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You bet! Thanks for those.
Heading for Reno and Hot August Nights in a couple of days. A great experience, if you've never done it. Am going to the Barrett-Jackson auction on Thursday just to look. It'll be televised on Speed Channel Thurs thru Sat.
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Heading for Reno and Hot August Nights in a couple of days. A great experience, if you've never done it. Am going to the Barrett-Jackson auction on Thursday just to look. It'll be televised on Speed Channel Thurs thru Sat.
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I hadn't seen this video before tonight, but your posting caused me to do a YouTube search for a Full Blown Motorsports Nissan GT-R. The first one that came up happened to be a video highlighting the new 1500+ hp intercooler I designed for the GT-R.
You can first see my intercooler at about 50 seconds and several times throughout the video after that. Then the video concludes with several passes on the 4-wheel drive dyno. That itty bitty 6 cylinder engine cranked out over 1000 hp at the wheels!!!!! If I read the screen correctly, it made over 1100 hp.
Edit: After looking at the video closer I noticed that only the rear wheels were turning. I didn't know you could shut down the AWD. John, the owner of the shop, has a 4wd dyno specifically for these cars.
This isn't your run of the mill grocery-getter. It's a low-cost super car that matches the $500k super cars. Off the showroom floor, it will do 194 mph with 575 hp AWD. It has an incredible "launch control" where the computer monitors the road and all 4 wheels to rocket this off the line at an amazing rate. (Search for Top Gear UK...they have featured the GT-R several times.)
The high volume intercooler uses an off-the-shelf core, but I designed the top and bottom caps specifically to fit the tight confines of the GT-R engine bay. The flowing design is one of the more complex SolidWorks challenges I have worked through. Each cap is CNC machined from a solid aluminum billet, and then welded to the core. Because this rather unique 6 cylinder engine is literally like two 3 cylinder engines side by side, each bank has their own turbo and their own intake throttle body. So it is really two intercoolers side-by-side, but with a deliberate bleed-through between them to assist in balancing the pressure between the twin turbos.
You can see the actual intercooler in the video, but here is the CGI image from SolidWorks. Oh, by the way, this is the same machine shop that fabricates the parts for my SCG-10 guides, and even some of Ron Wenner's products. That's how I came to know this legendary automotive super-tuner to design a bunch of car parts for him.
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You can first see my intercooler at about 50 seconds and several times throughout the video after that. Then the video concludes with several passes on the 4-wheel drive dyno. That itty bitty 6 cylinder engine cranked out over 1000 hp at the wheels!!!!! If I read the screen correctly, it made over 1100 hp.
Edit: After looking at the video closer I noticed that only the rear wheels were turning. I didn't know you could shut down the AWD. John, the owner of the shop, has a 4wd dyno specifically for these cars.
This isn't your run of the mill grocery-getter. It's a low-cost super car that matches the $500k super cars. Off the showroom floor, it will do 194 mph with 575 hp AWD. It has an incredible "launch control" where the computer monitors the road and all 4 wheels to rocket this off the line at an amazing rate. (Search for Top Gear UK...they have featured the GT-R several times.)
The high volume intercooler uses an off-the-shelf core, but I designed the top and bottom caps specifically to fit the tight confines of the GT-R engine bay. The flowing design is one of the more complex SolidWorks challenges I have worked through. Each cap is CNC machined from a solid aluminum billet, and then welded to the core. Because this rather unique 6 cylinder engine is literally like two 3 cylinder engines side by side, each bank has their own turbo and their own intake throttle body. So it is really two intercoolers side-by-side, but with a deliberate bleed-through between them to assist in balancing the pressure between the twin turbos.
You can see the actual intercooler in the video, but here is the CGI image from SolidWorks. Oh, by the way, this is the same machine shop that fabricates the parts for my SCG-10 guides, and even some of Ron Wenner's products. That's how I came to know this legendary automotive super-tuner to design a bunch of car parts for him.
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Here's another video of John (LJ) doing a dyno run with a GT-R. This was from last year so it is before I designed the intercooler. This one only makes 700 hp.....as if that is trivial. [eek] But in this one, you can clearly see that the car/dyno is AWD.
Come to think of it, as memory serves me, something broke on the white car, and that could be why it was only a 2WD dyno run. Me and my son Tanner were supposed to go down to the shop to watch that dyno run, but something on the car broke, so we never got to see it personally.
We've done quite a few projects together. Here is an intake manifold for a Honda S2000 that we recently wrapped up. This is a cast aluminum intake manifold for the S2000, 4 cylinder engine. It was one of the first projects we started, but took this long to get finalized and realized in actual product. This was by far the most complex design I have ever completed.
In order to get 850 hp out of this little 4 cylinder engine, John was pushing well over 35 psi into the factory manifold. So we designed a new manifold to give us similar volume at lower pressure. I don't remember the numbers, but I think this is like 4x the volume of the factory plenum, and the runners are massively wide and super short. Everything was designed to flow massive amounts of air with the least resistance.
Yes, you may notice that the cardboard box has Festool green color. It is! But I can't tell you what was originally in that box.
