Ok pretty much all of the following stuff is copied and pasted from another forum, so some of the wording will look like I'm replying to people and explaining stuff.

Who cares, most of the info is there.

I've done quite a bit since the last update, so bear with me and I'll continue to update in here.

Enjoy:

May 11 2006:

Yo, most of you have probably seen the Project HC32 Laurel street machine thread.... well, things have changed a little.

I scored an HR31 GTS-X for NZD$2k, and have decided that as it's a coupe body & lighter, I'm gonna drop the gear into that instead... as the engine bay and driveline are identical.

So until pics arrive, here are some specs to drool over:

Drivetrain & suspension equipment:

VH41DE 4.1 all alloy Quad Cam 32 valve EFI VTC V8
IMPUL tuned/chipped factory ECU
Custom fabricated stainless cold air intake with water misting
Custom fabricated 4-2-1 headers
Dual exhausts, 3" first half, into resonators, into 2.1/2" second half, into mufflers
At least a 3 or 5 core radiator with twin thermal fans
5 speed manual conversion, custom modified bellhousing to accept toyota W57 transmission
Custom mounted slave cylinder, unknown replacement master cylinder
Modified rocker cover for master cylinder clearance
Custom fabricated gearbox crossmember
Custom designed lightweight 7079 alloy flywheel with friction insert, >5kg
Xtreme heavy duty pressure plate, 1050kg clamping pressure
Xtreme ceramic brass button paddle clutch with sprung center
D2 36-way adjustable coilover suspension
S13 180sx front suspension conversion, lower arms etc
Custom fabricated 6061-T6 aluminium rear suspension hat-converters (2 to 3 stud)
Custom modified rear wishbones - suspension mounting point remade to suit D2 struts, no swage on leading edge of strut eye, so chamfer on lug taken out
Nolathane bushes all round
Custom fabricated solid aluminium rear crossmember bushes
Solid engine mounts & diff mount
Custom fabricated driveshaft
R200 longnose mechanical LSD
Z31 300ZX rear 5 stud hubs
K-style S13 Silvia 5 stud front hubs
R32 GTS-t Mspec front rotors, 280mmx30mm (to be replaced with slotted aftermarket items soon as the budget allows)
R32 GTS-t Mspec 4 pot front calipers
R33 GTS25t Mspec rear rotors, 297mm
R33 GTS25t Mspec 2 pot rear calipers
To run ultimates for brake pads, and high quality dot4 brake fluid
Mitsi Colt brake booster to clear rocker covers, and GTS-t Mspec brake master cylinder
18"x9.5" rear & 18"x8.5" front deepdish alloy wheels
275x35x18 rears & 245x40x18 fronts, Goodyear Eagle F1 GSD-3s

Body & cosmetic changes:
Full strip & sand, prime, and paint. A nice black with a deep midnight blue pearl is what I'm thinking.
R31house front lip, side skirts, and rear skirt (maybe, definitely the front lip)
R31house Fibreglass bonnet (maybe... the plenum of the V8 might not clear the bonnet so it could end up being a custom fibreglass hood buldge not unlike a muscle Torana
Despoilering the back
Tints
Ice blue xenon bulbs
Custom GTS-8 decal to be made up for boot lid, using the same design font as the GTS-X one (thinking maybe GTR-8 ?)
Ripping out the hicas, it won't do anything with solid mounts anyway

The project's been 8 months in the build so far, and I only just changed to the GTS-X a few weeks ago due to the incredible opportunity at that price. Still some ways off finishing it, I've gotta get the GTS-X road complied, registered, then do the panel work to it & paint it, drop the engine & running gear into it, fit the brake booster (needs a small mod behind firewall for it to fit properly), mount up the suspension & tune it all up, then get road certification.

Only after that mission will it be finished... and then I'm gonna want the following:

Proposed mods afterwards:
Front & Rear strut braces... the front will prob need to be custom to fit past the plenum, but rear will be an off the shelf item from somewhere I'm sure.
Modify the back plate of the R200 diff to have intake and exit hoses, oil pump + cooler setup to ensure the diff oil is nice and chilly and I can do burnouts all day
Same as above but for gearbox... this may be a little harder, will look into it when the time comes.
One of three options here... Cam regrind, SR20DET 370cc injectors & ECU retune for around 450HP & strong powerband OR.......
VH41DETT, run twin T3 hybrid turbs on it with mild boost to get around 550-600HP, massive power... OR......
VH41DES, run a belt driven centrifugal supercharger... the easiest way to get boost for this without fabricating too much shite. It'll sound awesome too !

