elephant in the room! LMAO


I never use gloves and as I say that I look at my hands and I have 5 fresh cuts from this weekend working on my car haha

 

Love my Prius unconditionally.... Save tons on gas prices here in CA...plus gives me more money to spend on my fd =-)

 

Good progress with the car looking great...

 

I like prius's. especially some of the race prepped ones I've been seeing lately.

Thanks man. It's been a lot of work but hopefully it will come together soon.


Today I've been working on the part of the car that bothered me the most. The car was lightly hit in the front and it seems the radiator support area suffered some distortion. With the v mount up front I needed to relocate the ac dryer and the relay box so I decided to do some cutting and I added an aluminum brace to replace the part I removed. It's not so pretty in the pics but it works really well. I'll get some better pics when it's all done.

Here's what I removed.


Here's the piece before I trimmed it to size.

 

I like flogging the Car every day tomuch to drive a prius

that support looks awesome .. what matterial did you use?

 

A little teaser

 

damn that color looks so damn nice... you and your green cars .. well this is more of a blue green haha

 

I got the bay painted today. Even though I painted in my garage it came out pretty sweet. I'm just glad I didn't get overspray all over everything.

Here's the only pic I have.

 

Got some more pics.

 

what color is that?

 

Montego Blue. It just looks strange because of the lighting.

 

Im gonna be doing my engine bay soon as well. You mind posting a picture of the entire bay? I wanna see how you prepped it. Like what you took out and stuff.......

 

That paint looks friggin amazing.. I love that color.

 

I didn't get a good picture of the entire bay but the only things left in there were the fuel lines, steering rack, brake lines coming from calipers, subframe and sway bar which I just taped off.

 

I was feeling like crap this morning so I decided to take the day off from work. Somehow I ended up working on the car and putting things back where they belong.





If all goes well I'll be picking up the engine this evening and dropping it in either tomorrow, Friday or Saturday.

 

damn man that engine bay is already back to normal

 

The bar worked out pretty well as a relay box mount and dryer mount. I had to mock uo the intercooler again to test fit.

 

Make sure to re install the L bracket that goes from the hood latch to the factory support bar that you removed if you don't want your hood flying open. Also hopefully that aluminum bar it's at least 3/16 thick.

 

Thanks. The bracket is 1/4" aluminum and I'm making a slightly taller "L" bracket today since the other one won't work.

 

Btw I love my rotory works Vmout setup the Radiator just rocks at cooling. Now the way the intercooler sits at least on how I have it mounted it the radiator cuts off about 1/2 of the total surface area to the intercooler. I plan on changing that around this winter.

 

I finished the hood latch brace today. I used 3/8" and it seems to be working pretty well.

 

Making some progress.

 

hah MAN! SO CLOSE SOOO CLOSE . just a few more things and IT'll be alive!

 

Mocking things up.

 

damn man that looks beautiful