Happy New Year !

 The Team was unintentionally celebrating New Year Eve separately. 
Sad, but true. 

The reason: Cina (Carina) was as coughing constantly.

That said, there were moments of pure turbo happiness...

The rest of the SSR team were happy together ! 

Summary: From all of us to All of You

A Happy High Speed Heroic 2017! 

Gearheads & Gourmet. Words of Wisdom.

Perhaps the time is right to look inwards? To understand where you're heading with all your good ideas. New Year's Eve 2016 is getting closer and now is the time. 

 

Here are some Salt Slush advices; Think, Try to understand, Aim high, but be prepared to fail when your inner eye can see that the shit is approaching the fan with good speed.

 

Under the headline, think, feel and aim high here here's an example: The old garage stove broke down, once and for all, and it was time to find a new cooker. But no one could be found. It had to be special one that would match the ambition of the high speed El Mirage /Bonneville Amazon. We almost wore out internet, without success, when all of a sudden an old French Paul Bocuse Rosieres oven appeared on Blocket (a Swedish type of Craigslist). The nice seller (a chef) helped us to load it on Anders Dodge RAM pick up and now we're aiming for a mixture of redneck-haut cuisine garage cooking in 2017.   

  

The shit had sailed through the air for some time when we finally decided to change the somewhat stupid two turbos installation in to one athlete EFR 9180 turbo. Sad for a moment, but now we're almost done.  Let's start with this most important move forward...

A conversational piece? Modern Art? Next stop MOMA?

Nope. It's the design that you'll end up with when you have a two turbo (in parallell) installation with two turbine outlets, then change to one big turbocharger with only one turbin outlet AND, in addition, have made a rather cool looking, well working, exhaust outlet through the passenger door previously.

These pipes are made to bridge this issue! 

You see what we mean? We now have a lot of 1 to 2 and 2 to 1 connections.

This is one of the one in to two connections....

Ambition's high, the heat is on and the Kale is getting warm.

A Swedish-French-American food merge pictured. The Apple Pie is getting ready and it's soon to be consumed in our garage.

 Advanced cooking awaits close to the vise near you, while a six cylinder Stovebolt hides underneath the zink (sorry, workbench) of course.

But what is this? No worries. It's only Anders and Cina who are assembling a cleaner aimed to make old oily parts shine as new. Let's get back to the result later. Next year...

Trailer, Thoughts.and Turbo!

Man, Woman and Machines. They're all good and yes, they can all coexist.  But there's obstacles...

They all need space. Let's get this straight. We're not taking about ego trips etc., we're talking about actual physical space. In simple words, geometry.

Let me use examples to explain...

In order to transport our Amazon Landspeed Racer and related stuff around to tracks and make it possible for you all you to see the result of all our workshop hours, Salt Slush Racing was in need of a covered trailer.

Hence we bought a serious  trailer with racing heritage. Kalle is here posing as a proud owner should. We were all mighty encouraged at this stage. No worries, just pure happiness.

Ok. We've now moved this small looking covered trailer to a place we call home and don't ask me what happened, but it seems to have grown significantly during the 20 minutes trip. Magic isn't it?

Magic is perhaps not the correct word, misjudgement is closer to the truth.

Yes, we know. We've heard it before. Nature hates void, a fact that humans in general and Salt Slush Racing in particular are very well familiar with. Therefore we tried to sort thing out with logic, geometry and paper.

The conclusion? Not even a white sheet of paper, good arguments and a need for more space made the room grow bigger. Ain´t life strange? And depressing.

 

Simultaneously, in another part of the workshop the EFR 9180 turbo installation continues to progress. Here's the 2 in to 1 compressor inlet hose...

...and here's the 1 in to 2 compressor outlet pipe.

But what's this? A horseshoe?

It's not the result of milling for fun, it's instead a homemade wastegate bracket needed when the only not possible wastegate position was selected as the only possible wastegate position.

We're getting there step by step. Almost all connections are now almost connected.  



CFD = Careless Fluid Dynamics !

As Christmas Day became Boxing Day, Gothenburg was still silent, peaceful and contemplative. Only the wind was howling softly. Everything was still. Well almost everything...

 

There was still a small group of gearheads that could not cope with being inactive. Why didn't they sleep on the couch? No one knows and all the shrinks had a day off.

 

Here we go, Anders has made a 1 in to 2 tube and he's mighty proud. But we needed to understand if the flow distribution was correct. Hence we applied CFD. Therefore, Anders carelessly applies flow and Magnus check the fluid dynamics in an analog manner. Seems flawless.

Only science today? No, at one point in time, Magnus arrived, like Messias, with his arms full of exhaust pipes making use of his carry-wood skill.  

What I did? I worked on this...What it is? I'll keep you posted.

 

Christmas - Salt Slush Workshop: 0 - 1

The bottle of mulled wine is empty. The ham and the turkey has passed through the digestive system. Wrapping paper of Christmas gifts is blowing in the wind.

 

A restless feeling emerge and the Salt Slush team knows that there's only one cure and one cure only.

 

Go back to the workshop, socialize, do stuff and get things done!

After a short and efficient Christmas break, the SSR team with friends gathered today and the task was clear...well... reasonable clear. Continue with the EFR 9180 turbo installation!

EFR 9180 compressor outlet cut off.

Anders, you better get this right!

Concentration!

Deed almost done!

Cutting, Milling, Cleaning. Surgery successful!

 

Aluminum V- band connection on a surface of steel. Worn steel.

Two needs to merge in to one and one needs to spit in to two. It's complicated, but we're back in to package, design and discuss stage. And some welding of course.. 

From the bottom of our Salt Slush hearts and minds

...to all Speed freaks out there...we wish you all a Merry Magnificent Motor Moment....

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Turbo Tuesday!

What comes, after a Supercharged Sunday? Maybe a Magnuson Monday?

We had at least a Turbo Tuesday today! 

 

The new exhaust manifold is now installed, which means that we could make a first test assembly of the EFR 9180 turbo today. Looks really sweet. Now we just have to buy some tubes as well to match the charge air pipes and oil drain and...