See you working and learning stuff make me feel good about my self cause I do the same I hope you keep doing this other channels boring me with time....
@@cmattdabrat Hey have you seen the Cruze that has a custom front nose and rear taillights that look like the 5th gen Camaro. I saw it a long time ago & it popped up today. It's on supercarsinbangalore channel. It's actually really cool looking but a lot of work done .
In regards to your circuit breaker. If you're partial to welding. Send a dedicated circuit. It's own breaker. Maybe from a b32 up to a b40 .. send a 6mm solid core feed to a socket. Use this plug in your welder, it will only be running at 13amp to the plug. I did similar to a mechanics ramp as it was too heavy to be on (what I discovered) an existing circuit. I done as mentioned above and he's never complained again. Anything heavy / demanding you should dedicate a circuit/ breaker to it. So the existing circuit is also protected. Someone could be using a socket and your welding / breaker deactivated will piss them off too.
Really love your videos Matt! You’re on the way up, you’ll be at 100k in no time. The type of content you’re able to produce at the quality you’re able to produce it is really awesome! Hats off to you
This build is coming along nicely. We all forgot about this concept but I wonder how much hp it’s gonna make. I say 300 with just the stuff u have on and tuning it to run just normal without giving off weird idles and lights(considering the stock version makes 138……… pitiful). The the real fun stuff begins after that. Lots of TUNING
@@cmattdabrat the best part about it is that it will be able to take more abuse considering the engine has forged internals. I think the oil issue became a blessing for this build. If something didn’t go bad u probably wouldn’t have rebuild the engine. Everything happens for a reason. I say this car will be able to hit 500hp faster than u think.
Love this video! I’ve been contemplating doing my own mani and think you gave me the confidence to give it a shot! How did you get the ports for the fuel injectors ? And looks like you made your own fuel rail. Any tips on this?
Thicker aluminum plate pulls a ton of current to weld which is probably why it keeps kicking the breaker. At my house I was practicing on 1/4" plate and it did the same thing to me lol. Also doesn't help that I have old outdated circuit breakers. Thin stuff is fine. Aluminum soaks up a lot of heat and pulls it away from the weld site since it is a very good heat conductor. My welder is a 250 amp transformer type and it takes almost everything its got to do 1/4" plate lol nice job btw it looks good!
@@garyhowe88 It's an older machine. Goes up to 180 amps. It's either going to punch into it, or not. Preheating helps, but it's a little bit of a band-aid. The guy that helped finished welding it up had a 400 amp machine.
one you should be welding at about 200 amp your machine is small for that kind amps to be maintained if you want to use that machine for that change your gas to a 75/25 argon helium mix which makes the electrons flow faster across the the tungsten in turn will make your machine able to weld basically it will create more heat
Hey brother! Today is the first time I've caught wind of your channel and I'm impressed!!. Being as I'm also in the process of making a custom intake manifold for my own personal vehicle this video really struck gold with me! Things like this will always generate smiles and flat out positivity PERIOD in the majority of people who also have fallen in love with making things that CAN be made on their own; ) of course I say things that CAN be made on our own in reference to there's simply just parts that have to be either made with certain types of larger machines such as a cnc and of course other parts like pistons ,rods ,stud kits and wheels and so on. Anyways thanks for the upload and I truly enjoyed it! Take care and stoked for the next video my friend! D.j.m, (NEVADA, U.S.A.
Hey DJM! Welcome aboard and thank you! One of the fun things about this project, and little to no parts availability, is creating what you can't buy. Heck, if I could forge my own pistons and rods, I would lol... but getting back to reality... an intake manifold, turbo manifold, etc. Going from a concept to a finished product is just plain ol' fun. I'd rather learn a skill to create something verses just paying for something that has been manufactured.
@@cmattdabrat I think the first generation is better than the second generation. I’ve had to modify everything on my car which is a second GEN. Just to make it more enjoyable. I feel like everything they did on the second GEN was an afterthought LOL
@@davesworld2132 I hear that! Not sure why such a huge change in design. Only thing I don't care about in the first gen is the placement of the AC knobs, which my knees hit and change often.
