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Started by Nackerz · 3 Feb 2011 · 157 repliesPreserved from CalaisTurbo (partial recovery). Original authors and dates are shown; archived members are not current Holdcom accounts. View original archive ↗
04-08-11, 20:36 GMT+10#102
He has resprayed the bay. He is going to do the whole car that dark purple I believe.
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05-08-11, 06:28 GMT+10#103
haha whitey, engine mounts are secret lol jks.
yeah the bay took me months, having pretty much zero car body skills. sometime in the future i will fix the rust around the front screen and paint it the same as the bay
made a B&M shifter mount lastnight, mounting that this morning then start hooking the microtech loom up to the car wiring.
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07-08-11, 06:39 GMT+10#104
Shifter and cable installed
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15-08-11, 20:19 GMT+10#105
little update, Atomic cam gears arrived after 8 weeks of waiting put them in in the morning. Manifolds done with wastegate fitted
getting there slowly but surely.
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16-08-11, 08:53 GMT+10#106
Fark yeah lookin good Scotty
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16-08-11, 21:37 GMT+10#107
good progress scott
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19-08-11, 20:29 GMT+10#109
Little header tank me and Ryan (bt1cal) made up
Where the enginebays at now
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20-08-11, 06:50 GMT+10#110
good work Scott, just need to get it going then all the hard work will seem worth it
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20-08-11, 18:08 GMT+10#114
Nah whitey straight outa china bruh.
Yeah bloody oath Ollie, hangin for it now
Guys at work put a custom my family sticker on yesterday lol
Painted the plenum in 2pack asteroid silver today in my lunch break
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20-08-11, 19:01 GMT+10#115
Great job Scott. Looking great. You never cease to amaze me with your progress.
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20-08-11, 19:27 GMT+10#116
Good work man looks awesome, good sh*t for getting in there and doing it yourself
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22-08-11, 10:12 GMT+10#117
Lookin gr8 man you going to race @ jamboree
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22-08-11, 12:02 GMT+10#118
thanks for all the positive comments guys Im enjoying doing 80% + of all the work myself with the help of graham and ryan.
Got the misses giving the interior and enginebay a detail now
plenums ready to go on, ordering my MT ET's today, gotta finish the microtech to car wiring, pick up the tailshaft, start on the exhaust and cooler piping, plus a few little things to finish off. So fingers crossed i shall have started it by thursday arvo so F ucking excited lol
also no jambo, we should be taking gmans 4l vl but im not interested in racing mine just wanna fry tyres at powercruise
Steph detailed my enginebay so I dummy fitted the plenum
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04-09-11, 06:27 GMT+10#120
Should be starting it today absolutely spewing I'm going to miss C4C today always next year. Painted all my new bumpers myself and gmans new front bumper
Things to do:
Run alt signal wire
Make hot side cooler pipe
Pick up tailshaft and install
Mount tacho
Mount comp n X6
Fit all new bumpers
Claybar, polish n wax
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