1970 Duster AlterKtion, 4 Link, LS/T56/Turbo and Minitub
Finally got some more progress on the car.
Ordered the new machined rotors to fit on the new axle shafts. That was another road block I hit that my old rotors didnt work. The driveshaft showed up this week as well.
My dad and I got the air filter installed last night. After watched two different episodes of engine masters on air filters and piping with an engine on the dyno I decided I was going to make a filter fit one way or another, because as a street driven car in Vermont I didn't feel comfortable with just a screen. I just hope it doesn't lose too much HP. Also, I know it'll have dust and crap kicked up into the filter with time where it is, so I'll have to be good about cleaning the filter but its better than nothing. There's a bracket that's hard to see that's holding the tubing up under there.
I also may make a plexiglass shield or something to try and deflect water if I get caught in the rain, but I don't want to sacrifice air flow. Or maybe just keep one of the filter socks in the car for rain.
I used one of the cobra head elbows that is supposedly designed to still flow the same volume because it gets wider where its shorter. We'll see. When I get back down to the dyno at some point after we get everything dialed in I'll put this setup back on and see how much it screws with everything. But for now I'll drive it how it is with it on. I'm gonna log some data and see what kind of boost it still makes as well because with the old **** filter, it wouldn't allow the boost solenoid to build boost at all basically. So I'll a way to get some indication with that.
Finally got some more progress on the car.
Ordered the new machined rotors to fit on the new axle shafts. That was another road block I hit that my old rotors didnt work. The driveshaft showed up this week as well.
My dad and I got the air filter installed last night. After watched two different episodes of engine masters on air filters and piping with an engine on the dyno I decided I was going to make a filter fit one way or another, because as a street driven car in Vermont I didn't feel comfortable with just a screen. I just hope it doesn't lose too much HP. Also, I know it'll have dust and crap kicked up into the filter with time where it is, so I'll have to be good about cleaning the filter but its better than nothing. There's a bracket that's hard to see that's holding the tubing up under there.
I also may make a plexiglass shield or something to try and deflect water if I get caught in the rain, but I don't want to sacrifice air flow. Or maybe just keep one of the filter socks in the car for rain.
I used one of the cobra head elbows that is supposedly designed to still flow the same volume because it gets wider where its shorter. We'll see. When I get back down to the dyno at some point after we get everything dialed in I'll put this setup back on and see how much it screws with everything. But for now I'll drive it how it is with it on. I'm gonna log some data and see what kind of boost it still makes as well because with the old **** filter, it wouldn't allow the boost solenoid to build boost at all basically. So I'll a way to get some indication with that.
