My Ice Box Set up for the Grand Prix and External PCV System

[KYGTP]

I know its not a Mustang, but here is a couple little things I have done the Grand Prix, to try and get just a little bit more out of it.

First up, is my external PCV system that I did. I think I am getting alot of blow by, since every time I have torn the motor apart, my intake was always pretty oily, and I am thinking that extra oil is messing with my fueling. I could be wrong, but it is worth a shot.

Some pics of it mounted up:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1531.jpg


http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1530.jpg



For about a year now, I have thought about doing a ice box setup, and I finally got around and doing it this weekend. This is only for the track and is completely removable, to be able to drive the car on the street if I want.

Anyways, First up, the cooler:


http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1534.jpg

The hose leading to the back floor board is the drain, which is mounted about 2" from the bottom of the cooler, so that I don't drain out too much water and get air in the intake line. I used a rubber grommet already in the floor board to drain the water, so I used it to poke out a 90* fitting.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1540.jpg

Here is what it looks like under the car:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1547.jpg


The inlet coming in from the back.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1546.jpg

Inlet in the cooler:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1544.jpg

The outlet that leads to the pump, mounted down low to prevent sucking in air in the system:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1541.jpg



Here you can see all three, inlet, outlet and drain:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1542.jpg

[KYGTP]

Now I took a knock out tool and made two holes in the floor board to lead all the hoses out of the cabin, here you can see how that turned out. The oulet hose, I covered in a refletive sleeve and also covered both hoses with a 1" hose to prevent rubbing on the sharp edges of the sheild that it passes by:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1563.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1548.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1549.jpg



To keep the hose up and out of the way, I ran them next to the oil pan and wrapped them the same way:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1553.jpg


I am going to try and make this short. I am currently running a "open" type of system, so I have a reservior that all the fluid dumps into and then runs to the FMHE, to the pump and to the IC and back around. Now, my cooler acts as my reservior, so I need a way to be able to shut off reservior in the engine bay, so that the pump, pumps from the cooler.

I wanted to acheive this by NOT taking hoses off and switching them around, So I used 3 way valves, a total of 3 were used along with one with a "T" and a regular type of ball valve. (Was not able to get another 3 way valve in time)

Pics of all the valves, I feel like a need a map to make sure I turn them all the right way:

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1556.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1532.jpg

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1533.jpg



Here is a couple of shots of under the car, as you can see, I have hoses running everywhere, but you can see where they come out of the floor board, and run around to the driverside of the car to the pump, FMHE and the IC.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1550.jpg


The nice thing is, is we were able to do this without any of the hoses dipping lower than the sub frame of the car.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1560.jpg



Once I am finished racing, and want to put the seat back in, so that the wife and I can go out riding around, I pull out the cooler and connect the two hoses together, switch all the valves to work off the reservior in the engine bay, and we are good to go.

http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh134/seanspic/SANY1583.jpg



Well, there you go, and thanks for looking. I hope to be able to gain something from all this hard work, only track time will tell. If it was all for not, oh well, at least I got to hang out with a good friend of mine and drink some beers.

[KYGTP]

Sorry for the double post, but after I did it all, I was told I could not post more that 10 pics at a time, so I just split the two up to make it work.

Thanks again for checking in.

[91boost]

Looks sweet!!

[Mr.Moontang]

Thats a pretty cool set up guy!

[NO SHOT]

Be neat to see the gains!!

[draggin50]

Now that gives Igloo a whole new meaning!!! Good thinking though.

[KYGTP]

Looks sweet!!


Thats a pretty cool set up guy!

Thanks Guys


Be neat to see the gains!!

I hope that it will get rid of the KR that I am seeing on the top end that keeps pulling timing. If it does, then I can add some more timing back end:D

I just want to beat my best of 11.70


Now that gives Igloo a whole new meaning!!! Good thinking though.

I figured that it would help keep the ice a little better than just a "tank" of some type. Even though some guys with Grand Prix, say by the time they get at the end of the 1/4 it melts a whole bag of ice.

Now I need to find a bigger cooler to take all the ice with me to the track:rolleyes:

[foxbody]

nice work.