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    Modified the factory handbrake to turn it into a hydraulic handbrake as wilwood calipers have no handbrake function. This will allow me to park in town without car rolling away and do sweet handbrake turns to impress bitches.
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    brake master cylinders all plumbed up. Hard lines were tricky but satisfying to see finished.
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    Sorted the rear tail lights by using vht night shades paint on Levin facelift lights. These are a bit easier to come by than trueno facelift and they look great like this also fabricated a gurney flap for the rear spoiler. This was pretty challenging but quite enjoyed working the metal to flex in 2 directions. Should help with the aero/diffuser a bit too. Dans ae101 gtz came to visit for a while. Very cool car spent some time undercoating the wheel tubs. Also finished up new hardlines throughout the car and new braided Flexi hoses too. Very happy with how it turned out
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    There are lots of people out there who are very passionate about this topic and setting them up. check this out https://www.rdforum.org/threads/92416/
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    I 100% recommend Valentine V1. Has saved my license so many times and in my experience is far superior to escort/uniden stuff. Has a great function to filter out all the garbage signals/radar cruise controls. New ones are more advanced/fancier but do take some time to set up properly. Import yourself from the states using a freight forward service like youpost to save a bit of money on purchase. Just bought one of the newer model for my mum was around $8-900 landed.
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    Loving your progress on this. Happy to provide 2gr doorts for motivation. They go REAL good
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    Good to see the bump stops doing their job. Car looks great on the 13's Dave! Pity about the water pump. Time for external jobbie? or run twin water pumps so if one fails it switches over? lol.
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    Man if your professional echo modifying career ever falls over you have all the tools and know how to go into the big black dildo/fleshlight manufacturing business. Solid back up plan. Also, loving the bump stop spacers. Thank you.
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    Cool build man. Bit of a change to see improvements to a pretty good car, instead of a ground-up rebuilt. Out of interest where did you buy the radiator cap/fitting from? I'm in need of one for the same job on my racecar.
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    I’ve just bought a valentine radar detector from the states and youshop is saying 8-12 days…. Will see if that holds true or not. anyone else had experience lately? another option is buying from aussie. I know a bunch of parts companies such as vpw etc hold a lot of summit stock on hand. Sometimes can be cheaper when you take the dollar into account.
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    I've used Autometer pro-comp ultralite in the racecar. Pretty nice gauges not too pricey if you buy from summit racing or the like. Def go electric, the thought of having fuel/hot oil inside the car if something goes wrong (or in a crash) freaks me out.
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    Rear of the car. Need to do something about the Levin lights. They are a bit maxima-ish
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    Front bumper ducting for powersteering/oil cooler. Will be vented out the bonnet for low drag/max downforce.
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    Doorts
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    Another post paint shot just because
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    Dash flocking, new sparco steering wheel and plenty of powdercoating in the cockpit area
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    Fuel tank plumbing done
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    Fabricated a v-mounted dual-pass radiator
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    New wheels showed up. Went to 17" for max tuck. Car also got painted earlier this year. Went for a replica colour based on Tom's racing colour.
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    Its been a few years since an update. Phew covid sucked. This will be mostly pictures so if you have any questions about stuff I have/haven't done ask away. If you want more updates check out instagram account https://www.instagram.com/garage_rfab/ Nick added to the rollcage. New harness bar and general improvements to increase the safety. New side intrusion, rear brace and strut tower connections
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    Still a bit of a work in progress we haven’t proven our theory fully but here’s what I’m basing it on; scavenging can be done 2 ways. Mass flow/inertia - header lengths, pipe sizes and mass airflow velocities helping scavenge airflow out of other cylinders. The key to this is keeping velocities up and preventing reversion so the pressure differential always wants to empty the cylinder. Acoustic - expansion chamber is to reflect the sonic wave that is generated when the valve opens. The expanding of the wave into the chamber causes a reflected negative wave that if it is tuned to the right length can reach the valve on the next cycle of the cylinder. This is based on 2 stroke theory which is well proven. Every example I’ve seen of one being used the car has made a lot more power than expected so just trying to figure it out for myself. @Roman has some fancy gadgetry to hopefully measure and prove all this at some stage.
