Evo8kids, S14+ LS1= The Finished Product...for the most part

[Evo8kid]

No im not, im just running them lower towards the trans tunnel than factory so they wont be seen in the bay

[Evo8kid]

Made a little more progress in the bay this weekend. One step closer to painting it. All the patch panels are made and welded in place. The driver side shock tower and wheel well seams are fully welded and the passerger side still needs to get done and grinded down. Here is whats done so far.











When I had the harness out of the bay for all the fab, I re-covered the whole thing and eliminated all the plastic pieces in order to tuck it better.




The subframe and mounts should be here tomorrow so sometime this week the engine/trans can be mocked into place and take care of trans clearance, and any other clearance issues. Then removed again to paint the bay.

[TROLL]

sweet, first i'm seeing of this.
i dont know how you feel about this but what do you think about test fitting everything before paint so you know its good to go, and also so you can shave/delete any holes and other crap thats unnecessary? you have the means to do the modification, and now is the time, just a thought

[coreycooper]

let me know if u need any mock up stuff , i have an empty block and heads... and lots of extra parts if u need, (stock and aftermarket)

[Evo8kid]

Yeah I prob just wrote it wierd but thats what Im doing. Before anything even gets primed for paint we are putting the engine and trans in place to take car of anything. And yeah I forgot to mention that all the little random factory holes in the bay are already filled and grinded down.

[TROLL]

sweet... i'm happy with my car but if i did it again there are a few things i would have shaved or modified along the way...

[Evo8kid]

like what? Your bay does have a lot more things in it than mine is going to. like ABS and such

[Goddabob]

The bay is looking good, I wish I was done with my wiring.

[Evo8kid]

thanks, what do you have to do to wire in the Vq?

[TROLL]

i just wish i filled the extra bolt holes and smoothed things out. also filled the big holes leading to the fenders since i dont use them, and other than that if i had mocked it all up before paint i could have welded some tabs in places to mount power steering and coolant overflow reservoirs, but now i have to work around whats already there and try not to mess up the paint in the process, haha.
i'd just try to lay out the entire bay before painting so you dont have to make any changes after its too late. good luck with it...

[BaggedXtreme]

wooo 240 thread! Ill be over tomorrow so hopefully we can finnish taking care of all those holes oh and we have to get some grinding burrs for the corners so you don't grind through again. Troll if you need help fabin some brackets to bolt on or even some bolt on removeable pannels for your unused fender holes just stop by we wil hook you up.

[TROLL]

Thanks
I was coming in looking for some updates... let us know whats going on with things this week . If you need a hand with anything let me know, I want an excuse to come check things out anyway.
When the car goes out for paint and the garage is empty, can I borrow that lift one day? Want to check a potential leak on the Subie and also check my front suspension, I think somethings loose up there.

[Evo8kid]

yeah no prob, the lift should be wired in on saturday so we gonna assemble the engine and test fit it. Then prep the bay for paint and fit the front end. Then send it off to paint. It sounds like 3 steps but it will end up taking weeks haha

[aifan27]

Hey, I'm from Newtown too! Looks like an awesome project, keep it up.

[vr4g63]

wow the bay is comin along nice! i cant wait to see more progress sick build

[Evo8kid]

thanks guys. there should be major progress this weekend. stay tuned

[Evo8kid]

So some people have been buggin me to see the new parts getting put on the car so here is the important stuff and im sure im missing a ton of things.

List:

Daft Innovations Mount Kit, Fuel Kit, Drive shaft, CMC and line, trans mount, etc.
Precision Race Components Stage 2.5 5.3L Ported Cyclinder Heads
Texas Speed and Performance 228R Camshaft
PAC single Beehive spring good til .600" lift
Texas Speed Ported LS6 Oil pump
Exedy Stage 1 Clutch
Mishimoto Rad
S15 helical Diff
ProSport Gauges: Oil Press, Oil Temp, Water Temp
300zx Front Brakes and Wilwood master Cyclinder
..and thats all i can think of now. Here is the pictars.

[Evo8kid]

The engine then came apart. To install the cam, heads, oil pump etc. I took the heads out of the box and found that they have no valve seals. I was told they were complete minus the springs and ready to put on the car. No valve stems, and the valves werent lapped at all. So im gonna call Texas speed on monday and bitch.





And what it looked like when we were done. Im running out of room haha.



Today I need to get some supplies and misc stuff before we can continue.

[CarbonIS]

thats a lot of money in parts. this thing's gonna be sick!

[TROLL]

sweet!
april 25th