Fred's FreeEMS Powered 89 Ford Courier w/ Holset fed FE-DOHC

[pishta]

That Ute is going to haul one thing...ASS!!! That's freaking awesome. Love the DIY fab work. How did you round the plenum intakes? I have to do that with mine or make some stacks. Mine are still rough stubs.

[Fred]

It did/does haul arse, yes! :-)

The plenum was created using steel donuts sliced in half with an inner diameter that matched the runner pipe.


Before grinding/filing it perfectly smooth and rubbing it with emery paper:





After grinding it, and yes, the flow path is as perfect as it looks:

[pishta]

outstanding. I dont have the skills to pull that off, but Im going to epoxy said sliced "donut" rings over the top of my stubs so the entry is a little less shearing. That or something like this, but production pieces are $50 US per piece!!!! F that!

or go crazy with some Dollar store kids horn bits....

[Fred]

I will buy you a beer if we ever meet and you have used dollar-store trumpet parts for intake stacks! :-)

[pishta]

Your on! After the first non inter-cooled turbocharged run, im afraid i wont be able to prove i used them though..8>Q

[Fred]

Spray water.

[pishta]

Windshield washer fluid with methanol...

[Fred]

No recent pics of my engine bay in this thread, so here's one I uploaded to the FreeEMS facebook page earlier!

FB image, so likely to be a broken link at some point:



Bug me if broken and I'll fix.

Fred.

[Fred]

My connectors have 23 pins. I will be setting up the Jaguar with 4 ground pins (2 for all FETs, 1 for reference, 1 for sensors), no digital inputs, and no boost pin.

I will make an adaptor loom to the above configuration minus the three. Pin out to come. The hotel ECU will be getting a matching pin out and a swappable ECU solution. Right now it's pretty hard-coded into the car.

Fred.

[pishta]

we are trying to make an intake just like that over at slantsix.org for our old "leaning towers of power". Thats a tidy build!