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Updates are coming! Many thing have progressed, but the progress has been mainly wiring, plumbing, fastening various bits ect... Basically the boring stuff. Soon I will put something together and catch everyone up.
I love how throwing in that custom Haltech display is your one-casual-post-in-an-epic-thread. Doing that same thing would be a holy shit look what I spent the last 18 months doing type deal for me lol.
Since the exhaust manifold is running over the transmission there is going to be some extra heat, to remedy this I built the armor/shield from a previous post but the VTC solenoids have been a concern of mine so I decided to make a little extra heat protection
The usual solid bar stock 6061
Quick little buzz cut on the lathe to make them pretty
Making some flat ends
Plunge some holes
Now the hole is established I can now rotate the piece 180 then locate the opposing side with the end mill
Cutoff using the lathe
4 little dudes
Here is the VTC solenoid and the shield mounts in place
Bit of AL tubing for the shield
Scribing a line on the lathe
Milling the tubing thin on the scribe line so I can easily snap the section of tubing by hand
Halved
Back to the lathe to finish the mounts
This is an old way to make a key way on a lathe (I know I could do this on the mill but I used this trick all the time before I had the mill)
This is a no power operation! take a flat sharp cutoff blade and mount it horizontally in the tool holder and proceed to run the blade into the material while increasing the depth of the cut minutely each pass
Makes a perfect key way
Milled the inner edges of the tube halves so they now have a nice edge on both sides
Last but certainly not least the ubiquitous gold insulator wrap
Has a very satisfying SNAP! when mounted
Happy with it and it is stupid easy to remove requires no tools to remove or install, win win in my book
I love how throwing in that custom Haltech display is your one-casual-post-in-an-epic-thread. Doing that same thing would be a holy shit look what I spent the last 18 months doing type deal for me lol.
Amazeballs.
Ya it has gotten a little out of hand but I still a few more cool things up my sleeve
This has the potential to be one of the best car related internet threads ever, if it isn't there yet. So much porn. Keep it up man, I learn a lot just from reading your posts.
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