Throttle body relocator

I'm sure that I mentioned at some point in the past that I would have to do something about the brake master cylinder hitting the throttle body.  I have debated on many different ways of doing this, but went with one of the simplest ways that I had come up with.  I simply made a new section of tubing to move the throttle body more to the center of the car.  It also aligns it with the intercooler so that I only have to use a short straight piece to connect the two of them.  And this was the first true test of the TIG unit to see if it was really working.  I had to open up the power output selector and manually move the contactors into the AC position, but after I did that it worked great.  The weak link was me, like usual.  I took a few practice welds on some scrap and then just went for it.  Since that worked, I will be able to reinstall the original braking components for now and leave that upgrade until later.  Here is the pic of the new tubing.

Its not polished or anything yet, but functionally done.  The brake parts that are visible are from the s6, so just ignore them.  As an unexpected bonus I think that the position is now correct to use the stock 944 throttle cable...maybe.  I also got a couple more oil lines made, picked the location for the oil cooler, mounted and plumbed the oil filter relocator, changed some belts in my mom's car, and replaced the gears in the Corvette's headlight motors.  Its been a busy weekend, but next week has a three day long one!

Clutch Arrived!

I finally got the clutch in.  It sure looks nice.  All this time we had been waiting on Tilton to make the disks.  I ordered all of these parts through Marc at EFI Express.  He has been a lot of help and I'm sure he will be glad when I get this done so I'll leave him alone.  Here are a couple of pictures of the clutch though. 

I'm heading to the garage to get started again.

Intake hoses

Here is a pic of some silicon hoses that I ordered online.  They look like quality parts, I just wish the colors of the two pieces matched each other better.  Kind of disappointing.  Oh well they should work fine.  I'm pretty sure that I have repaired the TIG welder.  The last of the new parts should be in tomorrow and I'll give it a shot on some steel this weekend.  Monday my Argon bottle should show up and in about a week I should have the aluminum elbow in for the throttle body relocator.  Moving that a bit should allow me to retain the stock brake setup.

Mondays

I worked on the car yesterday for a bit.  I'd been working on the TIG welder trying to figure out why it doesn't work.  I found a dead contactor for the main transformer.  Hopefully I can still get parts for this old thing. 
The VEMS is so small that it easily fits where the stock ECU was (in the passenger floor board).  I was surprised to see that they didn't put any kind of mounting points onto the casing.  However it is easy to mount the VEMS by cutting a slot into the factory mount and using a large band clamp to secure it into position.
I also cut out the end plates for the throttle body relocator.  I expect the tubing to arrive next week so I will have to get that welder running.

Still here

Sorry I haven't updated in a bit.  It's been hectic here.  Work has me out of town during the week and we've been racing the Corvette during the weekends.  As a side note I won the ASP class at our divisional event against a Nissan GTR.  I didn't know if I could pull that off or not.  Last weekend, at a local event, I finally beat a guy that I have been chasing for a long time.  It was a very tight race with 503 thousands of a second separating us at the end of it.  I don't think I will be as lucky next time so some extra effort will be in order.

Okay so the state of the car is disassembled.  Now that is nothing new!  I made the turbo return line.  The braided stainless looks nice.  Actually they are very easy to assemble.  I was into making the turbo feed line when I discovered that there isn't room for the fittings that I bought, putting a 90 degree elbow in there should solve the problem.  I dismantled the Audi harness into all of its individual parts and cleaned it all up.  I'm pretty sure that the intake plumbing is sorted and its parts are to be on order shortly and we're waiting for another round of hose parts to arrive at MC Racing for pickup.  I moved an old TIG welder that I have to the project side of the shop, hopefully it functions because I've never hooked it up even though I've had it about 5 years.  I don't like the idea of having to find a different one or farm out the TIG work, after all this is a learning experience also.