Isuzu I-Mark diesel

[RadoTD]

I love that startup video! Sounds amazing

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Hells yeah. Great sounding first start vid.

By the way, I love the "Space Potato" on the roof  . JK.

[truckinwagen]

thats my "alien pod" 

I was super stoked when it fired up and worked so well right off the bat(almost never happens)

and like most things there are a few issues that are becoming obvious, nothing that would keep me from driving it yet, but things that need to be addressed.

like, the fact that I work for a respectable(read upper crust) company that would probably frown on such automotive tomfoolery. I need to work out a way to make it less obvious that there is a supercharger sticking up out of the hood.

I need to cut a hole in my hood(whimper) and install the mother of all scoops to cover it all, and said scoop needs to look good, not some slapped together piece of garbage. I also need to get it quieter, installing a cover will probably help, but I also need to route the intake somewhere else, and maybe put something other than an open filter on the end of it.

oh well, all things to come later, for now I need to get my starter to work right...

-Owen

[maxfax]

It's a shame you didn't have someone nearby who did fiberglass work..  There's an outfit outta West Virginia that does some nice fiberglass work with odd parts, and pretty reasonably too.. $350 and they copied the steel hood from my old Cougar and made me one with a Mach 1 style scoop...

[truckinwagen]

holy crap that is a good price!

if I was in homer I would make a copy myself, its not too hard, but time consuming and takes lots of space.

for now, I think I will just make a fiberglass scoop to bond to the hood.

should not be too big of a deal, get some urethane foam and make a buck of the shape I want, fiberglass over it, remove the foam and bond to hood(after some bondo and sanding)

hopefully I can find some local help with some space to do it.

-Owen

[maxfax]

Bolt a mailbox on there!!! 

[truckinwagen]

if it was a second car I would think about it, but it is a daily driver, so I need to work a little harder than that...

-Owen

[theman53]

My father in law builds old cars into street rods. The best use of around the house stuff I have seen him do that may work for you is a wheel barrow. He takes a brand new one cuts it up and uses it to make the firewall section above the trans on some and used it to make a cowl like hood scoop on another. New steel welds nice and if you cut it right it looks factory.

[truckinwagen]

I like that idea alot actually, I can get a steel wheelbarrow for pretty cheap(although the selection is pretty slim these days, almost all new barrows are plastic)

and it would be easy to make a mach-1 style scoop with an open leading edge.

I could cut the barrow down to make it the right height, and then cut it down the middle to narrow it appropriately.

the shape could then be modified a bit more with fiberglass and body filler to make it look better.

-Owen

[theman53]

Yep.
We have a bunch around here. New steel ones that is. They are powdercoated from the factory and I got my last one for 30.00.

They have just about the perfect shape for custom scoops, firewalls, and sometimes make a decent wheel barrow.

They beauty of being able to weld it is pretty cool as well.

[truckinwagen]

yeah, I am gonna go take a look at what is available here tomorrow, might go buy one and start cutting this weekend, also gonna go to the local junkyard and see what I can get in the way of a serpentine tensioner.

might see about an intercooler soon too, I cant help but think that this thing heat soaks really bad.

-Owen

[truckinwagen]

got a tensioner from a 6.5 GM diesel today.
cost me $10, I hope it does the trick!




-Owen

[maxfax]

That ought to work dandy, and be cheap to replace of need be..   You're going to be putting the tension to the back side of the belt right?  The nice part of that style is that if you need more or less tension on the belt you can change the position of the hole in the mounting bracket that keeps the base of the tensioner from turning..

I still have that Volvo intercooler here that I never got around to getting a shipping quote on..    If you're still interested I gotta find something to package it in....

[truckinwagen]

yeah, the actual idler gear is replaceable too, which is nice. lots of tensioners have to be replaced as a unit.

I will be using it against the back of the belt, right under the SC pulley.

and I am definitely still interested in the intercooler, but let me know what shipping will cost first, cash is tight right now...

-Owen

[maxfax]

I've been hoping to get a small radiator box of some sort to keep the packaging to a minimum..  Might actually be able to get it there though cheapo US mail..  I'm gonna need a new radiator for he Rabbit, this might be a good excuse to order one..  I wanna see burnout pics darnit!!!