no **** that car is crazy,you must have deep pocket's man, how much you got into that 7

 

I think i'm just about at the $50-$60k (Canadian) mark.

Performed an alignment on my car, and have it at home now.

Heres a few pictures of things I am doing on it now, I am relocating the ignition coils under the coweling for a cleaner look in the engine bay. I am during a partial (eventually full) engine bay wiring tuck. I relocated where I put the catch can, and pre turbo oil filter.







I ran all the microtech wiring thats going to the left side of the engine bay on the inside of the firewall. Wiring for the coil packs goes through the coweling grommet on the firewall for the wiper wiring. All the injector wiring (stuff under the intake) goes through the heater core hole in the firewall.

As you can see the drivers side of the engine bay looks alot cleaner without the coils. This isn't a full show car or anything I am just figuring that I may as well take full advantage of the microtech to minimize clutter and make everything look as nice as possible.

 

Very clean. Looks top notch.

 

All i can say is droollllll wooooooowwwwwwww.

 

In search of more pictures goodness.... You have built my dream car

 

Awesome, I'm going to (eventually) steal your ignition tuck idea. That's a great way to clean up the drivers side.

 

Thank you, the difference is huge. Before and after:

Before:


After:


Sorry the picture is a bit blurry, but I drilled the hole in the cowelling/firewall. Ran the wires through and tired them together, and then finished the new ugly hole off with a rubber hose cut down the middle to work as a grommet.

The engine bay is nearing completion. This picture shows how the standalone wiring is run now (there is about 2" of wiring exposed between the UIM and firewall, which will be loomed soon.).


I really need to get a better camera, my camera phone pictures don't do the engine bay justice...

 

OMFG.... Just saw this thread for the first time, all I can say is WOW!

 

Heres a few new pictures, very very close to being finished.









Does anyone know of any options for SA clear corners for the front bumper? I know atkins has options for FB reflectors, but haven't seen anything on this style

 

That is teh secks.

 

Hey Dan,

Out of curiosity, will you be premixing or do you still have the stock omp hooked up? The reason I bring up the issue is due to a problem that I saw with my intank fuel filter. The filter that we have are kinda like a cotton type and it seems like it traps the oil in there and puts a lot of restriction on the pump and kills it sooner. Mine just died a few days ago. Appearently though there is a different type which is just like a nylon bladder that should work better. I'm trying to get a hold of one as we speak. Just a heads up is all I'm trying to say.

Sam

 

Looks Great!!!!!! you have done well!!!!

 

what'd it cost to do those headlights?

 

If u read just about every second page of this thread you'll find your answer.

 

drool... wish i had that kind of money, i still enjoy my 900 dollar car though

 

yeah sorry its a long thread so i just scrolled through and looked at the pics lol

 

More new pictures, it's really close, as always the stupid small things, need to find one of the proper pins to wire in the second fuel pump.... I have no idea where it went.

Need the exhaust welded and mounted up, tuning, and wire up the lights. Beside that everything else can be done as time goes on...

 

Exhaust is now done and the car was tuned at low boost (10 psi) and it made 320 rwhp. There are a bunch of bugs that still need to be worked out in order to increase boost up to 15 psi. The biggest is I need to upgrade the irons, I was told my engine block was a S5 but apparently it is a S4 so I need to upgrade the irons as it's easy to crack the rear iron under high hp.

Heres a couple pictures:

 

Could you please explain more about your exhaust?

Looks very ******* awesome! I remember drooling over your car when I joined back in '05. I can't believe it's almost done! Congratulations!!!

 

congrats dan!

I would enjoy the 320 RWHP before tearing the motor out again. Are the seat mounts custom?

 

PM sent

 

how does the vibrant muffler sound?

 

The exhaust is 3" out of the turbo, then has a V-band clamp connecting it to a 4" himni racing down pipe that goes back down to a 3" v-band. Then I have a racing beat presilencer, another v-band before the rear end (so it can easily be split/removed and muffler replaced if need be) to a vibrant 3" inlet dual 3" outlet muffler.

The Exhaust is stainless steel 304, the whole way back, and cost me WAY more than I realized it would but whatever it should last basically forever and the shop that did it, did a fantastic job on the short amount of time I gave them.

Muffler sounds excellent, I still can't drive the car far because of no registration/insurance but I can say it has a really nice low rumble too it! I will take an audio clip of it when I can, but it's always really difficult to show exactly how an exhaust system sounds.

Seat mounts are custom, the drivers side is completely mounted up right now, the passenger side still is only bolted on one side.

 

Everyone keeps asking how this muffler sounds so I did a quick clip with my cell phone (sorry for the low quality but it gives a good idea).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwYMpwj0Nho

 

Hey Dan, where did you find headlights like that. I would like to get something like that for my car as we have to have out headlights on for night drag racing and i would prefer something lower to the car.