June 15 2006:

UPDATES, PROGRESS, WOOHOO !

Got the boys round on saturday, bought two bottles of JDs and four 6tonne axle stands, grabbed the engine hoist from my mate's dad's work, and got stuck into it !

Dirty old RB20DET ready to be hoisted:


Engine being a and getting stuck on the mounts... me doing the ape dance on top of it trying to free it up:


RB20 !!!!! That's right, get out of my engine bay you piece of junk !


Engine actually lifted out quite nicely...


Motor's now free of the car, just gently pulling the hoist back to clear the chassis...


Catch of the day... one dirty old RB20DET auto, ready to be separated from the tranny !


Damn I have to degrease all THAT!!


Mmmmmm, my front tyres, now fitted and balanced. 245/40/R18 Eagle F1 GSD-3's


CAMBERED OUT !@!! Man I look like a spud... Mind you, that was after a number of JDs


MONSTER TRUCK STYLES $^!#!11


One HR31 GTS-X less engine, ready for transplant!

June 19 2006:

Heaps of progress this weekend. Ripped out the rear subframe, finished sorting out my 5 stud rear end. I now have handbrake cables, 5 stud hubs, Z bearings (Z31 bearings are HUGE, almost 1.5x wider than the R31 bearings, and until we figured this out, the hubs weren't sitting right).

Installed all the nolathane bushes into the various suspension parts, ripped the HICAS out. I'm leaving the HICAS lines there so I can reuse them later for a diff oil coolin circuit.

Now we just gotta paint the engine bay and I can reassemble the entire suspension & drop the motor in. It's easy streets from there !

June 23 2006:

Quick update... engine bay has been painted, absolutely mint now !

Have fitted D2 coilovers, and will bolt up the front & rear crossmembers tonight, and the rest of the suspension.

Engine is going in tomorrow... will have many new pics, car sitting on its big wheels with new ride height etc, big update coming on monday !

June 26 2006:

Wooo ! Got heaps done in the weekend, here are updates as promised !


Workshop, please enter... this is the sight that presented itself on saturday morning, before getting started with the assembly !


Here's the engine bay, painted up and ready for a motor ! So much nicer without all that sick crap all over the paint !


Some of you guys might be interested in what clutch master cylinder and brake booster I'm running:


Check out that clearance ! Car's too low at the front at the mo, gotta raise it about 20mm, and that pic is while on stands.


Nolathane castor arm bushes... will have to do for now until I get some nice adjustable pillowball ones !


Fat ! 275/35/R18 + mad dish ! There's only about 2mm clearance between the inner sidewall and the wishbone, so I'm going to have to space the rims out a bit.


Wow this camera really did take quite shitty photos


Heh, an HR31 GTS-X with a badass VH41DE V8 in it ! Not your every day conversion, definitely one of a kind


Sorry for the quality of the pics, this isn't really a night time camera... will get better though, my mate's coming over during the week to take another batch of pics !

September 11 2006:


Yo ! Update with pics !

Done quite a bit since the last update, have fitted longer studs to the rear hubs, made some spacers etc... done a bunch of other random crap.

My mate who was helping with the wiring has just been fired, for blowing up my 110amp heavy duty hitachi alternator. DAMMIT.

Details of particular interest are the rear solid mounts, spacers for the rear calipers, the perfect sump clearance with the R31 crossmember, aluminium steering column bush, bent & redirected fuel lines, extreme angle of front sway bar link (as per my thread in the suspension section).

Here are pics:

September 18 2006:

Quick update: I've modified my gearbox crossmember so it'll fit the mounting stud spacing on the underside of the 31 chassis (it seems there are 3 potential stud locations on either side of the transtunnel in these chassis, depending on which car it is they use a combination of any of them.) The HC32 Laurel had studs in the frontmost two places, whereas the coupe body has the front & rear positions. As such, the custom gearbox crossmember needed modification. I welded a 3mm steel plate on top of each side and drilled new holes, it'll bolt up now.

Also, my laser cut caliper spacers will be on the way tomorrow... getting them for FREE ! Sandvik NZ are looking after me, I got the sales rep to hook me up with them as 'samples' so I can 'inspect the quality of their laser cutting' I love this job

More work to be done tonight. Another update will be on the way when there is something new worth photographing !

