dont u dare get rid of it haha

I am not...CAN NOT buy it even if I wanted another 06. I have $80 to feed me for the next month lol. Besides I doubt Kelly will regret selling it. He has so damn many projects he probably forgets about half of em most of the time!!

Adam is pretty much spot on. I enjoy building stuff way too much for people who have some $$$$$ than rather do work on my budget build. Im too busy working on everyone elses stuff that my car is the last thing on my mind, if someone offered me money for it I wouldnt hesitate to sell it and probably wouldnt notice that its gone except for the fact that it wouldnt be sitting in front of the house.

That said bidding starts at $16k

oh wow.. really..? shoot me some pics of what its looking like right now..

nooooooo


and 16k w/ all the mods? :eyebrows: :lol:

I get stuff back from Powdercoat today, so is someone gonna buy my car

[QUOTE=kmurphy;3240179]I get stuff back from Powdercoat today, so is someone gonna buy my car[/QUOTE]

lol i put mine up for sale too.
think you could fab a custom exhaust for a 335i?1300$ for a 2.5" catback is insane to me.

I would love too, what yr 335?
ive got stock dps and fixtures made for making downpipes for both the n54 and n55 motor but havent got around to actually making them :(

[QUOTE=kmurphy;3240427]I would love too, what yr 335?
ive got stock dps and fixtures made for making downpipes for both the n54 and n55 motor but havent got around to actually making them :([/QUOTE]

as for right now i have a 09 sedan on standbuy pending a guy picking the car up. white w/black interior,sport pkg. 100% bone stock minus gunmetal VMR vb3 wheels.

goals are simple. cattless DP,tune and dci. im stuck on which tuner to go with. the procede from vishnu has killer reviews BUT i HATE fftec with a passion.
the burger jb4 seems to fit the bill for me. id be willing to be your test pilot for downpipes,just do me a solid on price lol.

what about going with the access port?

[QUOTE=kmurphy;3240434]what about going with the access port?[/QUOTE]

from what ive read and the handful of people ive met in the last 30 days,say its a waste UNLESS you know someone who can live tune with it.the canned tunes blow.

[QUOTE=kmurphy;3235630]Im stoked but then again im not. Havent driven the vehicle in months so at this point I could "almost" care less if its running or not, or care for even owning it lol. We'll see what happens once the vehicle is running. Ive had some kw v3's sitting here for months that need installing as well. Have ground control camber plates on them, linear spring conversion on the rear and upgraded spring rates all the way around. So the car should be fairly ready for fun this summer. I also got a diesel truck and am searching for a trailer right now to tow it with.

But I could turn around in a month and sell it for whatever just to get rid of itm who knows[/QUOTE]

could you tell me where you got the linear kit, and the rear camber plates for the v3's? Im really thinking about doing mine.

[QUOTE=bkblitzed;3240444]could you tell me where you got the linear kit, and the rear camber plates for the v3's? Im really thinking about doing mine.[/QUOTE]

RC Engineering

just found em. Do you know if the linear kit will work with the stock rear top hats? Only got enough for the kit haha

So I sold my radiator and intercooler setup last week since I wasnt 100% happy with it. So version 3 will start asap so i can get the car running.

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how much did that little pipe cost? :lol::lol:

Thats probably $20 in titanium

But...........titanium filler rod goes for over $100 lb, upwards of close to $150.

I wanted a "cheap" way to play with some titanium and actually be able to make a part from it. Its actually not "that" expensive.

Not bad

Our tie rod extenders are made from titanium and the grade used was $bank$!

would imagine they were made from grade 5 titanium or also known as 6al-4v. Guys at work always laugh at me when I made **** from high grade materials. They couldnt believe the cost on the inconel tubing i had bent to make rotated kits.

321 stainless front manifold blouch xtr 20g

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would love a set of headers from you lol

thats hot

Interesting setup for a standard location turbo, should be interesting to see how the spool time differs for sure.

On a side note with the turbo mounted centrally how much piping length do you think you saved over the OE location?

Is this for the Manx build?

Ya this is for tube frame Mendola suspension equipped Manx. Turbo size should be plenty big for such a lightweight chassis. Off the top of my head total of 5' of piping probably compared to an actual header.

