Pair of Takata 4 point harnesses that Forsberg hooked me up with. They were super dirty so me and the wife sat there scrubing for about an hour with colorx 2 and now they are soaking over night. Soak! Cold Side IC piping complete. Still need to pick up 3 more t-bolts…but atleast I can [...]
Archive for September, 2009
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Long list of little things to do…
September 24th, 2009 
Baby Drift Front end is slowly coming together! IC/Rad/Oil Cooler mounted for good. 1 T-Bolt clamp away from being done with the hotside. Hoses ran for the PS resivour up in the top right, just need to tie them down to the strut tower some how. And “intake” made, it’s temporary for now just to get it [...]
Watching paint dry…
September 22nd, 2009 Baby Drift Light/Easy day. Silvia headlight brackets and center bracket painted. Check. Front end including rad supprt, part of the wheel wells, TC rod bracket’s and some other little things touched up/repainted. Check. Made mounting tabs for my mishimoto fan’s to bolt onto my S14 Koyo. Check. Dremeled out the backside of an S14 powersteering resviour and [...]
Wastegate drama…
September 19th, 2009 Baby Drift Not a HUGE update but I did get a couple things accomplished today. First thing I decided to tackle was the wastegate, I figured I could just clean it up and put it back in the car. WRONG. The diaphragm shaft was completely seized inside the wastegate. So I had to disassemble the wastegate and [...]
Kevin Wells/Sergio, Painless, Oil Cooler, Fresh Chips and Salsa, Fresh Donuts…
September 18th, 2009 Baby Drift Kevin and Sergio stopped by tonight so Kevin could help me “fix” my painless chassis harness. He ended up looking at it and said forget trying to fix it. So we took the dash out and he completely took it all out and started to re-do it. While he was doing that I was mounting [...]
Coilovers and Knuckles installed!
September 16th, 2009 Baby Drift So last night I didnt get to start working on the car til about 11:30pm last night. Didnt finsh last til almost 1:45, came inside and was editing pictures to post up here and fell asleep at the keyboard…woke up at 4am and didnt know what happened. I need to get an outter Z33 tie [...]
DMax and Flybro Mendoza Spec!
September 15th, 2009 Baby Drift Today felt like Christmas. In the morning I went over to meet Bernard at DMax USA/Car Studio USA, awesome guys and I’m really happy to be working with them for the 2010 season. Today I picked up my coilovers, tail lights, corner lights and blinkers. At the end of the month when their container comes [...]
