I love how much work that you've put into this project so far! Keep it up. I've never done any bodywork, any tips for us who wish to do the work themselves? What products did you use? Time involved and tools that made things easier?

 

my tips are be patient and take your time is the biggest thing. map out all the holes that you want to shave so that youdont fill something you need . i uesd extreme body filler the best filler ive ever used very easy to sand and flexable. time in the bay im going to say i have over 150 hrs in the bay. i used my tig welder to weld up all the holes it took so long im now goinng to buy a mig gun so much faster . other tools a DA sander and grinder, a lot of cut wheels and grinding discs. and still the thing cant stress enough is take your time. if anyone has any questions how i did something just ask im more than willing to help you guys out.

 

Man, your not done this thing yet ;-).... I think that color will look a lot different on an fd. The lexus has very square edges and an fd obviously doesnt. Colors like that are hit or miss on round cars like an Fd.

Keep up the good work!!!
-Austin

 

Looks good!

Any updates?

 

Great work, and a whole lot of it!!

 

great build so far and nice paint selection

 

nice work man, love the paint

 

thanx for staying interested guys it means a lot. and not really much of an update been super busy with work, school, and i just built a house. cant wait to move into my new shop to get some more custom stuff for the car. ill start to have a lot more updates in a couple months im going to be buying my turbo and all the piping to make my manifold.

 

Very nice!

 

Extremely nice! Can't wait to see the engine bay all done and painted.

 

Think I may have bought a early Xmas present I'm smiling from ear to ear. Finally back to working on the 7

 

This is looking awesome man. Congrats on the house. Definitely think that teal is going to be hot. Keep us updated.

James

 

sweet garage! the house aint bad either hahahah

 

House is looking good man. Why is the garage the same size as the house. Lol. Just kidding. It looks great.

 

Isn't that the way it's supposed to be?

 

Yes it is. just busting his *****. I know mine is. LOL

 

i love how big the garage is and the house id actually pretty big. hopefully start getting some parts in sooon

 

so my early xmas present came in and i must say i cant wait to start working on the car car again. its an s400sx3 with a 1.10 ar





billet wheel



cant wait to start mocking it up

 

Holy sh*t, it's as big as the motor.

James

 

I wasent lying when I said I wanted to make a **** ton of power

 

Did you run you peri ports off the primary or secondary runners, or both? I can't tell what's going on behind the plates Also is that whole "volume" open behind the plates you welded in or are there runner tubes behind it feeding the peri ports?

 

nice build

 

I think you added unnecessary weight.

 

I maybe added 5-8 pounds which I'm good with cuz now my bay looks so much better than the stock 7 bay. Plus the car is going to make 600+ HP don't think that little bit of weight is going to matter much

 

what kind of manifold are you using? and what kind of power are you expecting to make on what fuel?
very intrested in the turbo.