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    So finally got off my ass and finished this expansion chamber and my exhaust. I ended up rolling the belly section and rear cone of the expansion chamber. Should have done this for the front half too it was tricky but turned out way nicer! and gave it a polish up finished the tunnel end end of my exhaust off too. It’s a pretty tight gap to fit through hence the pie cuts and stupid amount of mounts heres the whole system complete just waiting to build headers and order a Flexi and I’ll be able to install it for good still trying to to find some 41mm od bends for the headers so might need to find something else to sort in the mean time!
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    I have a bit of a tight spot at the end of my tunnel/fuel tank that required a tight bend. And I was being cheap so I bought some pie cuts from nzpiecuts on Facebook. showed up the next day A+ service! Turned out awesome no purging and bugger all penetration. Oh yeah and I over engineered the shit outa another exhaust mount.. I’ll post a pic of the finished product a bit later in the week! Full disclaimer I’ve got very limited fabrication skills I am a project manager who sits at a desk all day long. But I’ve been super enjoying making cool stuff so I thought I’d give an expansion chamber a go to test a few theories. Patterned it with the help of youtube I don’t have any rollers so just decided to use my small folder. due to there being 12 folds per half each fold is 180/12 = 15deg which is bloody hard at the best of times so I made a gauge so I could check on my progress as I went.. turned out not too bad got a bit of beating to do to get the seams to line up and make it round but not a bad start!
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    Yeah it’s interesting that you may never be able to tell what collector style it is from the outside or even looking down the end of the pipe. Need some bends in an assortment of sizes for the next step of header making. Does anybody on here have a trade account with Autobend that I could use for a box of beersies?
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    Been chipping away at the exhaust. Been working some big hours recently so took a few days off to reset my mental health and catch-up on some shed work. Finally finished the rear rear section of exhaust thanks to @Truenotch for helping out with another set of hands. Turned out to be a bit of a mission to fit a 3” zorst in a very tight space which required some unique solutions. So so here’s the end product which I’m very happy with. Can’t wait for it to make doorty noises! Bends weren’t quite tight enough so had to cut them up to make them tighter. Luckily the band saw and linisher made this task a dream leaving a nice flat surface to get some mint welds on; In order to get it fitting tight with no movement I over engineered the shit out of the mounting rear mount had double rubber mounts inside the chassis rail for max stealth Rear of muffler had this swanky mount to the subframe and under the subframe i added this rubber to keep it from hitting the subframe mainly as it’s only got 5mm clearance. Been working on building collectors for headers today also. Bit of a head fuck trying to work out how to construct these from the measurements I had but got there in the end. So I’ve decided to go with a Venturi style merge collector and a 4-2-1 header design mainly for packaging reasons. The idea is the gas speed increases momentarily accelerating it through the merge and it also amplifies the any acoustic resonance that we may or may not be able to create with the expansion chamber (standby for @Roman science in near future)... End product just looks like two bits of stainless welded together... Used a bit of card to make a template to get the angles right for the two halves They actually have a small plate/baffle welded in to restrict the area where the two flows merge. Normally (depends on merge angle) the area almost doubles which slows the gas flow and worst case can cause reversion at certain rpms. Welds came out pretty good with no purging only a few small spots of penetration that I’ve mostly been able to get rid of. Smashed through almost a whole d-bottle doing this and the exhaust though! heres the rough plan with my headers; My primaries are 41id stepping up to 44id then this Venturi is 47id before stepping up 56id secondaries and another 51id Venturi and tapering up to the expansion chamber. But that’s about as far as I’ve got sorted at this stage more to come on that next time...
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