wstar's Journal

wstar · 05-12-2009, 01:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vReath

nice video/journal wstar.

hah actually know where you were driving. used to be in that area a lot.

Wednesday night we're meeting in the same rough vicinity, you're welcome to come check out Z stuff. Houston meet up

wstar · 05-13-2009, 02:07 PM

Got that camera mount in today (the one RCZ linked: Full Stillen Bolt-On Setup - Videos! ).

That thing is a beast, really well made. I stuck it on the inside of my car mounted to the rear glass when I went out for lunch today, worked perfect. Not gonna post any footage from today, most of it was totally uninteresting

But it really does mount well, and I'll go shoot something worthy with it later in the week.

RCZ · 05-21-2009, 08:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wstar

Got that camera mount in today (the one RCZ linked: Full Stillen Bolt-On Setup - Videos! ).

That thing is a beast, really well made. I stuck it on the inside of my car mounted to the rear glass when I went out for lunch today, worked perfect. Not gonna post any footage from today, most of it was totally uninteresting

But it really does mount well, and I'll go shoot something worthy with it later in the week.

Awesome! Its such a good mount, I drove with it attached to my door on the outside at 90+ on the highway untethered

Did I mention I have accident insurance on the camera?

ChrisSlicks · 05-21-2009, 09:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by RCZ

Awesome! Its such a good mount, I drove with it attached to my door on the outside at 90+ on the highway untethered

Did I mention I have accident insurance on the camera?

Was that temperature, speed or both?

wstar · 05-22-2009, 01:16 AM

Over in the Takeda intake thread, intake temps were brought up again (about shielding the intake from hot things like the radiator hose), and that reminded me to hurry up and get busy on shielding my Stillen setup (parts been laying around forever). So I did that tonight.

This is the overall view of the bay now:

I used Thermo-Tec's intake air tube shield. I bought two of them. You could probably almost get away with just a single one if you cut everything perfect the first time, but I used the extra to do lots of trial and error on cutting and fitting around the MAS blocks and the breather tubes:

I also used some 2" DEI Cool Tape to seal things up at the top by the throttle bodies, since the thermo-tec shield has a hard time with that final bend into the TB:

Closeups of the install (sorry about the shaky one):

Left Upper:

Left Lower:

Right Upper:

Right Lower:

It's really a pretty easy job, took about 1.5 hours start to finish to do some initial measuring, test-cut some peices, adjust and recut some new peices based on those, install everything, lace it up, put on the DEI tape up at the top, etc. I did this with the intake installed, so the shielding stops at the radiator support holes (no shielding on the tube sections under the bumper). Obviously I did it in two peices on each tube, one peices for the upper tube, and one for the lower. It's much easier that way, and the silicone elbows are probably already reasonably resistant to heat, or at least won't trap and transmit it like the metal tubes do.

wstar · 05-22-2009, 01:22 AM

I should probably go back at some point and (a) put some DEI tape around those MAS blocks, since they're the only exposed intake tube metal in the bay now, and (b) shield the part of the tubes that's under the bumper next time it's off, to keep some of the radiant heat from the radiator off of them.

05-13-2009, 02:07 PM	#2 (permalink)
wstar A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 4,024 Drives: too slow Rep Power: 3595	Got that camera mount in today (the one RCZ linked: Full Stillen Bolt-On Setup - Videos! ). That thing is a beast, really well made. I stuck it on the inside of my car mounted to the rear glass when I went out for lunch today, worked perfect. Not gonna post any footage from today, most of it was totally uninteresting But it really does mount well, and I'll go shoot something worthy with it later in the week. __________________ 7AT Track Car! Journal thread / Car setup details

05-22-2009, 01:16 AM	#5 (permalink)
wstar A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 4,024 Drives: too slow Rep Power: 3595	Over in the Takeda intake thread, intake temps were brought up again (about shielding the intake from hot things like the radiator hose), and that reminded me to hurry up and get busy on shielding my Stillen setup (parts been laying around forever). So I did that tonight. This is the overall view of the bay now: I used Thermo-Tec's intake air tube shield. I bought two of them. You could probably almost get away with just a single one if you cut everything perfect the first time, but I used the extra to do lots of trial and error on cutting and fitting around the MAS blocks and the breather tubes: I also used some 2" DEI Cool Tape to seal things up at the top by the throttle bodies, since the thermo-tec shield has a hard time with that final bend into the TB: Closeups of the install (sorry about the shaky one): Left Upper: Left Lower: Right Upper: Right Lower: It's really a pretty easy job, took about 1.5 hours start to finish to do some initial measuring, test-cut some peices, adjust and recut some new peices based on those, install everything, lace it up, put on the DEI tape up at the top, etc. I did this with the intake installed, so the shielding stops at the radiator support holes (no shielding on the tube sections under the bumper). Obviously I did it in two peices on each tube, one peices for the upper tube, and one for the lower. It's much easier that way, and the silicone elbows are probably already reasonably resistant to heat, or at least won't trap and transmit it like the metal tubes do. __________________ 7AT Track Car! Journal thread / Car setup details Last edited by wstar; 04-19-2011 at 06:03 AM.

05-22-2009, 01:22 AM	#6 (permalink)
wstar A True Z Fanatic Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 4,024 Drives: too slow Rep Power: 3595	I should probably go back at some point and (a) put some DEI tape around those MAS blocks, since they're the only exposed intake tube metal in the bay now, and (b) shield the part of the tubes that's under the bumper next time it's off, to keep some of the radiant heat from the radiator off of them. __________________ 7AT Track Car! Journal thread / Car setup details

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