I only come on this site about once a week and its mainly to check your progress. I really want to see this thing!
Fantastic work!
Hit me up if you are driving it tomorrow.
Yesterday I was making some WOT pulls and it looks like it is now stopping right at the gate spring pressure about 6.5psi. Much more manageable while I learn the car. But only made 2-3 blasts before I had an incident lol. Ill explain below.
Thanks a ton! I wish I did a better job taking pics of many of the things I have made and figured out but I am glad you and hopefully others have enjoyed the build. I have something up my sleeve for this winter as well…
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So. @Mike93 stopped over last night for some crossfit training hahaha
Mike stopped over to drop off a tool and we decided to go ruin some tires. Few pulls later and the car was pulling into boost real nice and smooth. Much less scary on 6psi but still pulling like a freight train. We are pulling up to a light on Delaware turning to Nottingham and bam car shuts off at the intersection. Shit. Very kind folks were beeping to help us understand that the car was not driving as it should. ha
So we push it to Nottingham and check every friggin fuse, ground, etc. Mike noticed there was no fuel pressure. Check the fuel tank, low but the sump holes were covered. So we were kinda stumped.
We started pushing it home(maybe .75mi) then realized our physical condition was a serious bottleneck hahaha this had to be hilarious for people driving by. Finally two dudes at the park offered to help. We were pushing down Colvin when we spotted @newman who also helped out.
Sure enough get it back to my house and it fired up. I believe the sump holes were not covered when braking and ran the pump/lines full of air. Best idea I have so far. Was pretty funny overall.
Time for a swirl pot.
Not that you need it, but it would eliminate this issue.
I’m not too familiar with them. Have any decent examples you think would work?
PS - My neighbor texted me today saying we need to help him learn to build things. If it wasn’t obvious enough he works in banking/finance
A swirl pot is basically a tiny fuel tank, 1/2 gallon or so, that is continually refilled from the tank. A low pressure transfer pump keeps it filled, then you main pumps draw from it. Under conditions where the fuel is sloshing around if the transfer pumps suck air, it doesn’t matter because you’re drawing from the small tank. Before the small tank runs out, the transfer pump will be able to suck fresh fuel.
^ Sounds sweet.
Commonly refered to as a “surge tank”. There’s companies that offer this stuff already complete to purchase, which in my opinion is way easier than making your own. Radium Engineering has a setup that I know a lot of Evo X guys use
…add gas to the short list. And a fuel level gauge.
First project should be some brake / tail lights so I don’t have to shit myself when cars are about ready to rear end us while you play with the laptop at the intersection, at dusk, in a black car.
No offense but have you ever made anything ever?
Sure but I neither have the equipment or time to even care about doing it anymore. For me it’s much easier to either buy something already done, or have it done right the first time by someone who has more knowledge than me. Simple concept that most people should follow I think. If you can’t do it, don’t.
Yeah. Good point. Fuck learning how to do something!!!
Man, I’d rather break something I built 10 times before I get it right than just buy some part and slap it on. Time may be wasted, but knowledge is invaluable.
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You’re clearly not a real man and should be ashamed of yourself.
I respect that guy way more than someone who just drops their car off at a shop.
By this logic no one would learn to do anything ever…
Interesting. I will add it to my list. Hopefully maybe Saturday morning I can figure out the brake lights. The BOV is 100% working and im almost positive the boost issue is resolved. It was far more tame(but still pulled hard) on ~7psi compared to 14.
I hope to get in some miles on Sunday if anyone is planning to cruise.
I’m down to cruise in the pcar.
Just know that I might need help pushing the car home.
sorry to clog up your thread here drew but that’s clearly not a logical statement. You learn what you ARE NOT good at. Sure if you spent a ton more time and money most people can figure out how to accomplish something, if you have half a brain. I guess my E rep goes down for not melting my own metal, making a die, machining, hard coating and figuring out how to make my own rear half shafts for my differential swap on my car. I should rather waste time and money figuring it out on my own… At the end of the day all your “mechanical superiority” bulllshit ( Newman, whoever else thinks they are better than someone) and $5 still get you the same fucking cup of coffee, which we should have probably flew to Colombia, farmed the beans, processed them, shipped them to America and then made the machine that they grind and brew the beans into coffee with, right?