PDIB's Making MODs!

[Bimini Twist]

This OliveR Dibi with its "official factory upgrades" is one mean machine!

While it is great inspiration and much fun watching people hop up their Dibi mods, I am very happy with mine. Even more so now that I have the new spring and contact screw. I don't see a need to go beyond this, but . . . who really knows? Please continue posting such modifications.

I liken it to the days of my first car, a used stock '68 Camaro. I couldn't hop it up the way I wanted to, but what little I did do for it made it better than what I bought, though not something to bet your pink slip on. Those old USA V8s were excellent modder cars.

There is one single tweak I'm thinking about doing on my own. Not related to performance, but comfort. I've noticed that the bottom plate (richlite) feels somewhat sharp around my pinky finger - but only in the morning*. I think I may round it off just a tad.

* Why would that be? Is my wood bigger in the morning?

 

[turbocad6]

ha, I've said many times the dibi don't really NEED anything, well, honestly the only thing I would say it NEEDED out of the box to be a heavy hitter as-is was the better button spring, but aside from that it's great the way it is, hell I almost liked it as well as a mosfet fired device before I even did anything else here. like I said I did what I did because of pet peeves and the desire to tinker, not because it was no good before. far from it. I'm just picky and a nut when it comes to customizing things to better suit my whims and my desires.

we've already got feedback from the masses when I suggested the lower cap doesn't need to be quick release, they almost hung me for suggesting such changes there so I guess it's obvious everyone loves the dibi just the way it is don't mind me, Im just nuts and I modify everything, I can see how the way I did it wouldn't be good for the masses of course, there are the safety issues of the fuse and durability concerns not to mention production concerns and obviously building a mod for the masses, not just one person where for me I only have to worry about building for one person, me

thank you for not running me out of here like I'm complaining or anything, I'm more just sharing what I do in that it might help someone else I guess or spark other ideas and help someone, not to complain, but this reminds me of my fiasco I had on a mercedes forum

my mercedes is an awesome vehicle in every way but the brakes just were not up to par with the rest of the performance in my opinion, and I'm a very hard driver so I really need good brakes, I usually upgrade the brakes on most of my cars. well I went on a mercedes forum and documented my issues and opinions, and I showed what I did and how I did it, in that it might help anyone else who may want to do a brake upgrade. I showed why the factory brakes were less than adequate and I showed how I upgraded them to a set of 8 piston brembo monoblocks with 15.4" rotors in front and brembo 4 piston rears, sourced partially from some very cost effective parts from a salvaged S55 AMG. I showed how someone could do this upgrade without breaking the bank yet wind up with best of the best ultra high performance braking. well, the response I got was very different than expected. the only responses I got were in defense of the factory braking ability and people insinuating that an upgrade is not needed here, and that there was something wrong with me for even thinking that , it was like they took my posting as I was telling them there brakes sucked and everyone got all defensive instead of realizing my only intent was to share what I believed to be valuable information for anyone who might want to upgrade there brakes too now obviously the brakes are adequate for the masses, hell of the many thousands and thousands of these vehicles sold it's pretty safe to say that I am the only one who ever went as far as upgrading it to monster brakes, so obviously what I did was just a performance upgrade but I couldn't believe how ill received my sharing there was, glad my postings here aren't seen as slamming the dibi in any way because that's far from the truth I'm just nuts and want what I want, exactly how I want it is all

 

[turbocad6]

as far as the lower reinforcing bit, the penny has went a long way in strengthening the weakest link there and now wit the top cap super tightly attached I'm sure I'll drop it much less but I decided to do just a little more, again just for the sake of tinkering

what I'm doing there is adding a copper plate bonded to the bottom of the mod too, but much thinner than the main top plate and electrically isolated from the battery circuit, so it will just be a thinner copper trim between the bottom of the body and the lower cap. haven't finished it yet, probably finish it tonight if i feel like tinkering when I get home but here is what I'm talking about

and here is where it will go

necissary?, no, again just tinkering and modding, I can't help it

 

[glassgal]

Hrm. Had the same complaint about my old Mercedes many years ago. Crappy brakes.

sent from my spaceship using Tapatalk

 

[Filthy-Beast]

as far as the lower reinforcing bit, the penny has went a long way in strengthening the weakest link there and now wit the top cap super tightly attached I'm sure I'll drop it much less but I decided to do just a little more, again just for the sake of tinkering

what I'm doing there is adding a copper plate bonded to the bottom of the mod too, but much thinner than the main top plate and electrically isolated from the battery circuit, so it will just be a thinner copper trim between the bottom of the body and the lower cap. haven't finished it yet, probably finish it tonight if i feel like tinkering when I get home but here is what I'm talking about

and here is where it will go

necissary?, no, again just tinkering and modding, I can't help it

that's going to look Great!

 

[timk]

aesthetically that is going to be a killer modification!

 

[Alexander Mundy]

...... my fiasco I had on a mercedes forum .......I'm just nuts and want what I want, exactly how I want it is all

I had a similar experience on a VW forum. So I added a quote in my sig line from another member that experienced the same thing that I thought summed it up pretty good: "The original German engineers have attained sainthood and it is impossible to improve perfection. Anything that anyone does to deviate from the original designs will be made to wrench on 20 year old Yugos with Harbor Freight tools in hell."

