Project TRD Pony (Bar'd 2jz Swap)

Spd0lit · Nov 23, 2016

Finished molding the vent into the stock hood and added aerocatch latches. It will look a lot better once the hood has some color on it.

Lanter · Nov 23, 2016

Very nice! You leaving the latches black or painting them to match?

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Spd0lit · Nov 23, 2016

I'll be keeping them black, but the car won't be either of those colors when I am done.

wmfateam · Nov 24, 2016

Spd0lit said:
Finished molding the vent into the stock hood and added aerocatch latches. It will look a lot better once the hood has some color on it.

What/where is this vent from? I was going to go basic and just cut a hole with a small flap in front of it, but this thing looks perfect.

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Spd0lit · Nov 24, 2016

wmfateam said:
What/where is this vent from? I was going to go basic and just cut a hole with a small flap in front of it, but this thing looks perfect.

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You can find the vent from ken suen at bigredksr on instagram. I don't know how the fitment would be on a normal mustang engine bay yet. I might try the hood on my brother's 94 procharged car, but with the 2jz it might fit differently.

g36 monkey · Nov 26, 2016

That definitely looks interesting. Excited to see it with paint!

Spd0lit · Feb 13, 2017

Well, I have wrapped up the intercooler endtanks and have finished mounting the intercooler to the car now. While the endtanks might not be twins turbo quality, I can say that I have learned a new craft and they should flow pretty well. The core is a garret 12x24x4.5

g36 monkey · Feb 14, 2017

Sick dude!

Spd0lit · Feb 21, 2017

I did a thing...

ttocs · Feb 23, 2017

how did you make the ends?

Spd0lit · Feb 24, 2017

ttocs said:
how did you make the ends?

Had this a few posts ago.

First rough cuts of the wood

Quick swipe through the bandsaw

After a whole lot of sanding and shaping I have the forms for my endtanks.

So once I had the wood form, i used it to hammer the sheet aluminum. I divided the tank into 4 sides and then welded them together. The hammering and welding was very time consuming, but I learned a new craft along the way so I found it useful.

Burninriverdiver · Feb 24, 2017

Spd0lit said:
Had this a few posts ago.

First rough cuts of the wood

Quick swipe through the bandsaw

After a whole lot of sanding and shaping I have the forms for my endtanks.

So once I had the wood form, i used it to hammer the sheet aluminum. I divided the tank into 4 sides and then welded them together. The hammering and welding was very time consuming, but I learned a new craft along the way so I found it useful.

Thats awesome, they turned out great! That's cool you are able to do that from raw materials

ttocs · Feb 24, 2017

color me impressed.

evilcw311 · Feb 24, 2017

Let me first say that this is badass!!! But was there not a front mount that you could of bought already setup like that??

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Spd0lit · Feb 24, 2017

Most of the off the shelf intercoolers are only 3in thick, this core is 4.5in. And a lot of the custom built intercoolers have box style endtanks. Just after I finished hypertune came out with a cnc billet tank that looks almost the same. So if these ever fail I'll go with those.

Spd0lit · Mar 22, 2017

Just finished up my intercooler piping and I am fairly pleased with the results. Moving that much closer to pulling the motor back out to freshen up and paint the engine bay.