Atom's 2 door Amazon wagon Project:Headquarters

[Atom]

Last fixture for the weekend. This will make it so I can build the upper plenum at work and be sure it’ll clear parts in the car.



The crossmember with the pan rail fixture

[Atom]

Any idea what would happen if you pair a sprung center clutch disk with a dual mass flywheel?

[Fruttolo]

Any idea what would happen if you pair a sprung center clutch disk with a dual mass flywheel?

Guess infinite bounce? LOL
It would probably be that the least firm would compress as if the other was non-sprung for a certain amount before the firmer starts to work? but I surely would not want to have the dual mass flywheel at all as they feel like shit and always fail, let alone a dual mass AND an experimental sprung disc

[Atom]

So, used our shipping pallet jack/scale to weigh the empty engine/trans combo. I’m going to re-weigh them tomorrow on a more accurate scale (even though the shipping/receiving guys swear the scale on the pallet jack is accurate)



Got some new stickers today for both my cars (the Amazon will have to wait for his)

[CSBolger]

One or two OEMs have used sprung discs on DMFs. Ultra-mushy.

[zoolander]

You gonna sell those stickers?

[Atom]

You gonna sell those stickers?

I bought them from a guy on Swedespeed. In the FWD & AWD Parts For Sale section.

[Atom]

One or two OEMs have used sprung discs on DMFs. Ultra-mushy.

I may have found a correct size/spline unsprung hub disk to try. I know it’s not ideal to run basically both sprung, but I’d rather not invest a ton on a clutch setup until I’m sure all of this is gonna work.

[zoolander]

I bought them from a guy on Swedespeed. In the FWD & AWD Parts For Sale section.

Awesome, thank you.

[Atom]

Boring Saturday night. UFC on the tv and a stack of compressor maps.

[Atom]

Been doing lame work. Not exciting stuff. Changing coolant lines from FWD configuration and making motor mounts. I want the (potential) option to shift the whole assembly forward a bit since the firewall clearance is tight.

FWD coolant lines:


Green= heater in/out
Yellow= turbo coolant (interesting that in and out are on the same branch of the coolant pipe
Blue= expansion tank
Orange= oil cooler built into the side of the oil pan

New configuration:



Red= expansion tank
Green= radiator lower hose
Blue= turbo coolant in/out (I used the old oil cooler out from head and old coolant inlet on main pipe)
Yellow= turbo oil pressure (banjo) and drain

Motor mount stuff (I used the C-clamp to put some compression on the mount. I can add washers if it compresses too much under engine weight)



Probable alternator location

[Atom]

A little up pipe and down pipe work. Waiting on some stainless rod to come in to fab up a support for the turbo so the weight isn’t all on the up pipe. Also waiting on a bunch of fittings and line to show up from JEGS. Just chipping away.



I still plan on building a complete custom header with the flange that was graciously donated to me, but this way I can reasonably figure out a proper sized turbo before I spend a bunch of money on weld els. Budget first, upgrades later.

[Fruttolo]

Beautiful
But I guess the cast exhaust manifold will sooner or later be ditched for a tubular one haha

Edit: damn me in hell, didn't read the last part before posting, I was mesmerized by the turbo to downpipe transition

[Atom]

Beautiful
But I guess the cast exhaust manifold will sooner or later be ditched for a tubular one haha

Edit: damn me in hell, didn't read the last part before posting, I was mesmerized by the turbo to downpipe transition

It’s cool. That’s actually a Vibrant part (the flange) that has a recess in it that’s the right size to “squish” down 3” tube to fit in it. Worked well.

[Atom]

Few more things done:

-thermostat spacer to add an E30 temp sender for the dash gauge.



-upper intake spacer to clear taller injectors (S40 injectors are short and I’ll probably just run greens for now)



-hardlines for turbo coolant in/out. Had to order some different -10 fittings for the drain and still waiting on a straight -4 for oil feed as well as the time to weld the -4 and -10 steel fittings to the OE hardlines.



Oh, also added some 3/8” stainless bar to support the turbo