NitroDann's Long Awaited Garage Thread

corners · Postby **corners** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:47 pm

manga_blue wrote:Headers should be rigidly mounted to the bellhousing or gearbox so that the mounting flange is not taking the flexing caused by engine twisitng, lateral G forces and road bumps. If you do that properly then all that flexing is absorbed at the flexible section in the header end pipe. Otherwise you're swinging the entire exhaust system off the header mounting flange at the cylinder head - stupid - and things will crack exactly as pictured. So I don't regard this as a header fault, just a fitting fault.

Yep happened to my dump pipe. Exhaust shop said its missing the bracket that goes on the back of the gearbox mount. Hasn't cracked since.

Postby **NitroDann** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:52 pm

This particular header doesnt come with a gearbox bracket, nor does the OEM one fit, where their other models do have one.

It's an oversight on the manufacturers part.

Stock inlet manifold on the 2j.

Dann

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:55 pm

lol

10 grand at harry's and this will decimate all, or if we have to - overnight parts from japan.

Sean · Postby **Sean** » Sat Oct 05, 2013 8:13 pm

danger to teh stock inlet manifold lol.

Postby **NitroDann** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 10:19 pm

No, the thing in front of the turbo is NOT an alternator :twisted:

Dann

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:14 am

so how does it work?

what feeds what?

is it compound or is there one of them there fancy bypass valve thingy's.

Lokiel · Postby **Lokiel** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:29 am

Love your work Dann and those custom tools you have - is that a silicon hose you're using to measure the length of the manifold runners?

Simple and effective.

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:31 am

it looks like a really small pool noodle, i love those things!

Postby **NitroDann** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:45 am

16bit wrote:so how does it work?

what feeds what?

is it compound or is there one of them there fancy bypass valve thingy's.

It will run bypass, much to my dismay

I really wanted to see 100 pounds of boost..

Lokiel wrote:Love your work Dann and those custom tools you have - is that a silicon hose you're using to measure the length of the manifold runners?

Simple and effective.

Yeah its a piece I found that I think is left over from your car actually, If I wasnt poor I would spend days modeling it in solidworks and then try and replicate the cad**. Its just 17" long (the target runner length) and 1cm extra each end. You lay your first runner, then plan the rest by putting it into the ports in place of the runner (so it just hangs in the air) and you decide from there where you will run a pipe.

After that you tack the first bits on and run the tube through, and this give you an idea if you are on the right track and how far away the next bend must be to keep target length

Here it is, just sandblasted, ready to break down into pieces and weld up fully. More on FaceBook.

Dann

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16bit · Postby **16bit** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 9:50 am

NitroDann wrote:
16bit wrote:so how does it work?

what feeds what?

is it compound or is there one of them there fancy bypass valve thingy's.

It will run bypass, much to my dismay
I really wanted to see 100 pounds of boost..

hahaha, that would be awesome.

Sean · Postby **Sean** » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:33 pm

NitroDann wrote:It will run bypass, much to my dismay
I really wanted to see 100 pounds of boost..

The owner is a fairly unconventional sorta guy (the build kinda gives that away), I'm sure you could convince him to try!

Postby **NitroDann** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 12:37 pm

Im still doing these BTW, every week or 2 another one gets done, lots of turbo NA6's around these days. I don't tend to post a lot of these because everyone knows the deal, you supply the turbo 2-3k depending on options and you have a full turbo kit for an NA, everything included. Options on this one are flex pipe, full intercooler setup with recirc BOV. By memory around the $2700 mark for this one with everything it needs including a brand new Megasquirt PnP2 standalone ECU.

This has a wrx TD04, using a split dump pipe which will be the coolest looking part I have to made (merges and expanders and flex's and stuff

)

Dann

sailaholic · Postby **sailaholic** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 1:18 pm

You should build an air box to suit boosted itbs :p

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Postby **NitroDann** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 1:22 pm

It would need to be ITB specific unfortunately, send me a set and some money and you will have some

Dann

Postby **Okibi** » Wed Oct 30, 2013 8:50 pm

Solution would be to use the same bolt patten as the jenvey ones, afaik they're the same for 1.6, 1.8.

What would also be cool is a better plenum and bigger throttle body to suit the different jenvey adaptors like these:
http://www.jenvey.co.uk/home/manifold/jenvey-dynamics/manifold-mazda-mx5-1-8-tb-mmz02