Ben vs Mk3. Round 2.

[KI11Z]

wholly fark, do work son....... Well done! tank looks ace

[Silver dub]

Gee ben you aint mucking around.

Great to see some progress from at least one 3dr owner unlike some......

[Ben J]

Ha thanks guys, I do love getting stuck into some work. Not much done over the last couple days, uni and such takes priority (sometimes ) but I've finished up wiring the amp and relays for compressors and all that up on that panel in the spare wheel well which took a bit of time to do nice and nearly. No photos yet, will put some up when its in the car.

Had a bit of a play with the tube bender I got, it makes really nice bends!

Hardline teaser:

[Jarred]

hardlines - nice.

so you're going to fully polish them, right??

[ryana89]

Haha at the size of that wire going to that relay

[Ben J]

Certainly will jarred

And yeah Ryan, everything compressor related I have done in 8 gauge. Is a little overkill but not by much, they take a lot of current, besides I had a few meters just sitting around with no use

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[Ben J]

Needed to clean things up a bit today, so re attached everything to the spare wheel well panel (i took it all apart to paint all the holes I drilled for wires/screws etc) and finished wiring it up.

Bottom of it: Power and ground distribution blocks (ground one has no plastic cover on it as I lost it, I can't see this being a problem though), compressor relays and most of the power/ground wires ran to different things


Top: Main battery fuse, fuse block for compressors and vu4, vu4, amp and a quick connect thing for the compressors. Would have been easier to put the fuses underneath and it would have tidied it up even more, but for ease of checking and such decided they should be on top.


Ignoring the all of the other random wire and **** in general in the boot, i think it looks relatively tidy, considering how many things there are in such a small space.

[Ben J]

Have got some more work done in the last couple of days. One issue I'm really trying to address this time around is the noise from the compressors. I'm running dual Viair 400c's which are known to be some of the fastest, but also some of the loudest compressors you can get. Even mounted on a big ass piece of rubber they were annoyingly loud, the absolute worst when you're hungover I'm trying a few things to quieten them down while still keeping them on display. I could have put them under the false floor which would kill a lot of noise, but then there would be heat issues and such, and I want them to be on show

So I've dynamatted bits in the back which I thought would resonate and also did the front doors while I was at it to improve audio quality. Obviously haven't taken the car out on the road, sounds really nice though in the car park Didn't really take photo's of this, its not that exciting, just some dynamat

Also have put in a couple days of work into the false floor. It turned out to be a hell of a lot more complicated them I had thought to build, but its pretty much done now, just needs carpet. The black part you can see is where the compressors will be mounted, that piece is a piece of 12mm ply, covered in dynamat extreme, and then a thick piece of rubber on top of that. I'm hoping that should kill a lot of vibrations and make the compressors less noisy. There are big gaps and such in this photo too, as the floor has to be 2 parts to be able to get it in, and the parts aren't pushed together properly.



Pretty boring update, I pretty much just post the boring things like this for my own record haha.

[Ben J]

Heaps more work done over the last couple days, doesn't look like much but getting everything perfect takes a lot of time.

Yesterday I pretty well finished up the false floor, built a door into it for easy access to the battery and such and attached it to a latch so you just push it down to pop it open, was the cleanest way I could think of doing it. Mounted the compressors and tank and then carpeted it all too. Did a heap of measurments and some trig and made up some more hard lines and got it all connected up.


Today I redid half the hardlines (made a rookie error of cutting them all down before tightening the fittings, so they were all a few mm too short) and polished them all up. Its all starting to look pretty good now Shalln't be posting any more photos until its all in the car which I'll hopefully do in the next few days

[Mk3 AAA]

Keep it up, impressive handy-work!