Joff and MrsJoff's Chaste White BorgWarner FD build

[joff]

Originally Posted by muibubbles

awesome man. do u have abetter picture of how the baffles work? i love this idea because the spare tire well is such a waste of space... great idea!

There are four "chambers" as shown below.

Under straight line acceleration, the fluid will collect toward the rear and the pickup is in the rear, so no problem there.

Under lateral/cornering g-forces, the fluid on the sides must flow through the rear pickup chamber to get from one side to the other. The holes between the chambers are not big, so flow rate from one side of the reservoir to the other takes a long time.

[Prodigy]

Have you considered creating something so it makes the passageways one way? little rubber flap or something to discourage the fluid from exiting the pickup point....?


either way, looks great...


I'm currently considering removed my spare tire and getting a size appropriate battery, and mount it in the wheel well, As I have rear seats, and despise having the battery sitting out in open, maybe get a Braille battery that can be mounted sideways....

Looks great, waiting for more updates...


J.

[joff]

Originally Posted by Prodigy

Have you considered creating something so it makes the passageways one way? little rubber flap or something to discourage the fluid from exiting the pickup point....?

one way check valves sound neat, but I think I've overengineered this thing enough. :-) I need to move on and finish the rest of this.

One of the reasons I went with such a large reservoir was partially to compensate a small intercooler by spraying more water/meth. This is now moot as I've had to abandon that PFS intercooler because I didn't like how I was going to have run the ductwork. So I decided to just do a vmount. Rotary-works sells a good starting point for a semi roll-your-own vmount.



Nice thing about this setup is I have a lot of room to run a cold/ram air intake into the turbo-- I had to change and make some of my own brackets because the stock brackets center the intercooler (I shifted it all the way to the drivers side), but no welding which is good. The radiator and intercooler already have some M8x1.25 screw bosses welded on to make mount tweaking pretty easy.



The radiator did not have to be modified and is designed for this mounting configuration and has a nice clean looking bottom endtank:



One more pic: I header-wrapped my exhaust manifold with some lava-rock type header wrap that looks like carbon fiber and then painted it with some silicone-based header wrap paint. I also drilled & re-tapped the turbo flange to fit the expensive OEM inconel studs used on the stock twins.