Diary of a Madman; TitaniumTT's see you @ DGRRXI RE-REbuild

[2gslse]

Brian' when are you going back to Dave's? I just called and scheduled my FD to be re-tuned(its been a few years) on Apr 15th

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by helghast7

See that's one thing I really love about the FD, they made them all pretty much the same so they all came with the same features, the fc it's a lot on luck of the find wen it comes to accessories

I actually had to replace my CC motor it took a dump on me one day last year, good thing everyone pulls them out and sells them for dirt cheap

Btw mini update, I've been informed my manifold is done

Kewl, buy WG's and stuff and post pics. So are you going to be single turbo for this years DGRRXI orrrr still on the twins?

Originally Posted by tweiss3

my FC has the cruise on it, and yes, i use it a ton

Cruise gets me into trouble. WTF is there to do besides try to steer. I fear that cruise would just help me fall asleep...

Originally Posted by 2gslse

Brian' when are you going back to Dave's? I just called and scheduled my FD to be re-tuned(its been a few years) on Apr 15th

I'm waiting for those guys to just set me up with a cot in their breast-feeding room

I actually just lost the rest of my weekdays off after this week until 5/2.... then I'll be really short on weekends off I sent Dave an email yesterday about getting together to dick around with my 6-spd again either the 9th or the 16th and to sched a dyno playdate on the 23rd... So those are my plans. I know I won't be able to get there on the 15th though... sorry man... Anyone else going with you? Plans to stay in the area overnight?

[helghast7]

Originally Posted by tweiss3

my FC has the cruise on it, and yes, i use it a ton

i wasnt refering to your car anyways, but if you have it already then why say you need another one? almost all the systems on the FC are independent of each other, if you get a stand alone the CC wont even realize it

but dont quote me on that, the FC has been known to have retarded wiring, with things that are not needed being there and other things being MIA and on and on....ive found connectors i still have no clue what use they may have had

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Kewl, buy WG's and stuff and post pics. So are you going to be single turbo for this years DGRRXI orrrr still on the twins?

idk we will see how the funds go, the biggest thing left is finding a good price on the turbo i want, so far the best number i found was 1480 shipped, im still doing some digging to see if anyone can beat that

only time will tell

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Cruise gets me into trouble. WTF is there to do besides try to steer. I fear that cruise would just help me fall asleep...

hahaha i have so much fun with CC, i feel like im david hasselhoff and i have the KIT car whenever you go up a hill the car enters boost on its own

i always find myself saying "thank you kit"

barrels of fun


btw brian, you can still get mazda comp stuff right?

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by 2gslse

Dave said he sees about 5 hp from the flywheel so its close I may have to uncork my exhaust by removing the cat if it is too close,besides it was my first dyno with the rx8 and its my DD not a running project/moneypit that is what the FB(Fu*king Broke) and FD(Financial Disaster) are for

I'd say something about the cobb, but I don't know where to start! There's got to be more you can do than uncork the exhaust.... Damn, if we could play with timing... you could definately take it up a notch...This instigating is fun

Why don't you have an FC?

Originally Posted by chibikougan

Mmmm they look better then I ever could have imagined!

They are sexy. thanks man! But not really.... cuz now I need to polish the tips

Originally Posted by helghast7

i wasnt refering to your car anyways, but if you have it already then why say you need another one? almost all the systems on the FC are independent of each other, if you get a stand alone the CC wont even realize it

but dont quote me on that, the FC has been known to have retarded wiring, with things that are not needed being there and other things being MIA and on and on....ive found connectors i still have no clue what use they may have had

In the S4 world. I've seen that most of them are pretty much the same. The only difference that I've seen is in the rear harness, some have the rear window wiring, some don't, but as far as I remember, the front and EM harnesses are all the sameeeeeeee.... eeeeeee save the obvious n/a turbo differences.

Originally Posted by helghast7

idk we will see how the funds go, the biggest thing left is finding a good price on the turbo i want, so far the best number i found was 1480 shipped, im still doing some digging to see if anyone can beat that

only time will tell

sooooooo, you'll be running down to Deals on twins then?

Originally Posted by helghast7

hahaha i have so much fun with CC, i feel like im david hasselhoff and i have the KIT car whenever you go up a hill the car enters boost on its own

i always find myself saying "thank you kit"

barrels of fun

Builds boost on it's own.... at least it still works.

The one thing with installing them in the FC with a standalone, where to get the required signals? I would do a Hall Effect sensor off the driveshaft personally, or some other way other than tapping into the ignition system.

