I was brought to this guy when he was Free valving a harbour freight motor...and ive always stayed subscribed. Dude is amazing. Also, congrats on the weight loss man. You look great.
As a machinist/welder/fabricator/mechanical tech with an R129 V12, I must say, "very nicely done." If you are looking for your next project, I have a 94 V-Max and at least two factory Yamaha Seca 650 Turbochargers for a fuel injected twin turbo V-Max. Also have a mid-restoration 82 Seca Turbo with at least an entire 82 parts bike. Looking to rid myself of motorcycle projects. Bought the R129 as motorcycle replacement therapy.
This is awesome, but you know what’d make it next level? Variable length runners. Have another set of trumpets mounted on a plate above the current trumpets, with a solenoid/actuator to lift the whole plate off and allow the air to take the shorter path again.
So I know you don't probably need validation from some random viewer, but for whatever it's worth, I really like your content. Your channel embodies that which I think RU-vid should be all about. Maybe some day I can shake your hand and say "thank you".
I accidentally stumbled across your videos from a RU-vid reel and Holly crap. What you’re doing is incredible. That V12 sounds like an old F1 car from back when they sounded like race cars, it’s music to my ears. I’m excited to see the project advance and hear your little one liners. Thanks for sharing it with the world.
That's a great looking throttle body conversion Wesley. Looking good yourself too! Nice to see you back, I can't wait to see what you're doing with the car!
You attempted velocity stacks from forged carbon fiber. Have you considered milling extruded carbon fiber? It's more for strength applications, but could be an interesting material for velocity stacks.
11:41 a couple of those trumpets are loose - they leap up a bit when it starts up. Perhaps glue them in so you don't lose them on the track? Glorious sound!
I think the best part about this is the price of all this information is $100... youre providing hours of R&D for the cost of a nice dinner for 2. Insane. Liked, Subbed.
You can have individual trumpets (runners with a length to tune for maximum torque, usually to accommodate the transmission used in the vehicle) but feed from a common (near infinite volume pulse wise shared volume) manifold, you want the pulses to be sympathetic within the manifold which is determined by crankshaft firing order design and how the cylinders intake air relative to their adjacent neighbor cylinders. The intake manifold has a single large throttle body with an idle air throttle plate bypass idle speed control stepper motor (GM style), and use either a MAF sensor feeding the TB, or use speed density. For a V12 of large displacement for closed loop fuel control, there are two intake manifolds each with its own bank TB. Here again you want the firing order to alternate between banks for an even fire 60 degree V12. The bank alternating along with same bank non adjacent actually limits the crankshaft design options (firing order design). The exhaust manifolds for each bank will be 3 into 1 (x2 for the bank) and then 2 into 1 (before the exhaust crossover). It is very hard to control engine AF ratio and idle speed control with 12 separate throttle bodies (stand alone separate naturally aspirated TBs does not allow common plenum sympathetic pulse tuning or evening out of flow). In order to control AF ratio with good resolution it is necessary to use a MAF to measure the amount of oxygen to burn in each cylinder.
I am so glad I stumbled onto your channel. Subscribed! I'll be doing a ITB conversion on my 05 Aston Martin DB9 V12 soon. I am loving your design and the fact you outsourced to SendCutSend. I think I will be going the same route.
Love the updates. If it helps, i think videos being a bit more specific might help. Like this could have been one vid on getting the car started and another on going over the throttle bodies. I know that’d take more time to edit, but just a thought. Again, always stoked to see what you’ve been working on and your sense of humor is F-ing gold man. Keep it up!
Yeah, I've thought about it- I have this weird thing where I really like to make a video when I feel I've made enough progress on a project- Also, by putting everything into one it limits the "I need to make content" crunch a little. I'm trying to find a nice balance, and I think hindsight 20/20 two ten minute videos, one last month and one this month, would've been better.
Good point about the crunch bit. As long as you’re doing well and not burning up in your garage (least not without filming it), we’re stoked to see what you’ve been up to.
I’d just love to hear so much more detail about each step! For example - those trumpets are amazing and I’d love to hear more about the process and the forming tool etc! You just smashed them out and breezed over the success like you’d just made beans on toast! Dude! These are mad skills and we’d love to learn from you more, so please spell out the technique more for us trying to cling onto your coat tails!! 😊 Amazing video - just wish it was nearer to 3hrs long! 😅 Thanks dude! (Going back to watch it again 3 more times!)
So I am sure Wesley know it but for anyone that do not, DO NOT use any nylon 3dp for any structural part / loaded part as it WILL creep and deform as time go (and in this case it is pretty fast) but for non structural part it is a good choice for cars part
this format is simple and appears effective as well as giving a peak at some of the hardcore motor head content. not that getting lost in the weeks nerding out over throttle bodies isn't good videos blending them together and meeting deadlines is a goodluck start with large fortune topic. engine going into the rolling frame in the back?
Seeing the brass, the aluminium and the black nylon parts all together it reminded me of Pagani. Love what you create and how you do it. About once a month is great for me.
Hey man, fucking love this project and glad to see more videos. I totally agree that a good video is better than an on time video, but given the necessarily large gaps between them, and the implicitly large amount of progress made, I think they would benefit a lot from more frequent and detailed recap/explanation segments. I don't think I'm alone in saying I like hearing you talk about the project, even though you seem to shy away from it more and more in recent vids. If I wanted to watch build comps I'd go watch grind hard plumbing or something, I'm here because the engineering is really cool. Either way keep it up and I'm excited to see what's next 👍
Cool! : D Also the screws that hold the throttle flaps can come loose and fly into the engine. A thread locker is not the best solution as it can fall apart due to temperature. It is better to replace the screws with rivets or make a small blind hole at the end of the screws and rivet them.