@@cmattdabrat tell you what heres why. Holden made your car. And Holden is amazing!!!!! Mine is an Opel astra. And I’m pretty sure at that company most of the employees wear blindfolds while they put the car together lol. See that’s the best thing about that car the second generation has so many things that make driver comfort horrible that when you’re driving a first GEN knob placement is the biggest complaint which is awesome.
@@davesworld2132 A lot of truth to that. When I started my quest to boost the 1.8, I didn't know about Holden / Opel. Until I stumbled upon the Astra and Corsa VXR. It's the same engine, aside from the VXR having a 1.6, non VVT, and mechanical flat tappet cams. It would be nice to see GM adopt more of their vehicle designs for the US market. The Gen II Cruze reminds me of a Toyota. Complete departure from what made me love the Gen I Cruze design.
LOL! That's Jordan's son, my... second nephew? He's my nieces' boy. It takes time for him to warm up, but I think all the power tools had him a little shy that day. He'll definitely be a car guy.
Hey Matt I was wondering did you get the idea to make this from the intake that Cruze Culture sells ? I stumbled across their website and they have one they sell that looks exactly like yours. It goes for around 600.00 bucks they said it made 11hp on a 100% stock 1.4 I'm curious what it will make on your motor love your video content keep them coming ✌out with your ✌out
I had to learn how to weld. Go back to some of my earlier videos and I show just how awful I was at it. Still not the greatest but takes time and practice.
Matt where did you get the main mounting flange machined at? I'm trying to do a eatons m90 on my 1.8 and that mounting flange would make for great start to my intake
That's awesome! I tried looking for the invoice. Been about a year. I just googled china cnc machine shop and they came up. We're pretty inexpensive and fast turnaround. I'll dig some more later.
IMTV? Is that the variable actuator? That will just end up mounted somewhere out of the way, even though it wont be doing anything, to satisfy the computer. I'll cover some of the vacuum lines, and how I address them once we go to start this thing up. Just need to finish the intercooler piping and the small things.
@@cmattdabrat when i had a wire spit for the “imtv” intake manifold tuning valve, my cruze kept dying on me at every stop thats why i asked if you had a plan or action that would make it obsolete or something
@@thr33ninety28 Gotcha. In the ECU / ECM, it's listed as VIM, variable intake manifold. It can be turned off and set to zero so it's maps based off of RPM, don't affect the VVT and fueling. But just to please the ECU, I'll have it plugged in.. or I may not plug it in at all.
Love how you are pushing the limits of fabrication not just getting crap off the shelf matt great work
Thank you! It's fun making dreaming up custom pieces and seeing them come to fruition.
I literally just checked you’re channel for a video and here it is my man
Awesome!
Another thing knocked off the list!
Love how this is turning out! Great work!
Thank you!!!
Wow this really came out awesome. Tons of work man. Very impressive.
Thank you!! Been working on this thing for weeks and finally seeing the end results. So awesome.
See you working and learning stuff make me feel good about my self cause I do the same I hope you keep doing this other channels boring me with time....
That's awesome! If I can do it and pickup a new skill, you can do it!
Dude that intake looks great I love the custom dyi stuff 👍🏻
Thank you! Will make for some awesome convo. Where'd you get that... I made it...
@@cmattdabrat Hey have you seen the Cruze that has a custom front nose and rear taillights that look like the 5th gen Camaro. I saw it a long time ago & it popped up today. It's on supercarsinbangalore channel. It's actually really cool looking but a lot of work done .
In regards to your circuit breaker. If you're partial to welding. Send a dedicated circuit. It's own breaker. Maybe from a b32 up to a b40 .. send a 6mm solid core feed to a socket. Use this plug in your welder, it will only be running at 13amp to the plug. I did similar to a mechanics ramp as it was too heavy to be on (what I discovered) an existing circuit. I done as mentioned above and he's never complained again. Anything heavy / demanding you should dedicate a circuit/ breaker to it. So the existing circuit is also protected. Someone could be using a socket and your welding / breaker deactivated will piss them off too.
Really love your videos Matt! You’re on the way up, you’ll be at 100k in no time. The type of content you’re able to produce at the quality you’re able to produce it is really awesome! Hats off to you
Wow, I really appreciate that.