 

[bustabo]

I had a similar experience on a VW forum. So I added a quote in my sig line from another member that experienced the same thing that I thought summed it up pretty good: "The original German engineers have attained sainthood and it is impossible to improve perfection. Anything that anyone does to deviate from the original designs will be made to wrench on 20 year old Yugos with Harbor Freight tools in hell."

Vwvortex???

 

[pdib]

gotta love that fuel line draped over the exhaust manifold. that was saintly clever.

 

[turbocad6]

I had a similar experience on a VW forum. So I added a quote in my sig line from another member that experienced the same thing that I thought summed it up pretty good: "The original German engineers have attained sainthood and it is impossible to improve perfection. Anything that anyone does to deviate from the original designs will be made to wrench on 20 year old Yugos with Harbor Freight tools in hell."

yeah man, I hate that, why can't someone agree that even though something may be great as-is, there is always room for improvement, always... hell I can find things that I'd have to do to even a 1/4 million $$ machine, there is no such thing as being so perfect that there is no room for improvement for someone. I had a lot of this happen when it came to reo talk here, so many go by the belief that it was perfect as is, game over, nothing can be better don't even bother trying. when something is suggested that is seen as less than optimal some just have blinders on and just can't accept that everything has room for improvement and then you become the bad guy for suggesting any improvement to what they perceive as perfection... yeah right, nothing is perfect for everyone, and many things have to balance compromise between several different areas of criteria and a balance is met that satisfies the masses, compromises are made and nothing is ever perfect alls I do with modifying anything is just shift the compromises towards what I value most and trade off what I value less, making it more perfectly suited for me that's what modding is

 

[pdib]

my wife was test driving an old bug once. i was with her. we're waiting at a red light . . . . . . and FOOM . . . . now the car is on fire.




good stuff




bright guys

 

[Alexander Mundy]

Vwvortex???

No, The Samba which is for Bugs. Some on there are purists and venturing outside the performance engines section can sometimes get you a tongue lashing when 90% of your engine is not factory and puts out 3 or 4 times what it was designed for.

 

[bustabo]

No, The Samba which is for Bugs. Some on there are purists and venturing outside the performance engines section can sometimes get you a tongue lashing when 90% of your engine is not factory and puts out 3 or 4 times what it was designed for.

Ah, yeah, you air cooled guys!

 

[supertrunker]

Where it gets dodgy is with certain devices that have a messianic following and then anything at all is seen as a slur on the fallibility of the creator and therefore blasphemy.

That is not to say that the makers of those things see it like like, but i have argued tooth and nail, that some modifications are not just for the sake of it, but they serve a purpose and solve a problem, whether that's a problem for me - or a problem for everyone else is irrelevant.

I like seeing Mundy and T-cad's modding; some of it is thought-provoking and all of it is instructive, which is what it ought to be.

T

 

[turbocad6]

At what ohms are you looking at on that HV coil? And what gauge wire, I'm thinking of giving it a go.

I usually go with either a ~13 wrap 28 gauge microcoil give or take, .055" or 1/16" ID depending on my mood, and I usually wind up with anywhere from ~ 1 ohm - 1.5 ohms on my VV's, sometimes up to even 1.8-1.9 ohm depending. the VV mod can drive that as hard as a sub ohm coil on a mech, but with much more heated mass. lately I've also been trying 12-13 wraps of 26 gauge too, again, VV drives it no problem, might come in somewhere ~ .9-1.0 ohm give or take. to have as much mass and as much power as I like in a mech I usually only run duals to get that. I rarely run duals anymore on VV because I don't really need to

 

[Bimini Twist]

Just a heads up that I'm out of town for a week, and won't be posting much (but will read the antics)

Hope it's for fun. We'll miss you!

 

[Bimini Twist]

Where it gets dodgy is with certain devices that have a messianic following and then anything at all is seen as a slur on the fallibility of the creator and therefore blasphemy.

That is not to say that the makers of those things see it like like, but i have argued tooth and nail, that some modifications are not just for the sake of it, but they serve a purpose and solve a problem, whether that's a problem for me - or a problem for everyone else is irrelevant.

I like seeing Mundy and T-cad's modding; some of it is thought-provoking and all of it is instructive, which is what it ought to be.

T

Well said, Sir.

 

[pdib]

? ? ?

 

[onjre]

Where it gets dodgy is with certain devices that have a messianic following and then anything at all is seen as a slur on the fallibility of the creator and therefore blasphemy.

That is not to say that the makers of those things see it like like, but i have argued tooth and nail, that some modifications are not just for the sake of it, but they serve a purpose and solve a problem, whether that's a problem for me - or a problem for everyone else is irrelevant.

I like seeing Mundy and T-cad's modding; some of it is thought-provoking and all of it is instructive, which is what it ought to be.

T

Actually most modding I've seen isn't super interesting... Tcad and Mundy's modding however is full of all this jucy information and great pictures and clever testing. I enjoy reading it even if I know I'll never do it myself.

 

[supertrunker]

? ? ?

Nougat?

T