Progress on the "Rice Burner"
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Update.
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday. IT'S ALIVE! After some software stumbles I got the Megasquirt up and running. Just after a little bit of fiddling with it and some time with the "Auto-tune" function, it is running as good or better than it was with the Quarterhorse/A9l combo. Took it for a spin and gave her a little boost, it felt great. I am sure that the air temp being only 45 degrees helped a bit.
Here is a little clip of the Tunerstudio doing a little "Auto-tune", it is a beautiful thing.
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Still have not got any paint work done, but getting the MS done was a great personal victory for me. Everything computer related tends to break my balls on a regular basis.
Jess
In the spirit of the upcoming holiday. IT'S ALIVE! After some software stumbles I got the Megasquirt up and running. Just after a little bit of fiddling with it and some time with the "Auto-tune" function, it is running as good or better than it was with the Quarterhorse/A9l combo. Took it for a spin and gave her a little boost, it felt great. I am sure that the air temp being only 45 degrees helped a bit.
Here is a little clip of the Tunerstudio doing a little "Auto-tune", it is a beautiful thing.
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Still have not got any paint work done, but getting the MS done was a great personal victory for me. Everything computer related tends to break my balls on a regular basis.
Jess
I did finish the bottom of my wing off. It only had two tiny fasteners. After I recontoured the mounting surface I added two, much bigger 3/8" fasteners, and left one of the little ones. This picture is before priming it.
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I have bought the paint materials. Just have to get with my friend doing the spraying, oh and get all the body prep done.
Jess
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I have bought the paint materials. Just have to get with my friend doing the spraying, oh and get all the body prep done.
Jess
Modified a MM strut tower brace I had laying around. I had to rebend the drivers side bar, cut it, and weld in a bit to make it longer. It needed to go around the 90* silicone elbow.
I got tired of waiting on the guy that was going to paint the car, so I am taking matters into my own hands.
Might go the Plastic Dip route too. Either way the car WILL be one color this summer.
Jess
I got tired of waiting on the guy that was going to paint the car, so I am taking matters into my own hands.
Might go the Plastic Dip route too. Either way the car WILL be one color this summer.
Jess
Modified a MM strut tower brace I had laying around. I had to rebend the drivers side bar, cut it, and weld in a bit to make it longer. It needed to go around the 90* silicone elbow.
I got tired of waiting on the guy that was going to paint the car, so I am taking matters into my own hands.
Might go the Plastic Dip route too. Either way the car WILL be one color this summer.
Jess
I got tired of waiting on the guy that was going to paint the car, so I am taking matters into my own hands.
Might go the Plastic Dip route too. Either way the car WILL be one color this summer.
Jess
As you will see in the pictures I don't have any door moldings yet, I need to get my hands on some. Door panels are off too in order to tweek the window alignment. A few more things to tidy up. I'm not happy with how the felts for the t-tops fit, they are either to high or to low in places. Just going to need a little more lovin. Well here are the pictures. Enjoy.
Look! Headlight covers
Jess
Enjoy.
Look! Headlight covers
Jess
I cleaned up the trunk a bit. Added some interior trim pieces I had laying around. They aren't flammable. I held my heat gun on high, three inches away, for five minutes on a scrap piece I had trimmed off. It just sagged and melted, no scorching or burning. I have done a few long drives without problems. Put a tool box back there too, a zip tie keeps it from getting to close to the hot parts.
Jess
Jess
I cleaned up the trunk a bit. Added some interior trim pieces I had laying around. They aren't flammable. I held my heat gun on high, three inches away, for five minutes on a scrap piece I had trimmed off. It just sagged and melted, no scorching or burning. I have done a few long drives without problems. Put a tool box back there too, a zip tie keeps it from getting to close to the hot parts.
Jess
Jess
I cleaned up the trunk a bit. Added some interior trim pieces I had laying around. They aren't flammable. I held my heat gun on high, three inches away, for five minutes on a scrap piece I had trimmed off. It just sagged and melted, no scorching or burning. I have done a few long drives without problems. Put a tool box back there too, a zip tie keeps it from getting to close to the hot parts.
Jess
Jess
I'm itching for winter to be over. For an update..
Before winter I did some audio work on the car. Added speakers to the center of the front and rear dashs, for some more mid-tones. Also, I replaced the front 3 1/2" dash, and 6 1/2" kick panel speakers with separates. 6 1/2" woofer in the kick panel and a tweeter up in the factory position.