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Come to think of it, as memory serves me, something broke on the white car, and that could be why it was only a 2WD dyno run. Me and my son Tanner were supposed to go down to the shop to watch that dyno run, but something on the car broke, so we never got to see it personally.
We've done quite a few projects together. Here is an intake manifold for a Honda S2000 that we recently wrapped up. This is a cast aluminum intake manifold for the S2000, 4 cylinder engine. It was one of the first projects we started, but took this long to get finalized and realized in actual product. This was by far the most complex design I have ever completed.
In order to get 850 hp out of this little 4 cylinder engine, John was pushing well over 35 psi into the factory manifold. So we designed a new manifold to give us similar volume at lower pressure. I don't remember the numbers, but I think this is like 4x the volume of the factory plenum, and the runners are massively wide and super short. Everything was designed to flow massive amounts of air with the least resistance.
Yes, you may notice that the cardboard box has Festool green color. It is! But I can't tell you what was originally in that box.
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jtwood said:
OOH Barrett-Jackson auction!! Every once in awhile I'll catch bits and pieces on TV. Someday (hopefully soon, with fingers crossed), I'll dabble into the American classics. It's a rite of passage to me -- wouldn't be able to rightfully call myself an honest gearhead without.
Have fun mate! Don't sell the house!
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Rick Christopherson said:
Mr. Christopherson, sir -- is there anything you are not awesome at? [blink]
In a distant parallel universe I very briefly lived as an Authorized GT-R Sales Specialist, selling our store's first one. In a previous life before that, I floated in and out of the automotive aftermarket and somehow convinced the right people that I was half decent at suspension design and setup, and somehow ended up helping a couple Honda Challenge / USTCC race cars move up a few places (still no podium though... poop)
That intercooler is one beautiful piece of work. Here's a t-shirt (that you'll have to wait a bit for it's next production run) that you may enjoy. That VR38DETT is really something that still boggles the mind -- I wasn't much of an adopter in the beginning. The RB26DETT just made more mechanical sense to me in three words -- cast iron block. Maybe I'm even more old fashioned than I give myself credit for. But hey, fast is fast, and I think it's still fair to say R35 aftermarket support is still nascent at best, so still many many more records to shatter in years to come!
Last I'm updated with is this - the AMS GT-R
What really took my breathe away though, was your S2000 intake manifold. I'm a Honda boy (gotta stay true to my roots!) Sure would love to see that thing on a flow bench and/or CFD images. I'm still saving up for my own S2000, hopefully by early next year? *fingerscrossed. My NASA instructor is kind enough to hold his unicorn, a 2004 AP2 with 12,000 miles on the clock, awaiting my purchase. Eventually I hope to stash away a NSX to keep forever and ever.
I shall respectfully not inquire on said original content of said Festool box [big grin]
Great thread and nice work Rick , I am a tool and die maker by trade so I can appreciate every thing that went into your design. I don't think I am mature enough yet for a car like the GTR so for now I will have to stick with my 2007 Audi RS4. That being said though feel free to design and build any performance enhancers for my ride and I will gladly test them out for you. [smile]
We just got back from a weekend in Oswego New York watching the super modifieds. I believe this track is one of the best kept secrets of auto racing. For a mere $20 you can enjoy a night of 800+ HP, 1800 pound cars running a 5/8 oval track that results in some very exciting racing.
We just got back from a weekend in Oswego New York watching the super modifieds. I believe this track is one of the best kept secrets of auto racing. For a mere $20 you can enjoy a night of 800+ HP, 1800 pound cars running a 5/8 oval track that results in some very exciting racing.
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Ta2ude said:
Nice man! If you're ever out here in San Francisco, do please check out Sonoma Racway (previously Infineon Raceway), and of course home of the corkscrew, good ol' Laguna Seca.
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Today, a post on SAFETY!
You probably all know what it's like trying to tell a friend or family member of, well, better ways to drive. Usually doesn't go too well. Alas, I still find it to be our civil duty, as car guys, to help keep our loved ones safe. So here's a (G)oldie from the past, about carrying cargo in vehicles. Be it your work van with Systainers, or your family car with a child seat, please take 10-minutes to watch this clip.
Always use your cargo net and tiedowns. Try your best to reduce loose items in the passenger cabin area.
Start at 11:18 to skip right to the crash testing bit.
http://www.streetfire.net/video/fifth-gear-season-four-episode-nine-full-episode_195560.htm
You probably all know what it's like trying to tell a friend or family member of, well, better ways to drive. Usually doesn't go too well. Alas, I still find it to be our civil duty, as car guys, to help keep our loved ones safe. So here's a (G)oldie from the past, about carrying cargo in vehicles. Be it your work van with Systainers, or your family car with a child seat, please take 10-minutes to watch this clip.
Always use your cargo net and tiedowns. Try your best to reduce loose items in the passenger cabin area.
Start at 11:18 to skip right to the crash testing bit.
http://www.streetfire.net/video/fifth-gear-season-four-episode-nine-full-episode_195560.htm
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