2013 f20 86 build round 2

[nt66]

Since i finally moved into the current century and have a phone i can post with thought I'd go ahead and share the new shell......... this car had been around for a while but just became mine officially last week going to try my hardest to have it finished for April

[nt66]

spent the weekend getting parts for this thing so we hit the road to kingsbury tx
finally found a rear end

[nt66]

took the car up to dallas

knocked the rest of the sound deadaning out of it

Dropped it off at Auto Comp Racecars in Ft. Worth for cage and suspension work

also got the engine for her

[nt66]

finally made it up to ft worth/autocomp this past weekend (sorry dallas/ftworth bros spent the whole time working)

finished getting every last bit of sound deadaning out

chopped the front wheel wells out

along with the spare tire well


this is what she weighs in the current state should have the cage going in soon then its on to rear suspension design

also bought this thing to tow with but i'll start a new thread somewhere else

[nt66]

updates!!!



marking floor for main hoop



the man marty hard at work



trying to mark out line on the floor but having trouble



switched to cardboard



bending main hoop



notching stuff up

[nt66]

Autocomp TIG welding awesomeness



bent up the front HALO bar started notching it



pulled the green car in for temporary destruction







rolled here out back



mocked motor up in the new car



started cutting for shifter clearance

[nt66]

rolled her out side




cut out tunnel for transmission clearance since I can no longer run subframe spacers



Honda rue made me a fancy map sensor delete and one for the brake master



motor back in



main hoop all finished



went to pull some more stuff and found a odd motor swap

[nt66]

started beating inner fender for wheel clerance



motor all cleaned up



trans final cut




welding magic




halo bar fitting




more welding



tilted foward for welding the tops



bent front down bars

[Deuce Cam]

I didn't notice any subframe spacers. Were you able to avoid using them by cutting the trans tunnel for clearance?

[nt66]

I didn't notice any subframe spacers. Were you able to avoid using them by cutting the trans tunnel for clearance?

exactly... I was running the subframe spacers on the green car but can't run them on the new car because of the rules. Had to cut the trans tunnel out for clearance and I will probably have to cut a small hole in the hood to clear the end of the valve cover

[carbd7age]

What was wrong with the green car? It looks so sad outside all alone.

[Zenki85]

I didn't notice any subframe spacers. Were you able to avoid using them by cutting the trans tunnel for clearance?

exactly... I was running the subframe spacers on the green car but can't run them on the new car because of the rules. Had to cut the trans tunnel out for clearance and I will probably have to cut a small hole in the hood to clear the end of the valve cover

Oh yes I think I've heard of that. One of 2013's new rules. I think I read it in one of DMACs ae86 read ups on speed hunter he enforced his tunnel real well.
Great build!!!!

[nt66]

so its been a little while since i made some updates so here are some!



finished beating the inner fender well flat for wheel clearance




got the front down bars welded in along with the floor plates



perfectly straight fenders..... not for long









Marty taught me some basic lathe skills and i turned the new steering rod down to fit in the stock joint

[nt66]

new fuel cell




got fancy with the wiring thanks to brad for the mil spec parts



new fancly quick connect fittings and lines from toxic fab for all my vaccum lines



super expensive sfi rated fire supression system



spec clutch and flywheel for the new car



new front wheels that still need to be painted white

[nt66]

made the trek back to auto comp



new surge tank









got wild with the new cell put a pump inside to feed the surge tank





made it all fit

[nt66]

threw the new clutch and flywheel on even thought the old one held up very well














had to build a new crossmember the old one would not pass fd tech it had to much welding on it

[nt66]

mil spec all finished up



made brackets to hold the fire bottle


painted the engine bay



sweet new dirt track steering wheel



manual rack all pretty


motor going back in



new found angle with the manual rack



never had this problem before lol



started figuring out seat brackets



new seat


turbo all shined up



fun with carbon



as she sits right now

[mtmetzger]

Nice progress! This thread makes me feel like I'm taking short cuts on my F22c build!

Also, Can you post some details of how you did / are going to do the drive shaft?

[Warren]

Top notch work, looks like you chose the right shop!

[marley4us]

holy crap thats bad ass

[RuizXIII]

I wonder what that dude was saying in that last pic...
Pretty sweet work here, man. Engine looks fierce.

[nt66]

more updateeeeesssss





chopped up some swaybar end links to make them fit








finished up my fuel tank set up





now that the engine sits so much higher the hood would no longer close..... Fixed that







new anti intrusion bars added

[nt66]

coming together....





ran out of time to finish my celica supra rear so had this old man help me rob it off the other car







rolled it out side and painted it








door bar madness

[nt66]

fd spec brake lights



made a ecu mount out of my anti intrusion bars

[lucky13evo]

No one will ever intrude your car now. lol sweet build

[yellowsnow4free]

Great build! All the pics are great; thanks for taking the time to upload and comment on them

Just out of curiosity, the pieces that were cut off the car... they weren't scrapped right? I hope not; they are perfectly straight

[nt66]

So i am going to jump ahead i little bit the last weekend after the last picture in this thread was total chaos with almost no sleep to finish the car in time for long beach. At one point i worked for 40 hrs. straight through only stopping for food and water. So needless to say I don't have a lot of pictures of us finishing the car lol. We ended up finishing the car and putting it on the trailer at 8:30 am on Wednesday and we had to be in long beach at 10 am on Thursday... it was a pretty interesting drive without a whole lot of stops.





We ended up pulling up to the track at around 10:30 am and unloaded the car and headed to tech. Formula D tech is pretty in depth so i was nervous about passing but in the end the only thing we had to add was a driveshaft loop.





We got it installed and made it official. After finishing a few things up that we didn't have time to finish in Texas we headed to the hotel for the night. The next morning started with a drivers meeting explaining all the things the judges would be looking for. I had never driven the new car so i wasn’t sure what to expect heading into the one and only practice session.





On my first run in practice I decided to go for it on the straight knowing we would only get a few runs before qualifying. The car felt good in first and second but when i shifted to third I had a massive boost spike in the 35-40 psi range. Turns out the wastgate/boost controller had malfunctioned causing the spick. I headed back to pit road to fix the problem but the damage had already been done. With the help of vene we got the wastegate working again but the car started overheating. I started to worry that we had blown the head gasket but headed back to grid to try to make some runs anyway. My second run the car was way down on power and it started smoking slightly the run wasn’t that great as i was still trying to figure out the track. My third and final practice lap all the problems became much worse the engine dumped smoke throughout the entire run, started overheating again, and was even more down on power. We checked the oil level on pit road and we had burned an entire quart in one run. After much debate I decided to retire from the event and save what was left of the engine. It was a tough break after all the work we put in to make the event but it was the best decision in the end.

[nt66]

After getting the car back to Texas i quickly got to work trying to find the problem. After a compression and leak down test it was apparent that we had lost the number three cylinder. I pulled the car in the garage and started pulling the engine.









the culprit.....

[nt66]

going to leave this here as well


http://www.vimeo.com/66694221

[boosted86]

Top notch build! Really quality work on the whole car. Bummer about the cracked cylinder!