Atom's 2 door Amazon wagon Project:Headquarters

[Fruttolo]

Beautiful
But I guess the cast exhaust manifold will sooner or later be ditched for a tubular one haha

Edit: damn me in hell, didn't read the last part before posting, I was mesmerized by the turbo to downpipe transition

[Atom]

A little up pipe and down pipe work. Waiting on some stainless rod to come in to fab up a support for the turbo so the weight isn’t all on the up pipe. Also waiting on a bunch of fittings and line to show up from JEGS. Just chipping away.



I still plan on building a complete custom header with the flange that was graciously donated to me, but this way I can reasonably figure out a proper sized turbo before I spend a bunch of money on weld els. Budget first, upgrades later.

[Atom]

Been doing lame work. Not exciting stuff. Changing coolant lines from FWD configuration and making motor mounts. I want the (potential) option to shift the whole assembly forward a bit since the firewall clearance is tight.

FWD coolant lines:


Green= heater in/out
Yellow= turbo coolant (interesting that in and out are on the same branch of the coolant pipe
Blue= expansion tank
Orange= oil cooler built into the side of the oil pan

New configuration:



Red= expansion tank
Green= radiator lower hose
Blue= turbo coolant in/out (I used the old oil cooler out from head and old coolant inlet on main pipe)
Yellow= turbo oil pressure (banjo) and drain

Motor mount stuff (I used the C-clamp to put some compression on the mount. I can add washers if it compresses too much under engine weight)



Probable alternator location

[Atom]

Boring Saturday night. UFC on the tv and a stack of compressor maps.

[zoolander]

I bought them from a guy on Swedespeed. In the FWD & AWD Parts For Sale section.

Awesome, thank you.

[Atom]

One or two OEMs have used sprung discs on DMFs. Ultra-mushy.

I may have found a correct size/spline unsprung hub disk to try. I know it’s not ideal to run basically both sprung, but I’d rather not invest a ton on a clutch setup until I’m sure all of this is gonna work.

[Atom]

You gonna sell those stickers?

I bought them from a guy on Swedespeed. In the FWD & AWD Parts For Sale section.

[zoolander]

You gonna sell those stickers?

[CSBolger]

One or two OEMs have used sprung discs on DMFs. Ultra-mushy.

[Atom]

So, used our shipping pallet jack/scale to weigh the empty engine/trans combo. I’m going to re-weigh them tomorrow on a more accurate scale (even though the shipping/receiving guys swear the scale on the pallet jack is accurate)



Got some new stickers today for both my cars (the Amazon will have to wait for his)

[Fruttolo]

Any idea what would happen if you pair a sprung center clutch disk with a dual mass flywheel?

Guess infinite bounce? LOL
It would probably be that the least firm would compress as if the other was non-sprung for a certain amount before the firmer starts to work? but I surely would not want to have the dual mass flywheel at all as they feel like shit and always fail, let alone a dual mass AND an experimental sprung disc

[Atom]

Any idea what would happen if you pair a sprung center clutch disk with a dual mass flywheel?

[Atom]

Last fixture for the weekend. This will make it so I can build the upper plenum at work and be sure it’ll clear parts in the car.



The crossmember with the pan rail fixture

[Atom]

Well, sits a little tight to the firewall. The trans mount and driveshaft are adjustable though, so I’ll probably slide it forward just a hair. The good news is the modified crossmember clears the 960 pan without having to cut into the sump any more. Sway bar might be tough. I made a fixture to locate where it ends in stock configuration, so I’ll flip it and see where it lands on the front of the pan.

Anywho...



Plenty of room to the core support



Overall height comparison (without the top half of the Volvo intake



Maybe it’ll transfer some weight back??

[Atom]

Tent city set up. Got fixturing to do before I can even start playing.