Mr. G. Brettin's Slow Motion Leg Hump

gbrettin

I don't have that Ron Davis radiator money right now.

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The tags are fantastic.

Rusty

Read the tags in this thread. If you come here. You better have a thick skin.

The new “what did you do to your Z today” (with off topic replies) XXXVIII

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Repurposed my old Fast Intentions 34 row oil cooler. A reusable part! Path of the oil will run from the engine to the remote oil cooler. Out the filter to the 34 row cooler back to the engine. At some point I will need to T into the line returning to the engine for the Accusump. The Accusump will have its own inlet on the remote filter to pressurize the oil system if needed.

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Yeah, so I mounted the oil cooler twice. lol.

gbrettin

Been a while since I made a video. Enjoy the squirrel rant.

gbrettin

Haven't really been to the shop to work on my car because I'm waiting on a few parts, specifically a SPAL 16" high output fan and a pie cut vice. The hot and cold side need to be finished which is why I need the pie cut vice/jig. Auto Dynamix wired up their big a$$ band saw finally. I figured the only way to make the cold side from the A2W was to use all pies. Thankfully, I will be able to tack them all together using the TIG welder. Using tape is nice up to a point but it starts getting ridiculous after it starts snaking around.

SO...

Momentum can't be lost. I remembered I have Finite Element fender vents sitting in my basement along with my fenders. No better time to carve than now; besides, I found it oddly cathartic.

The last fender is done. Paint is drying so I didn't get any side by side pictures to see how far I'm out of whack matching them up. They should be dead on... but then again. I measured them.

Oh, a little context for the first few pictures. The plastic template was WAY out of spec because it has been sitting so long. Tape was used all around the border of the vent + plastic template. Heat was then applied to the template with my heat gun, hot hot so that it reshaped the template. I then used my freezer to ensure that the plastic froze the shape.

Couple final thoughts while I was getting the pictures around.

1. I was using air tools until about 9pm. Not a huge deal but it's dark about 6:00pm. My neighborhood was probably not loving me.
2. My compressor sucks for air tools. Took me 5x longer than it would at the shop.
3. Nissan puts a reinforcement urethane rubber on the inside of the fender. That smelled HORRIBLE when I hit it with the grinder.

gbrettin

Verdict is in. The vents are symmetrical! Next up, panel bond.

ZontheRocks

Always hitting us so the the cool updates!

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In the next coming months I'm going to have to remove my dash. This will give me easy access to handle all wiring. I plan on ripping a lot of wiring out and replacing my fuse box with a PMU. I've been looking at ECUmaster but I'm keeping my options open. More info here:
https://www.ecumaster.com/products/pmu/

Although, that might not be the exciting news. I have a buddy that has lots of carbon fiber experience. He agreed to tag team an effort to create a complete carbon fiber/kevlar dash. We talked about doing a 3 layer dash with a thin core material. The clear will be a matt finish; however, I suspect I'll need to either apply some neodymium magnets to the dash for a leather/cloth finish or flock the dash. Think of tar and feathering or do a google search.
Random fun update.

JARblue

Cpt Obvious on the forum has a shop that can make you a CF dash if you decide not to DIY.

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Thanks for the heads up, but I'm pretty committed to mastering CF. If I stop making attempts, all the previous work will amount to a failure instead of a learning opportunity. I'll also likely make a small batch for sale.

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I ordered a 16" SPAL pusher fan on Black Friday with the funds from my recent Z1 high capacity diff cover (more on that in a min). Now, if anyone runs across this before they order a SPAL fan... please know that they do not include anything but the fan. I get it why they do it. I would have been more than happy to order everything at the same time. My cat inspector even tried to assist with finding missing parts. Nothing turned up; and Dolce was very thorough.

Now why would I sell my high capacity diff cover? Well, the plan is to swap the rear end over to a Winters Quick Change like what Chris Forsberg runs. That's a next winter deal after everything is running. ... That and a roll cage. All that is fine because the power level can not be turned up due to safety concerns. Having 1000+ hp on tap sounds fun out of gate if you live in YouTube (any thing less is slow). I simply will need time to re-learn the car and slowly ratchet up the power.

So that's the future path.

What is more concerning to me right now is trying to figure out where to mount my 3qt Accusump. Ideally I would tie directly into the oil cooler line running to the engine. The oil would be filtered and cooled. I'll need to go to the shop and walk around the with the Accusump trying to pack another pound of sh1t in. If I could get it in right near the oil cooler, that would be the dream. I really doubt it though. It may end up where the battery was. So yeah. That's the struggle.

Orestp

Hi - did you just connect the SPAL fan to the OEM fan control module?

Do you know if the SPAL fan can just be connected to the OEM fan control module?

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3min video. Dang!

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Figured out my mount, and it's not going where I said it was in my video (from a few days ago). The Accusump was tapped in the factory holes. I'm making an aluminum mount that will use 3/8 - 16 hardware in the tapped holes. I also have a dimple die set coming so the mount can be strengthened and lightened. If this doesn't make sense... Stay tuned to see it come together... Or a big fail. One of the two

Getting the mount done with a steady hand using hand tools.

Well, it was awesome until it wasn't. The center section measurement was off. Need to redo it

nd mount completed. This one works. How hard is two bends and a few holes, right? My Harbor Freight break isn't exactly perfect so I had to open up the bolt holes a bit. I'd rather do that than make a third mount. Last picture shows the mount location. I need to trim more aluminum off, rivnut the mount to the air cowl and dimple die the main mount area tomorrow... Maybe the day after...

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Truth be told here... I was PISSED OFF when I had to create the second mount. I would have created video but I was 12hrs deep into the custom bracket Sunday. The speed difference between the first mount and the second mount was nuts. I was able complete the latest one between 7:30 and 10:00pm.


What I didn't show on IG was the first mount that I was attempting to work out. It was abandoned in favor of the latest mount. Then I tried cutting out two circles to weld to some metal. After making a couple sets of circles, it was decided to make a paper template for a one piece mount.

One last thing. On the failed mount, I even went to the extent of tig welding the ends to a flat piece of an aluminum. That didn't work because of the gap and how the ends cracked off from flattening to make another attempt to break the aluminum to a 90.

It was a long weekend! technically four iterations of a mount.

Again, the pictures are below are in the exact chronological order.