Jay's 13' Wolfsburg Track Car Build

[jay745]

Bought some braces, ecs rear that attaches to the front rear trailing arms and a eurosport upper front strut brace. Even though it doesn't attach to the strut towers, not sure why they call it that when it attaches to the firewall. Anyhow, it'll be a nice addition. I dont think there's anything left to brace.

 

[KollinWithaK]

Interested to see photos of that "strut" brace installed.

 

[jay745]

I haven't had much time to work on this lately but yesterday I finished drilling the holes in the bumper for the air dam and finished cutting the other side of the grill out. Total weight savings from deleting the fog lights and fog shrouds and side grills is 6.4 pounds. Going to try and work on it for an hour or so every day, to ight I plan on mocking up the air ducts and measuring them to begin cutting the Inlet out of the air dam

 

[dubbinit2]

Is this the Kingsford Mod?

I heard plus 25 horse.

 

[uglybastard]

Is this the Kingsford Mod?

I heard plus 25 horse.

Charcoal?!

 

[jay745]

Minor updates...I hacked up my intake to remove the 90° bend and retain some of the heat shield. This will give me room to mount the accusump on the battery box after I relocate the battery. Just a test fit, have to clean up the edges a bit.

 

[torga]

ooo, can't wait to see that accusump fitted there. Gonna look sweet.

 

[jay745]

Slowly chipping away...decided to install the strut tower brace I've had laying around. Drilled the holes in the firewall, started with the self tapping bolts and one of them broke in the firewall with barely any force. Cheap bolts. This is going to be fun to drill out....

 

[1ashchuckton]

Possibly weld a nut on there & twist it back out.

 

[jay745]

Possibly weld a nut on there & twist it back out.

I drilled it out. Took about an hour and a trip to home depot for a new cobalt drill bit. Got the brace installed

 

[uglybastard]

I drilled it out. Took about an hour and a trip to home depot for a new cobalt drill bit. Got the brace installed

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would you recommend this brace or nah

 

[jay745]

would you recommend this brace or nah

I'll let you know after I drive it

 

[KollinWithaK]

I was always under the impression these braces weren't really worth the investment since the strut towers are basically connected to the firewall.

 

[jay745]

I was always under the impression these braces weren't really worth the investment since the strut towers are basically connected to the firewall.

Eh the chassis still has a lot of flex in it. I don't expect it to be life changing considering all the other braces I have already but every bit counts. Worst case scenario it's some $130 engine bling

 

[jay745]

Ran into a little snag mounting the ecs trailing arm brace. It uses two of the mounting points that the unibrace UB uses for the exhaust tunnel braces. Unibrace sells their spacer kit for $45. Screw that, $6 for hardware and a few tack welds and I made them myself.

Ecs kit

What I made myself