cut my front bumper with sawzall

[TSG59_Steve]

That looks really good.

 

[324vr4]

WOW...you did a very nice job on that...looks like you will see results with such an install...you have any numbers before hand on where your needle pointed and any afterwards?! Be interested to see how much improvement you see! Either way good job buddy!

 

[bmoha2]

Thanks guys
All I have to go on is my hand and the stock temperature gauge. Before, you could have cooked eggs on the hood of the Talon. I did all these things at the same time and it really seems to help. I put the Carbon trix vent into the hood, wrapped the SS DNP exhaust manifold with DEI wrap, fabricated the radiator shroud and filled in my fog light holes. The intake side of the engine bay is noticeably cooler. The turbo is spooling up faster. Mostly I think that is because of the DEI wrap. The spoiler part of the radiator shroud is really burly and does seem to be producing some downforce. That is, the front end seems a bit more planted. Might be my imagination but I think it is helping a bit. Before I did all this, the engine bay used to get really hot. Mostly because of the SS DNP exhaust manny. That sucker really kicks off some heat. Now the heat really seems to be much more localized just around the manny, turbo, downpipe and dumptube. I am also planning on wrapping the SS tubular O2 sensor housing, it's dumptube and the SS 2.5" SS Buschur racing downpipe up to the flex section. After everything is wrapped, I'm going to hi temp silicon spray all of it. I've heard really good things about that high temp spray prolonging the lifespan of the thermal wrap. Before the stock temp gauge always sat at dead level. Now it definitively has a dip to it. Not a huge difference but I guess my goal is not so much to reduce regular operating temp as it is to reduce air intake temps. I bet that my air intake temps have dropped 20 degrees or better. It doesn't even feel hot on that front corner of the engine bay now. I am still planning on making a air intake separator to cool intake temps even further. This car has never overheated and I want to keep it that way. I plan on doing the SCCA event at Blackhawk next year and Road of America if I can get the time off. I did quite a few pulls tonight at 17 psi and it ran clean as all hell! NO stuttering! No stumbling! Just smooth power delivery! I had been experiencing some issues with sporadic stumbling. Seems to be eliminated now. If I had it to do again I would have definitively bought that SS DNP exhaust manifold ceramic coated.
I also went thru the trouble of drilling out and retapping all four of the nuts that hold your front clip on. The ones above the corner markers. So now I can actually bolt my front clip on instead of using zipties!
I am glad I cut the ribbed section out of my front clip but I didn't like looking at the sides of the front opening afterwards. I didn't like the square cut it left on the sides of the front opening. I riveted on a couple of straight sheetmetal sections on the the sides of the front opening and fiberglassed them in. I have just roughed them in at this point but it came out pretty good.

 

[97 GSX 97]

You did a really good job but was it all necessary? I doubt it.

 

[bmoha2]

It's all aimed at high speed SCCA events for next year and all of it was done for very little money. The largest expenditure was for the Carbontrix hood vent. All the sheetmetal aluminum came from my work from signs that they discarded when they rebranded.

 

[Project2G]

With that open space in the front bumper it reminds me of a whale shark.
http://www.whale-shark.org/images/whale_shark_research.jpg

 

[bmoha2]

at least shark is in there somewhere

 

[bmoha2]

primered, painted and clear coated the front clip.

 

[bmoha2]

done

 

[Lofty]

done

Very nicely done good sir!

Looks good.

 

[bmoha2]

Man I tell you what, managing the airflow has helped the Talon tons! Used to be that I couldn't touch the intercooler pipes after a few good hard pulls. Everything in the engine bay would be hot to the touch. Just about get burned by the intercooler pipes. Tonight the Talon was rippin and when I pulled back in the garage the intercooler pipes were cold to the touch. Everything in the engine bay except the turbo and the head itself was cool.

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

Where the hell are the pics? Haven't seen not one in the entire thread...

 

[bmoha2]

again my pics were taken off. I don't see that I violated any posting rules etc. I put some of the pics on my personal gallery.

 

[delta448]

Your gallery pics look like it's pretty good work. Nice job.

How are you trying to put pics in the thread? Are you uploading them to the server or are you linking them from another host site?

 

[bmoha2]

I haven't had any problems in the past.

 

[BoostedinSoFla]

Just upload the pics to PB and embed the links..

 

[bmoha2]

I must have uploaded fifteen pics to this post so far

 

[bmoha2]

direct from the computer

 

[bmoha2]

just a few

 

[mikEclipse99]

that looks good, i like the front bumper you have. it would look 100 times better with a fmic though

 

[bmoha2]

Another One

 

[TurboATM]

looks really good, i like the look of the 2g bumper without foglights alot...and yes, whaleshark came into mind as well

 

[EDM95]

Looks ok, but it could look better had you blacked out the head light houseing.
The chrome headlights and black hood scoop, they just dont look right together.

 

[DSMunknown]

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/hangout/248715-been-working-custom-2gb-eclipse-front-bumper.html
http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/2079/62701583mu7.jpg

 

[bmoha2]

But I want it to look good not cheap