Fubar's GT Build


Fubar

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Well, Fish just installed the blow down tube, small ⅜ fitting under the seat that is flush to the outside. I dont have any pictures of the plumbing yet but here are a few of the bracket we made. It attaches to the seat (say as the fire bottle) and it bolts up to the frame behind the kick panel.

Maybe fish can chime in with more details... hell, he'd probably be willing to cut you a deal on the bracket. I suspect he is ready for some ROI.
 

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Ed Sims

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Rally 12?

Ed
 

STORMCAT

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Really cool Mark !! I hear you met my nephew at cars and coffee .. He enjoyed meeting you and seeing your car !! Hope to see your bad boy someday !!
 

BlackICE

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Well, Fish just installed the blow down tube, small ⅜ fitting under the seat that is flush to the outside. I dont have any pictures of the plumbing yet but here are a few of the bracket we made. It attaches to the seat (say as the fire bottle) and it bolts up to the frame behind the kick panel.

Maybe fish can chime in with more details... hell, he'd probably be willing to cut you a deal on the bracket. I suspect he is ready for some ROI.

It would be a laugh if you had a leak. :lol
 

soroush

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looks fantastic! love the quality on your build, it really is a masterful piece of work!
 

Fubar

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Rally 12?

Ed

Thought about begging Dave for a last minute reservation but I am fearful of tuning grimlins.

Currently I have 1 (maybe 2) coils that are giving me problems.
We still need to setup the knock sensor sensitivity.
Traction control is in there but untested.
Boost by gear - requires finding the power limit of the tires in each gear.
Then there is E85 tune and a race fuel tunes.

Nitrous will be calculated based on tables. No need to pop that cork on a dyno.

Then we can address any little drive-ability issues.... based on historic progress, I'd say two weeks is overly optimistic.
 

Fubar

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It would be a laugh if you had a leak. :lol

'If your going to go... go with smile!'
- J. Napier
 

Fubar

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Thanks Soroush
 

MoTeC Magic

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Hi Guys,

We bought an off the shelf nitrous bracket and modified it. The bottle and bracket were listed at 7" dia. but the bottle was significantly under that so we have smaller rings in production now. The floor bracket picks up the front seat fasteners just like the fire bottle as Mark mentioned, and we picked up two fastens on the diagonal frame rail in the kick panel fuse area for the front of the bracket. The floor bracket is 1/8" alum with 3 welded tabs. 1/8" isn't really thick enough on its own to support the bottle weight especially considering the leverage it has on the flat floor bracket, but we needed it thin to hide properly under the carpet. The bracket isn't going anywhere due to the fasteners at each end, but to achieve the strength we needed in twist, we used a 3m double sided tape on the entire bottom side of the bracket.

The pluming comes in through the firewall near the AC lines. One -4AN feed line for nitrous to the motor, and one -8AN blow down line. The feed line routes along side the driver rocker with the rest of our custom hard lines for the IC, and the blow down tube is there to release the pressure of the bottle and its contents outside of the car should the burst disc blow. It routes through the front firewall and down to a fitting welded to the top side of the front belly pan, leaving a flat, flush hole in the bottom of the pan where the fitting would dump nitrous should it need to to prevent bottle rupture.

You can see the solenoids (nitrous to motor and purge) on the IC water tank between the IC inlet an outlet. The Nitrous solenoid is hardline to the IC outlet, just ahead of the DBW throttle body. The purge is hardline to the license plate frame, Mark has one of the billet Ford GT frames that had a camera pocket in the top... we machined it to take a LED and the purge line discharge. It will purge out the back and light it up blue. We'll see how it looks as soon as we get the bottle back in the car with the new rings.

Having the belly pan off to install this stuff above and the new turn signal LED bulbs, we took the opportunity to replace the bottom radiator shroud that I was never happy with. I have also attached images showing the lower radiator alum shroud we just built that matches the upper alum shroud we built a while back. The rubber OE shrouds are thin, leak air around the cores, and rip over time. This is a much better solution.

Cheers
 

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Ed Sims

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So close to being ready! Cool.

Ed
 

Kingman

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Ya know how the engine is exposed on a Ford Deuce hot rod, is this the modern interpretation!?

Flathead in the front on the oldie vs. Sumthin Wild in the back on the newbie!
 

mmlcobra

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Over the top!!!
Congrats!!!
Mark
 

Triheart7

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Hell of a project. Very impressive.
 

Fubar

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Not sure if any of you guys are going to make it out to SEMA this year but this car will be on display somewhere along the main drag (I am told). It is part of the “Battle of the Builders” competition so hopefully it gets some good attention. She looked pretty good for an 11 year old car when they loaded her on the truck. Hopefully there aren’t any twin-turbo 2017 FGTs out there, oh wait.... they’re all twin-turbos. Damn!
 

fjpikul

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StormCat will be there. His new GT will be a showcar as well.
 

Fubar

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Cool, maybe he will let me sit in it, I just need somebody to make engine noises so I can pretend to be racing.
 

NorthwoodGT

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jeez oh pizza! what a project! incredible job! I've been following this since it was a bare chassis tipped on it's side. wow!
 

fjpikul

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Ha, we are having him evaluate your work and build. We have given him a report card to fill out.
 

Specracer

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Do you have any more detail as to where it's going to be? You say main drag, is it inside or outside? We will be there, want to be sure to see it.
 

Fubar

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It will be outside, I am told near the Ford exhibit but I don’t really know. I’ll post up details as soon as I have them.