I have been collecting parts over the winter. I got a set of H&R 'race' springs, 99-04 mustang front control arms with poly bushings and fancy Steeda ball joints. The rear end will get a set of MarkVII length 31 spline axles. I am going to change the gear ratio too.
In case you are wondering about the track width of the car, yes it will be wider, and yes I will be making flares for the car. I expect to need to add 1 1/2" front and rear. I have an idea on how I am going to do it. An old fender will be sacrificed before I start cutting on the car. Hopefully I can get started on it in 6 to 8 weeks, I'm not really interested in freezing in my garage anymore.
Jess
Before winter I did some audio work on the car. Added speakers to the center of the front and rear dashs, for some more mid-tones. Also, I replaced the front 3 1/2" dash, and 6 1/2" kick panel speakers with separates. 6 1/2" woofer in the kick panel and a tweeter up in the factory position.
I have been collecting parts over the winter. I got a set of H&R 'race' springs, 99-04 mustang front control arms with poly bushings and fancy Steeda ball joints. The rear end will get a set of MarkVII length 31 spline axles. I am going to change the gear ratio too.
In case you are wondering about the track width of the car, yes it will be wider, and yes I will be making flares for the car.
I expect to need to add 1 1/2" front and rear. I have an idea on how I am going to do it. An old fender will be sacrificed before I start cutting on the car. Hopefully I can get started on it in 6 to 8 weeks, I'm not really interested in freezing in my garage anymore.Jess
Yet another change in plans. I have got side tracked with power related mods. The H&R springs will go in, as will a UPR K-member I got for the car. Track width changes will have to wait for now.
I have done this.
TFI and distribitor is gone via EDIS set-up. Needed in order to make room for this.
The blower is a m122 from a 07-12 Shelby GT500. It is a bit small for the sze of my motor, but should provide a good kick in the pants down low.
This picture has the blower just sitting on top of the intake on my car now. Ducting will be similar to a 3.8 SuperCoupe, blower will discharge out in the area vacated by the distributor, go through a front mounted intercooler, then enter the motor through the back of the intake manifold. Throttle body will be in approxiatly the same location as in the picture.
I drilled and tapped the blower case so I could cut off the wider mounting tabs, they were just too wide to leave room for injectors, without getting the whole thing stupid high.
Cut and ground down some.
Blower looks a lot better with the tabs removed too.
The plate I made to bolt the blower to, which will in turn be bolted to the intake.
I relocated the battery to the trunk, it's getting a bit crowded back there now. I am going to drive the car a bit, then remove the turbo stuff. The manifold I will be using is an old Offenhouser 360. Basically a low profile single plane with a center divider. I have a lot to do to the manifold.
The plan is to port match the intake to my heads, remove the rest of the center divider, build the rear throttle body mount, plate in the top, and weld in a section of 1 1/4" aluminum tubing. Blower plate will bolt to that, and blower will bolt from under the plate up into the blower case.
I have a limited amount of time to work on the car now, so progress has been slow.
Jess
I have done this.
TFI and distribitor is gone via EDIS set-up. Needed in order to make room for this.
The blower is a m122 from a 07-12 Shelby GT500. It is a bit small for the sze of my motor, but should provide a good kick in the pants down low.
This picture has the blower just sitting on top of the intake on my car now. Ducting will be similar to a 3.8 SuperCoupe, blower will discharge out in the area vacated by the distributor, go through a front mounted intercooler, then enter the motor through the back of the intake manifold. Throttle body will be in approxiatly the same location as in the picture.
I drilled and tapped the blower case so I could cut off the wider mounting tabs, they were just too wide to leave room for injectors, without getting the whole thing stupid high.
Cut and ground down some.
Blower looks a lot better with the tabs removed too.
The plate I made to bolt the blower to, which will in turn be bolted to the intake.
I relocated the battery to the trunk, it's getting a bit crowded back there now. I am going to drive the car a bit, then remove the turbo stuff. The manifold I will be using is an old Offenhouser 360. Basically a low profile single plane with a center divider. I have a lot to do to the manifold.
The plan is to port match the intake to my heads, remove the rest of the center divider, build the rear throttle body mount, plate in the top, and weld in a section of 1 1/4" aluminum tubing. Blower plate will bolt to that, and blower will bolt from under the plate up into the blower case.
I have a limited amount of time to work on the car now, so progress has been slow.
Jess