Questions
Wow! What a lot of good work. That hood looks like it was stitched together like Frankensteins Monster. Looking great and will be the only one in the world like.
Got some questions. What's with the "lawn sprinkler" boxed up under the dash? I thought it was an intercooler, but you've got one up front. Two intercoolers? Why did you extend the wheelbase? Is that nitrous plumbing under the intake? What's the "Y" shaped plenum? Is it a part of this project? What is the tranny and bellhousing? What is your projected HP? Why did you elect to go with a 4 banger after getting the width to install a variety of bent eights? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you did it this way, just curious. Very refreshing to see someone have the guts, talent and integrity to do something so far off the beaten path.
Did you fabricate the exhausts headers? Why did you ditch the first one?
Its interesting to see the "opportunities" that are solved when the body is widened, the ones that are created and the ones that remain. Are you going to be able to have a cowl brace on the left side?
Bill
Thank you.
The hood was widened 6" and stretched 2-7/8" I didn't want to run bumpers, so I moved a bunch of stuff forward to eliminated that shelf that is left behind after removing the front bumper.
The sprinkler is just that it sprays water down on a water to air intercooler core that the air goes through. The one in the front cools the water that sprays down on the other.
I simply didn't like the way it looked to me. In my opinion the car was just too narrow, so I widened it and the other car determined the width.
Not nitrous, but water injection for high boost range. It's a two stage water injection system. I have 9.6 to 1 compression on that motor and the way I figure it. Anything above 4 pounds of boost on pump gas is going to cause me to retard my timing to eliminate the pinging. I don't want to do that, so water/alcohol is the ticket.
I was wondering what you were talking about. No I had to put a new furnace in over the summer. I forgot about that picture.
The tranny is a T9. The bell housing is a aftermarket deal made for kit cars. I heard they sell one now that goes from Zetec to T-5 like the mustang run. That bad boy would take some serious abuse.
I'll keep the horse power around 225, so I don't blow the engine up. I didn't put fancy rods or bolt into the engine, plus the tranny can't take much more then. The engine a Ford crate motor believe it or not. It puts out 136hp stock.
I was going to put the good old all American 302 in it and be done with it, but my Dad said it would be kind of cool if you put a 4 cylinder in there. I thought about it and decided I'd do that. I went in head first and didn't think it through, so I had some serious problems along the way. The power was the first. The turbo solved that one. The fact that the engine was for a FWD car was big. I found a company making the bell housing and another on the other side of the country rebuilding the trannys. Fuel injection another problem. A company in Canada makes a sweet ECU for cars, trucks, planes, boats anythng that has fuel management issues. The intake manifold was another hurdle. They just don't have decent high performance parts for Ford Zetecs. All these problems made taking the ugly out of the car is the easiest part.
I did about about half the work there. I found the headers on Ebay and cut them up a bit.
I have had to make or modify a few things a couple of times for this car. As I go along if there is something I don't care for sometimes I have start over until I can live with it. I try not to go to far off my original plan, so the project gets finished though.
I have both cowl braces installed.
I think that's it, so thank you for all compliments. They're much appreciated. I have to go work on the best for a bit now. I'll keep posting imagines.