Originally Posted by helghast7

btw brian, you can still get mazda comp stuff right?

Don't think so. You can usually setup an account before you've finished your car if you think you're going to race.

[WE3RX7]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

I'd say something about the cobb, but I don't know where to start! There's got to be more you can do than uncork the exhaust.... Damn, if we could play with timing... you could definately take it up a notch...This instigating is fun

Why don't you have an FC?

He doesn't want an FC because there would be no point to building a car.. he'd already have the perfect one.

I would like to play with the timing some on the cobb with the GM coils. I actually took some of Dave's adjustment and built a new map for the rx8 as well. When we go back up for the dyno, I'll run it on the stock tune (which we proved was by far the best thus far) and then again with the new map and see where we are. I dont want to dive into tuning the timing at that point, I'd rather get some more monitoring in place (EGT, etc) before getting too far into it.

Anyway... sorry for the thread jack. Actually, I'm not. Without thread jacks, this would just be another boring turbo swap FC build thread that nobody really pays attention to and is only destined to end as they all do with the owner scrapping the whole idea and going V8

[2gslse]

[QUOTE=TitaniumTT;143470] I'd say something about the cobb, but I don't know where to start! There's got to be more you can do than uncork the exhaust.... Damn, if we could play with timing... you could definately take it up a notch...This instigating is fun

Why don't you have an FC?


Had a FC at one time it was a bare-bones '86 no sunroof,steel wheeled,aluminum hood car fun to drive but wasn't my style I sold it for a profit and bought FB parts. I've always loved the FB's lines more than the FC.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

He doesn't want an FC because there would be no point to building a car.. he'd already have the perfect one.

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

I would like to play with the timing some on the cobb with the GM coils. I actually took some of Dave's adjustment and built a new map for the rx8 as well. When we go back up for the dyno, I'll run it on the stock tune (which we proved was by far the best thus far) and then again with the new map and see where we are. I dont want to dive into tuning the timing at that point, I'd rather get some more monitoring in place (EGT, etc) before getting too far into it.

eeeeehhhhhh..... I think you're just waiting till you have some more time/coin to dump into the ole' 8 chasing that elusive 195... I think I was doing that with 2 puked turbo's

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

Anyway... sorry for the thread jack. Actually, I'm not. Without thread jacks, this would just be another boring turbo swap FC build thread that nobody really pays attention to and is only destined to end as they all do with the owner scrapping the whole idea and going V8

haahahahahahaahahahaaa..... A) y'all know I would never do a v8 into an FC.... I would swap out for a cosworth, or some exotic boosted 4 clyinder, or a v6 twin turbo... but never an LS.... see below



2nd.... more importantly.... AT LEAST MY THREAD GETS REGULAR UPDATES!!!!!!1

Originally Posted by 2gslse

Had a FC at one time it was a bare-bones '86 no sunroof,steel wheeled,aluminum hood car fun to drive but wasn't my style I sold it for a profit and bought FB parts. I've always loved the FB's lines more than the FC.

Steel wheeled? Not stock were they?

I thought the exterior lines of the FD>FC>FB but interior was FD>FB>FC bang for the buck..... well.... none

[hades]

I wonder if LS1's have exhaust sleeve issues

[helghast7]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

In the S4 world. I've seen that most of them are pretty much the same. The only difference that I've seen is in the rear harness, some have the rear window wiring, some don't, but as far as I remember, the front and EM harnesses are all the sameeeeeeee.... eeeeeee save the obvious n/a turbo differences.

yea but their vast differences in that harness, which btw after studying the fsm i swear ive found plugs that arent even in the book, it makes no sense

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

sooooooo, you'll be running down to Deals on twins then?

idk man, i wanna go but shits kinda weird with everyone, theirs like little weird stuff goin on, makes things really uncomfortable

but thats not the real thing that would stop me, its all about the money mang, spare funds aint lookin to big at the moment and ive got a lot on my plate, if things simmer down by then i can see myself making it

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Builds boost on it's own.... at least it still works.

well it used to do that, there taking the slow dump so currently their lag monsters and break up on high end so no KIT car for me now

i miss it oh so much

KIT COME BACK!!!!! lol

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

The one thing with installing them in the FC with a standalone, where to get the required signals? I would do a Hall Effect sensor off the driveshaft personally, or some other way other than tapping into the ignition system.

