Impreza Group-N project.

[Aram]

Small update,

Did some stuff today after a small summer dip.

Radiator and intercooler time!

The standard GC8 radiator is very good, the only problem are the plastic end tanks which are prone to cracking on the seams after a few years.
So i needed to check if I could weld on aluminum ones.
Luckily I had an old radiator somewhere which I could use for experimenting.

If this works I'll buy a new radiator for the real thing.

Old radiator:



First bits off:



Endtanks gone and behold a nice weld-able core .






I'm not convinced by the 300 dollar taiwanese FMIC kits somehow, and I'm not the only one it seems.
After talking to some pro's the next best thing to mega expensive rally/race cores were actually cores used in production cars.
Now it was only a matter of searching for the right one.

It has to have the right measurements of course, with as much fins per inch as possible.
Also it should be thin, thick cores are not as good as a thin one with a big frontal area.
Problem is that the air going through the core is at core temp halfway through the core thus not cooling anymore.

In the end I went to a big car scrapyard searching through tons of cores.
I found one with all that I needed, except the height, so I need a second one to weld to this one.
It's from a Renault trafic from 2007.
It also has plastic end tanks, so they need to come off as well.

This is how it looks like new:



Sawing off the first pieces:



Debris:



Ready for more torture:



Viola:



The red gasket for the plastic endtanks, check the fins in the core:



A core ready for some nice endtanks:






That was it for now!

[mc68]

i have never seen such an inlet manifold before!

have you got a link to that?

this car isnt very group N anymore

[Roku_trueno]

speed-inc Wrote:Hey DInges

Did you see this:

http://bbs.scoobynet.com/projects-40/661...008-a.html

Might give you some more ideas. :wink:
Not that yours is not a very nice build of course.

OMG, what a project... How much money do they have?

[speed-inc]

Well Zen of course has some more funds.
They are one of the bigger Scooby tuner in the UK and the UK is a very good market.

But still a very nice car.
You should also check the Roger Clark Motorsport car. That is pure porn.

[Aram]

mc68 Wrote:i have never seen such an inlet manifold before!

have you got a link to that?

this car isnt very group N anymore

The manifold is from Tracktive in the UK, but it is pretty expensive I can tell you.

And no, it was never going to be Group-N too.

[Aram]

Roku_trueno Wrote:OMG, what a project... How much money do they have?

More than enough hehehe.

But as Speed-inc. says, the Gobstopper is nicer IMO, but that is also a cost no object project.

[Roku_trueno]

Aram Wrote:... but that is also a cost no object project.

I wish in my future life as a mechanical engineer to have unlimited budget to build a car. But for now I can only dream.... Anyway, you're close to this, as you can afford a project car like yours! Good luck!

[Aram]

Well.... affording is a big word!
I'm broke all the time actually, and one of the reasons I fabricate alot of things myself is that I cannot afford to buy them.
I will be happy when it is finished so I can breathe financially again, but meanwhile, I am enjoying myself very also, I like to fabricate all the stuff aswell, so it's not all that bad.

[speed-inc]

And all that experience can also pay off in the long run.

[Aram]

Maybe some rich Arab dude comes along and wants to pay massive amounts of money for building him one?
Not likely hahaha.
But maybe in other ways it will pay off indeed, let's hope so. \

greets.