Thread: VVL for drifting S14 with a 4.6 Rear***BUILDING NOW***

Very interested to see how the header turns out... i'll be needing one in a little while (with a s14 DE flange though...)

I wanted to this for a long time. If you can get the total weight down to 2300 lbs it should be a lot of fun at the track.

Oh now you are interested, You told me it was a bad idea when I though of it.

It's RWD VE i'm always interested. when I do mine it will just be turbo rwd ve lol.

i remember going through all this when i done my sr20vet build
so glad its finished now

what inlet and exhaust manifold are u going to use?

The exhaust manifold is an OEM Sr20DE off an S14 engine, it goes 4 into 2 and then I'll have my shop fab up teh rest of the manifold so it can mate to my nice Apexi Dual N1 exhaust thats on the car now. Intake manifold will be one of their own designs, but like I said, I'm going to run the Xcessive manifold and have it maxed out as far as tuning goes, and then have them build their manifold and see the gains. The Xcessive manifold does not have internal trumpets, just rounded ports that go the manifold flange.

Since you have to fab the in-mani, have you considered ITB
like the ones on th GTIR? Is it more trouble than its worth? Just throwing an idea out there...

Yes, the issue with ITBs and texas is the engine bay heat from track driving and slow speed drifting. The temps in the engine bay will rise along with the fact that since the car is going sideways, normal ducting is useless to keep direct air flow to the ITBs. Also since the areas that the tracks are at have a lot of gravel and lose sand... I don't feel like port and polishing my cylinder walls at every event. Bottom line, if it's a drag car that sees zero debri, then yes ITBs all the way with ducting, if its going sideways not really needed. A well designed plenum can flow better than ITBs.

Any updates?

That sucks. I received a tranny once, bell housing facing down, with nothing but a layer of cardboard between it and whatever it hit that cracked the bell housing. It too, came from a very reputable seller. So much so that even my wife was surprised by how shamefully it was packaged when it arrived. I guess a "drop ship" was involved and the seller had someone else provide the tranny. Thought I was paying for the reputation, turns out I could have bought it from anywhere.

In that case I figured the hired help was to blame. Problem was fixed eventually, at much expense of my own.