well i know for the fd it uses the spedo sensor and the NSS, idk about the fc since i never had...well anything on that car

i would imagine since CC came on the higher end models that it gets the signal somewere from one of the VSS since at least the s4 uses a real spedo cable, i dont think it would use that

but really thats all you would need to make it a closed system since it has its own little module...unless mazdatrix has been lying to us all these years

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Don't think so. You can usually setup an account before you've finished your car if you think you're going to race.

damn, Dave said mazda comp diff mounts for the FD were the best ones to get and you were the only person i could think of that could get them..i gotta figure this out

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

haahahahahahaahahahaaa..... A) y'all know I would never do a v8 into an FC.... I would swap out for a cosworth, or some exotic boosted 4 clyinder, or a v6 twin turbo... but never an LS.... see below

idk man, if i had the bank i would love to throw a v8 in the ol FC..just not an LS

have you ever heard a 360 modena's 3.6l v8 scream? pure sex

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Steel wheeled? Not stock were they?

ohhh man i used to have those phone dials...god aweful

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

I thought the exterior lines of the FD>FC>FB but interior was FD>FB>FC bang for the buck..... well.... none

FD pwns lol

[TitaniumTT]

So I figured I'd give the last official update for the next 12 days anywho as I am now officailly in CA.... weeee!!!!! and all you CA's can suck it, I know it, you know it, you all lie about your weather. Everytime I come here it's cold and rainy..... I should've stayed east.... at least there we get snow.

So anywho... here was the progress over the weekend. I got the new overflow for the fuel cell built and installed.. here it be. This should prohibit the fuel in the cell from expanding and puking out the vent in the fill recess and stripping the paint.... that would be bad... mmmmkay



Also finally got the interior back together with this little gem. I installed a 12V power outlet in the glovebox becuase the one on the dash was sketchy at best.... I also went out and bought the 12V adapter for the laptop as well.... so I eliminated the need for an inverter and opened myself up to unlimited tuning in the car..... SCORE!!!!



Next was addressing the gaskets in the fuel cell. The ethanol resistant Buna-n sheet gasket that I bought lasted 6 months before the whole thing rotted away, chunck broke off, fuel started spilling out when she was parked with a high ass and a full tank, and of course my fuel filter clogged..... AGAIN.....
When I opened up the tank, I found some discolored and semi-clogged fuel socks. Not wanting to wait alll that long for replacements, i had my guys at Levine cross check some denso numbers and got two new socks... woooot!

So now the cell is installed, leak tested, new filters all around, and just generally ready to kick some ass!

[Force13b]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

I think you might benefit from some quick disconnects on your fuel tank
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/JIF-31606/

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by vex

Still need those pictures of the trigger wheels.

They're coming damnit... we had to run out and grab grub... gimme another minute or 5

Originally Posted by Force13b

I think you might benefit from some quick disconnects on your fuel tank
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/JIF-31606/

I thought about a few things like that, but honestly, there's plenty of room to get an 11/16" and a 3/4" wrench up there to loosen them.

[TitaniumTT]

Also on the list of upgraded goodies this winter are new brakes, at all four corners, and a new master and adjustable prop valve and splitter. The problem with the Wilwood masters is that the bolt patern don't line up worth a damn. At least it's off by an evn 90* making the mounting pretty easy, just need to do a little math.

Stock master vs Wilwood 1" bore Master



I found an old piece of some structural 3/8" steel that turned out to be the perfect size for the master and adj prop valve to mount to the existing brake booster valve. After all the math and double checking and then rechecking I drilled and tapped the appropriote holes. I obviously need some longer bolts



Here it sits before cutting... and as it will sit for the next 12 days I really wanted to get that bitch mounted and partially plumbed before I left, but whatever, not a HUGE deal by anymeans... didn't get the engine pulled either, that pissed me off though.

[TitaniumTT]

And here's an oh shit picture. Noticed this when I was mocking up some more things to weld onto my radiator Here is the benefit to ducting. The only way for the blades to hit the cage like this is from air pushing them into it. If the fan was on, the blades would be pulled into the core, not the other way around..... I wonder if blasting across the desert @ 130mph had something to do with this?

No matter, I need to build a new shround and use 8" fans x2 becuase of the belly pan I plan on building. So this will go on the ever expanding wall of fame, wall of shame, it dun blowed up shelf...

[TitaniumTT]

AAAAANNNNNDDDDD just for Vex. I actually have the wheel here with me in case we need to grab a few more measurements. The key measurement though is the ID. I mic'ed the hub up to 3.25" So whatever you feel is adequate clearance to keep the bitch centered, and keep it as strong as possible. 3.26" maybe? 3.255"?