Show me your clean engine bays

[11secDSM]

Clean that shit up! The original reason I cleaned mine up is because I HATE working in a dirty engine bay.

 

[Bud92gsx]

Its just from having it o2 dumped right now,maybe too low for the trailer toook the exhaust off.

 

[gofer]

Here's one with everything off..not sure if I have one with the lights in. Upper piece unbolts for even more room.

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Did you do the fab work yourself? I see you live near STM and they seem to be doing a lot of DSM's radiator supports like that lately. Either way, that's impressive.

 

[11secDSM]

Did you do the fab work yourself? I see you live near STM and they seem to be doing a lot of DSM's radiator supports like that lately. Either way, that's impressive.

STM is about 5 hours away...JMF however, is 10 minutes away. I did do the fab work myself though! First attempt at anything like this with some helpful hints from my friends at JMF. Thanks for the compliment!

 

[Archer Fabrications]

Did you cut the fender and all that fromt bumper support etc off? Or did it unbolt there. Ive been contemplating doing tubular xmembers when my car is 100% track used.

 

[11secDSM]

Did you cut the fender and all that fromt bumper support etc off? Or did it unbolt there. Ive been contemplating doing tubular xmembers when my car is 100% track used.

None of it unbolts from the factory...it's all hacked off with a sawzall and recreated.

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[Archer Fabrications]

You did a good job! Was there any science to where you hacked or did you just eyeball it all? Amd how did you fab up everything so the bumper and lights would be perfectly where they are supposed to. Amazing work.

 

[11secDSM]

You did a good job! Was there any science to where you hacked or did you just eyeball it all? Amd how did you fab up everything so the bumper and lights would be perfectly where they are supposed to. Amazing work.

There's a good amount of pics in my build thread throughout the various stages of this. As for the science of it, there really isn't any. Cut in a spot you feel is correct and go from there. Rebuilding it involved working w/ a few reference points (fenders, hood, etc). Look at the pics in my build thread and it should answer some of your questions.

http://www.dsmtuners.com/forums/dsm-build-journals/424485-9-second-1g-auto-drag-build.html

 

[J_HEATH]

Still a work in progress

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[140traps]

So many sick engine bays in this thread!!

 

[dsmcurse]

wire tucked, re-painted, custom mannifolds (both intake and exhaust) all custom piping

 

[Archer Fabrications]

Where is the fuze box? And how did you get it there?

 

[dsmcurse]

the master fuse box panel from under the hood is relocated into the glove-box. that way if problem happened you can still easily access the fusebox. my car came ABS and i deleted it and converted to a non ABS preporrtioning valve. the ABS system had its own ecu (brain box) located under a metal kick panel to prevent the passenger side feet from standing on it. since i no longer needed the ABS ecu i used this empty spot to put my power distribution block to feed power from the trunk into my engine bay. also there is a ground strap under there for all central ground. i used "thru-hull" fittings under the fenders to make my wire harness come sneaker style through each fender.

 

[leepen]

work in progress

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[midnight_dsm]

Still working on cleaning it up more.

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Untitled by Josh865214, on Flickr

There's more to clean? looks awesome

 

[tominatortwo]

There's more to clean? looks awesome

There is always more to clean.......

 

[M Baker]

Looking through these should keep you busy ---> dsmtuners gallery: engine bay

Here are mine throughout the years...

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That is amazing! Did you powder coat the heat shield?

 

[Miasma]

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Got everything stripped down, and going to fill holes and re-paint it all black, to go with the new paint job which will be done in about a month. Will post picture when engine is back in and tucked.

 

[gofer]

That is amazing! Did you powder coat the heat shield?

Ceramic coated.

 

[CarbonSRT]

Not a Dsm but I am using the 420a head

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[danatkins]

the master fuse box panel from under the hood is relocated into the glove-box. that way if problem happened you can still easily access the fusebox. my car came ABS and i deleted it and converted to a non ABS preporrtioning valve. the ABS system had its own ecu (brain box) located under a metal kick panel to prevent the passenger side feet from standing on it. since i no longer needed the ABS ecu i used this empty spot to put my power distribution block to feed power from the trunk into my engine bay. also there is a ground strap under there for all central ground. i used "thru-hull" fittings under the fenders to make my wire harness come sneaker style through each fender.

did you have to extend the wires to do that?

these look awesome guys once i get all the kinks out of my car i'm gonna be doing some cleaning up on my engine bay

 

[Archer Fabrications]

I'm in thenprocess of taking off my exhaust and turbo manifold so i can coean the head and water pipe up then stick my new STM T3 on there pix will come.

 

[extrimer]

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at the moment - working version

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[gophishy10]

I'm hoping mine is now worthy of being in this thread. It's definitely not done yet, but it's about as clean as it's getting until the next time I pull the engine. IM, TB, and a few random parts need to be painted still.

Day 1

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New Engine

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After Turbo Upgrade

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Current Setup

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[Jakes 93GSX]

These engines are making me so jelious!!!!!