iceblue

Youve never done body work have you? I will be doing this but not this way. If you use bondo in this manner it will crack and seperate. The total goal of body work is to use the least amount of body filler as posibly concevible.

I will be cuting sheet metal and welding it onto the car to fill in the body grove as much as posible. The filler will be added and sanded to give the shape needed to continu the body line.

DREYKO

what if you compleatly sealed off the bottom of your engine bay and made a fan or something to create a vacume therefore sucking in more cold air into your engine bay lowering operating temps and getting more cold air?

staticguitar313

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ro you know you could just use a vented hood and make sure that all air coming through the fornt passes through the FMIC, oil cooler, and radiator instead of passing through the cracks, i think youd run cooler that way.

Terrh

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dreyko, that's a good idea on paper, but impossible in the real world, with an engine that moves around.

Just letting the engine get cold air to suck in via a sealed (to the engine bay) cold-air box is sufficient.

if you made a switch to black out the outside lights make sure it does them ALL except headlights, not just the brake lights, or your tails would still be visible!

there's a guy with a BMW near me that can fire rockets from behind the front license plate. (I'm not even kidding!)

oil slick behind the car would be neat - you'd want something that would DUMP oil though.

smokescreen-on-demand? jeez these are rx7's we're talking about here, old age has taken care of that for alot of us!. if you wanted to do something though, I'd make a spray pump (headlight washer tank maybe?) that pumped DIESEL FUEL or ATF or something into the intake to be burnt and create a smokescreen. just an idea.

spraying a mist of fog-fluid from fog machines onto the exhaust manifold would probalby work as well, but it has to be a MIST.

this is the funniest thread I've read in a long time, keep the ideas coming lol
and remember, this is fiction not reality.. I'm sure nobody here is going to actually build an oil-slick generator for their car so nobody get bent out of shape over this...

DREYKO

how bout a device that makes your car run on air? no emmissions no gas money no carbon lock or flooding... if only...

Sideways7

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Yep, I seen it on an official ferrari document. Back when the maranello had just been unvieled I was at a Ferrari dealership with my Uncle and they showed me some of the test info ditributed to the dealers. I think it said that it had 405 HP and 410 HP at the top speed of 186. Basically any gains you see from a "ram air" hood are because you are getting fresh air with low intake restrictions.

JIMMY54

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Heres an idea....Turn the highlight washers around, so they point to the car infront, and fill the tank with water you want, as someone walks by you could always nail them with whatever... OR Fill the tank with acid, as to burn the cars infront and people aswell! lol...

pr0digy

I think someone's forgetting that our cars have a tendency to move in a forward direction. Mine does anyways.

Tech_Greek

lol I could see that one happening, trying to spray someone with your windows down and it backfires and sprays you and you wreck into a parked police car with an officer inside of it...

cmjaure

I have always wanted to build a p-port engine with the street ported irons still on it and build a custom intake manifold that would still use the iron ports but have 60 mm wastegates installed on the intake manifold that open under a certin level of boost. say get a 3 stage boost controller have the first setting at say 15 psi than have the wastegate set to about 20 on the intake mani then setting two on the boost controller will take it to say 22 psi and open the p-ports than setting three well that all depends on tuning. Just I rough thought on really modded 6pi. My .02

Sideways7

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I've actually seen someone do something similar, where he could squirt cars in front of him.

Sideways7

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While we're talking about crazy stuff, why doesnt someone try to fix some fans like on the Chapparal 2J (or was it 2C?). Mount a lawnmower engine in the trunk and have some sort of fan suck air form under the car. Hey, maybe you could blow the air into the intake and make a gas-powered supercharger. It prob wouldnt work, but wouldnt it be awesome if it did? More power AND you're stuck to the road.

Syonyk

Trivial to do. Half an hour with the wiring diagram of the factory service manual and I had it planned out, an hour or so (in the midst of an afternoon of car work) and it was in place and working. It can all be done from the driver's area, no work at the individual light locations needed, and it kills everything except the headlights (you need to handle the brakes separately, and just don't use the turn signals).

However, revision 2 will allow for just a brake light cutoff as well as an entire external light cutoff. Having to turn off the marker lights on the highway at night to use the brakes without lighting up the rear is suspicious.

Currently I have a full external light cutoff system as well as daytime running lights.

Adding daytime running lights is very useful. Not only are you more visible during the day, you can use them at night with the lights down for a dim "stealth" lighting arrangement. Not terribly bright, but enough to nagivate by. Don't expect to see a deer until you hit it, though.

Smoke screen shouldn't be too bad to implement, it's on my list of things to do.

Same with the license plate hider.

I'm in the process of designing a HUD controller for the '7, giving speed, RPM, and wideband output on the windshield, as well as coolant temperature. It's a ways off, mostly because I don't have the money right now.

