Something different

[wickedsnake00]

Disappointed I missed this until now. I love seeing builds way out of the ordinary, and a boosted 2.7 Intrepid is extremely unique. I can relate to the ugly but necessary routing to fit 10lbs of crap in a 5lb engine bay. If anything I'm amazed the ECU is remotely capable.

[DjGreggieP]

Did a little bit of underhood enhancing

[DjGreggieP]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzYIDsx140w

Working link?

[DjGreggieP]

I am back with more winter tear down carnage! err... uhm.. Summer race season preparations performed over winter....

Lets begin.

When I last left off I had removed the one valve cover and found zero anomalies, so I started with the removal of the drivers side valve cover.



Beautiful.

After a few hours of scrubbing and removal of gaskets and such, I had this



The other side is largely in the same condition, this one was the worse of the two.
So now, my pile of parts at job two looks like this



Its just the SRT4 inter-cooler, the 45 bend, the large black tube on the floor, the valve covers and the paint that's actually mine. I have since picked up a can of self etching primer as well so I just need to tape it up, and then hand the valve covers over to my amazing coworker so she can prep and paint the covers for me. She's a sweet heart.

Oh, and we need to do a bit of aluminium welding for the end of the inter-cooler to make an end tank so I can start taking measurements for piping routing to get the colder air into the engine.

Back in my shop space...



This is what I had the car looking like roughly over Christmas. Now, in the old Battery location I have a lot going on. Intake filter, charge pipe for the turbo to the inter-cooler, from the inter-cooler to the intake... And the air filter isn't small so we needed to create more clearance!

First, a template is laid out...



Then after some amazing death wheel skills this was laying on the floor!



And I was left with a large sized hole that I can shove the air filter out of so it will still get a ram air effect from the slightly hacked / modified foglight housing assembly.



The oily grime on the bottom of the tray is from when we were trying to deal with the oil leak that I had that turned out to be a pin hole in the dipstick tube. I do plan to try and clean that up some how while everything is exposed.

So here is how she sits right now.



I have valve covers to get painted, inter cooler to build, piping to route and general clean up of the bay as I go.

I have removed the EGR (was half removed a few years ago).
The PCV valve has been removed (going to route it to the oil catch can instead of the intake).
I have put a block plug in the intake after removing the PCV valve.
I am currently looking into relocating the oil catch can as well as the emissions solenoid to get them out of the way.
I do need to replace one injector plug because it had been damaged previously and now I have a better chance to repair it. We had noticed it before during the build up but noted that it was functioning 100% so I decided that I would repair the harness later.
Also planning to get my low end torque back by making the HO portion work again. Being a 2000 plenum, its all vacuum controlled so I am thinking I can just run a line off the plenum to the existing line and have it go back to actuating under heavy load.

Stay tuned!!

[DjGreggieP]

Does this work?

nvm. wrong video uploaded. I will come back to this when the proper one uploads

[DjGreggieP]

I suppose another update is in order.



This is almost a regular sight already... But this time its for a different purpose! I have a different throttle body to put on that has an adjustable throttle stop. No pictures of that because its just a mildly modified OEM unit.

Also, took this oppurtunity to take a picture of my brass fix



That shouldn't melt / crack anytime soon.

Also, I finally removed what was left of my EGR system. It had been half removed previously so I broke off the remainder of the pipe and pulled the valve. Bye bye EGR! Still need to find a way to keep the CEL from coming on tho... but I am sure I can figure out a way since with it half removed it only came on once in a while



I'd really like to possibly remove this thing altogether or REALLY relocate it from were it is. I guess when I do more cutting I can see if there is a better home for it.



So I continued along while I was still kinda warm and removed a valve cover to do an inspection of the head.



Looks good for over 300,000kms I think. Especially considering there has been a lot of hard miles put on with racing as well.

So here she sits until I get ambitious and head out to the cold to remove the other valve cover. So I need to order some new gaskets this week and then clean the valve covers, and upper plenum then reassemble and get the intercooler welded up so I can start making measurements for the needed piping.



Until next time!

[DjGreggieP]

I am going to have to dig thru his build and check it out, thanks!

I do have a larger sized transcooler already, its the more black thing stuck to the rad in this picture. Its about 3 times the size of the factory transcooler



You can also kinda see how the intercooler is sided more to the passenger side. We could probably center it, but that would require modifying both ends, and routing it over to the side should help keep the piping relatively simple.

The other really scary / funny thing. The slicks are 26x10r15 with 4 inches of backspace to clear the the front rotors. The current daily wheels on all 4 corners are 245/45r18 which measure out at 26.5x9.6 so its really just the offset difference that makes the slicks look super gnarly

Also I treid to do a photoshoot on my own and edited one pic. I want to come back to it later when the car is more complete and reshoot



I am still looking at wider wheels, but until I figure out the brakes I want to try nd make fit (Genesis Brembo front calipers with 13 inch rotors) I an holding off because I don't want to get wheels I love to have to sell them if they don't fit

[rice4life]

Your actually the first person to get that reference!! Its been slightly changed. Says 'SNSTR Auto' and 'Sedan Special' but yea I love the real midnight club and try to read up on it. I thought it was a really cool idea and wanted to pay homage to them that very few people would get but that kinda adds a bit to the car.

