Some quick progress tonight, 95% completed the timing cover engine mount.
 
Just hacked off a tab


 
Hacked up a bit of 50x50x3 angle and drilled holes to match the engine mount point.

 
Bolted it in for a test fit

 
Welded the mount into position

 
Then test fitted.


 
Will dig out the CAD tomorrow and get the chassis sides of the mounts designed.

Great work, I hope to have your skills one day. Are you bringing this to MTC 2015?

Buy an angle grinder and a mig welder and you will have my skills within a week :)
It better be ready by the MTC2015, or I'll be slamming my head in the door several times for failing to do so...

Cheers Australia Post Man Dude Fella.
Presents arrived!

 
CoolerPro 300x280x75 intercooler for the SlushDub to replace the small stock top mount.

 
And the exhaust mergers for the V6

 
Not a big fan of the outlet on the 3 to 1 collectors. The collector is press formed from 3" tubing, so they have rolled the nose of the outlet to bring it down to 2".

 
So I have just ordered a pair of 3" to 2" reducers.

With them I will cut the collector outlet back towards the inlets, then weld the reducer on. This should smooth the collector out and provide a nicer flow path for the exhaust. Once I have completed that, I can move onto 3D modelling it and then 3D printing out the mergers to go with the exhaust lego.

Nice, you have 4 months.

So much time, yet so little... Anyway, more progress thanks to a busy Sunday.
 
CAD'd the engine side mount, then cut it out of steel.

 
Quick test fit.

 
My multi-utility table

 
Fitted and welded the mount in place

 
Then added a bit more weld to the gearbox side

 
Now it holds itself up!


 
Next up is to start reinforcing the chassis points where the torque mounts will go.

Such a talented prick... so much great work!

Spent a day giving the SlushDub some love, hopefully it will get it ready enough for a shake down at Queensland Raceway on the 22nd.
 
Did some comparison measurements between the stock intercooler and the CoolerPro unit.



 
Unfortunately I lack a couple of 2.5" to 2" silicon hoses so I couldn't mount the new cooler in the car. I also need to get some tabs welded to the intercooler to utilise the stock mounting points, but those will have to wait till after the 22nd. So I grabbed a spare thermo fan and installed it onto the stock intercooler and refitted it.
 

 

 
Spent the afternoon putting a lot of interior back in and tidying the car back up in general. Currently has a mix of blue and black trim, but I'm hoping to replace it all with black soon enough.


 

Decided to put in another half hours works and have a crack on putting together one of my 3 in 1 taper mergers for the V6 exhaust. The 3" to 2" tapers arrived Tuesday so it was just a case of measure them up and work out what to cut off each.
 
After cutting the required amount off each part, I stuck them together in the lathe to align them for welding.

 
Then added a couple of tack welds.

 
Small ~0.5mm ridge on the inside that will get ground flat once the welds are done.

 
Showing the seperate parts and then the final combination.

 
The mergers are 150mm long, which matches the exhaust calculations I've been doing. Just need to take the final measurements off the part to put into CAD software so I can 3D print a couple for the exhaust lego.

Productive day on the SlushDub.
 
During the week I had some silicon pipes turn up for the bigger intercooler.

 
Quickly improvised a bit of silicon tube and some exhaust tubing to join up the J pipe to the intake.

 
Also fabricated up a new battery clamp.

 
 
Then had to extend the positive battery lead because the terminal, so managed to bodge this up.


 
Yay, it all fits!

 
 
And to finish this off, I'll leave the little cool japanese guard lights that came with the car