Tomeric Build Thread, ...new brakes, new cooler and a video! Options

[Cupomeat]

Good point, fixing brakes BEFORE something breaks is the way to go.

Very much looking forward to seeing that beast tomorrow!

AND here it is with a mini Marcy Porsche reunion!


And here it is in glory, and OH what a great sound from that motor.

[Cupomeat]

Having had a ride now, all I can say is that I want a 6 cyl conversion as well!
Damn, that thing pulls HARD and the sound is excellent, and yes, loud with the headers, exhaust and carbs (2 ft from your ears).

Great car, and sorry about your air dam(n) Tom.

[tomeric914]

Great car, and sorry about your air dam(n) Tom.

Hey, it's the price ya pay for having the dam thing 3" from the ground! I actually think I cracked it backing out of the front driveway and not in the back yard for the photo shoot.

[tomeric914]

ok, so I've been busy with a few things and haven't been updating my thread as I should.

First was installing as large of a cooler as I possibly could under the rear deck seeing as that the first one was way too small. I scored a Setrab 11" x 12" on eBay, picked up a fan and designed a shroud to hold it all. Little known place in Syracuse is Aquacut, Inc. who will cut pretty much anything out of any material. You just need to provide the DXF file.



The cooler is tucked up next to the transmission. The sway bar swings next to the cooler with only 1/2" to spare. It's been put through its paces with no interference.



My goal was to keep the cooler in back and not run lines to the front of the vehicle. While this works in conjunction with the stock oil cooler for the street at keeping temps reasonable, it didn't work to keep the oil temps down so well on the track. The next mod will be to relocate it to the front trunk.

The other recent addition was a pair of restored Alfa Romeo GTV6 Brembo calipers and Porterfield R4-S pads from Eric Shea at PMB Perfromance to replace the M calipers. These calipers look REAL nice, are lighter by nearly 10 lbs and worked fantastic at last weekend's DE at Watkin's Glen.



The car has changed significantly over the past 8 months with the addition of the 6, heavier springs, Koni adjustables in front and now the Brembos. Watkins Glen was the first event I've made it to since these changes and all I can say is WOW.

Here's some video from Cupomeat's 993 C4 eventually catching and passing me. Some in the rain, some in the dry. Enjoy!

I couldn't get it to embed, so here's the link http://www.vimeo.com/27610851

[AZ914]

The cooler looks great! I'm about to add a dual fan cooler in the same spot and was wondering what you used for mounting hardware.?. i.e. vibration isolators, etc.
Thanks for any info.
Jason

[AndyB]

I really need to get down there and check this 914 out.

[tomeric914]

The cooler looks great! I'm about to add a dual fan cooler in the same spot and was wondering what you used for mounting hardware.?. i.e. vibration isolators, etc.
Thanks for any info.
Jason

Thanks Jason! The cooler is solidly mounted in a water jet cut sheet metal frame of my own design. The key is to keep it from vibrating. There are couple of folks on here who have mounted a dual fan arrangement down there. Do a search for the words +oil +cooler and user names "Vacca Rabite" and "Series9"

I really need to get down there and check this 914 out.

Just let me know when you're down this way next!

[tomeric914]

I've been busy this winter working on a couple of projects. My wife thinks I'm nuts because the car was running perfectly well when I put it away.

Project 1 - 3.2 EFI manifold with MS2

The first challenge was to get the manifold to fit. I ended up reversing the manifold which worked better for my purposes.

1. Repurposed the heater fan motor bracket to hold the fuel filter vertically behind the manifold. There is now a metric to AN tee off the bottom of that filter that feeds both fuel manifolds.



2. I had to drill my nice powder coated tin to run the cable up through, but it was worth it. This is a 6" longer than stock cable from Terry Cable. The cable is mounted to the old cruise control throttle bracket with a small square to round adapter. I just needed to make a new throttle bracket to connect the cable up.







Just need to finalize a bracket or two and shorten the intake tube a couple of inches.




Project 2 - Relocate Oil Cooler to Front Trunk

I had originally mounted a Setrab 12 x 12 cooler with a 12" fan back next to the transmission because it worked well with a smaller cooler with the 4 cylinder on track days. Also didn't want to add more air under the car.

Anyways, track day oil temps were, ahem, too high at 270 deg F. I used Google Sketchup to design the shroud in 3D.



Then I "flattened" the parts using AutoCad and sent the files to my favorite local waterjet company where they cut all the parts. Next was to bring them into our model shop and bend the parts into the desired shape, then bring them home and bolt it all together.



Not seen here is the cutting and shrinking that I did to the trunk floor to get it all flat so that the cooler would bolt up to the floor nice and flat.

Still to come, oil line routing, EFI tuning, etc.

[Cupomeat]

Damn, looking forward to seeing this car in July. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[tomeric914]

Damn, looking forward to seeing this car in July. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

With any luck I'll make decent progress this weekend. I have issues with cutting into perfectly good sheet metal!

[rick 918-S]

Very nice!

[jmill]

Still one of my favorite cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

[tomeric914]

Still one of my favorite cars. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

Thanks John!

I finally got the oil lines run front to back running through the heater ducts in the long and took a few pictures that may help others in the future.

This is up front on the passenger side in front of the gas tank taken without a flash to show that the path is fairly clear to the inside.



Next is at the passenger footwell. I used a 2-1/4" hole saw and used some TrimLock to cover the sharp edges.



Cutting the long is the PITA of the hole process. I drilled once with the same 2-1/4" hole saw cutting through the long sheet metal and then into the elbow duct inside the long. Then I used the hole saw again to cut another half hole further forward so the hose radius was smooth. TrimLock was used on the long and the duct inside the long to protect the hose.



Final after the hose was run





Next, locate the oil thermostat and do the plumbing out back...

[tomeric914]

I need to get more pictures up, but in the meantime, here's a video of the very first start with Megasquirt and a rare picture of my ugly mug. Honest to God, this is the first time I turned the key and it started up better than with the old carbs! Lot's of tuning to do, but I'll take it!

Gah! Still can't embed Vimeo content

https://vimeo.com/42467463

[Cupomeat]

Fantastic!!!

You almost have your daily driver back!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy11.gif)

Sounds great too!
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[tomeric914]

More progress:

Added another layer of Damplifier (http://www.secondskinaudio.com) to the firewall. Mainly because it is now offered in in black



Changed out the roll bar padding to the "correct" SFI padding. I like the BSCI stuff (http://www.rollbarpadding.com) because it's just a little softer than the hard padding offered by others.



The previous owner had removed the trunk torsion springs for some bizzaro reason. I'd been keeping the trunk open with a wooden grade stake. Finally bought the CAMP914 trunk shock kit (http://www.camp914.com).

[JmuRiz]

Looking good, good to know the rear cooler was only good enough for road-car duty...I'll have to file that in my mental cabinet for future use.

[FourBlades]

More nice work!

How do you like the kirkey seats?

John

[tomeric914]

Looking good, good to know the rear cooler was only good enough for road-car duty.

The front cooler works great. We're at Watkins Glen, it was 98F today and the oil temp never got higher than 200F. That's a helluva lot better than the 270F+ I saw the last time we were down here.

How do you like the kirkey seats?

The Kirkey's are great on the track. No need to hold yourself in place like with the stock seats.

[Cupomeat]

A good shot of Tom at WG.

That car is amazingly fast now, no small part owed to Tom's driving.
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