i want to head down the single sided exhaust myself, too bad my magnaflow isnt a year old yet

 

well, mico update from shenanegins yesterday after mothers day duties.

Currently in Kansas city for work, so no "today" stuff.

Start out with, a little thick and thin aluminum practice for the upcomming intercooler welding work

Went pretty well





and then I just piddled around making the other part of the exhaust and making the exhaust tip.

muffler outlet is 2.5" ID (2.5" slip), but I wanted a 3" outlet (I thought, and wanted it to look just like a straight cut section of pipe.)

So to do this I took a small section of 2.5" tubing and expanded part of it so that it transitioned to the ID of a 3" piece of tubing.



Essentially I got the expansion close, expanded the 2.5" to snug up to the inside of the 3", welded the 2.5" piece into the magnaflow, , put the 3" around, and "press fit" them together and stitch welded the 3" to the magnaflow just to eliminate any rattling (and put a few stitches on the inside transition between the 2.5 and 3")


muffler loop + hangars




not quite final positioning, still working on the last bit of welding which will determine exactly where it sits

 

lookin good!

 

exhaust finished!






Now these parts from germany just need to hurry up and get here!

 

teaser from this evening.

 

"is anybody out thereee!!!"

:/

anywho, to update the teaser pic, here is another few, which should make what it is for quite apparent (or I thought so....)

hole cut and aluminum V-band welded on



well that is a rather short flow path doncha think?



the idea (at least...) mock up with some 3d printed end plates.

 

nice.

Will this be a drag car?

 

i am awaiting your results on your laminova =)

 

Still watching

 

It may do a few trips out to Atlanta Dragway in commerce, GA, but this will mainly be a weekend cruiser and mountain road goer.

some autoX and light track time as well.

 

nice...you better spend some time on the suspension/brakes. You dont need a lot of power when you AutoX because you basically never get out of 2nd gear lol.

 

eh, its just for fun, not to be competitive.

I know this will sound ironic (really) but competitive racing is when you really start burning some cash

that being said I am doing breaks and modest suspension stuff.

I like the suspension setup currently, but will be adding a diff.

(currently on Koni FSD, stock springs, IE fixed camber plates, alta rear sway bar, and alta PSRS)

not an aggressive setup, but significantly better than stock while soaking up expansion joints in concrete roads extremely well (barely hear or feel them)

 

Phenomenal! Just got caught up on this build.

 

Expensive is an understatement lol

 

let me know if people cannot see this. (hotlinking image from instagram instead of uploading to imgur.. call me lazy)

Slow day today, detailing the other mini, etc.

but I did manage to design and make a mount to hold the inlet tube and throttle body in place!

 

so I've got some down time with the build unfortunately. Plates for intercooler have an eta of the end of the month.. hopefully. (guy is cutting me a break on the car parts as he is interested, but has to do it on the weekends etc. I will have a much better surface finish than if I was doing it myself)

but in the mean time I drew up and am debating making a new badge for the rear of the car (seeing as the "Cooper S" logo is gone) in an effort to troll a few off the bimmians that get butt hurt over us putting "BMW" logos on our cars (such as the bmw mini roundell)

Thoughts?

yay/nay on the design ?



(also debating without the CF inlays and just polished aluminum + clear coat)

 

Nay on the emblem. It takes away from your build.

I also think it's dumb to put roundels on MINIs

 

Debadge it, just leave the factory mini logo and remove all the other badging. It'll leave people wondering what just flew past them..

 

if you have spare time? possibly, but dont let it stop your build or having fun with the car

 

well right now I am working on the "not so fun stuff" (re-routing and figuring out the power steering resevoir location, coolant system stuff, batery terminal re-location)
and twiddling my thumbs.

I really need to get my header and downpipe out the door to swaintech

 

Wow - again.

 

Why not dump the power steering, swap in a modified Lotus manual rack, and call it done? No more PS issues... EVER!

 

This is my plan for when my pump dies. I'm already looking for a lotus manual rack...

 

The aftermarket company Sector111 has a Lotus rack with quicker than stock (Lotus) turning ratio...

 

any word on the geometry change and bump steer?