That turbo placement with an air-to-water intercooler would be amazaballs on a Subaru.

Ya, im half tempted to make myself a set and run the smaller gtx3071r turbo since I just sold my radiator and intercooler and redoing the setup. Nice quick spooling setup for fun in the sierras.

I need to take some welding courses.

I actually need one of those drain adapters this post was originally made for!

how soon you need one?

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Bunch of random pics from the last couple weeks of stuff finalized, stuff in progress, and a nice large turbo that will start fab on soon.

Not in a desperate rush have a few things to iron out on the new setup first.

What turbo is that? The comp cover looks huge but the wheel not so much.

Running a new turbo or a complete new turbo setup? The turbo is a bw s466 with a billet Wheel and .9* something ar twinscroll housing.... Shotting for 800 hp

It's a whole new engine and turbo setup geared towards 1000whp.

Yummy! Well if you need any help with materials/machining let me know

havent messed with the welding positioner in months so i thought i make something with it.

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AOS or CC? Looks nice either way.

^Agreed

So finally giving my e30 some attention even though the sti needs it way more. After over a week of adding 3 gallons of bondo to the severly dented roof and sanding it I finally got it ready to be used as a mold/template for the carbon replacement. I will be caging the e30 and will cut off the roof once its ready to be welded and then install the carbon roof once that is done.
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man with all these projects going on,any idea on when you might start breaking ground on a n54 downpipe? i was going to pull the trigger on a vrsf set but im holding off for a little longer.

and another thought was a charge pipe..

and this maybe a total waste of your skills but im looking for someone to make some rockrails for my f250 using 2-2.5" dom

The n54 downpipes are a much bigger fixture to build and im also not quite sure if Id rather build them off the fixture or on a actual vehicle. making a fixture of an oem part only does so much. I get accurate start and and end points as well as fixturing oem bracket locations. The negative aspect is it doesnt tell me how I can improve the oem routing or how far away i am from something if I choose the oem routing and use large diameter tubing.

some diesel parts that are probably a little too nice to be put on a diesel lol.

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Made the first part for the new truck. 3.5" turbo inlet pipe that then goes up to 4" piping. Polished it all today and dropped it off to get powdercoated. Hopefully it comes out nice since I went with a color thats out in left field for me.

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Couple minutes measuring and some more transferring it into solidworks and i have my straight lengths, bend angles, start of bends,etc... then a couple minutes transferring those to tubing and then bending and I have a main hoop that fits nicely in one shot.

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Got my intake tubing back from powdercoating that i made from the previous page. Definitely different from what i usually run but i think the color came out very nice, and in person in the sun the color is amazing.

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And once I do the egr and make a new intake bridge I'll have more room for to be able to redo my turbo inlet (with the clearance dent) and make it one without the clearance dent so that everything can flow and look great.

I thought you sold that truck

I sold the dodge, but I bought a 2008 duramax

Oh Jesus! I hope they fixed the injector issue in the Duramaxes...

I think the injector issues are way in the past in the older lb7 motor. I have the lmm which is supposed to be one of the better motors. I did exhaust and a tuner and it woke up quite a bit.

Oh you did? LOL duramax ftw. And they fixed the injector issues in 04.5+. Too bad I have an 04. Have changed the injectors once so far. What a pain :(

Ya one of my employees has one... Cost him 4k to get them replaced. I told him to sell that ****!!

Ya the duramax is very nice. Bought a white '08 extended cab short bed w/ towing package, z71 package. Took forever to find a nice short bed extended cab not many of those rolling around duramax equipped.

I'm still searching everyday for a trailer, might drive to Reno this week and grab one.

Short bed extended cab? Might as well buy an avalanche, cause that's not a real truck!!

No need to overcompensate here buddy.

[QUOTE=kmurphy;3279271]No need to overcompensate here buddy.[/QUOTE]

:rofl:

I was talking about a trucks ability to haul stuff... You know, the thing they were made for? So tell me, how big is the lift, and the tires? ;)

It will tow just as good as a crew cab or long bed setup. Bed is large enough to put anything I would need to in it. Besides I need something semi light so I can pull several car lengths on your Suby :) !!

And it's not getting lifted, I'm going the opposite of the bro way. I'm lowering the frot end a tad so the cv's are straight and then lowering the back end to level out the truck.