November 3 2006:

BACK FROM THE DEAD!!!

Well, I'm ditching the extractors that have been made so far, and completely remaking the entire setup with port matched laser cut flanges, and doing it MYSELF!

My dad lent me his mig and I've been going nuts doing the things that have needed doing for a long time. I've chopped out the spare wheel well and box sectioned it up with tack welds, and etch primed it. Gotta put sealer all over it yet. I also need to chop the semicircle for the exhaust tip to stick out on that side, slowly but surely getting there however!

I've also pretty much fabricated the passenger side exhaust, just gotta mount it up properly at the front.

Here are a series of pics of where I'm at... many of them are gratuitous manual conversion shots, showing my flywheel & clutch assembly etc.

I start fabricating extractors this weekend !

Enjoy fellas, it's not gonna be too much longer until we hear the first R31 coupe in the world with a Quad Cam V8 roar!!!































Oh and yep, that is a power steer cooling circuit!

December 11 2006:

Miss me ? Of course you did

Nah, just when everybody had pretty much forgotten... I return triumphantly with another monster update !

The news ? The car is just about ****ing finished! Oh yeah, over a year's worth of pissing around and building up my parts inventory, learning new stuff here and there, and even innovating one or two things... and the GTS-8 will see life in only a few weeks time! I feel like a proud dad...

The rear guards have been flared to fit those monster 275's under, a symmetrical exhaust outlet cut into the other side of the rear panel, etc.

Photos from the exhaust shop where things are being finished off. I made about 70% of the exhausts, headers etc... but then cut myself pretty bad with the cutoff wheel (almost lost my thumb) & dad had to take his welder back home that same weekend too, so off to Pit Stop to get it finished... and look how ****ing tough it looks now on those wheels! So stoked, R31s kick ass!

Sick.

December 18 2006:

Beautiful, the first thing I've ever made with a welder, and they're mint! Got flow ?? I've die grinded out inside the flanges too, so it's a smooth entry into the headers from the exhaust ports.

The best part is, these slid in/out from underneath, without moving the engine. Driver's side just requires temporary disconnecting of the steering column bush.

Should be mint!

January 10 2007:

Yeah same with mine without an engine, I tried lifting the front and nearly threw it off the axle stands at the back! Mind you, that's partially lever action due to the heavy diff & rear suspension. The chassis seems quite light overall.


Oooo, and update: Literally about 3-4 days until I'm driving the car!

Engine starts and runs with the key... and sounds GLORIOUS. The induction roar and exhaust note is nothing short of ridiculously staunch, pure race car. The sound of it bouncing off limiter at 7500rpm is ruthless!! I love Nissan engineering (when combined with my own)!

Just a few tiddly bits and pieces to sort out (wheel alignment, bedding in brakes & clutch etc, finding out if anything blows up), and I'll be taking the car to get complied in the next few weeks.

I have pics and videos, but the videos are like 17mb quicktime *.mov files, and I haven't converted them to a format I can have on the net.

Note: The intake has changed because I've actually got a bend in the intake and proper AAC/ACV valve snorkels welded in place, it looks mint! I'll have more pics soon, once I'm driving around.

January 12 2007:

[quote author=Naife link=topic=52255.msg624523#msg624523 date=1168410848]
whats happnin with the top of the intake. looks like it's been faced.
[/quote]Nah nothing, I just pulled off the plaque ages ago and haven't got around to sticking it back on yet.

Yeah I'll check out putting em on youtube, but will definitely need to do something about the size of the files first. The first couple of vids are shit anyway, engine sounds rattly because the hydraulic lash adjusters are a bit sticky since the engine sat for like 3-4 years before I came along. They're nice and unstuck now though, and the motor itself is practically silent... the thermal fan and the gearbox make more noise at idle !

Been working on it every day lately, don't think I'll get to take it for a drive until probably monday or tuesday... the homo who first volunteered to wire it up ruined the loom completely! Take this for stupid: Ignition coil #6 was wired to the temp sensor. Ignition coil #2 was wired to the resistor that was in coil #6's circuit. There were around 12 or more such 'mistakes' in the eccs loom... and that's just the beginning! Every solder join he does is a birdshit dry join... and check this out... the power wire which feeds my VCT, EGRG solenoid valve, and a bunch of other important shit... he brought into the car through the passenger side, fed it behind the dash and out through the driver's side under the guard, to link it up to the positive terminal on the battery.... why, I have no ****ing clue, but it only needed to be wired in to the 'on' position of the ignition switch.

