The Project Pad

Says the guy who bailed out on Carlisle this year to finish his car... :wink:

PxTx wrote:Says the guy who bailed out on Carlisle this year to finish his car... :wink:

ok ok ok

but hes a lot closer to waterlands than south PA is to NH


um and also a project car is never finished, jsut road worthy or driveable, never finished

my goodness... I'VE GONE HYPER ADD!!!! seriously, i think i've got HDADD, high definition attention deficit disorder. i can barely pay attention, but when i do, it's incredibly clear

i don't know where to start, and where to finish... my eyes have glazed over

derracuda wrote:my goodness... I'VE GONE HYPER ADD!!!! seriously, i think i've got HDADD, high definition attention deficit disorder. i can barely pay attention, but when i do, it's incredibly clear

i don't know where to start, and where to finish... my eyes have glazed over

Yep........He's in love. :wink:

you funny

ok, more random things done...


pistons got soaked and then walnut shelled, and sent to swain tech













i also started on the front snub mount. it's part A8 snub mount, part derracuda werks.










last night i tackled some of the AAN harness install. just trying to tuck it up tight and clean around my existing necessary wiring.

BOOM, engine bay explosion of everything!









then i moved onto the coil bracket. i'm using the big 3 wire coils from the 2.7tt engine

I cant wait to see the coil braket finished and in the car, I really like that fact you took something thats normally very basic and made it one of a kind.

Keep up the good work.

Been following this thread for ages, love your fabrication work and all the mods you have sorted. Its really inspiring!

Derek, I just noticed something. I thought you were just engaged?

Coil bracket looks good

Eric, he doesn't acknowledge those kind of comments......see above.

Maybe I'm being dense....Look where?

i am engaged, i got an engagement ring 8)



ok, on with finishing the coil bracket....

had to figure out a decent and simple way to mount it so that it's easily accessible for the future for service.






a bit of spit polish



a bit of misleading information




and i had to make a home for the POS's




this is how you compensate for not cutting it out right the first time...



there's a really tired guy in this picture..






snuggly like a bug in a rug... or an AAN harness in a type85





lastly, the snubber got it's mod. it's not finished, and don't say anything about the crappy weld on the little triangle bracket. the actual cast piece had some junk in it and i couldn't stop the desolation, so i just left it and smoothed it out a bit.







last thing of the night, a teaser of the interior... i am sooooo E X C I T E D!!!

derracuda wrote:i am engaged, i got an engagement ring 8)

Congrats!!! :woowoo:

:stupid:

Congrats on the engagement, I have one question, where are you going to live? is she coming here? (i hope you don't have to wait for a fiance' visa.... nightmare)

I knew you were engaged D, just confused on the ring placement!!

Awesome build, i miss the PNW. Have to move back one day, all my friends and family are in WA.

as seen on display at pacific waterlands today

i like the commemorative editions better!!! haha :slap:

those are slicker than slick dude!
nice job

O2VW1.8T wrote:Awesome build, i miss the PNW. Have to move back one day, all my friends and family are in WA.

and then you can see our cars in person, Pete....

What are those seats from?

mkII jetta recaros

derracuda wrote:mkII jetta recaros

Oh hey Derek, got your email today and I'll be sending the info and dimensions over to Ed asap. Sorry I couldn't get to it today!

woah, nice seats Derek. I went back and forth with the choice between the urS seats an th recarros out of the jetta... Nice choice Did you get the rears done in the same fashion? PM me with what the price ended u being.

well, time for an update! this work week has been pretty hectic, so not a lot of time on the car. i'm still working on finishing up the IM, and it's coming along pretty nice i think.

first thing i started on this time around was the rings for the topside. they will need to be welded on before the completed plenum can go on.










then onto the layout with the new plenum entry design. the thin divider walls were proving really hard to get to weld on, so i found some 10mm rod and coiled it around an 82mm bearing shell and then cut the pieces out like so..


drilled holes to weld the pieces from the backside


welded..


smoothed..


fitted to the main plenum section


side profile


entrance into the first chamber




then, i needed to clearance the end caps of the IM so that the topside will clear the hood structure inside.


welded one end tank on




mm, rings


welded the front taper on


cleaned the inside joints as well as i could so they transition smoothly




in place with a tacked TB flange on


the silicone inlet boot is temporary, just to give me an idea of how this stuff fits in place. it's the wrong size



i've got the plates cut out for the still open sections of the first chamber and need to weld them in. then all that's left is welding the runners to the head flange and plenum baseplate, and the TB flange, and cable bracket. i need to also find a spot for vacuum fitting provisions that's sorta hidden.

i'll probably find a bigger radiator down the road and make a new engine mount so i can rotate the radiator ala' SQ. i'm looking for a summit radiator or something that's universal and under $200 to fit in place with some slight mods.

also, my coated pistons also arrived


hopefully next trip down to CA i'll have my rotating assembly installed in the new block so that the engine can be back in the car permanently and just await the finalization of the bolt on bits.

exciting stuff in the works... 8)