If I were looking to buy a bracket, I certainly wouldn't want it shipping with a heavy battery to Australia!

So if you can consider "just the bracket" as an option, that'd give people like me more flexibility.

Cheers,

Rich

 

^ +1

 

what a weekend!

TX MOD 2011 on saturday - was unhappy to be there with such an incomplete car, but was still fun

baseline dyno done @ my tuner's shop with one of my customers. (202whp).

and then I get an email... "We have the prototype sitting at the shop.......etc etc"

 

going in to test the prototype thursday. tuner is too busy to do it any sooner =\

i think this wait is worse than the much longer wait to even have the prototype made arghhhh

 

Hope it fits perfect first go around

 

lmao funny story

prototype before it's put together. The bottom grooves were on a separate piece for now, ready to be welded on once we lined it up on a test-fit
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/8e29238a.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/6ffec50b.jpg

and then...lol, my tuner, in his excitement, welded the groove on BACKWARDS LMAO (the look on his face was priceless)

so no pics of it installed, but we did get vital measurements from this prototype - it wasn't wasted

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/1244f345.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/a3b36d1a.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/3321807d.jpg

we decided to go with stainless steel instead of aluminum for better strength/reliability, and lots of other details that I won't bore you with - but I can guarantee that my tuner put a lot more thought than just slapping metal together. scheduled to have another prototype on monday!

 

Heh, this brings back memories. I had a fuel filler flap snap off on a previous vehicle, so I took the separated hinge and panel bits in to a shop to have them weld it back together. Lo and behold, they welded it on backwards. Any idiot could tell at a glance that it could NEVER WORK as a hinged flap... but they handed it back to me with a "here you go".

Cue the face-palming.

They were wreckers/repairers too, so it's not like they hadn't seen the likes of it!

Rich

 

looks really clean

 

indeed, i'm kinda excited to see the finished product

 

sorry this is taking so long, I'm looking around to see if I can speed up this process. I started this project months ago, long before I made this thread

glad to see people's interest though. was not expecting so much!

 

using this bracket opens up a new line of intakes for everyone... course theres interest lol

 

Here are some teaser pics. working with a different group of friends/people now for this product. will reveal details later as we get closer to production

since there was SO much interest, I decided to design this for production. if this was merely a personal mod, I would have done this so long ago (had my X turbo ready since January). I can tell you that this new design will NOT require any hack-sawing or sacrifices like the original design by JTran Studios

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/1c676be4.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/9bf76fd9.jpg

really like this pic for some reason!
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j2...o/1610ad4d.jpg

might have the final prototype done tomorrow! stay tuned. thanks for the interest guys, that's what kept me going! and yes, we are keeping cost a big factor in mind when designing this bracket!

 

nice - can't wait for this

 

what battery is this going to fit? dimensions wise

 

from first page: http://www.enersysreservepower.com/d...S-001_0406.pdf

length: 181.6 mm / 7.15"
width: 76.2 mm / 3.00"
height: 167.9 mm / 6.61"

weight: 6.1 kg / 13.5 lb