Remember I said his bullshit wiring blew up an alternator ? Well we checked out all the wiring, did some tests, and decided it was mint on that part of the loom, so I stuck on my replacement 125amp alternator that I bought for 120 bucks and that one ****ed itself as well! Blown regulators in both. Cannot be replaced, no replacement parts in the country. Every other Nissan alternator has an inversely designed housing, so I can't even run an RB alternator... even the VH45DE alternators are inverse and will not fit the bracket to bolt it to the engine! WTF!%^##$&!

There is light at the end of the tunnel however, as these VH41 motors are used in stock car racing... built to 590HP, 9,000rpm (minimal headwork, solid lifters, dry sump, forged rods & pistons, insane cams, highrise manifold & carby)... so I called a chap from Palmerston North who knows the most about these motors in NZ... he builds all of these race motors and has done considerable research and development on the VH engine (and his quad cammers rape all the other A grade superstocks... Ford SVOs etc, just these past couple of weeks his motors have been dominating the racing in the south island!). He just happened to have another replacement alternator for me for 120 bucks again... second time I've had to ask him for one. Thankfully he's a good chap and gave me the mint deal! Later this year I'm getting him to build me a 450HP, cammed out, VH41 base motor with the VH45 internals, good for 8000RPM.

Anyway, waiting for this alternator to arrive is why I'll probably be waiting until monday to drive it... dammit !!!

Have a productive weekend folks!

January 15 2007:

It drives smooth, with excellent grip and VERY precise steering. Apart from a few minor teething problems, the GTS-8 is very much alive, and has hit the streets!





I owe a massive thanks to all of my mates who got involved... JP for his expertise with wiring & troubleshooting someone else's bullshit chopshop job on my loom, Scott for getting me a wicked deal on tyres, Reuben & Shannon for helping out with the car, Mark for letting me use his hoist for ages, Ed, Brendan, Gar, Matt, Nik, Tom etc for pitching in and helping with getting shit done, Dan for hooking me up with badass deals on heaps of stuff I've needed to buy... and anyone else I've missed who have given me a hand.

CHER!!

It'll be keg time after compliance & track day.




I've run some valvetrain flush through it and unstuck all the lifters too, they're pretty noisy in that vid... the engine runs so damn smooth now! I turned the idle down to 800ish RPM too. You literally cannot hear the motor anymore when it's idling, not a single valvetrain sound. All you hear is the fan, gearbox whine, injectors ticking away, and exhaust burble. It's a minter!

Trademark sound of an alloy quad cammer, the induction noise is so damn loud and crackly, it sounds brutal from the front!

January 16 2007:

Ah wicked, Orion set up a nice as gallery for me! Check it:

January 18 2007:

I still have some minor problems at this stage mate, the brake booster I'm using is not ideal at all. I'm only getting about half the braking power out of these 4pots than I should be. Looking into changing to a Mitsi Chariot (Nimbus over in aus) booster, as I've read that they're dual diaphragm but still small diameter. The reason for sticking with the mitsi ones is that they share the same bolt pattern on the firewall.

One point about these boosters, their threads are shorter than the factory booster's thread. What you need to do is remove your brake pedal, break off the crush tubes on the inside of the firewall that the threads pass through, and manufacture some F -> M thread extenders made from some hex bar, with the hex bit being the same length as the crush tubes were... so you can tighten these up on the back of the booster through the firewall, and then mount the pedal over the thread you've machined onto the extenders. You'll understand what I mean in more detail once you pull it apart.

My parts list is at the start of the thread, and I've only done a few minor changes, but the overall plan remained the same.

It'd be easier for you to just start doing it, then just ask me how to overcome certain hurdles as you reach them. If you would like a set of engine mounts like mine, I can probably arrange having the plates laser cut for you and send them over.

April 4 2007:

Just a quick update... this project is far from dead, but I'm upgrading a number of things and making some changes.

I'm rebuilding the engine with 4.5 litre internals, effectively making it a VH45DE hybrid motor... the VH41DE is a far superior base motor due to its duplex timing chain setup & other differences, and the extra 400cc should grant more easy power.

The heads are being ported out, and stiffer valvesprings that allow for more lift are being installed.

