E30 Street/TimeAttack (+ E36 V8 Turbo Touring)

[jpod999]

Beautiful!

[Loupoz]

Great to hear that :) You should try click faster this time.

Besides bodywork sketching I finally welded turbo manifold together, still needs wastegate piping and coating:

That is fucking beautiful! What thickness is the material, and is it stainless?

[Miuge]

Thanks!

It's mild steel P235, thickness 2,6mm. It's very common material for the manifolds, cheaper and not so prone to cracking as stainless steel.
I've glass blasted the manifold before welding it completely, that's the reason for colour.

[rzerob]

Subscribed. AMAZING!

[Miuge]

Wastegate arrived quickly, also got few stickers:


Then I started to make wastegate piping, need to make a mild steel flange though, I don't like to mix it to stainless steel:

[Miuge]

Story continues:


Divided all the way to valve, with sophisticated testing (by blowing air into primaries) the flow seems to find its path well towards the wastegate:

[markseven]

Pretty dang amazing. Love all of it.

[Miuge]

Thank you!

Recently I've machined and bought some new stuff.

Current engine mounts were kind of temporary, never welded them complete, because turbo and supercharger locations were only approximate.
I wanted a lower design to clear the turbo intake pipe.

The design, steel sleeve with delrin bushing:


This was something I could machine by myself :nice:


Obviously I had to mockup alternator location before making intake/charge air piping, but the old one had seen it's best days. Instead of refurbishing and machining new pulleys for the old one I bought a new, smaller, modern alternator:


This spring and summer will probably be busy time with the project, more parts is already on the way ;D

[MVincken]

so. much. awesomeness!!

keep op going!

[Miuge]

Some new bits acquired, Toyota MR2 electric power steering pump. Remain to be seen if it's even working, connectors had damaged badly during shipping...


Today's job was to make another front fender, it was easy one, I used the same cardboard templates which I made for the driver's side:


Extra pic:

[ThatOneEuroE30]

That turbo manifold is a work of art.

[jeenyus]

crazy euros. This is awesome!

[Miuge]

This will be a frustrating and time-consuming job :drink: 1 out of 4 corners in progress, after spraying a paint layer I noticed one spot needed to be cut open and hammered down.




Finally got all the parts for the control arms, roll-center/bump steer -adapter fits perfectly ;D


Also few lengths of aluminium tubing appeared this week, need to build up something of those

[rav320uk]

Sub'd:D

[Miuge]

Good to see some new subscribers! :up:

Earlier this week I bought few liters of paint, should be plenty for mock-ups and molds. I picked the same hue which might be the final color, we'll see...

At this point the fender starts to look like something, but still a lot to do. A couple of bigger dents showed up after the first gray paint layer.


But... this will probably do, picture taken this evening. I'm afraid something goes wrong when I start to mess up with fiberglass :D


I think I should take the camera more often with me, mobile pics look crap besides these..