I Dig it !!

Engine is back home again, need to get everything up and running with the tiny turbo setup before I go big(ger, I know you BIG turbo guys are snickering). Need to fab up the new shifter linkage, hopefully its not reverse of what I had so far.

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This "custom" custom bracket was a pain. It would have been fine just being custom, but I had to go and put everything in the back of a bug, so part of my superstructure got in the way. Narrowed and tapered it, hopefully clearance is adequate.

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Here's some pics from summer 2012 thanks to JKFAB aka Jeff K.

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Here's one with Humble aka Will:

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Jason

It's a custom spliter?

Cool pictures of a cool car!! The side decalls are brilliant!

Yes, sheets of ABS bonded and heat formed with a heat gun. It attaches to the body with one central stainless steel bolt and 2 side ones that have nuts fiberglassed into the fender inner lips. Both attachment sites have plenty of movement, almost an inch, so I havn't had any issues with damage. To give it a finished look, it's based on an E36 M3 BMW front splitter lip. The lip is screwed into the ABS plastic.

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Jason

Looks great :cool::cool:

She's back, still small turbo, but 6 speed w/LSD is a welcomed addition. Going to put a couple hundred miles on her around the Bay Area ending at the Bay Area VW/Audi group gtg. I'll get some more pics, but the boys clearly love that she's back on the road and is up for school bus duties!

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A nice shot taken at Bugorama by Jeff at Horsepower University

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Jason

Indeed a spectacular shot of an übernice car!

UBRDUB is getting a little love.

Bugorama is just a couple of weeks away and it's getting close!

First off, last radiator got some trauma, so new one going in.

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Next up new gas tank to run E85. Ditching the methanol injection for straight corn juice. There is about 1/3 less mileage to be had from ethanol so the tank is being increased to 1/3 more volume, in tank pump going in with baffles and finally a fuel level sender'

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Need to get the tank sealed up and the E85 tune done, looking to get north of 450whp out of her, wish me luck!

Jason

So lucky to have corn juice on every street corner!

Are you kidding me? It's a one hour trip each way, here I thought you had all the corn fuel in Tennessee!

I have 2 55gal drums to keep me happy.

Jason

We do cook a lot of corn fuel, but we call it a beverage...

A reasonable weekend had at Bug-O, finally got into the 12s at 12.7' had a couple of issues, but ended up being able to drive it home again so that's a win. Corn juice took me up to 386whp, and we are stuck there cause my ecu on sees up to 2 bar, 22 psi.

Jason

Congrats on getting into the 12's!
387WHP is almost 450 crank-hp!
Is that power at the 2 bar you mention or at 22psi boost?

22psi, maybe that's 2.5 bar? It's the max the sensor can read either way, I know I heard 22psi for sure.

Ah, no, 22psi is about 1,5 bar boost, but its 2,5 bar MAP ;)
14.7 psi = 1 bar

Saw this reference on Jalopnik: http://jalopnik.com/stuffing-a-389-h...-be-1795262173

Your car is not nice. It's bad ass!!

That little video keeps popping up, its was posted last fall!

Little update, it's going to be running in a limited manor for awhile, there is still an issue with getting combustion gasses into the cooling system, may be a crack in the block, but I'm not motivated to take it apart right now, so I just drive it around town a little bit and let the gasses out.

Also got a AEM V2 ECU in and tuned with flex-fuel capabilities, so it's not limited to E85 any more. Ended with 403whp I think.

Also installed Toyo R888s all the way around, what a difference in traction in all aspects!

Jason