I'm designing & CNC'ing some custom camshaft blanks on the CNC at work, making them from 4140 steel roundbar. Then I'm having a company in auckland do me an angry grind good for over 400thou valvelift, more duration, and more aggressive ramps.

I'm looking at a solid 450HP, 100HP/L target, or possibly even more... and an 8000rpm redline.

The cooling system is going to get an upgrade, with a fatter radiator, twin radiator fans with custom shrouds.

The exhaust system will be revised entirely... new extractors, and upsizing to twin 3" pipes... and probably changing mufflers.

I'm going to modify the bellhousing where the slave cylinder bolts on, so that it's actually sitting straight, cos at the moment it's slightly angled and pushes the clutch fork into the edge of the hole in the bellhousing, occasionally it gets stuck when changing gear... very annoying.

Front guards are going to get flared & new inner guards made, and rear guards may get more treatment yet, with wider spacers to go in the rear and sit the wheels even further out.

Brake booster is being replaced with an oldschool pulsar one that's small diameter, but longer.... seems to be what I need.

Fun times ahead! The next trackday is on 9th August... lets hope I make it to that one!

In the meantime, I finally got a video up on youtube from the very first test run day of the GTS-8... was experiencing clutch slippage and some other minor things, wiring was still very messy... but hey, it's a work in progress

June 06 2007:

Yo!

Build's coming along nicely, I have the heads being ported, combustion chambers being polished, stiffer valvesprings fitted, and working on my own cams which I will machine out of roundbar.

In the meantime, I've been buying up VHs... and will have two complete engines at the end of this, plus a spare block & heads and various other parts

With winter and shitty weather here, it's difficult finding motivation to get out and lie under the car at the moment

Check it out, bet you can't do this with an RB block

June 15 2007:

Well, have been cleaning up my new internals in preparation for the coming build... here are some pics of my lounge table. My house smells like degreaser now... ohhh yeah! :bigok:

June 18 2007:

MOAR PICS!!!
Here's what my lounge currently looks like. The cardboard wall is my temporary workbench, and with the heater turn on, it also doubles as a spraybooth :bigthumb:


Here's my shed as seen from the shed door. As you can see, there are parts everywhere.


Boxes of assorted crap.


POLISHED VH45DE CRANK READY TO GO..... YUMMEH >:D


Bare VH41DE block & complete assembled intake manifold


She's a chunky one! All good though, tuned length runners for helmholtz resonance at various RPM to smooth out torque


Now THAT'S a bottom end... deep skirt 6 bolt crossbolted mains goodness


Here are the heads off my new 500 dollar parts motor... this was being used as a boat motor...


As you can see, electrolysis between the mild steel exhaust manifold and the aluminium heads has caused pitting and corrosion on the exhaust ports. Not a big deal, as the heads are mint otherwise, and these can be alloy mig welded and milled to perfection again. Fortunately I have a mint set of heads presently being ported & polished etc by a race engine builder.


VTC (Valve Timing Control) drum/duplex double row chain sprocket.


The main bearing beam which ties together the main caps to reduce vibration and increase rigidity.


The mint VH41DE crank out of the new motor... wrapped up for storage.


My cheap & easy degreaser bath, fits 8 pistons perfectly It was meant to be!


Homemade exhaust header... re-painted with a few fresh coats of black VHT.


My custom flywheel, and Xtreme heavy duty 1050kg pressure plate & 6 puck brass button clutch with sprung center.


Random assorted old brakes & brake boosters... I have shitloads of spare Skyline junk.


Calipers etc...


The heads that I cooked on my first motor... not sure what condition these are in, one day I may have them tested but I'm pretty sure they'll be warped & ****ed. Still, good for spare valvetrain parts.


MMMMMMMMM, new bearings & thrust washers...

July 2 2007:

Ok starting to get serious now. My 'office' is set up with a cylinder head on my computer desk, crankshaft next to me, and various internal parts lying around. Armed with my vernier calipers, two FSMs, and information from VH forums, I am now tackling the cam design head on.

I spent the whole weekend working on the cams design, and have started modeling up a VH41/VH45 dummy test rig (block, crank, rods, pistons etc) accurate down to the last detail (not so much in the block tho), so I can model up an accurate cylinder head and perform piston/valve clearance experiments with enhanced cam profiles, as well as experimenting with their effect when running in conjunction with the 20 degrees advance on the intake that VTC offers.

