ARCHIVE Wits' End Turbo Test Mule #3- no cartwheeling allowed

[mudgudgeon]

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Can you make a knight rider light up turbo boost button?

That button is scarily close to the ejection button!

 

[NLXTACY]

For giggles I of course zinc plated all of the OEM spring clamps. I dunno, kinda linking it

 

[NLXTACY]

Making another minor change on the #Turbo truck. The #rondavisracingproducts radiator comes with a 1/8NPT fitting for a 1/4” nipple. Well I can’t leave well enough alone. I want to step it up with 1/8NPT to 3AN and just run a threaded hose to the “new” coolant overflow tank

 

[cruisermatt]

AN hose for coolant overflow? Hell yeah.

 

[jjdeneen918]

Are you keeping a running spreadsheet of what & how much your putting into this rig?

 

[NLXTACY]

AN hose for coolant overflow? Hell yeah.

Just a little bit different

 

[NLXTACY]

Are you keeping a running spreadsheet of what & how much your putting into this rig?

No because my wife sees it

 

[samiam09]

No because my wife sees it

And then the Beating will start!

 

[Dissent]

You really need to get this truck to SEMA this year. Last year there were only a couple of 80s and none had your product line...or a Turbo kit.

 

[NLXTACY]

You really need to get this truck to SEMA this year. Last year there were only a couple of 80s and none had your product line...or a Turbo kit.

I would need to hunt down someone willing to display it. No way in hell I'm doing a booth there.

 

[NLXTACY]

So understanding that the OEM solution was crazy simple and JUST a short length length of some 3/8” oil hose, I decided to way over complicate it by switching all of the trans cooler lines over to AN-6 fittings and Continental hose. I am loving how it’s all turning out and changing hoses is now going to be incredibly easy...in 15 years when it’s time to change then again

 

[NLXTACY]

Honestly I wasn’t going to do it, but the original horn bracket wouldn’t clean up the way I had hoped it would. So yup, I’m sure you know what I did

 

[bryson]

I would need to hunt down someone willing to display it. No way in hell I'm doing a booth there.

I think the shop that is doing all the zinc plating owes it to you by now...

 

[NLXTACY]

I think the shop that is doing all the zinc plating owes it to you by now...

Ha! They don’t even know what SEMA is. They are majority military. Some aerospace.

 

[NLXTACY]

My huge order of Breeze AeroSeal clamps finally arrived. I switched out the t-bolts I did have in there for worm gear clamp. Since these are going onto thin-walled aluminum tubing, worm gear clamps are better for consistent clamping force whereas the t-bolts put more tension on one point and could disfigure the intake pipes.

One of the things I don’t like about worm clamps is how it looks with the excess clamp. It just sits there. Poking out. Mocking me. Well some 3M VHB makes quick work of that.

 

[BILT4ME]

My huge order of Breeze AeroSeal clamps finally arrived. I switched out the t-bolts I did have in there for worm gear clamp. Since these are going onto thin-walled aluminum tubing, worm gear clamps are better for consistent clamping force whereas the t-bolts put more tension on one point and could disfigure the intake pipes.

One of the things I don’t like about worm clamps is how it looks with the excess clamp. It just sits there. Poking out. Mocking me. Well some 3M VHB makes quick work of that.

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Maybe order shorter clamps or have them trimmed to ahead of time.

 

[scottryana]

Oh for **** sake! Cut your own damn clamps!!! Mud has reached a new high/low when you need your hose clamps trimmed for you. Haha

 

[NLXTACY]

Oh for f*** sake! Cut your own damn clamps!!! Mud has reached a new high/low when you need your hose clamps trimmed for you. Haha

The guys on IG are having a conniption fit over them

 

[thatcabledude]

Not to mention all that unsightly mess should be under the pipe

 

[thatcabledude]

....Sheesh