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> Andyrews Progress Thread, 1/16/22 A Trip to The Red Barn - Lets fab a Firewall!
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post Aug 27 2011, 09:40 PM
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Good advice Mike! I'll get to that sometime, as of right now the car is never parked in the sun (I park it in a warehouse at work).
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post Aug 27 2011, 11:00 PM
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Hey what size tires are on the rear?
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post Aug 28 2011, 12:55 AM
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post Aug 28 2011, 04:28 PM
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post Aug 28 2011, 06:57 PM
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I take that back 285 35 18's.

City of Modesto gave me a 1/2" piece of wood in my tire from their tree trimming (And crappy cleaning up) so now I have to replace it...


Yay..
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post Aug 29 2011, 12:49 PM
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Sigh...


$200 later, I just ordered a new one.. American tire couldnt fix it, they did offer to prorate it for me for a new tire, but they couldnt get the same tire and I know the Sumitomo tires run very tall... I have a phone call into City of Modesto to see if they will do anything for me.


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post Aug 29 2011, 03:59 PM
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I received a pleasant phone call from the city of modesto saying they would like to see the tire and are going to call me tomorrow to look at the tire!

There is hope!

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post Sep 3 2011, 02:54 PM
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Glad you didn't sell her. Looking great now. Keep up the good work. =)
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post Sep 12 2011, 12:05 PM
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Had a couple of cooling related issues. First off the autozone chrome water inlet on the intake manifold has been corroding away on the inside and finally corroded so far that it created a leak. Pretty bad.. So I drained and flushed the system and installed a factory cast piece that looks like it wont ever have that problem. Took a couple of tries to get all the air out of the system but I did it.

Another issue I had was I had a pusher and a puller 12 or 14" fans (cant remember) and the pusher's connections broke and caused for fraying of wires and a contained electrical fire. I removed the pusher and have been running just a puller, however I wired it backwards on accident and I also decided that one fan just isnt enough. So while dad was picking up some bolts at pick and pull for my honda he picked up a Lincoln Mark VIII radiator fan. 18" of fan glory that fits the radiator PERFECT. MY OH MY does this thing suck air. Absolutely dwarfs the old fan and supposedly pulls 4k CFM. I have it running on just the LOW setting and will setup a separate switch for the HIGH setting (its a 2 stage fan). The only thing I think I have left to do for the radiator is setup a duct to force the air out the wheel wells as I think there is some turbulence currently and I dont think its as efficient as it could be.


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that is one bitchen 914 - i must say - just what a pair of newly weds need : )


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post Sep 12 2011, 03:14 PM
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Had a couple of cooling related issues. First off the autozone chrome water inlet on the intake manifold has been corroding away on the inside and finally corroded so far that it created a leak. Pretty bad.. So I drained and flushed the system and installed a factory cast piece that looks like it wont ever have that problem. Took a couple of tries to get all the air out of the system but I did it.

Another issue I had was I had a pusher and a puller 12 or 14" fans (cant remember) and the pusher's connections broke and caused for fraying of wires and a contained electrical fire. I removed the pusher and have been running just a puller, however I wired it backwards on accident and I also decided that one fan just isnt enough. So while dad was picking up some bolts at pick and pull for my honda he picked up a Lincoln Mark VIII radiator fan. 18" of fan glory that fits the radiator PERFECT. MY OH MY does this thing suck air. Absolutely dwarfs the old fan and supposedly pulls 4k CFM. I have it running on just the LOW setting and will setup a separate switch for the HIGH setting (its a 2 stage fan). The only thing I think I have left to do for the radiator is setup a duct to force the air out the wheel wells as I think there is some turbulence currently and I dont think its as efficient as it could be.


What size inlet hole did you cut? Mine seems much smaller than modern renegade conversions, and I wonder if this is causing my 200 degree freeway temps.
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post Sep 12 2011, 03:42 PM
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Mine is the entire width of the front trunk, from fog lamp gril to fog lamp grill. The key is to have twice as much on the air exit. That way it creates a low pressure zone. My rotary stays at 180 and slowly creeps to 200 if I'm not moving.
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post Sep 12 2011, 04:24 PM
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My inlet on the bumper is ~ 5.5 x 21"

You can see the bumper cutout in the pic Jim posted, the cutout in the front of the trunk is a couple inches larger than that. The problem that I see with the inlet setup right now is that air that goes through the hole in the bumper isnt forced into the trunk, there is a couple of inches around the bumper all the way around between the bumper and the trunk. If I eliminated this gap with fiberglass on the bumper I suspect more airflow at higher speeds (Granted I dont have cooling problems at high speeds except on hot hot days).

And Mike has it right, the biggest thing is 2x the outlet as the inlet. Which is why I believe if you shroud the outlet the efficiency of the hole size would be much increased, for example you would only need 1.5x the size.


Just one of those things im looking to experiment with.
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post Sep 12 2011, 06:34 PM
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I have a rubber dam between the bumper hole and radiator. This forces all the air through my shroud.
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post Sep 12 2011, 10:06 PM
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Do you have a pic of said rubber? I never noticed it on your car
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Do you have a pic of said rubber? I never noticed it on your car

You can barely see it if you look through the grill. I would have to dissassemble the shroud to get a picture. It's made from a bed liner mat. 1/4" thick and cut to shape.

EDIT: Found a pic. Not great but you get the idea...

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post Sep 12 2011, 11:51 PM
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So that material attatches to your bumper? Looks like that kind of thing could certainly work.. Better than hours of fiberglassing...
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post Oct 23 2011, 10:53 PM
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This is just a teaser to some of our kick ass engagement pics. I was able to convince her to let me incorporate the 914 in some of our pictures. Were really happy how these have turned out so far and we hope you guys like them as much as we do! I'll post up some more in a couple of weeks.

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