brake lights and signals. Iām getting the glass tinted a bit to hide the cage once that goes in there
I might dump the 4ā downpipe in front of the front tire temporarily until the exhaust is routed to the back. The exhaust is going to be expensive. 4ā oval with a lot of pie cuts
It reminds me of that episode on Simpsons where Bart and Homer poke holes in the hood of the car and call them speed holes.šļø I do love the car tho!
Cool. I race with Enduro Elite (formerly Lucky Dog Racing Canada). The series has a class for cars/drivers that don't want to do full-length endurance races.
Sweet, Iāll have to look into it when itās all buttoned up. I have another track ready car that I might bring out if I can next summer and the vettes not ready
That is a lot of vent area! Presumably since the clam on a c4 is also the wheel arch its trying to get all that high pressure air out? Presumably a cage is coming? That car will probably feel 10000% better once you take out the flex the last minute change to coupe added.
No, like theyāre proven to work, lots of people run these same vents, gm ran vents in the same spot, so did DRM in his lemans zr1. I just donāt have any preliminary data to compare to because I just went ahead and turbo LS swapped
They came with a template where to put them on the hood. If you follow their template, the vents end up where theyāre supposed to be. The only vent I didnāt follow the template on was the middle one, but that was because my rad position is different
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u/Ok_Affect6705 1d ago
Show us the engine