My TTD build thread

[iracemine]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzdiQNoPGs&feature=related

lost third gear during this day. so at times I am limping the car around the track, but it was the full autobaun course. So I could not pass the opportunity to learn the track for free. Bill you have any pics of your window net install? wondering how you got yours in. Also looking forward to seeing the same size tire on a 15X8!

 

[sm76]

Your car seemes to be hooked up pretty well. Any track without third gear has got to be tough.

At least for the 17" sizes (both 225s) the Hoosiers are a little over 1/2" wider per tire than the Nittos. I would expect it to be the same for the 15" sizes, so there probably won't be much difference in the sidewall between the two. I'll post up pictures once I paint the wheels and mount the tires though.

Here are a few pictures of my window net mounting. I have a tube that the rear of the top mounting bar fits into and a seat belt clip in the front. The bottom mounting bar is held in place by steel rope around the roll cage. That allows it to fall out of the way quickly when the top is released. I have a new mesh style net coming for this year because I hated the ribbon style that is in the pictures.

 

[iracemine]

Awesome. Mine looks exactly the same (thank god). The local chassis shop wanted 200 to do what I did in 1 hour with my boss's mig welder and some steel rope. Thanks for the pics man. I need to get some way of getting pics into the world of web.

 

[aMaff]

Awesome. Mine looks exactly the same (thank god). The local chassis shop wanted 200 to do what I did in 1 hour with my boss's mig welder and some steel rope. Thanks for the pics man. I need to get some way of getting pics into the world of web.

Picasa? Photobucket? Upload them to your account here?

 

[iracemine]

Picasa? Photobucket? Upload them to your account here?

but step one is I have no camera anymore. cell phone camera is busted.

 

[aMaff]

Yeah, that would be step 1 for sure lol

 

[sm76]

Went with blue for the wheels.

 

[sm76]

Got the tires mounted on the wheels today. Those suckers are wide. The tread to the tangent point of the shoulder is 8 3/4 inches and the overall width is 9 3/4 inches. The sidewalls are basically straight up and down. These would probably mount fine on a 9" wheel as well.

 

[iracemine]

W O W those tires are huge! I wish I was good on tires..... mine are more like square bastards of a moron that cant corner balance his car or put it into braking zone with out leveling off the car first.

lessons learned, but $$$ lessons learned.

 

[sm76]

My new 850 lb/in rear springs are beefy. Next to 450s for comparison.

 

[aMaff]

Unless I missed it, since I was considering a similar project w/ a stock turn-signal: any details on how you did the headlight-intake you've got set-up there?

 

[sm76]

Unless I missed it, since I was considering a similar project w/ a stock turn-signal: any details on how you did the headlight-intake you've got set-up there?

In this picture hopefully you can see that i just cut out a sheet of aluminum so when it was folded into an almost rectangular shape it made a tunnel around the air filter and tube. Then I pop riveted it together.

Then I made a cap to put on the rear of it with a hole in the middle for the tube to go through. I just used duct tape to seal it on the back and to seal the tube to the cap (Its lighter than adding fasteners). The front was then sealed to the opening around the gutted headlight so the higher pressure air in the box won't get into the engine bay. I am going to be cutting relief holes for pressurized hot air in the engine bay and didn't want to add any extra air to remove.

Not the prettiest thing in the world, but it will work and only took a few hours.

 

[aMaff]

Oh ok, you've got an air box with the filter right there, cool. I was actually referring to how you cut the holes in the headlights (without cracking them), what you used to affix the mesh at the back (JB weld?), what kind of mesh, etc. Sorry for the confusion

 

[sm76]

Oh ok, you've got an air box with the filter right there, cool. I was actually referring to how you cut the holes in the headlights (without cracking them), what you used to affix the mesh at the back (JB weld?), what kind of mesh, etc. Sorry for the confusion

Oh, I used a hole saw to cut the holes in the headlight. I was worried about cracking, but it worked great. Then I filed down the edges to make them smooth, and sanded the whole thing so paint and epoxy would stick to it. The mesh is held in with epoxy.

 

[hat1018]

I am curious. Do you think those 2 holes will be big enough to get air for the engine? I realize it will be semi-pressurized being right out front but being that small will the aerodynamics of the car make them less efficient. Would hate to see you run too rich due to lack of air. I don't want to sound like I know something, but it does make me think, you know.

 

[lizardman743]

I am curious. Do you think those 2 holes will be big enough to get air for the engine? I realize it will be semi-pressurized being right out front but being that small will the aerodynamics of the car make them less efficient. Would hate to see you run too rich due to lack of air. I don't want to sound like I know something, but it does make me think, you know.

The stock air box doesn't really have any straight holes to clean air.

Also... how am I not subbed to this!?

 

[sm76]

I am curious. Do you think those 2 holes will be big enough to get air for the engine? I realize it will be semi-pressurized being right out front but being that small will the aerodynamics of the car make them less efficient. Would hate to see you run too rich due to lack of air. I don't want to sound like I know something, but it does make me think, you know.

The holes are 2 1/2 inch, but in case that was not enough air I left the bottom of the headlight in front of the radiator core support open for more air. So there is a slot about 1/2 inch by 6 inches that is open there. The air box is then sealed to the core support so the air doesn't go into the engine bay. It has at least as much of an opening as the filter had down behind the fog light area in the standard Injen location.

 

[lizardman743]

The holes are 2 1/2 inch, but in case that was not enough air I left the bottom of the headlight in front of the radiator core support open for more air. So there is a slot about 1/2 inch by 6 inches that is open there. The air box is then sealed to the core support so the air doesn't go into the engine bay. It has at least as much of an opening as the filter had down behind the fog light area in the standard Injen location.

Why did you decide to not use the standard Injen location? Shorter piping?

 

[sm76]

Why did you decide to not use the standard Injen location? Shorter piping?

I'm not going to have my air dam this year, so I had to move the inlents for my brake cooling ducts. They will be moved to use the "fog light" openings, so the air intake had to move.

 

[aMaff]

Any particular reason you're losing the air dam? Seems like it would be pretty critical on a FWD car especially