Nine Fourteen Sex, The on going story of Love and Lust for a Machine. Options

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Still needs a lot of work but I really wanted to see her on the pavement too.

I'm reading about this car and thinking, 'Who is this 914 ranch guy?' hahahaha...Hi Joe!
That is a wild set of wings, can't wait to see how they perform. And I really dig the rims. Hope all is well over there.

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I'm reading about this car and thinking, 'Who is this 914 ranch guy?' hahahaha...Hi Joe!
That is a wild set of wings, can't wait to see how they perform. And I really dig the rims. Hope all is well over there.

Thanks, everything is good out here. Turning 73 this week and heading out for the Route 66 next week in this.



Going to be in Ca for a few days as I need to see some relatives. I believe I will be staying in San Juan Capistrano.

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Wow, 26,000 viewers. Thank all y'all so very much. I really appreciate that.

[Shivers]

I'm reading about this car and thinking, 'Who is this 914 ranch guy?' hahahaha...Hi Joe!
That is a wild set of wings, can't wait to see how they perform. And I really dig the rims. Hope all is well over there.

Thanks, everything is good out here. Turning 73 this week and heading out for the Route 66 next week in this.



Going to be in Ca for a few days as I need to see some relatives. I believe I will be staying in San Juan Capistrano.

Pretty Girl You have fun Joe

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Haven't had any time to do much more than look at her lately but I managed to get some in the last few days. I needed to loo at the front suspension to be sure that the A arms were inline with one and another. Got to look last night and it was much better than I expected. They are parallel and at the same height in the frame. She had an off-road excursion that left me a little worried. Now after looking I feel much better. I'm about to bleed the brakes which is the next to the last thing I have to do before I can think about using her. I still need to go through the rear axles and replace the wheel studs. The front studs are OK but the tests need to be longer. At my current pace all this should be done within the year. Hopefully I can find a way to get more motivated about her and finish her enough to go Auto crossing.
Yesterday I went to an auto cross school in the GT4 and had a wonderful time. Which gave me the motivation to look at the front suspension and bleed the brakes.
The GT4 is a wonderful car to autocross.

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Haven't had any need for a double post. I'll find something to put in here.

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I bled the brakes today. One more step in the right direction. Probably put her in the trailer tomorrow.

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Yep, she's in her trailer and I'll be able to get some of her needs taken care of there. I just got some new front turn signal lenses and with the new head lights I can finish the front lights and wiring. It will be nice to have her drivable even if it's only in a parking lot.
Gonna have to do a little paint repair also. I think that the only thing left to do will be the rear axle, wheel studs and CV joints.
This almost makes me feel like I might even have a chance to drive her this year.
Must be time for a (IMG:style_emoticons/default/jsharp.gif) and a (IMG:style_emoticons/default/MDB2.gif)

27,500 viewers, I never would have thought.
I owe you people some Ribs.

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Talking with a neighbor about the value of the intake and his response to me was"Let's do it digital."
So my immediate thought was Digital Pudding. I had no idea what I would do with an Arduino board and now I get to build one.
Going digital in the Plenum with 4 sensors. Atmospheric pressure, Temperature, Humidity and Wind Speed.
The parts are on order from E-bay and should be here in a couple of days. This will all be displayed in a screen on the dash.
When I originally thought of the Cold Air Intake I asked my neighbor Josh about getting some information about what is going on in the Plenum and he replied "Yes that we could do it digitaly."
If proves that it is all a failure you will see about it here first. I'm not looking for turbo like improvement I just want to give the carbs air that is cooler than the air in the engine bay. Come on, if it's 75° outside and 125° in the engine bay it will give a huge psychological advantage over what the cars weight and the wings are already doing.
Gosh, I'm thinking about paint.

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I haven't done anything worth writing about lately and it's really bothering me. There is a bunch of small things that I can do, so my guilt trip will be getting the better of me soon. I have a few more things that need to be out of my way and then I'll have some freedom to do what I like. Nothing gives me more gratitude than working on something as badass as this car.
Thanks for your patience and I'll try to get back on track.

[Shivers]

Hey Joe, been slacking here too. But tis the season to be working. Be safe

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And now for something completely different. Actually working on the car at this time. There is a 3D printer in the house that is currently working on a project for the car. It's printing a fan housing for an oil cooler that will be mounted in the trunk with the exhaust out the rear panel in-between the tail lights. It will take 4 fans and some duct work but I won't have to run -10 to the front of the car.
Print in progress.



This is a prototype and needs some corrections. It will take 4 fans and they push 800 Cubic feet per minute each. But that's probably not enough thrust to make the car roll.

[sixnotfour]

My Rear oil cooler,,exit,, and oil tank

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My Rear oil cooler,,exit,, and oil tank

@sixnotfour On our current 8gtt build , using the Aviaid 4 gallon oil tank mounted in the rear (former) trunk area; going to use your method with the accessible filler cap.
I've seen these on many '70-80's Porsche Rennwagens and seeing this on your red car Rocks !
The fiberglass trunk lid will be quite busy back there, air intakes, intercooler cut out, oil filler cap (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Joe...the progress is looking good !
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Thanks Marty, I need to make more of an effort to get to the end of some of these little projects and that will be a lot of progress.
The printer is down for the moment but I am making progress on the fan housing.



The radiators should be here by Thursday and I am hoping that the motors arrive here by then.
Don't mind the pun.
Kool project.

[sixnotfour]

WoW Very COOL..

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The printer is still waiting on parts but the motors are in. Now we know how long to make the tube and where we putting the propeller. We're making some corrections to the part and learning about the printer.
More pictures.

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And this

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The radiators have arrived, need to start getting ready for the hoses.
Personal I believe that a serious Autocross car doesn't need much of a cooler because it is only driven in anger for a minute at a time. Front brakes probably don't need to be vented either. Which is heavier? Vented or unvented? I really think that unvented is the way to go.



Behind the radiators is the layout for the grills. Using 4 of the side grills as I don't have a full engine cover grill to spare here. It will work. Got the mounting worked out, doing it off the shelf on the rear panel in-between the tail lights.

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Now you can see the layout for the grills on top of the box. I think the coolers will set a little lower in the box than this. The shelf is at the same elevation as the bottom of the hole. They will only come down about an inch.