You should do builds with other RU-vidrs if you haven't already. I've seen some of your stuff over the years, but I think I dont come back every episode could be format or what you're building. The Pneumatic valves was cool and I watched all those.
The magician is back. If you broke your videos into 20 second chunks, then made a 15 minute video of each chunk, it would still be incredibly interesting and would look a lot less like witchcraft. Ah, what the hell, strap in because we're going for a ride with Wes... Massive respect for your skills, hope you're having a heap of fun.
Another really top notch video Wesley. I particularly enjoyed the machining sequences, and how you edit them to sync with the music, very satisfying. I appreciate the challenging nature of what you are doing here, yet you make it look easy, and take it in stride, with good humor 👍🏻
I have had JB weld blocking a pathway in the mouth of my throttle body for going on 8 years now with no issues so far! Knock on wood haha! Awesome to see you back at it! Man i wish i had a lathe, cnc machine and a plasma table in my garage haha!
Dude, congratulations on the simply insane achievements you do on a regular basis. I aspire to have a shop that makes things at least half as well as you do. Also, congrats on the weight loss! Looking awesome!
Had the same problem, just install a copy of windows on your macbook using the macs inbuilt boot camp assistant. You can access the windows in one click of a button upon start-up.
Dude how have not got 10 million subs?? Your videos are so interesting, really enjoying them. The sound of that V12! 😲😍😍😍Loved the “Charity” comment at the beginning, made me spit my tea out laughing. 😂 Blessings from Dorset UK.🙏😎👍🏻
great work wesley, sorry if you covered it and i missed it, but you should consider peening the screws holding the butterflies in so you don't accidentally pioneer a metal injection system
I would watch anyday, judging by the comment section so will many of the other other like minded people here, depsite how long it takes you to make a video. felt like i should say this if your feeling pressured to upload more often
I’m super keen to see the future long term wear and tear follow-up video. Super trick video series!! Now you have the 3d models you could 3d print forged carbon fibre, and incapsulate the alloy parts. Lots of trick high temp resins available. Just an idea for a future video. Milk this anti-thunberg engine for all its worth!! I’d love to see dual injectors, with injectors above the bell mouth trumpets, like F1. 🇦🇺🤜🏼🤛🏼🍀🍀🍀😎☮️☮️☮️
@@nickcook7408 you are absolutely correct. An omission on my part. I wanted to say ‘lose some torque lower in the rpm range’. But like you say, changing the torque curve is a better way to explain it.
This just makes me excited to run a conversion on my VFR750 from carbs to injection to eventually turbocharge it. Entire thing needs rebuilt, and it’s currently in timeout since one of the ignition coils decided to get a bit molten inside last time I worked on it.
Wesley, Your injection is absolutely beautiful! I hope other people that watch your channel realize how much work it takes from coming up with an idea to actually having precision parts that all fit together to make such an impressive assembly. The throttle mechanism is such a perfect solution for synchronizing 12 individual throttles and it looks very professional. Fantastic job!!! How about a little more info on the form tool you made to form the air bells. I would like to try it on my lathe but I would really appreciate more info on your form tool and some of the things you learned as you make the air bells. Can't wait to see your thinking on the new car. Thanks, Rex
Thank you! I appreciate the kind words, and it does take a lot of time behind the scenes but it makes it worth it in my opinion. I’ll be honest, I kinda winged the form tool- I think with some planning it could be better!
Very cool 😎, some seriously impressive engineering. Can't wait to see the finished project. Buy some ear defenders! If you have some already then wear them! (For the loud bits, not all the time)
I'm from France and was regularely checking your channel waiting for some news. Always some really impressive work, and I also appreciate your sense of humour.
I've got an old BMW "oilhead" R1100 Boxer, they have a (BING) throttle body with injector, pretty sleek, but rather long. And not 46mm large. Anyhow, nice to see a video again, cuts, music, sound etc. always improving !
Can't wait to see this in a car. This seems like the kind of motor that would be so good in one of those Datsun 240-based Ferrari 250 GTO replicas. What a car that'd be.
This is the only channel with this type of content(machining , engineering etc)that I can watch without getting bored lol Amazing work! Whatever happened to your XJS?
For the love and safety of the engine and your own safety too, please buy and take a crash course on tuning. Jusy to be safe 😂 PS awesome proyect, can't wait to see where it will go!
I love all your content, but this ITB stuff is supreme. ITB's on my H6 Subaru with variable length velocity stacks is a kind of a 'wet dream' for me. :)
you can pick up MG throttle bodies new for like £40 (≈$50) or used for like £20 (≈$25) in the UK and they’re 48mm or 52mm. I used a few 48mm ones for my ITB set and they’re pretty good
11:00 your loosing the will to live …. 11:12 your ecstatic😂. I’m Liking the 928 in the background too . Being good at one thing is relatively easy , being good at many things is hard . Think you’ve excelled with your attitude , ability and deserve a thumbs up and a beer 👍🍺
Pity I can only hit the like thumb once, these knowledge nuggets are superb. Looks like a couple of the center trumpets need a bit of sticky stuff 11:40
Mega interesting project. Hope you put it in the 928. Porsche & Ferdinand Piech had the idea of putting the AUDI V10 engine in the 928 but didn't want the 928 to compete with the 911Turbo variants.
Man it seems like you’re really making great progress in many respects! Your shop is looking great too! Love seeing your videos when they pop into my feed but don’t feel obligated to release videos on a certain schedule. Film, edit and release videos whenever you want. We are just happy that you’re kind enough to take us along for the ride! Also want to say that engine looks absolutely awesome.
