Hey, so I managed to grab my dream car back in November 11/2016. I picked it up for a very tempting price. I had just finished parting out my turbo civic so it was perfect timing to bring home an FD. The car was perfectly running, had a minor vac leak within the rats nest, so boost would bleed off sometimes. Car was relatively stock, complete greddy exhaust, arc intake box, ohlins suspension, feed intercooler pipes, bolt in roll cage, knights sports tuned ecu with adjustable boost controller inside car, turbo timer, few other little things... but you get the point.

My end goal for this car is 500rwhp [in the years to come] & to go time attack plus the very occasional street driving.

here are some photos of my baby!


The day I picked her up



continued



continued...



needed to get gas to get home... of course !



Second day, my motorcycle and car together.<br/>



Third day... she's finally home. Took a few shots before she went inside!



finally indoors, where she belongs. <br/>R.I.P to my other bike. Parted it out.

 

Time to get this thing cleaned up!





turbos off



decently clean in there!



bye felicia!



greddy downpipe [ for sale ]



dirty sock quality lol



what a mess, dutty girl



getting somewhere now...

 

Next, I took out the engine harness, power steering and a/c compressor. The other side was begging for some love.
Having some wiring background.. i decided to tackle the harness and convert it to a single turbo one [ wasted my time as i am buying a stand alone now]





Ordered up some new parts!





how far i got with the harness before going the standalone route.

Rad



intercooler



some block off plates



oil feed



new oem mazda key to replace the crappy spare it came with



Exhaust flange to build my manifold



Greddy Type S coils



Rotary works elbow [ NEVER AGAIN] you'll see why

 

i ended up getting a few things powder coated... i also slacked on taking pictures as i went through the next stuff fairly quick. [ mounting the intercooler/ rad]



making my jig for turbo manifold



Time to bang this out!





3.5 hrs later... finally all tacked up. this was my very first manifold I put together. Going to be my first time tig welding [only really tacked prior to this]




tested for steering shaft clearance! phew!



wastegate placement all done... test fit time again



just a front end shot.. sigh



few more things came back from powder coating



back to the manifold... got it all welded up to the where the wastegate flanges will be as im waiting for the gates to come in with the flanges.



manifold is all done and ready to rock.. but first.. ceramic coating time!



All done and ready to be bolted to the car for good!

 

Nice work, she's coming along nicely. What turbo are you going with? I think I saw a "wanted ad" you have, good call getting rid of those headlights.

 

hey, right now just using a t04b i had around. Gt40/s300 is what I plan to upgrade to in the future. & ya im looking for fenders and bumper. Aha trust me... hated the lights so much. Thanks for the positive feedback!

 

Nice project, lots of people will buy those fenders from you if they're in good condition. JDM sir markers, donchaknow.

 

I havent really come across anyone looking to buy them. they are for sale though!

Thank you for the comment

 

are you building a cartmillVMIC?

 

Nice work....

 

thanks buddy!

 

Fitting up my intercooler and rad



lool, my mount to let it stay still





put my powder coated goods on just to see...



rotary works elbow was hitting my hood and didnt allow me to use my R1 strut bar.... must fix!!!



what i ended up with



another shot



another one...



it fits =D

 

took my manifold off just for some more pictures.. and to stare at it ofc. Feel great to look at it knowing i made it from scratch!



Throwback to when I drove it for the first time home.





Finally pulled her out the garage after 4 months ...