TitaniumTT/Speed1 Junkyard turbo 'Vert here we go DGRR fire build

[hades]

So this is my chariot for DGRR

[2gslse]

the junkyard you shop at has better crapola than any I go to.

ps... I'll call on my way home tomorrow

[TitaniumTT]

yeah, this was someones pride and joy for many years.... garage kept until the day I got

Kewl... I'll keep my ears open for ya. If I miss it, I'll call ya back asap

[My5ABaby]

Back in November @ a PCA event I missed a shift @ 143 mph down the front straight and over-revved the hell out of the engine.

My Haltech would have prevented that...

[TitaniumTT]

If by not allowing the car to make enough power to get to that speed.... then yes, it would've

By missed shift I mean was sitting @ 8k in 5th, went for 6th, missed and hit fourth. Not like I aimed for 6th, stayed in neutral, dropped clutch and hammereed gas.... oh no... this was way stupider

[My5ABaby]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

If by not allowing the car to make enough power to get to that speed.... then yes, it would've

By missed shift I mean was sitting @ 8k in 5th, went for 6th, missed and hit fourth. Not like I aimed for 6th, stayed in neutral, dropped clutch and hammereed gas.... oh no... this was way stupider

Haltechs have a setting that ensures I don't miss shifts. It was first on the e6k.

[MaczPayne]

I want the candy canes

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by My5ABaby

Haltechs have a setting that ensures I don't miss shifts. It was first on the e6k.

Yeah.... it's called not being able to accelerate hard enough to get enough adrenaline pumping ooorrrr being able to make enough power to get into 5th or 4th gear down the front straight....

Originally Posted by MaczPayne

I want the candy canes

:smilelol5:

[IH8DSM]

you need some black interior sir haha

missing shifts rather the motor go instead of the clutch.

i also like your organization and layout of your rotors, i've built a couple motors but i've never seen candy canes go in there must be a turbo thing

[WE3RX7]

We want to see some of the holy wiring going on with that '85 in the background


On a lighter note, I broke an oil control ring today... wasn't paying attention and snapped it.. just sharing in the setbacks

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by IH8DSM

you need some black interior sir haha

Yes.... yes I do.... not sure what I'm going to do about it all... I MAY get a replacement carpet for like $300.... I dunno... we'll see if it cleans up any better than what it is.

Originally Posted by IH8DSM

missing shifts rather the motor go instead of the clutch.

I'd rather none

Originally Posted by IH8DSM

i also like your organization and layout of your rotors, i've built a couple motors but i've never seen candy canes go in there must be a turbo thing

It's a super secret turbo sealant secret

Originally Posted by hades

So this is my chariot for DGRR

Yup yup.... We'll have it done. We're trying to get the Vielside behind it down there, and the FB behind that will be done... hopefully the owner brings that instead of his FD... or the 8 he's trying to sell

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

We want to see some of the holy wiring going on with that '85 in the background

I'm AAAAALLLLLMMMMMOOOOOSSSSSTTTTT done with the engine harness.... when it's done, I'll get a few pics up... and of course I'll be documenting the wiring of the 'vert.

Originally Posted by IH8DSM

On a lighter note, I broke an oil control ring today... wasn't paying attention and snapped it.. just sharing in the setbacks

huh? How do you do that?

[WE3RX7]

I playing with an o-ring in the tray and set it into the rotor without the spring under it... not assembling just seeing how well it fit. If you've never put the tray in with no spring underneath, its a PITA to get it back out.. had it 70% lifted out and it just snapped...

[TitaniumTT]

Been a few days since an update so I figure it's about time. Got slammed this week woth work work so not much has been done... sadly... I still have yet to build the engine because, well, all 4 rotary stands at the shop are in use No seriously... 3 engines waiting to go in and the fourth is in the engine room getting torn down......



It's not like there is a shortage of shit to do on the car however, so tonight Chris stayed late with me to start tearing the car apart for the wiring and general cleaning of the front half of the car. Here's what we started with



Yeah... what do you want, she sat outside for 18 months. Kyle started cleaning up the pass side and it looks like everything will come back pretty nicely... I'm pleased with that. But... to build something like this... first it all needs to come apart... damnit. At least that's the way I do it when I install an ECU on my schedule. It just makes it so much easier and cleaner to pull out everything that isn't being used, and go from there. Since I plan on doing the same wire hiding thing that I did on my car, except cleaner becuase there won't be nearly the same amount of electronic trickery, I need to get at the front harness. I'm going to try to leave it in the car this time though, because it is a bitch getting that harness through the firewall and seated properly. Plus this car is retaining the power windows, power doors, power mirrors that it had. In my car I was adding the PW and PDL's so it was as totally different story. So after everything was taken out and the harness removed from the front half, this is what's left over that needs to be cleaned.... yeah....



At anyrate, there are a handfull of wires that need to go, and a few that need to be added. I plan on using the A/C Fan relay to power the electric fan, and I'm not sure if I want the pump for the w2a intercooler to just be key on, or have it's own relay. I'm thinking relay but I need to dive into the haltech software and see if I have the outputs left over... I think I do. The wires that are leaving the harness are all the check connectors, the air-bypass relay, the drivers washer controls, all the coil wires, the CAS wires and a few of the tach leads.

The wires moving are going to be the low oil level, stock temp and pressure senders for the stock gauges, the neutral switch and the reverse switch. Those are moving over to the engine harness. Soooooo it's probably not the easiest, but it's definitely the cleanest.... pull the dash and run the wires over to where they belong. I've got access to a few other harnesses, so I'm hoping that all the wires that I need to remove and relocate I can pull out of the other harness.... so all the wire colors will remain the same, even if they're not in the same connector. That's the way i like to do it anyway.

This entire harness, the engine harness is garbage and will be pitched. Battery is getting relocated so no need for any of the big wires. All the others are either being removed totally or relocated.



Here's the front harness.... this can be thinned out considerable. Some wires shortened, and some wires added. The only place the harness will be seen is where it exits the firewall and dives into the wheel well. The PS harness will remain, but that's it. And the fuse bvox will be relocated to where the trailing coil once lived.



Goal is to have the car totally wired by the end of next weekend. Then it's just the engine harness and the mechanical side of things..... not too much time left but I'm pretty sure I've got enough as long as I don't have any huge part delays.... those could kill the whole thing.

Oh... and if anyone knows of or has an S5 TII throttle body... I'm looking for one. Don't need the TPS, found one of those, but I do need the throttle body itself.

[TitaniumTT]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm..... so building a car in short order means taking it apart first??????





Yeah.... by the end of tomorrow night that interior will be stripped clean and the only thing remaining will be a lightly held front harness with a bunch of wires being pulled out and tossed in the garbage..... ugh... what have I gotten myself into. The girlfriend is already getting in a state.... I can't wait till the first 3 weeks of April

[TitaniumTT]

Ouch... that sucks.... I've had issues getting corner seals out without springs under them.. I just gave up... I always put a spring under it whenever I clearance rotors now.