I don't mind the AAS kit. I think the Viper kit would possibly work better tho. The intercooler is actually offset to the passenger side right now (OEM SRT4) so big center openings aren't really needed yet. Once I get the car running 100% and tuned with a stand alone THEN I can start really pushing things and will probably need a bigger intercooler

For now tho, just planning on getting it sorted for a few little things and start the slow process of making it look nicer. I have a color scheme in my head and I spent a month trying to track down the paint code, so it will be going one solid color in the future.

Check out this 300zx build, lots of Midnight Club influence and old school parts.

http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67158

Your new sig looks great. Never thought I would see one of these with that much meat.

If you do get a more open bumper and are sticking with the offset intercooler, you could run an oil cooler or transmission cooler in that open space.

[DjGreggieP]

Didn't know you were a fan of the midnight club!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5014256388_35414e67e2_b.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v293/caffinatedsoap/Done_-_Drivers_Side_Front.jpg

this bumper seems more suited for an intercooler, and it doesn't look half bad either as it isn't stupid low.

http://www.andysautosport.com/products/andys_auto_sport__7117.html

It's dirt cheap too.

Your actually the first person to get that reference!! Its been slightly changed. Says 'SNSTR Auto' and 'Sedan Special' but yea I love the real midnight club and try to read up on it. I thought it was a really cool idea and wanted to pay homage to them that very few people would get but that kinda adds a bit to the car.

I don't mind the AAS kit. I think the Viper kit would possibly work better tho. The intercooler is actually offset to the passenger side right now (OEM SRT4) so big center openings aren't really needed yet. Once I get the car running 100% and tuned with a stand alone THEN I can start really pushing things and will probably need a bigger intercooler

For now tho, just planning on getting it sorted for a few little things and start the slow process of making it look nicer. I have a color scheme in my head and I spent a month trying to track down the paint code, so it will be going one solid color in the future.

[rice4life]

Didn't know you were a fan of the midnight club!

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4149/5014256388_35414e67e2_b.jpg

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v293/caffinatedsoap/Done_-_Drivers_Side_Front.jpg

this bumper seems more suited for an intercooler, and it doesn't look half bad either as it isn't stupid low.

http://www.andysautosport.com/products/andys_auto_sport__7117.html

It's dirt cheap too.

[DjGreggieP]

I'm so glad to see you alive! Always been a fan of this thread.

Thanks! It's been a bit of a battle, but I am slowly getting things done. Working 2 jobs and keeping busy does that. I do need to start posting more updates tho.

[Haze]

I'm so glad to see you alive! Always been a fan of this thread.

[DjGreggieP]

Update with pictures!!

First off, found the culprit for my coolant leak issue. Turns out ford parts aren't designed for heat (3/8 tee off 5/8 straight)



It has been heavily modified with brass fittings. Shouldn't crush that.

Secondly, newer intake fitted!!







It still needs some additional clearance to be made. I have started but I have more to do, it is absolutely near impossible to install without the use of BFP. Mostly just trimming.



Things like that need to be done in a few places!!

Speaking of intake, I needed to make a few changes to make to prepare for another part.



Before/after shot. Needed to clean up the wiring a bit so I can create a cleaner installation. Also snipped out some excess no longer needed wiring (A/C plug. Haven't had A/C in YEARS...)

Also, air filter will be removed and cleaned. Its mostly really nasty because I was having an oil leak issue from the dipstick tube shooting oil out a tiny hole under acceleration.

Should look almost OEM when I make a few more adjustments



And roughly how it will sit with the bumper on.



The air filter needs to be slightly adjusted, so more metal will be sacrificed soon to do so. Also I will not be putting the foglights back on either side. The plan is to use the foglight 'holes' as funnels to increase cooling / airflow to the air filter. The power steering cooler is going to be mounted on an angle on the drivers side (using an OEM transcooler mounted to a bracket) so I can mount the intercooler to a bracket of some kind to the lower rad support.

All in all, it should be a fun winter. Still have a few ideas on making a bit more power yet.

Unrelated, can anyone link me to a definite explanation on how MAP sensors work. I have an idea.

[DjGreggieP]

I actually know Mpressive. I have his old set of custom seat belt pads for my car and we are both back and forth discussing a bigger brake upgrade that we are both looking at doing.After he had his run for SEMA and going pretty far is what made me decide it may be time to start pushing the envelope a bit more to get the car looking good.

The DTM style may wait a bit, but I do plan to add a harness bar at least, and do a few little things over the winter. I have thought about the viper front bumper and custom rear diffuser because the viper kits rear bumper looks... awkward to put it nicely.

I really need to post here more often. I have the car half ripped apart at the moment so I can start the fitment of the intercooler. This thing absolutely SCREAMS when she has colder air coming in, so I am looking to do a better job of getting the cold air in and the hot air out.

I will update later with some pics of how things are looking now.

I wonder tho... I will try a copy past from a different forum and see...

[rice4life]

There was a dodge stratus DTM car back in the day that kind of looks like the Intrepid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBNOOPO7C38

Check out that old video, his aero was custom made and it actually looked pretty good.

You could take inspiration from the DTM Vipers and throw on the viper body kit, a fat rear diffuser, side splitters, front splitter with canards, and a trunk mounted wing. I don't think it would look right without caging the car and some livery though.

edit: These cars suck up wheels the viper kit would only make the body lower and you'd need 22's to even look decent.


Check out MPressive's car. He's on 20's and it looks great for a stock body car.