Track Day 'Cuda

[Che70velle]

Just wow. Holy wow!

[WSSix]

That rendering is great motivation. So hot, too.

[CJD Automotive]

I'm getting pretty bad about keeping this thread updated, and even worse on taking pics. Had one of those pic memories pop up and realized I haven't posted on this in awhile. So, some stuff that's been done (some for quite awhile!):

Some of you have seen the suspension pickup failures on the Ron clip, and now it's time to address those:







I added gussets to the forward, lower control arm pickup point. It now connects to the frame rail and has gussets in the rear and front, in the direction of load.

I sent the exhaust pieces out to be inconel wrapped. While I really liked the clean look of Headershield's process, it is non removable. The big race car teams went this direction to save weight. I am more concerned with being able to remove the shells so I can inspect or repair the pipes than I am about weight. Turbo stuff moves and cracks, not if, but when:

















I left the turn outs long so I could trim them once I build the rocker box that encloses the side pipes.





I had been careful all along to just modify the firewall. Because everything was built with the firewall intact, I felt making a new one at this point wouldn't run afoul of any rules if I compete with the car:




Once the firewall was in place, I could start working on the wipers. With an intercooler in the middle of the dash, a wiper transmission wasn't going to work. My ECU can communicate on the Bosch LIN bus, so I got two Bosch wiper motors. These will be at the outside corners of the windshield and both sweep toward the middle. Once I got the position where I wanted, I had to build a box that was sealed from the inside. My dash bar runs right where this needs to be. I had to build a box larger than the opening, through the opening!

I didn't take any pics of the right side while building the box or wiper motor mount, but here are a few close to being finished roughed in and then epoxy:




This one shows the high temperature silicone pipe grommets for the turbo discharge




With the cover off




Cover on and turbo reconnected



Here is a front shot showing the right side completed and the left still to do:

[CJD Automotive]

Couple things in that last pic, the cap on top of the cowl is where you add coolant to the intercooler system. The other is the hoses you see are just mock up to get the lengths needed.

This cap is connected to a tube that is at the highest point of the intercooler (and the entire intercooler system). It is a fill and bleed point. I have a bleed on the intercooler radiator as well.



And this is the back side of the firewall where the intercooler mounts that shows where the discharge pipes go. The entire intercooler assembly doesn't take up much more room than the stock cowl tub did:




I took some pics of the left side wiper build and this shows building a box bigger than its opening. I couldn't just bend up a box, I had to build it in pieces and assemble inside the hole:













After assembled inside, I could then weld it:





I need a flange inside the box that the lid can bolt to and help keep water out:



Didn't take any finished pics of this one, but its the same as the other side.

[CJD Automotive]

I had originally planned to mount my coils down by the oil pan. The dry sump hoses and steering quickly made that a non option.
Up top was my only option, but I knew I didn't want them mounted to the valve covers! I made a mount that attached to the strut tower braces that would allow the coils to come off with it:

This is the strut tower brace I'm going to use as a mount:













The right side was going to need two coils down low because of how I did the headers (I originally planned them all down low). The front two need to be up top, though:











The rear two just needed a little bracket:

[CJD Automotive]

If you remember the rendering, I am popping out the fenders at the doors. This leaves the area in front of the door exposed to heat, water, wind noise and all kinds of things I don't want. I need to build a close out that mimics the fender profile and door gap. These kinda kicked my butt:













Didn't get any easier on the other side:








This one shows both wiper motors and covers installed. The hood covers the wipers and intercooler fill



Now I can start building the buck for the fenders...



Made a bracket to mount the ABS. Got it tucked up behind the subframe:












And with that I'm going to call it. Tired of doing this on the computer!

[camcojb]

VERY nice fab skills.