Quote Originally Posted by Other_Erik View Post
Glad to hear she's running good for you!

1.17Bar = ~16.4PSI, depending what they've done with timing that can be anywhere from 490-530ish peak HP, and I bet they've bumped the power band a bit to look more like a plateau than a hill...

I like the thought of a ventilated oil cooler, but I don't know where you might be able to fit it, especially if you've got the splash guard under the engine bay. Have you looked into the splash guard vent mod (cutting a channel across the splash guard and fitting with angle aluminum to keep debris out)? Not sure that'd help overly much, but every little bit, you know? Not to mention the stock oil cooler is a good 9 hours labor to R&R when folks go to the Bufkin pipe.

I don't personally have experience putting together CF hoods, but I bet OCarbon would be happy to talk to you about the project - just going to be months of waiting and ridiculous shipping to get it to Qatar. On the plus side, coming from Matt at OCarbon, the fit and finish will be PERFECT. The whole months of waiting will mostly be waiting for him to shape and reshape the same hood to get it absolutely correct right down to the micron - to say he's a perfectionist is an understatement. I wouldn't recommend making your own hood as a first-timer project, too many complex curves and angles, and you still have to worry about keeping it shut when it's down, so you're likely also looking at adding reinforcement and hood pins, and from what I understand those may be against the law where you're at (as well as a couple places in the US). There are some brave souls here who have vented their own hoods and have templates/directions readily available.

WRT the headers and exhaust - depending how well they were taken care of in Germany, you will probably want to have them bead blasted to remove surface rust, then sandscrubbed to give the ceramic some texture to adhere to. Won't be an easy, quick, or cheap process, but anything worth doing is worth doing RIGHT.

Next logical steps in my mind would be water or water/meth sprayers to hot components. Would be a VERY interesting side-project to put together a plumbing system that brings interior-temperature water to spray individual coolers as they get above normal operating range, would just have to figure out where to store all that water / an easy way to refill it, as I'll bet you will drain the tank pretty quickly.

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The power is very consistent, throughout the rev range, it actually has a really nice strong pull and you can feel the torque, although you can feel that the car suffers due to its own weight. I would be so keen to know how it would go if 500 KG could be stripped away.

Importing a radiator required 4 miracles and the sacrifice of a lamb... just about. I think a hood that size would be near impossible. But I will look into it. Maybe what I can do it make a "How to make a CF hood for total Noobs" video... if i get it right i would have to buy myself a beer.

Sprayers for the coolers and oil cooler is a really interesting idea, and I don't mind having to full a bottle often, if it means I'm fighting the heat. tied with water/meth injection it could mean a drastic change in heat soak in the engine bay.