The Project Pad

sweeeet looking good, these dang AEB threads keep making me want to put on in a beater winter 4kq :bashtard:

speeding-g60 wrote:your shizzle be running before mine will LOL

I think everyones car wil be running before mine...

Looking good man, when do you plan on finishing it up.

ive still got a list of things to do, but its getting there. im hoping to have it done and tuned by waterfest, if not sooner.

to be technically correct, mine was AEB for two motors, this one is 06A 20vT 4cyl, and my new motor is 06A as well. but we know what you meant

well, the rs2 bumper is securely on the car and its fully assembled and about 80% of the body work is done, then paint. figured id share a few pics of how well, or not well depending on how particular you are, this replica bumper ended up fitting on my car.







mounted it under then fenders just with some 6mm nuts and bolts, hopefully thatll do the trick.

That thing fits better around the fender wells than the used real S2 bumpers I got from audibits2. I've had to work the hell out of them to get the gaps perfect.

it took me quite a while to get it to fit like that, i tried to be a bit anal about it and get it as perfect as i could. got mine from audibits2 as well.

got mine all from Mike as well. that looks like a real good fit.

and FWIW, my front bumper mounts ONLY with the two bolts per side, on the core support. nothing in the wheel wells. unless i need them later.

the only reason the wheel wells was needed to be honest was when i mounted it to the core support via expanding spray foam i was more worried about how it was looking from the front of the car and not on either side. so if i dont bolt it up in the fender wells, it pretty much looks like the fvcking things gonna fall off.

so, made a surge tank for my fuels. was planning on just running the cell with the sump in it with foam at the bottom of the sump. BUT, i figured if i was here, i might as well just do it. my buddies car had an a1000 with a sumped cell/foam on the bottom, and even when that thing was less then 1/2 full and you went cruisin around a turn you could here the pump run dry for a tad. so although this may be overkill, screw it. i may make that one braided line a hardline as well just because im particular with things like that, but idk yet.

rail will return to the surge tank at the top, then there will be a vent from the surge tank to the fuel cell for overflow.

sure looks to me as if the back pump feed line is crushed a little on the radius?

other than that looks good....

i re-did that a bit better.

spring tube bender ftmfL :bullshits:

thats bad ass jonny!

zerb wrote:spring tube bender ftmfL :bullshits:

i do believe we discussed at length that exact thing via text

well, since the spring tube bender sucked and i couldnt get the thing to make nice tight 90 bends and not have it kink the tubing, i decided to move the pumps away from the tank a bit. which allowed me to just run this ss braided stuff i have at work. ends are all in place and hose is at length, put in press at work to sqeeuze ends on, and thats that.

you got your hook-ups, i got mine...

I am interested in a concept. what happens if you suck air in the main tank into the surge tank. How does that air get out of the tank?

I need to build a surge tank of sorts for my e85 needs, and I like the idea of supply to the surge tank via a high volume/low pressure pump. ANy reason your picked that one?

the surge tank is a reserve for fuel.

this is the path;

fuel cell --> low pressure pump --> surge tank --> hi pressure pumps --> fuel rail --> FPR --> return to surge tank. the other path for fuel is an open return at the top of the surge for overflow return back to cell in case the surge tank does get too full.

so even if the cell low pressure pump sucks air briefly (cornering, etc), the fueling will never see that loss as the fuel surge tank stays full all the time. calculate your projected fuel consumption under WOT and that will let you know what you "think" you need. keep in mind the low pressure pump will still be feeding the cell, and the fuel rail will never take all of the fuel sent to it, so there will always be returning fuel to the surge.

make sense?

I missed the fuel returns back to the tank. dont mind me. That makes sense now.

Hank

yeah, the two at the top are one return from rail and one overflow back to fuel cell.

and the high side inlet port is the feed from the low pressure pump. i actually lie the idea of low pres/hi flow feed pump, it gets the pressure going out of the surge so it doesnt need it going in. and the high flow inlet will keep it full.

Hank, the reasoning behind the low pressure pump was just simply what flowed the most, hah. I just looked in the Carter pump book and saw which rotary pump flowed the most. fwiw if anyone else is looking at this the NAPA stocking number for the pump i used is P4600HP=12v 100GPH max flow 8psi. when i called carter and told them what i was trying to do, the guy said that was a bit overkill, but i think there is no such thing as overkill, lol. the next step down from that would be a P4594=12v 72GPH max flow 8 psi.

Think it is e85 safe?

i have no idea, so i called Carter, and they guy said...No, absolutely not.

At this time they have no rotary pumps that are e85 compatible.

You are the man. Thanks for the info and work!!

got the captains seat mounted, gonna try and get the windshield in this weekend that way i can out the dash and rest of the interior back together sooner then later.





im quite thin, about 145 soaking wet, and as i sat in the seat the top harness was as tight as could be, but it was still a wee bit loose. is it legal to wrap that belt around the harness bar twice so that it shortens up a bit more? i dont see why it wouldnt be, but just figured id ask all...