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[Bart]

No it wont fit in standard hole in the boot, i had to cut it out, width is from chassis rail to chassis rail. It wasnt exacly cheap either it probabaly cost about $800 inc welding fittings and material.

[Bart]

A few more pics to show how it will eventually come together.

[Heath]

Impressive piece of craftmanship

[Bart]

Thanks mate its just sitting in there, have to muck around with it a little to sit it in properly and bolt it down.

[Bart]

Still thinking if I should use this battery tray i made up today

[Bart]

Hard work for sure
The boot will be sealed, why do you ask? I suppose ventilation would be a good thing for a battery but not into the cabin.

[Bart]

Im not 100% on the legalities on the battery tray but iv seen heaps of regoed cars with the battery in the boot. The tank will be sealed with half inch X one and half inch thick rubber Sikaflexed on then 18 bolts will clamp the tank down sandwiching the rubber against the boot floor

Edited by Bart, 23 September 2007 - 11:01 PM.

[Bart]

After a month of absolute f*cking around with the exhaust manifolds i have finally confirmed the position of the turbo. Basically the collector is tack welded to the inner gaurd so this allows me to tack the rest of the bends to the exhaust flange on the head.

Very tight area to get the bends through without hitting anything.
One more turbo to go.
PS its only a VL turbo, will upgrade when cash allows. And the wife

Edited by Bart, 01 October 2007 - 11:09 PM.

[Bart]

That turbo looks so damn tiny

[Bart]

thanks mate, i want to try and lower it a little if i can so when i upgrade to a larger unit it will still fit under the bonnet, failing that i will need a scoop of some sort, probably similar to JapXu1's scoop X2

[gtrboyy]

Hi Bart,

It's coming along well.Very tight lol.

Any ideas on what you're going to do for brakes.Pedal box set up under the dash?

cheers.

[Bart]

gtrboyyyyyy, I haven�t seen you here for a while mate.
I really want the Willwood floor mount but depends on the cash, yes very tight squeeze but doable, its been a case of trial and error, don�t start me on the error lol, I had the exhaust manifold worked out, all the bits tacked together but the turbo was in a different position to where you see it now, I had them mounted too far forward which left no room for an air filter, shit a brick I was ready to give up, I was stuck.
I had explored the current position before but decided it was too tight but second look at it the other day when I was stuck I realized it wasn�t as tight as I first thought so now im back to square one but a better looking square one.
Chaotic, I didn�t explain properly before but the manifolds aren�t made up yet in its current position, I had made them previously but as explained to gtrboy they were not successful as it left no room for filters so it turned into a nightmare to be honest, and all those hours I spent had to be undone, at the moment im positioning the first elbows from the collector when Im happy with them and obviously clears the front wheel I can start making real tracks.
However it feels allot better now that iv had some experience in doing this, although I consider myself a beginner obviously I have an idea what to do.

[Bart]

The birth of an exhaust manifold
Suspension arm up

Suspension arm down


This is the Tilton pedal box i was thinking of getting, $450 if i remember correctly.

[gtrboyy]

Grrr...needs pedal rubbers to atleast be legal dude,I could be wrong tho'.

Want to do 2 set-ups,one for your lj & one for my lc if an engineer will approve it? (Seriously,pm if you're interested)

I looked at the willwood hanging pedal set-ups after a pm with dattoman sometime back,they look much nicer just maybe a PITA when it comes to the fluid reservoirs.

[Bart]

Hi bart good to see some progress that motor is bloody massive

I have the wilwood pedal box in mine couldnt fit the resivoir under dash so its in the bay

LJ355, got any pics? Is this in your LJ? And are they floor mount?
gtrboy, I think you may be right about the rubber on the peddles, I still have to look into which peddles to use still, but I will post pics when I buy them unless I use an alternative by modifying the original peddles.

[Bart]

Did about half hours work tonight and made contact.
Japxu1 if you have any pointers please let me know. And stop laughing at my manifold


This is not the turbo ill be using but would be similar in size to the GT3040 i may use later.

[Bart]

I forgot to add, this is my little sheet metal folder i made, it barly folded the 2mm aluminium sheet for my fuel tank. I basically quickly made it so i could fold up my fuel tank, got me out of trouble and worked well at the end.

Edited by Bart, 05 October 2007 - 08:36 PM.