Started off the week with some PS4s
More Dynamat. have the equivalent of 36 sq ft all in the boot, the struts are a bit lazy but they do hold if the weather is nice ?
Fixed a snapped off coax centre pin in my beloved Alpine 178BT, Not much in these
Ordered some main and rod bearings from Lithuania, same seller that I had purchased from previously for my B25254T2 build for the R.
Im trying to get a reasonable price on some 139mm H beams, but most sellers dont understand that you want 6x and not 5x rods.
I have the spare hoist at work for a few weeks so Ive pulled the auto out and will be removing the valvebody to send off to MV automatics for their stage 1.5 rework, It consists of a number of modifications including accumulator springs, line pressure adjustment and a number of other things. I really quite like this dumpy smooth auto and would be nice to see how much it can take without annihilating it. I do have a spare If I do splatter it.
Mike from MV believes these electric variants of the AW340 should hold ~320 rwkw with their stage 1.5 which makes me very optimistic about geting some life out of the box with little work.
Ill also be having the converter modified for a 3K stall and having the lockup clutches checked, for 330,000K they sure do still work well.
Began measuring up for exhaust components and Intercooler sizing.
115mm from the condenser to the crash bar is great, but there is an AC pressure switch that sticks out and up making a lot of the space here unusable
Originally I was looking at the Mishimoto J-Spec Race intercoolers, they are rated to an easy 500HP and are good for 40PSI.
The downside is that I would have to cut away at the under panel support which I am not interested in doing.
Pipework here is also an issue, there are no gaps in the front panels large enough to safely run a 2.5' pipe to and from a FMIC without major cutting and bodywork. I could run IC piping straight down behind the radiator and AC compressor, but these lines here are all very tight and would make maintenance a pain and make for a very large IC piping circuit - not ideal.
After much research I have found that any FMIC small enough to fit wont meet my power goals, leading me to look into other options.
I have priced up each part of the car and know roughly what it will cost to have certain parts made up, The cost of running a PWR Water to air unit is suddenly far more appealing considering the stuffing around and fab work required to make a front mount intercooler actually work. The PWR Water to air kit: PWR5906 looks to suit.
The radiator will fit perfectly in the usable space in the front and leave space for a trans cooler next to it.
With some corflute cut to size at 320mmx320mm it fits beautifully. The radiator and fan assembly come out at 96mm, well clear of the crash bar clearance of 115mm.
Mikael (Moon_walk on Garaget) uses a similar PWR kit on his 960 T6 (Twins retained) and the end result is a tiny intake circuit in a very neat compact package. https://www.garaget.org/?car=100532&image=946333
Ill probably run the barrel on the other side with the IC pipework running along the front of the cam cover.
The propshaft in this car has been a problem for a long time, the original vulcanised front shaft had began to slip and is constantly out of phase, I will be having GJ drive lines in Keysborough re-tube and clock it properly so as to get rid of the nasty drive line vibration this car has always had.
This leaves picking out exhaust components and an auto trans cooler, A switchable 3' AES super duty boost actuated cutout solenoid will make for some interesting driving, Id like to keep it quietish with no drone, so a high flow cat, resonator and muffler will all be going back into it.
Ill be pulling the valvebody out tomorow and getting it and the torque converter ready for shipping to MV on Monday.
