*!Build of the year candidate!* Strange PNW Build: E30+Volvo

[captain awesome]

I would assume you would want it completely sandwiched between the cover and diff to get any actual heat transfer. As long as you could seal it up and get the speedo sensor to read 1/8" or so out from stock it would be boss.

[adam.nonis]

How much heat transfer you think you'll get out of that thing? I'd think you'd want to attach to the existing fins somehow.

In theory (which is all I know) it’s mostly about contact patch surface area, so probably not a lot of heat transfer in this design. If I decide to spend any time on a V2 down the road I’ll try to increase the contact patch somehow. Fins attached to the main pumpkin would cool just as well as fins on the back cover. I’m pretty sure my car will never get the diff fluid to the point where it needs much cooling.

[adam.nonis]

*!Build of the year candidate!* Strange PNW Build: E30+Volvo

I would assume you would want it completely sandwiched between the cover and diff to get any actual heat transfer. As long as you could seal it up and get the speedo sensor to read 1/8" or so out from stock it would be boss.

Once the fluid/diff gets to temp, the whole mass will have a similar heat profile. The steel pumpkin won’t heat/cool as fast as the aluminum back cover, but cooling any part of the “network” cools all parts of the “network” since the heat is generated internally. It doesn’t need to be physically touching the fluid. Cool the diff, you cool the fluid.

[captain awesome]

I may consider making something for my smallcase now, just a version 10 times uglier.

[adam.nonis]

I may consider making something for my smallcase now, just a version 10 times uglier.

Small case probably has a different bolt pattern, huh? Cause I made two extra.

[captain awesome]

I believe it’s different.

[zwill23]

Congrats on your Jalopnik article!! Very well deserved, your fabrication skills are absolutely inspiring.

[adam.nonis]

Congrats on your Jalopnik article!! Very well deserved, your fabrication skills are absolutely inspiring.

Thanks. I was a little surprised they wanted to run it. I feel like just a dude.

[Staszek]

Thanks. I was a little surprised they wanted to run it. I feel like just a dude.

Yea I saw that too, and showed my wife and was like, hey I know that guy!! Even though I really dont but it felt like I did because of following the build lol!

[adam.nonis]

Yea I saw that too, and showed my wife and was like, hey I know that guy!! Even though I really dont but it felt like I did because of following the build lol!

We’re all family.

[adam.nonis]

[adam.nonis]

*!Build of the year candidate!* Strange PNW Build: E30+Volvo



Still a ways to go, but it’s a start.

[adam.nonis]

Man, Tapatalk is acting weird these days.

[adam.nonis]

Pro tip: don’t let your leaky windshield drip right on top of your DME.

[LowR3V'in]

Any plans for more power?