You in Houston and if so where I'm in Conroe
I have a 2012 Chevy Cruze
This build is coming along nicely. We all forgot about this concept but I wonder how much hp it’s gonna make. I say 300 with just the stuff u have on and tuning it to run just normal without giving off weird idles and lights(considering the stock version makes 138……… pitiful). The the real fun stuff begins after that. Lots of TUNING
That's the million dollar question! Definitely exciting that it's getting closer to being completely finished and dyno time coming.
@@cmattdabrat the best part about it is that it will be able to take more abuse considering the engine has forged internals. I think the oil issue became a blessing for this build. If something didn’t go bad u probably wouldn’t have rebuild the engine. Everything happens for a reason. I say this car will be able to hit 500hp faster than u think.
Looking good! I'm glad to see you knocking this out of the park. Can't wait for what's next 🙂
Thank you! Time to finish up the cold side of the turbo!
Love your work mate 👍
Thank you!
I've gotta hand it to you perfect work I wanna try something like this definitely
Love this video! I’ve been contemplating doing my own mani and think you gave me the confidence to give it a shot! How did you get the ports for the fuel injectors ? And looks like you made your own fuel rail. Any tips on this?
Thicker aluminum plate pulls a ton of current to weld which is probably why it keeps kicking the breaker. At my house I was practicing on 1/4" plate and it did the same thing to me lol. Also doesn't help that I have old outdated circuit breakers. Thin stuff is fine. Aluminum soaks up a lot of heat and pulls it away from the weld site since it is a very good heat conductor. My welder is a 250 amp transformer type and it takes almost everything its got to do 1/4" plate lol nice job btw it looks good!
Doesn't pull any more current than you set the welder to, I weld 1/2" aluminium all the time with a 200amp machine, all about preheat.
@@garyhowe88 It's an older machine. Goes up to 180 amps. It's either going to punch into it, or not. Preheating helps, but it's a little bit of a band-aid. The guy that helped finished welding it up had a 400 amp machine.
I’m glad I used the premade manifold for mine 😂 great work though!
Thanks! Nothing wrong with getting premade stuff to help speed things up.
Amazing how u made your own part ur inspiring me to make my own and to convince my wife that it would be a good idea 😂
That's awesome! Just do like the rest of us car guys, make it and tell your wife later lol.
one you should be welding at about 200 amp your machine is small for that kind amps to be maintained if you want to use that machine for that change your gas to a 75/25 argon helium mix which makes the electrons flow faster across the the tungsten in turn will make your machine able to weld basically it will create more heat
You're right about that David. You live and learn.
Hey brother! Today is the first time I've caught wind of your channel and I'm impressed!!. Being as I'm also in the process of making a custom intake manifold for my own personal vehicle this video really struck gold with me! Things like this will always generate smiles and flat out positivity PERIOD in the majority of people who also have fallen in love with making things that CAN be made on their own; ) of course I say things that CAN be made on our own in reference to there's simply just parts that have to be either made with certain types of larger machines such as a cnc and of course other parts like pistons ,rods ,stud kits and wheels and so on. Anyways thanks for the upload and I truly enjoyed it! Take care and stoked for the next video my friend! D.j.m, (NEVADA, U.S.A.
Hey DJM! Welcome aboard and thank you! One of the fun things about this project, and little to no parts availability, is creating what you can't buy. Heck, if I could forge my own pistons and rods, I would lol... but getting back to reality... an intake manifold, turbo manifold, etc. Going from a concept to a finished product is just plain ol' fun. I'd rather learn a skill to create something verses just paying for something that has been manufactured.
that really awesome ! DIY MVP you are!
Hahaha, thank you!
Man I just keep getting hyped up!
Same here! Getting close!
This was awesome. I love the Gen 1 CRUZE
Thanks! I've always thought the Gen 1 Cruze had a nice design to it despite the reputation it has.
@@cmattdabrat I think the first generation is better than the second generation. I’ve had to modify everything on my car which is a second GEN. Just to make it more enjoyable. I feel like everything they did on the second GEN was an afterthought LOL
@@davesworld2132 I hear that! Not sure why such a huge change in design. Only thing I don't care about in the first gen is the placement of the AC knobs, which my knees hit and change often.
