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4-23-2014
To be honest when I started I thought it would be 12 months. It 2 years longer than expected. It's 3 years and 2 months. The biggest thing is time. The main issue is I'm not with the car. It turned into a DMC shop project that they worked on when time allowed them. If I could have helped out some I think it would have moved along a little faster.
Anyone that tries to build a car from nothing is fooled if they think it can be done in 12 months. It would take 2 guys 1 year of non stop work to build the car. That is saying 80 hours a week would be put into the project every week giving you 4160 hours to finish it. Sounds like a lot to some but when you are crafting, cutting, moving etc..... it adds up. Sure it can be done and has been done but that is why you hear of guys paying $300,000 + to build a car. In most cases no one does it in 1 hit. We all put crazy money into our builds but it is done over time.
The way we kind of did it was stockpile stuff and then work on it. This way it allowed all the parts to mocked up and fit into place to make sure we liked the result. On most builds people are cutting and removing old stuff and adding new and you end up changing things 3 or 4 times over time. It's really hard to build it with out the parts. Parts cost money and labor cost money. So in the end it would be safe to say you can get it done as fast as your pile of money will allow.
If I had not built this car I would own my home. I have said it myself a few times that I wish I had never gone to this extreme but I wouldn't change it at all. Besides a home that is paid for will not run very fast at the track. LOL
Well I head out tomorrow morning at 5am to fly out to DMC and pick the car up. My truck and trailer are at the shop and I will be bringing the car home. Once I have it I plan to finish a few little things and then go race it. I hope it can happen in the next month so I will keep everyone up to date.
I can't wait and look forward to the trip tomorrow.
6-13-2014
To be honest when I started I thought it would be 12 months. It 2 years longer than expected. It's 3 years and 2 months. The biggest thing is time. The main issue is I'm not with the car. It turned into a DMC shop project that they worked on when time allowed them. If I could have helped out some I think it would have moved along a little faster.
Anyone that tries to build a car from nothing is fooled if they think it can be done in 12 months. It would take 2 guys 1 year of non stop work to build the car. That is saying 80 hours a week would be put into the project every week giving you 4160 hours to finish it. Sounds like a lot to some but when you are crafting, cutting, moving etc..... it adds up. Sure it can be done and has been done but that is why you hear of guys paying $300,000 + to build a car. In most cases no one does it in 1 hit. We all put crazy money into our builds but it is done over time.
The way we kind of did it was stockpile stuff and then work on it. This way it allowed all the parts to mocked up and fit into place to make sure we liked the result. On most builds people are cutting and removing old stuff and adding new and you end up changing things 3 or 4 times over time. It's really hard to build it with out the parts. Parts cost money and labor cost money. So in the end it would be safe to say you can get it done as fast as your pile of money will allow.
If I had not built this car I would own my home. I have said it myself a few times that I wish I had never gone to this extreme but I wouldn't change it at all. Besides a home that is paid for will not run very fast at the track. LOL
Well I head out tomorrow morning at 5am to fly out to DMC and pick the car up. My truck and trailer are at the shop and I will be bringing the car home. Once I have it I plan to finish a few little things and then go race it. I hope it can happen in the next month so I will keep everyone up to date.
I can't wait and look forward to the trip tomorrow.
8-18-2014
Hey Guys
Yes, I have been slacking on updates but not on the car. I will make time this week to post some stuff up. I have like 200 pictures and already feel I'm way to far behind and have to post them. I'm just kind of short on time between work and racing stuff so the time I have fee has been spent with my little one. She has been helping me work on the car at night and it has been a lot of fun.
I have the final few things to do to the car. I hope to put a map in and fire it up over the next few days. I feel I'm at 98% with it. As long as it fires and runs I see no reason why it will not be at the NMCA Indy race in Sept. It may not be fast but I have to hit the track sometime and that will be my only weekend off for the next 6 weeks so I'm trying to make that happen. Stay tuned and I will get something up this week.
9-8-2014
Wow!! Where do I restart the post. Sorry for all the long delays but man I have been busy. Well anyhow enough with the BS I have some pictures to post. A lot has happened since the last time I posted. I got the car home a few months back and have been hard at it. Here is where it sits getting ready to work on it.
After paint work on the main shell was done next was to get going on the inside. I last showed the inside with the carpet getting put in. Here is what it looked like we started to put all the charge pipes in and get it all together. Everything inside will be black or black. Not too many options since I like clean and stealth.
Back from powder coat
Getting it all put into the car
Next up was to start plumbing the whole deal. This is where it could be a pain in the rear if you don't have what is needed but I found everything at Redhorse Performance. They make a really fitting and it has a look that not many others have. They are a nice shiny black and very clean style. So I ordered a few up.
And some more
Get them out of the box
Get to fitting then onto the car and making it home for them. First the oil tank to the engine
Here are the front water lines. I will be using the Ice Box inside the car for the engine cooling so that's where they will be ran to.
They run down behind the oil tank and then under the car
Now since they go under the car and I have the tank inside I have to install some bulk head fittings into the floor
Now to move onto the inside. As you can see I put a ball valve to regulate the water flow from the engine to the tank and I also put my engine water temp in the return line from the engine in a home made housing. To me it makes sense to as much stuff off the engine as I can so I did it this way.
Next was to get the intercooler hooked up
Now get the air bottle all set up
More to come
Engine bay shot
Now I have the trans cooler and over flow tank in the back of the car on the underside. So here is what I did with them.
2 Gallon Overflow Tank mounted behind the inside of the rear bumper
Time to get the charge pipe from the turbo hooked up. The Exile turbo has a V-Band clamp set up but it's not the best thing to hard mount the pipe to it. So I had to machine up a nice floating set up to all things to expand and move around so nothing cracks. Here is what I did.
First time welding. Not to bad
Here it is installed. Now I can swap out turbos etc.... with no issue. It's really just remove the clamp and make it fit.
Now that I'm in the engine bay area time to put the final touches on stuff and finish up the little things.
Mounting of wires and line to the boost control valves etc.. tucked inside the loom
Time to jump back into the car and get the rear brake lines done