Providing I can model the cylinder head accurately enough (should be able to, I cross reference measurements relative to each other so they work out sweet), I'll be able to experiment with virtually every cam profile possible within the allowable clearance to factory pistons.

You may also note the values for the cam profile are presently based on the standard ones (apart from duration @ .050"), I just have to add some detail to the ramps so I can more accurately control these values and therefore the valve's lift.

Remember, I'm designing these for me first, for my jap spec VH41DE with dual row timing chains & smaller cam sprockets etc (using VH45DE internals though), but when I've finished it's only going to be a small matter to change the front face to make them VH45DE cams.

Watch this space!

Some pics for great justice:









You may be asking yourself 'what's a 25 year old doing sitting at home on a saturday night measuring car parts'... quite simply, I do it for the love of brutal acceleration. Thrashing a badass V8 at high speed is a feeling that is tiers and tiers above the generic act of getting boozed & partying, and this will all be worth it in the end.

August 27 2007:

I'm back!

So while I've been playing nutty professor with my computer and cams, I've managed to enlist the help of Dan the master panel beater. Dan is as pro as it gets, I've seen him rebuild an entire S1 RX7 door with the bottom half completely missing (rusted away), and you couldn't even tell it had been paneled! He's also completely stripped, sanded, primed and painted a whole car inside & out, within a week.

Anyways, Dan has started on my guards... I want flares, big ****in flares, so I can space the rear wheels out and even up the track between front and back. The fronts are being flared because they were flush with the tyres and causing all kinds of rubbing and scraping, including the driver's side guard chopping into the edge of my GSD3 sidewall!! Not safe at high speeds!

If you're gonna flare guards, use one of these:


Little bit of elbow grease gets it started:


And the back guard has been flared by around 20-25mm... I should have got a photo of the inner skin, it's mint as!


Check it out, straight after rolling & a bit of hammer work, hasn't yet been touched up at all. THIS is why you should use a proper rolling tool. Ignore the dent, that's all getting paneled out too:


Staunch flare!! I'm gonna be able to bone the car out and not worry The side mouldings will be heated up and bent to fit.


The front is pretty damn flared too and it suits this car, but the best part is to the untrained eye, it doesn't even look modified!


Other than that... the monster build is slowly coming together. I have all my engine bits ready for balancing and will be picking up my race heads in a week or two. I'm moving very slowly because I'm tackling one aspect at a time. I hope to have the car finished for summer and beach cruising

September 11 2007:

So I've almost finalised my rebuildable engine mount design, and added crossribbing for strength. I've done this because the nolathane mounts I had made have already started separating away from the steel parts. Shit, tbh. It's just a shit design, and needs to be redone. How I'm doing it now is BRUTAL.

The plan is to measure the crossmember from underneath and draw up a plate that I can weld in place on the underside of the mounting surface, then drill two holes through for the new mount design. This should add plenty of strength to the crossmember, and the mount itself will be stronger as I'm moving from one M10 stud & a locator on the current mounts, to two M12s.

What isn't included in the pics are the M12 countersunk capscrews that actually go through the holes in the plate & get welded to the plate while fully torqued up, prior to the main mount body being welded on & the support ribs welded in place.

Overall it's a pretty strong design, has more surface area to distribute the load, makes full use of the available mounting surface areas on my crossmember, and is rebuildable with fresh urethane (or other material) inserts should any flog out. Oh, and if the bush does flog out, the engine still can't go anywhere!

Will be getting the last bits laser cut tomorrow and picking it all up on friday.





Oh and I nearly forgot... this is all reasonably compact and shouldn't be much bigger than the factory mounts

Comparison, look how gay the standard mounts are (RB engine mounts):



I've now reinforced the crossmember with 5mm plate:

September 11 2007:

Here's another little custom side project I got goin on... my oil catch can! (And fuel surge tank to follow)...

My engine bay's gonna look mint! Everything's either stainless, black, or white!

Using Stainless Steel 316 RJT dairy fittings, I'm making an easy to open & clean catch can. Gonna tig weld it to some 4" tube & weld some fittings in place. Assembly of top components shown as follows:

September 12 2007:

Yay more goodies have arrived :bigthumb:

Three core 50mm radiator:


2x Flowmaster Super44 mufflers... pure brutality! These sound the sex!!!


And my pride & joy... 2.1/2" X pipe kit for manifold pressure balancing & beautiful sound mixing!!




I can't wait to get back into cutting & welding