Good ol' rustoleum. I considered POR15, but it's expensive and really not necessary. I've sealed stuff with rustoleum in the past and it does a fantastic job.
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Good ol' rustoleum. I considered POR15, but it's expensive and really not necessary. I've sealed stuff with rustoleum in the past and it does a fantastic job.
thanks you just saved me a ton of money.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsePerVita
my buddy sealed his lincoln's trunk with that black/grey looking floor epoxy stuff for garages?
like 25$ a can and you can pretty much shoot 22 shorts at it after a few days of curing.
I've honestly thought about buying the rustoleum floor stuff and doing my garage floor. That would be quite a project though as I already have some stuff on my garage floor so it'd be a weekend project. BUT it would sure make clean up easy!Quote:
Originally Posted by Twigsoffury
I am sorry I haven't been on here much. I've been a social recluse. Unfortunately I battle depression swings and it's been hitting me hard the past many months. I've finally crawled out of my hole a bit to try and be a bit more active. Missed y'all!
I am approaching the point where she is almost ready to fire up. So close. Ever have that moment where you can taste it but you aren't there yet? That's where I am.
Since last update:
- Brake conversion is 100%. Unfortunately one of the calipers had issues and I had to have it re-machined. That's been since resolved. The rabbit master cyl conversion was a huge success. Granted I won't know how much good it does till I get the car running, I crunched a lot of numbers so I am hoping the math was right. I plan on reinforcing the firewall with a few CF panels or welding in more material since it's no longer vacuum assisted.
- Engine was sent to the machine shop and is done and back in my hands. It is now up on the engine stand and being assembled. It turned out great.
- Unfortunately the first head I sent in was a total waste. It was scrapped. Machine shop said where the cam sits was warped beyond repair due to the oil starvation the engine had.
- Fortunately I had a spare head. It's almost finished, I ordered the parts almost a week ago and they should be here this week, meaning the head should be done this week. Meaning I should have the engine in very soon.
- The euro pistons were a go and turned out great.
- The interior is pretty much finished. I added a layer of carpet (weighed less than 2lbs, very thin) to make the inside a bit presentable and also to reduce glare in various parts of the car.
- I made some quarter windows out of Acrylic. I will be doing side windows in Lexan.
- I've been working with SP Engineering on ideas for the fuel system. There is apparently a nice fuel system they've been using universal fit AN adapters that has more than enough pressure for what I need and will work with my megasquirt setup. They've been using it on their GTR builds from what they tell me. However, since I can't really get the fuel system in place till the engine is in (due to not being able to measure things till it's all in place) there is not much I can do about that.
- Made a tank cover out of CF. Bit lighter than the one there, looks better too. Nice thing is I can modify it if I need to at some point when I'll be required to get a cage.
Gimme a few minutes to round up the pics...
Oh yeah and I'm making a GTS Headlight conversion out of carbon fiber.
"He did WHAT in his cup?"
:D
Keep up the good work!
It's close gents, real close. As in ready to drop it in close :)
This build has made it through two of my internet hiatuses (sp?) Got to say I am ready to see her finished up. I gotta admit I have some questions that I am going to have to go back and re read some thought.
Ask away!:smoker:Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowman
Just couldn't remember if you went with a megasquirt set up or not and how you got 'er wired up.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorsePerVita
Yep, I did go with megasquirt. The ITBs off of the GSXR will be my throttle bodies. I'm using the fuel system off of a honda accord (with aftermarket honda performance parts like an adjustable fuel reg and injectors and pump) to do what I need to do. That will be wired into the megasquirt itself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Snowman
Utilizing a locked down ignition distributor will be the way to go in regards to ignition.
On a positive note, the engine is IN!
carbon fiber velocity stacks.... I'm digging it actually.
ITBs are in and I got the fuel system pretty much all hooked up except a few minor things. Pretty darn tired this weekend. I'll work on it more this week.
So umm plum the cooling and start this bad boy already I want a video.
Alrighty, so this has been an interesting adventure to get it started.
- Things like the timing were off in weird ways. To note, there was an extra mark on the cam gear which did not belong. I eventually fixed it. Then I found that I needed to change things a dramatic amount to get the ignition timing right.
- I essentially ended up fabbing up a module out of a corvette 4pt hei module to use as my trigger source, it went back to the megasquirt and gave it the signal i needed. I fixed the trigger angle and lined up the dizzy and blammo, TDC working fine.
- Initially the warm-up enrichment was way off. I actually ended up disabling it altogether so I could change it so that it simply changes rich/lean with temperature, instead of an initial enrichment which caused issues.
Anyway... I present to you:
Still messing with the map and accel settings, more to come very very soon. Maybe even tonight depending on progress
It Runs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!
Yeah the coolant temp sensor isn't hooked up, so it thinks it's -40F and is running pig rich. I have a mount coming this week to mount that sensor which should resolve it. Will be moving over to TPS instead of MAP at that point for better tuning too. Should be on the road SOON! :)
Yeah that should have you sorted out very quickly.
update!!!
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(please)