Modifying the throttle body to allow the aux butterflies to close completely and keep the secondary ports totally closed off below 3000 RPM or so may have some low end torque & fuel economy benefits, not sure yet.

-=Russ=-

staticguitar313

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Stupidest idea ever>>>
Chopping a targa top into a coupe rx7

iceblue

I have performed these mods as well. I had a full external light cut off I used when runing from cops. I will be doing a HUD as well been wanting to for a long time now. The licens plate thing is old and they sell kits for it for like 39$

cmjaure - wtf? Waste gates on the intake manifold? Boost on a 6pt, are you concluding turboing a N/A?

Mordachai

Well, that's the idea of the Pritchard powered steam cars(hint hint)

there are all kinds of recipes for doing just that. Pretty funny if you ask me, but once you know your engines operating temps, then instead of baking at 350 for 20 minutes, it would be drive 60mph, in 4th for 20 minutes.
Anyone know what a 'garbage pail' is? Used for camping, you take some of the heavy duty foil, put all kinda of stuff in it ( Chicken, pork, beans, veggies, etc) and would put it in the coals of a fire to cook it all. It actually is quite tasty, and I've done this with my old Chevy astro van. Reach way way under the hood and there's a perfect area for something about 4" x4" back there( kinda near passanger side IIRC) I never used it to cook, just to heat things up pretty much. Road trips are great if you make them great!

That's a damn good idea man.

Dayum, first off , you'd make it rich. Second, you'd have all the oil barons in the world looking for your *** with a high price tag on your severed head! lol
but seriously hyrdogen powered( Fuel cells) are pretty much that idea. They get thier Hydrogen from air in the first place. Then when it meets with ambient air, it makes power and the by-product is h2o. Kinda close anyways. and why is it that there's so little R&D in this area?

Ya know bleach is the stuff of champions for this, a few drops will really make em spin, and they will stay hot and sticky for a while. There was a guy who got banned from moroso motorsports park, cause he was drippin bleach on his rear while he was doing burnouts. once the tech guys found out, it wasn't so funny.

Don't the coupes have a rear windshield wiper? I think so, that'd be the perfect spot to mess with a rear washer. Just move the nozzle around, and it faces directly back, easy to spray the car behind ya! I've seen so many SUV's with screwed up washers taht spray back instead of spraying the window.

Don't you mean welding a targa into a coupe? you do know the targas and the verts are one in the same? chopping a targa, and you'd have a roadster= no top!

Yeah, not only will they be banging thier heads, they'll be slamming them into a wall!
So I thought I'd add to the madness...

Why not make a trend putting smooth wheel covers on your car to get that .000000001 better aero coefficient! oh, and while you're at it, take off those darn side view mirrors. Thats' got to be killing Rwhp!

take out all of your interior and have the whole interior sprayed with a rhino-liner. Got to be good for what 3-4 pounds weight loss?? That's like a whole 5 seconds faster in the quarter.

OH, and the best one yet, why not put two more engines in the back of the car? use each one for each wheel! that's got to be a good idea!

LOL, I haven't laughed like this for a long time

|M|

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piscorpio

Actually, Mazda happens to be researching that idea, using a hydrogen powered RX-8....not sure how much progress they have made, or if they actually plan to implement the idea in the near future though.

pr0digy

Well, specifically, an engine that can swap between hydrogen and gasoline power with the flick of a switch. Apparently the rotary design is the MOST efficient internal combustion engine design for hydrogen power, and as such, the most feasible for development. I have an article I cut out from a magazine about it, I'll scan it in and post it up.

cmjaure

I mean have the 2 60 mm wastegates on the p-ported housings and thoes will open under a certin level of boost.The wastegates will have to be part of the intake mani. That way you can still have good power on a ported 4-port engine during low end then when you really want to kick some butt up the boost level using the multi-stage boost controller p-ports open there you go. I am saying use the p-ports as the 5/6 ports.

jediknight7

having two computers; a standalone for fuel and tuning etc, and then the stock one as well, but with only enough inputs and outputs to run just the smog stuff, you know, for us californians

soundwavetsunami

the most efficient so far... the quasiturbine, which is still in R&D, will be somewhat more efficient due to the possibility of photoignition.

staticguitar313

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, look at these pics my friend tell me what you see. . .


Um i have the top, car looks like a sunroofless coupe when its on, and it is most of the time.

And about the exterior light killswitch thing that people are doing; ive had that came with my car, got the switch mounted in my center console.

switches are for fogs and "the stealth mode" light mod, so cliche.

iceblue

^ I was so waiting for that post to be busted out.

patman

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try reading guys, he was talking about fuel cells, not a hydrogen combustion engine.

and actually, there is aquite a bit of R&D going on in the fuel cell area, and they are damn near feasible to implement nowadays, you just dont hear about it. they dont want you to know whats coming or you wont buy whats out now...

pat

piscorpio

Whatever know-it-all! :P