Since the last post about engine removal things have gone rather slow to be perfectly honest. A few weeks after the RB came out of the halfcut I had the car towed from the workshop back to my house so that I can do the time consuming work at my own leisure. Whilst the car was at my place I have:
- Removed ALL left over sound deadening
- Flared the rear gaurds
- Removed all body seals except for rear quarter windows
- Cut out the battery tray and had stainless welded on top
- Bogged this up so it is nice and smooth
- Had front windscreen removed (it cracked so now I need a new one...)
- Removed body loom from the engine bay
- And just generally tidied things up/removed bits in preparation for paint.
I have been holding off posting until now as the car was still stranded at my place but as of yesterday it has left to be painted. There were delays with this as I was originally going to get it done by a certain business that turned bad overnight, then I decided I would paint it myself, then someone talked some sense in to me and I ended up finding a fellow drifter who happens to work as a spray painter and he was more than happy to do it for me. As it is sort of a personal favour kind of job there were delays in getting it to him, and it might take a tad longer than normal but none of this bothers me as long as the end product is good.
In the mean time I have received some bits in the mail that will be going on the car. These include:
- Garrett GT3540 0.70 compresor/0.63 exhaust
- 6boost high mount manifold
- Turbosmart 48mm external wastegate (dont know if I will use this though)
- Oil/water lines
- Plazmaman intake plenum
- Apexi PowerFC (uses AFM though so not sure if I will run this)
- Bee*R Rev limiter
So at the moment Im waiting on the car to return home so I can start re-assembling it all (sigh) and then give the engine a good scrubbing before it all gets bolted in. It sounds easy when I say it but I can imagine there will be so much shit that doesnt fit that im going to go crazy. Oh well, pics:
