Mr. G. Brettin's Slow Motion Leg Hump

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From IG @gbrettin:
Hand sanding pie cuts kinda sucks. The not so glamorous parts of a build. 🤷*♂️

Maven quality is no joke. "Zero tolerance for mediocrity" and it shows. The mounts should make life a whole lot easier. Turbo placement is going into the bumper and a duct cut in straight to the turbo. The plan was to re-purpose the brake ducts but that's not going to work at all. I'll keep the brake ducts for the intended purpose of cooling brakes.

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Moment later after the post to IG... Thinking about the possibility of weather and how it rains sometimes ... and my car isn't a specific drag car... It has been decided to make an air box out of aluminum that can sit above the intercooler. we can also figure out how to slot in an air filter into the box. Who knows, maybe I'll use the "brake coolers" to the air box.

And when I say that's what is happening, I mean that's what is happening for the next 5min. As you can tell, I try to stay somewhat fluid on ideas so I don't box myself into a corner.

Aside from that. I think this is the exciting part y'all will dig.

Rusty

If you use the brake ducts for air inlets. You would be catching birds in them.

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gbrettin

Well.. I have accidentally decapitated a cardinal on the back roads with the old Nismo bumper... found it a couple weeks later after a racoon decided he wanted to go across the road and then randomly dart back out to the road from where he came.

The racoon was an insurance claim...

Rusty

You're lucky. I got 7 deer with my truck so far. 3 deer with the truck before. 1 turkey, 1 coyote with the truck before that. 1 cow with a motorcycle. Had a bird try to fly through the front wheel of one motorcycle. He never came out the other side. The spokes made a mess of him.

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JARblue

You know... if you drive faster, you won't hit all those animals

This build ought to do the trick

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Rusty

They would just do that much more damage.

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JARblue

Not if you drive fast enough that you miss them entirely.

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Rusty

You logic fails me.

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gbrettin

I mean, the bird's head got sheared off at 70-80mph... I slowed down to 20-30mph for the racoon and then sped back up after he went into a bush. I think he really wanted to die.

As for deer... I live in MI man. I don't take back roads at certain times of the year and certain times of the day.

Rusty

I'm in PA. There's more insurance claims for deer hits then anything else.

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gbrettin

From IG @gbrettin:
I've seen the biggest headache come from fuel. Do it and do it right. Injector Dynamics knocked it out of the park on quality with this fuel filter.

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I got this idea from Spooler's thread. I blame him. Charles/Phunk helped facilitate.

Spooler

^^^^ They are very nice. Glad to be of influence. LOL

gbrettin

From IG @gbrettin:
Some wins and losses along the way for this one. Win - transmission mount is done and it's sturdy. Loss - my welding isn't great but I did penetrate the metal fine. I'm showing the welds because I'm pushing my self in new territory and I'm simply not good at something the second time and it's important to show that (I think). I took some advice from last time and set up a test weld. I thought the metal was the same but it was thinner on the test metal so I didn't penetrate as well on the car. This is hind sight now after I sit back and think about it. After I ground down the "welds" they looked fine afterwords and would do just fine. Clearly I'm not going to weld the hot or cold side for the turbo system. It is what it is. Live and learn.

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I stopped up and talked to my buddy today about the welds. He pulled out a welding card that shows you what settings to set it at. I needed to have the heat 1 step higher and the wire feed 1 step slower. The nut has WAY MORE than enough weld to stop anything from happening so I'm not worried about the welds. Also, the transmission bracket is hiding them under the car... So yeah.

I'm showing all the good and bad (as previously stated). Maybe someone can learn a bit of something from my stuff. I know my big take away is

1. Look for the directions
2. I can't always be good at something the first couple times.

I'm actually kinda of spoiled on #2... Most of the time I can pick up new stuff pretty quickly. I take a pride/ego hit when something doesn't go well. I'll eat my humble stew on this one and keep chipping away at welding.

BTW, it's a real b1tch to get some of these photos while trying to get work done... lol. Maybe I'll set up a stop motion video at some point so you can see my cool dance moves in the shop when I'm alone.

Enjoy!:

Rusty

I always do test weld on a piece of scrap before welding on the part. This way, I can check and adjust the settings to my liking. Your welding should sound like bacon and eggs frying with little splatter.

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gbrettin

Yup, I did the test weld (per your suggestion a while back which was who I was referencing). I grabbed a scrap piece of metal that was thinner metal. Lessons learned. I'll get better. My buddy offered to go back and make them look nice... but I honestly don't see the point. It will hold and no one will see it.

I just need more seat time. It is what it is.

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The transmission drives upward into the car so the forces will never pull down... unless I'm doing some stupid sh1t in reverse.