BEAVIS' White Track Car

JZP · Postby **JZP** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:51 pm

beavis wrote:haha, oh yes, I do enjoy the company of the smiley face air freshener...

http://search.supercheapauto.com.au/search?w=smiley

Ha ha cool thanks.

Got one in my skyline track car but couldn't find where they came from.

JZP · Postby **JZP** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:53 pm

So... End to end... What would you estimate the total cost of the supercharger upgrade costs?

Postby **beavis** » Thu Jul 14, 2016 7:07 pm

Basically what the kit cost me, about $4000, plus my time to install. And I have a pile of spares to swap it back to 'stock' if need be, about a days work.

Postby **beavis** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 7:37 pm

For anyone interested, the fastback roof from this car is for sale, more details here:

http://mx5cartalk.com/forum/viewtopic.php?style=3&f=44&t=72682

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 8:22 pm

So is that the one from the white car?
Is the white car getting a new roof?

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Postby **beavis** » Mon Jul 25, 2016 9:24 pm

Yes, and Yes. Stay tuned for more

Postby **beavis** » Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:41 pm

Update time!

While reworking the wiring for the coil packs, things got a little out of hand and all the wires from the engine loom have now been trimmed and rewrapped.(As I mentioned in an earlier post)
You can see the two Deutsch plugs for the injectors and coil packs. And all the front wires now run down the middle of the intake manifold, no more unsightly wires along the motor and out the front like you see on a stock NB.

New coil packs needed new plug leads.
So I got myself some fat wire, boots and crimpers.

After a few hours one evening in front of the telly.... 4 leads for me and 4 spares in the event of an issue in the future.

I need to be sure to manage temperatures, so I've made a heatshield for the exhaust manifld/turbo.
Designed and folded from CAD, the mockup worked well because the end result looks quite reasonable.
I made it extra deep on the rear/turbine side.
Welded some studs to the manifold and it now bolts on quite happily.

Had to pull the manifold off the car to weld the studs on, so here's the neat little package with turbo, lines and downpipe all together.
It's tricky, but this whole lot can be installed onto the car assembled as is.

Postby **beavis** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 10:13 pm

Sorry for keeping you all in the dark lately. Life gets in the way sometimes.

After some 3 or more years in use, I've removed the fastback from the track car.....
It's being demoted, but thankfully it has been replaced by a newer, lighter version, kindly donated by the Lightyear.
So I have started work on mounting the new roof. It will then need to be prepped, painted and windows installed.

But the roof hasn't gone far. At least not for the moment.

Speaking of the NA, I put it on the dyno recently to see just whether or not the supercharger was running everything ok and not going result in a surprise kaboom.

The results:

Postby **beavis** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 12:10 am

Something isn't right with the video link above, so try this instead:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKrLNZGpsQQ&ab_channel=BEAVISHSV

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 11:59 am

180whp with just the timing card isn't bad at all.
Car is looking really clean as well, looks like its had some tlc, well done!

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Postby **beavis** » Sat Aug 13, 2016 7:16 pm

Thanks!

I would love to not have to use the powercard setup, but it was... 'free'.

Postby **beavis** » Tue Aug 16, 2016 10:46 pm

Some more news...

A sticker arrived in the mail...

And was installed on the car.

I've also managed to get the Nexus Tablet working with the 'OTG' USB cable, so it can now charge while connected to a USB device. (such as the ECU)
If you're not familiar with these gizmos, basically the USB port in a phone or tablet which most people only know of as a charge port can in fact also be used to connect other devices like a keyboard, mouse or usb thumb drive.
However, what if you want to charge the device while also connecting another device? Well you need a 'OTG' USB cable.

Here's me taking a photo because I was so happy that I got it working with MSdroid talking to the MS3.

While I am using MSdroid above, I am actually thinking of moving to ShadowDash for more customisation.
So I started on a custom dashboard to run in the car whilst out on track. After a few nights after work doing the designs.... I went from this:

To something more like this...

And so I''ve pretty much finished the Dash for now, and quite chuffed with the result.

Created images for all the indicators I want to use, so things like overboost, CEL, and FanOn now display with stylish icons.
Once I start using it in the car, I may need to make some adjustments

VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/fqnVJwmXLkA