Well I decided I wanted to make a “build” thread of sorts to help showcase what OTE Design and Fabrication can do for you. Tom has done a lot of fab work on my car, and I have put together a little timeline of what we started with in November of 2007 to what was finished in July of 2008. Due to putfile.com going down we lost a good number of pics so there will be some holes here and there, but you will get the picture.
Here is what we started with in late 07. I wanted to move into a new poweradder because I was less than thrilled with the blowers I had had, and I knew I wanted to mini-tub the car and set it on some MT 325/50/R15s. I had already had the cage and chute done by Tom in previous years so at least a few things were done.
We decided first to start tackling the mini tubs and rear suspension. A lot of the mini tub progress pics were lost, but I have a lot of when the suspension was first going together.
For the rear axle I went with an M9 narrowed 2.25” on both sides with 40 spline axles and a bunch of other goodies. The rear suspension consists of all Wolfe double adjustable arms and QA1 double adjustable coilovers.
After the rear suspension was done we moved onto finishing up the trunk area and rear bulkhead.
Next we started to work on mounting the motor and trans. I don’t have any good shots of the mounts before the engine bay was painted, but I have some from after.
Here are all the pics of the hotside including the turbo mount.
Crossover and turbo mount:
Headers:
Complete hot side:
Downpipe:
Downpipe 2nd section—5” to the axle:
The intercooler system and cold side was next on the list to finish. It consisted of a Chiseled Performance 2000HP under dash model cooler and also included an ice water trans cooler, which is pictured above in the trunk/bulkhead pics. I wish I had better shots of how we routed 4-1” feed and return lines under the car, but those pics were lost. We used 1” copper tubing under the passenger side and connected the points with thatched 1” hose. I wanted it like this to keep it out of the way and neatly organized.
After all the hot and cold sides was done it was time to figure out the radiator mounting situation. We decided to lose the factory radiator support and create our own further back so we could get the 31”X19”X3” radiator in the front of the car. We also had to “clearance” the frame in the front to get the radiator positioned. An air bleeder tank had to be added in line because the radiator was mounted so low.
Lastly, here are some pics of the fuel pump mounted and the alternator.
At this point we were ready to pull everything back apart, paint everything, and put it back together. Here are some shots of how everything came together.
(I changed wastegate setups last year and this is how the engine bay looks now-this was before I rewrapped the crossover)
And here are some final pics of what it looked like finished on the outside with some track pics included.
Here are some track and dyno vids of the car in action:
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...=dynovid12.flv
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...=dynovid11.flv
http://s20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...obby841two.flv
Thanks a lot to Tom for all the hard work on this project!! Everything turned out better than I could have imagined!!