Silverado build part #2

Starting off with a little bit of the electrical...

Rotated Manifold for the shop Subaru

Mar 07

We got the manifold all rotated and the front mount in, we had to remove the water meth injector to match the powder coat. Once the powder coat was finished we got the custom pipes and intake back over to PDX Tuning so they could put it all back together. The custom piping along with Perrin's fuel rails were all shot the same candy red as the water/meth tanks. The intake, TGI's and PWI-1 got shot a wrinkle black. There was plans to do more but time and money ran out so that will have to be a later project.
Without being around their shop much during the fabrication of the pipes and the rotating of the manifold I can't fully grasp all the work that went into it, but you can tell by the details in the pipes and routing of the new lines that it wasn't easy! Keeping the car totally functional with the AC poses a huge problem when rotating the intake, custom spacers were used from a previous build ( Thanks Kendrick!! ) that allow the pipe to get up and over the alternator (which was moved as well)
I can't thank the guys enough, Chris and Dustin (PDX Tuning) put in some long hours and detailed work to get everything dialed looking great for us. With PDXT just getting a new dyno and Subiefest right upon us we didn't get a chance to have the car tuned, Jarrad got it running with the new 16g and we'll be back to get her dialed when time allows. Can't wait to see how it does!!

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Shop Subaru Gets more work

Mar 07

Trying to do something a bit different from everybody else's setup is what we always try to do. For the water methanol, we came up with the idea of using three separate 4" diameter aluminum tubes stacked one on top of the other. With a new interior panel fabricated from scratch to show them off and blend them seamlessly into the trunks interior. Each tank would have fittings that would allow the water/meth mixture to flow between all three tanks, with the primer pump being installed on the bottom and a filler tube and cap on the top. With the tanks connected together there is just over 1.5 gallons available. Dustin from PDX Tuning cut and welded the tanks together, because of fitting into a cramped space one tank is slightly shorter than the other two. To make everything work and fit into the car I had to make a temporary jig to hold the tanks in their exact position in relation to each other and their position in the car. The jig also acted as a starting point in which the new trunk panel would be fabricated from and would also be used to mock up all the connecting lines.

All said and done all the fittings/connections between the tanks will be hidden behind the panel on the end of the tanks. With just the middle of the tanks showing we should have a pretty clean little setup. Since the trunk area of the car holds our Perfect Fit Enclosure and Amplifier Rack all covered in matching O.E.M. carpet I wanted to add some color to the mix. The tanks, along with all the new custom piping for the rotated manifold got shot a candy red color. I'm real happy with the way they turned out, should stand out and make a nice contrast to the dark carpet everywhere.
The wood jig got transfered over as a template to make a plexiglass version. I used 3/4 inch clear plexi that is polished on the top and bottom but the face is lightly sanded. All said and done we'll use some red led's to shoot a little light up through it. The light will pass through the clear sections, but light up the sanded edges making for a nice accent.
The top portion of the trim panel has an oval / pill shaped insert flushed into it. This will also be made from plexiglass and allows the filler tube to come through. There's a couple little things planned for it, lazer etched markings and a led indicator for tank levels. I transfered the oval pill shaped insert that goes into the top of the trunk trim panel into 1/4 inch plexi glass and dropped it off to get lazer etched. Nothing too fancy, just labeling the mixture and then a bar graph to indicate the tanks level. This will be usefull when filling the tanks as well as checking their level when in use. As the tanks fill up the led's light up, tanks empty & the led's turn off. I've got wires heading up front as well so later I'll have the same indicators for viewing when driving.
The plexi glass mounting for the tanks light up with 8 red led's on each side, a total of 16 for all the tanks. Hard to find led's in the configuration I needed so I just made my own. 4 led's got soldered to a board and wired with the proper resistors for the 12 volt application. The led's sit just under the edge of the plexi, shinning light up the vertical edge and into the tank hole cutouts. Both the tank levels and lighting is wired off the trunk trigger, trunk open you have light, trunk closed and the led's go out. Didn't get time but we'll light up the rest of the etched words later, probably in white.

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Audio Integrations Chevy Silverado Demo Build Begins

Jan 07

After having a nice setup that wasn't fully completed, we decided to start fresh, first by removing the old Jl audio setup. We will be using Diamond audio 600.4, 1500.1, eclipse 8454, Diamond Hex 3 way setup, and 2 D6 10" subs.

Here's some pics of what was, we liked the overall layout of the old setup, and wanted to stick with a console of sorts from the front to back.

What we have going on so far...

Rounding Up The Rest Of The Demo Car Build

July 06


Well, at least for now we've completed the demo car for the summer, I'm sure it will change a few times for sure. We added Some Tein coilovers, Tein controller, and ran some power wire and other little goodies. We figured pulling the door off would allow us an easy path for running wire, which happened to be three seats of 16 ga wire, and three seperate sets of primary wire for future expansion (window control, door lighting etc). The wheel well was removed to run our two sets of power wires, and any other wires needed for the tein controller. We also added a pigtail in the back for hooking up to an inverter to run the car for shows.

Wire run pictures

Here's some pics of the Tein controller being molded into the ashtray area, pretty tight fit, but we managed to squeeze it in there. It got a bit heavy on the texture for our liking, but once it was tucked in it looked all right.

Cascade Audio on the doors

Battery Cover

Door Pods For The Shop Subaru Begin

July 06

I've been meaning to getting around to doing this for a while, one of the main reasons for making the door pods is because you can't fit a real nice speaker behind the door panel without it either hitting the window and track or playing into the back of the plastic door panel. A lot of times people don't realize if they do get a larger speaker to fit behind the panel it usually hits the backside of the panel when it's playing at louder volumes.


Here's the begining of the door pods. I will have a 6, 4, and tweet set up in my door but it will also work for just a 6 and tweet.

Grill Design Laid out

With filler primer shot

Here's a couple shots of the finished door pod. This is just one of the grills that may be offered, so different looks and styles will be available. We also have to re-work part of the mold to make them more installer friendly and a little easier to reproduce. They're not the greatest pictures, have quite the yellow look to them. The vinyl we used was straight black and after cleaning them up on the door panel the black looks too dark. We got a charcoal color that we'll try next time for a closer to stock look.