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So started working on AC lines. I'm determined to have AC.... because street car !lol
Had to get creative to clear the down pipe so jimmy rigged the low pressure side fitting for the compressor
Now that I know that clears, I need to get some aluminum tubing and do some more welding to make a custom line and route it under the down pipe .Then I need to use some flex hose and connect to the other half of the factory ac line so I can route it in its factory placement as it sat before
so the ac project is on hold, just waiting to get materials/parts in.
In the mean time i plumbed my oil cooler and started the car up to check for any oil leaks.
car ended up shutting off on its own after maybe about 5 mins. I noticed I wasn't getting a reading on my map sensor. Traced the wiring and well... they got a little melted . I had them to close to the header. I fixed them up and rerouted my harness. Once that was done i got a reading from the map sensor again and started the car back up.
after just a couple of mins noticed the nut on the alternator was glowing red hot which i have never seen before. So i shut the car off since that was a fire waiting to happen.
Maybe a bad alternator?
Anyone ever come across this?
going to do some digging later and check out the alternator wire and clean up the connections. When i had the car running the voltage was at 14.2. With the car off voltage was at 11.8. Seems pretty normal to me.
Ran out of gas in my tank for the welder so won't be able to finish fully welding everything until monday but that pretty much concludes exhaust work. Hoping the motordyne muffler still sounds good.
The muffler portion is 3inches so i had to reduce it somewhere. I also didn't want anything too big we dont have the best streets here, im woried about bottoming out that downpipe as it is.
The muffler portion is 3inches so i had to reduce it somewhere. I also didn't want anything too big we dont have the best streets here, im woried about bottoming out that downpipe as it is.
I see ... yeah, rough roads in these parts as well ... have you checked clearance between the M-brace & driveshaft/chassis?
So I started the car to hear the exhaust and well......
It's terrible. My civic's ebay fart can sounds better. It's extremely loud and raspy.
Loud wouldn't bother me if it sounded good but it sounds very ugly. Doesn't have the tone or throat it use to have at allll.
There isn't even any point to have an exhaust. It sounds better open down pipe lol and its just as loud.
So I have a bit of trial an error to do now.
I can
1) make a 3in down pipe and run maybe a 3in ypipe back single exhaust like the tomei or something so that the 3in midpipe i just made isnt a waste----
or
2) suck it up and run Hal's 4in exhaust setup
Either way I don't think the motordyne is going to cut it anymore
I'm trying the 2nd option first only because its the easiest one. Making the 3in down pipe would involve basically taking everything apart again. I have at least some sort of idea of what Hal's car sounded like at least based on the videos but obviously video quality isn't exactly accurate.
I know no matter what the car is going to be loud though. It just needs to be a tolerable sound at least because right now its not street worthy.
01-22-2018, 06:42 AM
