Roadblocks are aplenty in my build… the years it’s taken to get this far are sure to make that abundantly clear. But nevertheless we are making progress on my 1968 Twin-Turbocharged Eleanor GT500 and it should be fit for road duty soon.
As you will see from the video (posted after the jump), the main issue we are running into is the design of the turbo system. It’s pretty much made as if it will see only 1/4 mile duty, but I’m in California and I would like to tackle the occasional corner or two.
With this issue the intercooler tubing presents a major problem for drivability, which is what we are discussing today. The new design has a myriad of issues which after close to 6 years doesn’t make me very happy (You can listen all about that incident on the Cammed and Tubbed Podcast which involves a bit too much Scotch)
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndzKEa0i59E[/youtube]
Seeing this Boss 302 Coyote 5.0 V8 makes me ponder other power train choices, but good lord thats a big engine.
Update since the video was shot:
A few other options have come up that I’m deciding on over the next week
1.) Run the Mustangs to Fear hood, repaint it and keep the Distributor/Throttle Body/EFI setup
2.) Replace the Distributor, run coil packs, run a Hogan Intake Manifold with dual Throttle Bodies and keep the current hood.
3.) Replace the Distributor, run coil packs, keep EFI elbow and current Wilson Manifolds 92mm Throttle Body while keeping the current hood.
A few more shots testing fitment of the current setup with the front valance fitted.
Hopefully we get things situated and the next update on this beast will finally be of it running.
[Images: Copyright 2015 Hooniverse/Jason Connor]
Project Car SOTU: 1968 Twin Turbo Eleanor GT500
About
-
What exactly about the intercooler tubing makes this a straight-line only car? How the intercooler could affect handling is lost on me. Too sudden a power curve? Restriction on wheel travel or turning lock? Please enlighten the less knowledgeable.
-
I believe it’s a wheel travel/lock thing – the piping leaves the engine bay and enters the wheel/fender area or something crazy
-
If you look at the close ups of the right fender you will see that the air-to-liquid intercooler is mounted in the fender. any hard suspension travel could hit and run into the intercooler tubing. If you are on a smooth straight strip/runway this isn’t an issue.
-
If you look at the close ups next to the Boss engine you will see that the intercooler is mounted in the right fender. If you aren’t worried about any hard suspension travel (Airstrip / Drag Strip runs) this isn’t an issue. For a street driven car where I could be taking a right turn and have a hard bump could potentially hit the intercooler tubing and cut a tire, which would cause quite the bad day.
When looking at the suspension I’m already going to have to run steering bump stops based on how wide the wheels are in the front so any extra clearance helps.
From the post it looks like Option 3 is going to fit the bill (and wallet) and makes the most sense to me. We are going to modify the EFI elbow and turn it forward forward, keel the throttle body and run twin bullet intercoolers in the front valance. We just have to get creative with the tubing at this point and it looks like fitting a y-pipe from the throttle body around the turbos and through the radiator core support. This isn’t doesn’t have the “wow” factor that the crazy sheet metal intake manifolds but I have to make some sacrifices in order to get the car finished.
I’m not worried about too much engine movement since it’s hard mounted to the cross member. I’ll just keep thinking “racecar” when my teeth are being shaken out of my skull.-
Thanks for illuminating my understand of what’s going on here…what designing and building a functionally valid vehicle must be like.
-
Rudimentary sketch of measurements and placement of the intercooler.
-
-
-
-
I love this thing. Wanna trade for the Integra?
You’d obviously need to throw some cash in with it.-
Arnold is not impressed with your negotiating skills.
-
Leave a Reply