Project WDE Talon

[BigTyla]

Im sure they do. Ill let you know.

[BigTyla]

I took a couple of days off work to help my wife move around as her c-section has caused her to be in a lot of pain. I'm having to help her get up out of bed and off the couch since using those muscles are so painful for her. I decided to go ahead and paint my intake manifold, valve cover, throttle body, and intake elbow since it was something I could do for 5-10 mins at a time and still be attentive to my wife. Finished the paint yesterday and sanded down the lettering today for an hour while she was asleep. Tell me what you think!

[j2k4]

Little things mean a lot.

[AdamVR4]

Looks good. How'd you prep them?

[BigTyla]

Looks good. How'd you prep them?

After the sandblasting (a few posts back) I cleaned up some spots with a wire cup brush on my drill. There was still a little dirt on the intake manifold so I sprayed it down with carb cleaner and let it dry. Then I applied Duplicolor low gloss black in one light coat, waited 10 mins, applied another light coat, waited 10 mins, then applied a medium coat. Then I let it dry for a day and sanded the letters down.

[BigTyla]

Adam - Are you running a/c with your FMIC? I'm going back and forth between a bigger SMIC, a FMIC, or a water to air. I'm afraid of overheating issues with a front mount as many 1G DSMs have this issue even with good ducting, and add to that the fact that I only plan on running a TD05 turbo and that I want to keep my a/c, the SMIC seems to make the most sense.

Pros to FMIC:
Cheap
Good air charge cooling

Cons to FMIC:
Blocks air to radiator, a/c condenser
Turbo lag
Relatively high pressure loss

Pros to SMIC:
No effect on radiator or a/c condenser cooling
Shorter piping means less turbo lag
Lower pressure loss than FMIC

Cons:
Less effective at cooling intake charge due to decreased frontal area

Pros to water-air:
Most effective at cooling intake air
Least pressure drop of any other option
Least turbo lag of any other option (shorter intake pipe routing)

Cons to water-air:
Most costly (but not by a significant amount)
Most complex (provisions for water pump, radiator, and reservoir must be taken into account)

[Granny]

Sexy!

For the most part I haven't seen a lot of detail put in the DSM engine bays as far as appearance.

Maybe something the 3S community could bring to the table.

[nodoze]

lol granny did u look at my engine bay its all shiny , looking good tyler, just get some big fans its keeping my temps down right now two ten inch fans rated at 900 cfm each

[BigTyla]

Sexy!

For the most part I haven't seen a lot of detail put in the DSM engine bays as far as appearance.

Maybe something the 3S community could bring to the table.

There are a lot more out there than you think. A lot of projects go absolutely crazy with wire tucks, fuse box relocations, power steering/air conditioning deletes, vacuum reductions, etc. When done right they look very clean. It'd probably be harder to make it look as clean on a 3S due to the extra piping but I do agree that 3S engine bays tend to have more bling.

[Granny]

lol granny did u look at my engine bay its all shiny , looking good tyler, just get some big fans its keeping my temps down right now two ten inch fans rated at 900 cfm each

I found your thread. Looking forward to reading it. Looks like a great project.

There are a lot more out there than you think. A lot of projects go absolutely crazy with wire tucks, fuse box relocations, power steering/air conditioning deletes, vacuum reductions, etc. When done right they look very clean. It'd probably be harder to make it look as clean on a 3S due to the extra piping but I do agree that 3S engine bays tend to have more bling.

I was generally speaking about the ones we get at the shop. They tend to be more interested in more go then show.
I do try to make the most of what they have when putting them back together.

It's been fun learning these cars.