looking good man, coming along very nicely...pm'ing you.

 

Wow i have been gone awhile... Here is a video of the first start up.. I should have more pictures of the build up this weekend.

http://vimeo.com/28985000

 

Congrats man! When is she gonna be out at the track?

 

Thanks! real soon

 

I thought you said you had a stage 5 FTI trans...

according to the website, it should have an aftermarket case (that won't require additional shields) and high flow filter conversion. I didn't see those features in your pics.

 

Its a stage 5 in a stock case.. Same trans different case.

 

why did you not do the case

 

Its been a while since i put some new pictures up... We still have some odds and ends to finish and the car needs a very good cleaning and wax job, but you get the idea...

 

Holy **** ***** that's a lot of wires!!!!!

 

HAHA yes it is.. still need to get everything cleaned up

 

question, cant you just move the fans behind the radiator and use them as pullers?

 

Yes either way works.. Just how I set it up.. U won't see the fans when the fill panel is on

 

alright good, that was the first reason i brought it up, dosnt look appealing lol

 

First off, good luck with the build man. I'm excited for you, and AES.
Secondly, I can't see the pictures (Im on a government base), but when I get home, I'll check them out. It's sounds like you have a cool build.

 

If you can set them up as pullers, I'd definitely do that. Puller fans work mo' betta!


Looks good. Just get those wires cleaned up I wonder how much of the radiant heat is going to increase your IAT's while your driving, since the IC is behind the radiator.

Also I can't tell in the pics, but how close is the bottom rad hose to the downpipe (which is HUGE)? I know Ray just had his hose blow out on the big end of the track, definitely don't want that.

Can you take a close up pic of your trans dipstick? I may need to copy the way you have that mounted. I just have mine ziptied to the oil dipstick now.

 

No, its an A2W intercooler and its mounted under the driveside front bumper. I will try and get some pictures of that.

 

Thanks man

 

Man I'm sorry to have to say this please don't take it as me being a complete ***, as I may have came off that way earlier, but that looks like a fire waiting to happen. I see a red power wire for something it looks like on the right of the engine bay that is just black electric taped together. Are you going to loom any of those wires and use an fittings on anything? The downpipe is going to be 1500 degrees plus, it will melt that radiator hose in a second if it's not wrapped. Please don't put yourself through what one of our members just did this past Friday. It's not worth your life making as much power as your gonna be making.

You have a bunch of good high quality parts, and I'm sure you are going to take the time to do some of those things, just don't race it like that too soon.

 

Naw man, thanks for the input! I have a lot of cleaning up to do still. Clean up the wires and make sure eveything is 100% ok to run. I just wanted to get some new pictues up on here.

The radiator hose will be wrapped and it not as close as it appers to the DP.

 

I know how it is, once you start getting everything together and actually in the car you want to show it off, I just wasn't too sure about some of the wires, I had to learn the hard way about not looming wires and at least zip tying them out of the way, even if it was just to drive it down the road to test the part I just installed. I get that black cheap plastic oem loom from autozone now to put all my wires in and then zip tie them out of the way.

I looked at another picture, and your downpipe doesn't look at close to the radiator hose as I thought, but I'd still wrap that downpipe at least at that part. It might not happen the first pass or the first 10, but I can see it getting weaker and possibly spraying your front tires if it did.

Like I said before you got a bunch of good parts, and I didn't know if you planned on running it much further than it's current state.