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Alright start of my build. Verified my vin on the sticky 10ae registry. Acquired from LA and brought to the Bay Area, JM1FC3328J0623416
Have some backstory on the car built by Lucky7 and DNA Garage.
Mods:
stock s4 block
s5 turbskies
FD upper mani with xsessive adapter
front mount with ugly piping and ghetto recirculating bov
ID (?) 1300cc injectors
Haltech Sprint RE and electronic boost controller
dual Setrab oil cooler conversion
Koyo with quest efan
Stance coilovers
S5 front bumper with destroyed real FEED lip
wheels havent looked into what they are yet
Street Faction front and rear crash bars with jacking points
unknown wing, gonna look into it
RacingBeat full exhaust with Magnaflow high flow cat
Ugly high Corbeau seats and rails
My coveted Momo Monte Carlo with date code that leads me to believe to be real Infini wheel
C's Racing short shifter (hard and expensive to come by nowadays)
All I can think of atm, gonna post more pics later and post any other parts I find on the car
For now here's all the pics I have








When I made the 14 hour round trip journey when I first got her



Sitting on side yard before current reg

Finally stretching her legs for first time and showing her off to some of the OG's of the area



My roommate's black on black S5 T2 finally has a friend

When car was first posted on the registry in 2009

suzukisteve

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I don't know what wheels those are (maybe from an old mustang cobra), but you have to keep them. They look great.

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Little update:
FINALLYYYYYY got the car all road legal! Paid a lot of money for it but now I'm getting to driving it and finding all it's little quirks. Visually I've installed my 10ae tails, the were repainted kinda bad but I like better than the S5 ones, also have taken off the broken FEED lip. Unfortunately my extra 10ae S4 front bumper won't fit over my Street Faction bash bar in front so sticking with the S5 one for now. Also a good local rotary friend sold me some headlight surrounds So far driving I've found:

-cuts out to the left (been reading on the forum, gonna go through a few things
-battery isn't mounted properly in the bin, fell over while driving
Hopefully I'll diagnose and fix tomorrow, but for now here's a few pics

No broken a$$ FEED lip and have complete headlight surrounds

Proper tails look better IMHO

My buddy came with me to the touge with his mint na miata for some testing

mazdaverx713b

iTrader: (91)

Already looking a lot better! Nice work thus far!

fc pro am

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Nice dude, keep it going

dat_fc3s

Alright. So visually, got a nice s4 rear bumper that has been repainted, looks a lot better. Mechanically, have officially mounted battery in the bin. Modified the stock battery tray and made a strong tie down so it doesn't move on sharp turns.
Now for the fun part!
Still trying to diagnose cut out on hard left turns. Sometimes it randomly does it on straights as well only from stops. If i do a hard turn in neutral, car dies. I checked the ecu (Haltech mounted in stock location) and made sure it was secured and the wires weren't frayed or anything. Next, pulled the pump out and inspected it, nothing out of the ordinary (Bosch 044) and so I trialed today hard wiring fuel pump to a switch with a light. Fuel pump stayed on when it cut out so checked that off the list. Tbh at this point I might go to a friend who knows a little more about working the Haltechs to see if he notices anything out of the ordinary with the tune or on a datalog. The search continues!

Out with the old

In with the new!


My crazy temporary wiring for the fuel pump

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Alright so with the breaking up, wasn't the fuel pump or anything related to that. Initially I thought it wasn't related to spark because when it would cut out, the tach would still read. However I finally got around to datalogging it and found it was actually cutting spark. Unfortunately besides trying to replace coils, this is sadly the end of the line for me going to ask for a professionals help for once lol. If I sent a datalog, could anyone here look at it for me and tell me if it's cutting as a safety precaution of some sort? Most perplexing is I can see that it's killing spark but only to the left. Welp