Something different

[DjGreggieP]

5 1/2 years later and this thing is still going.

I'm so anxious to see this thing finally finished. Any plans on wheels?

Wheels are going to remain the Mille Miglia F20's it currently has until I can afford something different. I've been looking at a few different options, I may wait until the paint is on just so I have a better idea for what finish to get, really stuck between white or bronze, maybe stay with a polished look. And style I'm still unsure about as well lol, spoke, mesh. The car I got the paint code from uses a dark multi spoke wheel and it looks really good, so I may look at going a dark wheel as well.

[rice4life]

5 1/2 years later and this thing is still going.

I'm so anxious to see this thing finally finished. Any plans on wheels?

[DjGreggieP]

Hey, it worked!! Check out the latest in video format, still working on this thing. Next step is rebuild the transmission and finish building the intake plenum, I think that will be this next week. just a little bit more wiring to complete as well

[DjGreggieP]

So,



I need some advice on figuring out what bags, struts and seals I need...

[DjGreggieP]

Back with more!!

Mostly took care of some aesthetic only parts this time around, because I want as much of the engine bay to look good so why not?





I think it will look good, if its visible with everything else installed.


Also fixed up the elbow to turbo inlet for the Intake Air Temp sensor. Basically drill a hole, weld a bung on, grind, wire wheel then prime it.









I think next week I may jump into my interior and tackle the rats nest behind the dash to clean up for my extra gauges. Need to do some searching on Deutsch connectors to see if I can find a female variation of my twin males, then hopefully my wiring woes will be finished, then its just make the intake manifold then bolt everything together and hopefully it starts, then back to paint and body work.

[Darkyoshi154]

Man, I just found this, and I love it. Sub'd for more!

[DjGreggieP]

Before you cut these harnesses, the connectors are metripack 570.
Maybe you can do a patch harness...

Alwasy cool to see progress on this thing!

I'm partially hoping that because the ignition harness I picked up for an early 3rd gen Hemi, maybe on an early 3rd gen hemi equipped truck there is a 'female' connection so that I can retain the ability to disconnect the ignition harness to help address future possible electronic issues. Once its 100% running, I will more than likely pull all the harness out and shorten / lengthen the harness to give it a much cleaner look.

Hopefully this week I will have the wiring 'mostly' sorted enough that I can maybe tackle the rats nest I have behind my dash for gauges and start mocking up the intercooler how I'd like it, need to figure out a front and rear 'impact' beam as well.

I promise to take more pictures as I go!!

[OrangeBlue]

Before you cut these harnesses, the connectors are metripack 570.
Maybe you can do a patch harness...

Alwasy cool to see progress on this thing!

[DjGreggieP]

Rectangular ports were what the factory cast which flowed into an oval after. I dunno why, but Dodge tends to do things weirdly





I can say that 'next time' I will make them funnel differently by making them separate pieces because funneling these things has not been fun...





Other than mild fabrication, been working on the wiring harness routing, had an epiphany and got it mostly sorted, still need to figure out placement and routing of a few wires, but they aren't on the engine yet so the exact routing is to be determined.







And then, discovered that I need to hard wire the ignition wire harness to the ignition wire connector because Holley sucks...



Oh well, if it was easy, this wouldn't be the first time its being done on a car like this, the challenge is part of the fun, right??

[Buick40]

This really is something different, hehehe. Your mods have given this platform a cool, weird swagger. kudos.

I've never seen rectangular intake ports before...

[thirtynine]

This is all kinds of cool. Loving the fabrication work on this, and am excited for paint!

[DjGreggieP]

More small progress

With going to standalone, I decided to 'trim' the alternator bracket since it will no longer be used as a brace for wiring.





And after some frsh paint to clean up the look



Also, with increase in power means better stopping gear is mandatory, so I have this piled up and ready to go, as well as some Castrol SRF brake fluid



And some progress on the intake plenum front!



Thanks for tuning in, this week I should majority of the wiring routed in the engine bay

[Quillhill36]

awesome

[DjGreggieP]

Okay, another thread revival is in order. Car is still not painted because life. And I took some advice on a few other things which just slowed things down more, and then more life happened.

First of all, made some beautiful aluminium mounts for my APR mirrors


I think they turned out nicely. Was a lot more work than I want to admit to, lots of fine tuning to get them to fit. In the picture they are finger tightly mounted since they weren't staying. I spent all of 5 minutes giving them a 'brushed' look because they were being shipped out to be finished.

They car at least has primer on it!!





And then I tackled a whole bunch of little things to be looked after (fender liner, strut mounts, transmission temp sensor, coolers mounting / location) and started getting ready for the standalone change over. Installing sensors and mounting the Dominator to start planning out the wiring routing.







Also cleaned up the engine bay a tiny bit as well. Make it look presentable when finished for the occasional car show I may attend.

I spend way too much time on the Design Engineering website so I have a bunch of their products to install in the engine bay as well


Also made the decision to get a 'round' throttle body instead of the 'egg shape' OEM piece that is the bane to the intake and cause of many boost leaks


But a 4 bolt mounting won't work on a 3 bolt mount plenum, and it is a composite piece with plastic caps glued in place so....


I'm learning a little bit of metal bending.

And that's mostly caught up. I think, probably should have had a lot more finished but things happen.

Can't wait to be finished

[DjGreggieP]

So, of course life happens. My car *finally* went into the paint booth 2 weeks ago and I have the whole thing sanded. Now I just have to clean it then mask and then primer. I will have to do another large picture update in a bit