made up a simple pedal stop so the push rod cant fall out
bead blasted the master cylinder adaptor plate
painted the firewall brace mounts
permanently installed the master cylinder, adjusted the pushrod and added a boot as secondary method to insure the pushrod stays in place
The only thing left is to eventually get the firewall brace tubes powder coated. I will probalby do this the next time I have a bunch of parts to go in.
You can see the new location of the master cyl pushrod here as well.
managed to get the 4" tube stretched out enough to test fit the baseplate
By removing more material from the 4" tube at one end than the other, a slight taper was created going away from the TB end of the plenum. Its hard to tell in the pics but its a few degrees.
Thanks to the help of a guy at work I have a nice template for the 45 degree 3″ to 4″ elbow I need to fab for the intake inlet. Hopefully I can work some magic with the slip roll tomorrow. I may start from some 4″ tubing so there is less rolling to do. Lots to come tomorrow, I hope.
Id like to see it make 400 wheel someday. Honestly, for now Id be happy if I could just drive it on 10psi (250hp/275ftlbs ish based on previous dyno runs) for the summer. Only time will tell I guess.
Got the elbow done this am. Took about two hours to cut it out from a piece of 4″ tubing left over from the plenum, shape it and weld it. The welds arent the greatest, but it was tough starting and stopping every 1/2″ or 1″.
Also the runner lenghts and position of the plenum are set (well it will need to shift to the driver side some to make room for the runners flare). I just need to cut the other three to length and flare the ends.
Monday I will get the holes cut in the flat part of the flange and also make a plate for the TB. This should really come together next week. Im sorta hoping to finish it next week.
Tonight I dimpled a new wider base plate for the plenum, created some small velocity stacks (since my jig, and I dont think any jig, would work to hold the 90 deg bends), and trimmed down the runners to make up for the stacks.
Then I tackled the plenum. I had to make a slight change in plans by rounding the basplate and trimming the sides of the plenum way up so I could fit in a filler piece that wasnt too complicated. Anyway, its pretty well set.
Thursday Ill weld the stacks to the baseplate from the inside so I can really round them off nice. Then I can basically finish assembling the whole thing.
Tonight I dimpled a new wider base plate for the plenum, created some small velocity stacks (since my jig, and I dont think any jig, would work to hold the 90 deg bends), and trimmed down the runners to make up for the stacks.
Then I tackled the plenum. I had to make a slight change in plans by rounding the basplate and trimming the sides of the plenum way up so I could fit in a filler piece that wasnt too complicated. Anyway, its pretty well set.
Thursday Ill weld the stacks to the baseplate from the inside so I can really round them off nice. Then I can basically finish assembling the whole thing.
The shortened plug wires came back from Magnecor friday. Took a few pics of them with the intake in place. Im hoping to finish welding it up tomorrow nite