@@cmattdabrat tell you what heres why. Holden made your car. And Holden is amazing!!!!! Mine is an Opel astra. And I’m pretty sure at that company most of the employees wear blindfolds while they put the car together lol. See that’s the best thing about that car the second generation has so many things that make driver comfort horrible that when you’re driving a first GEN knob placement is the biggest complaint which is awesome.
@@davesworld2132 A lot of truth to that. When I started my quest to boost the 1.8, I didn't know about Holden / Opel. Until I stumbled upon the Astra and Corsa VXR. It's the same engine, aside from the VXR having a 1.6, non VVT, and mechanical flat tappet cams. It would be nice to see GM adopt more of their vehicle designs for the US market. The Gen II Cruze reminds me of a Toyota. Complete departure from what made me love the Gen I Cruze design.
Whats an easy way to get the measurements off a gasket to design a flange?
How many CC is the aluminum vs stock?
I'm not sure what the stock one is. Mine is 209 ci or 3277cc.
09:52 kids are funny man 🤣🤣🤣 tht boy damm gave u the “what the hell are u talking about” look💀
LOL! That's Jordan's son, my... second nephew? He's my nieces' boy. It takes time for him to warm up, but I think all the power tools had him a little shy that day. He'll definitely be a car guy.
Nice work ones again!
Thank you!
Hey Matt I was wondering did you get the idea to make this from the intake that Cruze Culture sells ? I stumbled across their website and they have one they sell that looks exactly like yours. It goes for around 600.00 bucks they said it made 11hp on a 100% stock 1.4 I'm curious what it will make on your motor love your video content keep them coming ✌out with your ✌out
Thank you! It definitely inspired it, but did my own spin on it.
I really enjoy your videos and what you are doing. But can you find other montage music lol
LOL, sure, I can mix it up. What are you into?
How did you get around the intake tuning valve sensor??
Gracias amigo
Where did you get that intake runner tubing? I’ve looked everywhere for it.
Here you go.
ebay.us/os5NkM
@@cmattdabrat thanks
@@stellingbanjodude Any time.
🤯🤯🤯🤯 awesome 💪
Appreciate it!
Nice!
Thanks!
EPIC !!!!
If you can weld --- WELD...
Thanks!
I had to learn how to weld. Go back to some of my earlier videos and I show just how awful I was at it. Still not the greatest but takes time and practice.
nailed it
Thanks!
yea i dont know how to Tig lol.. Right on
LOL, I didn't either until I picked it up last year. Still, eh, need more work at it.
How does it perform
Pulls hard on the top end. Did sacrifice some low end, but to be expected.
Matt where did you get the main mounting flange machined at? I'm trying to do a eatons m90 on my 1.8 and that mounting flange would make for great start to my intake
That's awesome! I tried looking for the invoice. Been about a year. I just googled china cnc machine shop and they came up. We're pretty inexpensive and fast turnaround. I'll dig some more later.
Okay thanks brother
I just...blink ...wanna say....blink...that...blink... Your videos....blink...are...blink....pretty...blinking..cool
What did you do about your imtv
IMTV? Is that the variable actuator? That will just end up mounted somewhere out of the way, even though it wont be doing anything, to satisfy the computer. I'll cover some of the vacuum lines, and how I address them once we go to start this thing up. Just need to finish the intercooler piping and the small things.
@@cmattdabrat when i had a wire spit for the “imtv” intake manifold tuning valve, my cruze kept dying on me at every stop thats why i asked if you had a plan or action that would make it obsolete or something
@@thr33ninety28 Gotcha. In the ECU / ECM, it's listed as VIM, variable intake manifold. It can be turned off and set to zero so it's maps based off of RPM, don't affect the VVT and fueling. But just to please the ECU, I'll have it plugged in.. or I may not plug it in at all.
👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻🛠️
Thank you!
You still picking up engine parts on the floor ? Lolol
I don't get it lol
@@cmattdabrat didn't the car blow up lol? that's what I heard anyways......
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