nzae86's TRD ae86 N2 Race Car Project 2,

[nzae86]

It's a while since I have posted any photos of progress , I have been working away slowly joining all the dots together , with things like dash , clutch and brake lines, and a lot of bits and pieces.
The new filter arrived for the end of the air box , and should allow a good flow without any restriction, I still need to make a alloy shield around the radiator side of the filter to keep the warm air from passing through the radiator and into the intake ,



Also found a suitable coil pack and mounted that up, pity its from a Ford!




Also had a bit of a move around of things in the workshop so I could get the new car on the hoist , so it got it's first taste of the outdoors! I decided that it doesn't look too bad either !!






The rest of the signage should be done this week so will post a pic of it when done .

[robokill]

I love the Levin TRD N2 :-D Great build incredible work

[Ivan141]

Awesome car! One little thing though: why use a nice airbox like that and then fit a whopper of an open airfilter right in front of it? Seems a shame to let it suck up hot engine bay air...

[Kid Karola]

how long until it fires up into life?

[banpei]

I love the colors!

[nzae86]

Ivan141 Wrote:Awesome car! One little thing though: why use a nice airbox like that and then fit a whopper of an open airfilter right in front of it? Seems a shame to let it suck up hot engine bay air...

Like I said in my post I am yet to make a shield to stop it from ingesting warm air from the radiator , what would you do to guarantee a unrestricted supply of filtered air ? I listen to any ideas . Remember the further the air has to travel through pipes more restriction and disturbance is created .

[nzae86]

Kid Karola Wrote:how long until it fires up into life?

Hi I'm hoping that it should come to life around Christmas time , depending on my work commitments , I have just purchased the rear brakes and have sorted the front rotors now to fit the wilwood 4 pots in a 13'' wheel, plus more wiring and all the small bits and pieces that appear to consume large amounts of time .

[Ivan141]

Ah, missed the part about making an enclosure for it... sounds like a sound idea to me. Most racecars running serious airboxes use ridiculously wide diameter piping to the front end of the car.
A well-insulated enclosure will do the trick as well I suppose. Might be worth your while to experiment a bit with cold air feeds to the enclosure, but the problem would still be that an enclosure is unlikely to seal good enough to build any positive pressure.

Not sucking up hot air is a good place to start i reckon.

[Jimmi The Kid]

Why not building a Ram-Air intake, a funnel ind the front, mayby with a integrated airfilter and a big pipe up to your airbox?

[nzae86]

Jimmi The Kid Wrote:Why not building a Ram-Air intake, a funnel ind the front, mayby with a integrated airfilter and a big pipe up to your airbox?

One thing that I don't want to do to this body shell is to start cutting away the front panel, also I want to keep the flow of air as unrestricted as possible ,that is why I chose a large K&N filter to get the largest surface area of air,it also has a 4'' inlet to get the maximum amount of air to the airbox, so it may end up as a compromise to build a shield around the filter and house it all in the engine bay.Taking a cold feed without a filter will destroy my very expensive engine in a short time .Also with the data logging that I have in this car I will be able to keep a track of intake air temp and if it is a problem I will try something else

Here is what I have on my rally car , there is a good flow of fresh air from around the headlight area


This engine is not quite as radical as my track car so its air supply is not so critical.