Heres a trick new duramax intake bridge I designed and built up over the past couple weeks.

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oooooooh snap

Oh ya!

just catching up on some of the stuff you did over the past month or so and once again amazed.. keep up the great work man..

thank you.........So after finishing my car and then selling what i built because i wasnt happy with it i have now started v2.1. Here is where im currently at-need to do a little more fab work so i can get my measurments for the radiator and then i think im ordering a stepped core from australia.

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I want I want!!

so nice! hey i pm'd ya...

Some diesel parts back from powdercoat-

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And heres some pics of the rear mounted EJ motor for a custom build- got a couple hrs in last night. Have some minor things to do on the exhaust and then its done. Need to enlarge the intake manifold plenum and install the big bore throttle body. Then need to build the A/W intercooler core setup, have a nice Bell core here waiting for sheet metal, and build all the associated piping with it and the intake. Should be done in a week or so.

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And here is the duramax that all the green and black parts are going on, reassembly is almost done. Running a billet BW s466 with a race cover. Shooting to have it done and tuned by the truck event at sac raceway on the 21st or whatever date it is.

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wow, that's gonna be a beast.. pm'd ya..

I hope you go IWIC on your Subie after fabbing one up for the Manx.

Nope, no AWIC for me. Keeping it simple since once the car is done I may seriously get rid of it. We'll see how I like it after its driving again.

In 2015? :)

Hey now, I just got brand new alternator and power steering pump. All my fuel fittings came in as well as my stainless steel tubing to run all hard lines for fueling in the bay. Fuel rails were polished and now back from powder coating. I'm making good progress for working on 2 vehicles as well as everything else.

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is the rear mounted EJ going in a VW??

Nope

heres what i did today, wanted to get more done but was kinda lazy-

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some aluminum welding, kinda crappy pics of the welds themselves but somewhat displays them.

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Off topic: [url]https://www.i-club.com/forums/bay-area-15/shops-can-repair-stress-fractures-transmission-case-246972/[/url]

Mentioned ya.

heres a prototype duramax uppipe which eliminates the egr.
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Here are some pics of my new fuel system stuff. I bent and flared my own stainless steel hard lines. Gives it a nice clean look as well as declutters it without having thick hose running everywhere. Still need to run the soft lines where the return lines end to the regulator and then from where the feed T-off is to the oem lines at the firewall.

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I love when kmurphy posts in this thread!

Heres my power steering resv. machined a bracet on the manual mill, some stitch welds on the bottom of the bracket to resv. to have a clean look up top without welds.

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And my endtanks getting welded, still need to machine my mounting bungs and weld them on sides of the endtanks and then weld the tanks to the core and start on the mounting of the radiator.

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giggity

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So much sex.. Whats this going in?

Pretty much what I was thinking when doin another bug with an EJ

That would be dope.

V-mount radiator build

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Here is my custom muffler I made. Mimics the oem sti muffler shape with a 3" mandrel bent perforated core. All stainless with a brushed satin finish, and ceramic packing.

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i want some of your parts...

Awesome stuff!

How do we go about getting the oil drain setup from you?

a start

[url=http://www.importimageracing.com/shopby/tigwerks.html]Import Image Racing[/url]

Josh should have some. I'm out of stock right now but should be making more soon.

Some more work on this setup. Should be just about finished after tomorrow.

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So this is to replace the oil line under the turbo with a hard line?

[url=http://www.importimageracing.com/tigwerks-oil-drain-for-02-13-subaru.html]Tigwerks Oil Drain for 02-11 Subaru Import Image Racing[/url]

Either by making a hard line or using a soft line setup with AN fittings. Made because I hated routing the oil line on rotated turbo setups with that factory hard line. Now I can point the line towards the turbo directly out of the block and have a nicely routed line that's not on the verge of kinking, and its easy to install.

[QUOTE=kmurphy;3341404]Either by making a hard line or using a soft line setup with AN fittings. Made because I hated routing the oil line on rotated turbo setups with that factory hard line. Now I can point the line towards the turbo directly out of the block and have a nicely routed line that's not on the verge of kinking, and its easy to install.[/QUOTE]

Wish I would have known all that a couple weeks ago. I just replaced that 4" line on the turbo last week :(