1. | Home | 11. | April 25th |
2. | Motor Installation | 12. | May 2nd |
3. | Painting the Interior | 13. | June 2nd |
4. | Rewiring the Gauges | 14. | July 10th |
5. | Test Drive! | 15. | Aug 5th (almost done!) |
6. | Intercooler Fabrication | 16. | October 2nd |
7. | June 18th | 17. | November 4th |
8. | June 23rd | 18. | January 1st |
9. | January 26th | 19. | |
10. | February 6th | 20. | Junk Page |
UPDATE: April 25th
Here are some pictures of my intake manifold and throttle
body spacer. The spacer is made to adapt my 5.0's throttle body onto Four
Banger's intake. It was made by my friend Danny, who has the coolest shop
and is the best at designing some of the coolest stuff I've ever seen,
and by myself.
The stock T/B is just too small, Compared to a 5.0's.
Plus the T/B was free. Ya can't beat that!
The intake manifold is a stock '89 upper that I got from
the Junk yard. I have cut the bottom, gutted it out, rotated it 90 degrees
towards the front of the car, and rewelded it. The purpose of the rotation
was to make the boost system with less area to have to boost up, giving
it
quicker spool up (reaction) times when I accelerate and decelerate between
lights and such.
The T/B should be able to use the stock throttle cable
and mounts. The Idle Speed Control Motor will clear the fiberglass cowl
hood by a little over an inch.
Rotated, Gutted and Welded.
Now, my next project is to get some mandrel bent pipe
together and make some boost pipes. I plan to use 2 1/2 pipe on the turbo
side and 3" on the T/B side.
I can't wait to get these pieces together!
Four Banger is still on the road and gets great gas milage.
It's even spanked a new Z28 and a couple of good looking Mustangs. I don't
get in that many races though. I'm still working on getting some gauges
on this thing.
More to come soon........