my winter project

[fdfreak]

here are some updates on the project. The engine is 90% completed . I just have to wait until tintmasters is done polishing my IC pipes and my turbo compressor housing. This saturday I spent all morning cleaning and tearing the engine bay. Aj and eric came over about 1:30, we masked everything off and aj went to it. it turned out great. the color is better than I imagined. Cant wait until the whole car is painted.

This weekend will be spent putting the engine back in and hopefully firing the car back up.

[KA-T_240]

Looks good!!!! Painting your engine bay right takes lots and lots of time but when its done, it looks amazing! I am glad we spent the hours upon hours we took to strip, clean, prep and paint my engine bay!

What color is it?

Should have taken the rest of the stuff out tho

[fdfreak]

^I know. but i was afraid that if I took it out I wasnt going to be able to remember how to put it back. we masked 90% of everything. it looks good enough for me.

the color is Daytona blue. I think its a 350z color. I originally wanted Bayside Blue (R34 color) But you cant buy that here in the states. So Aj found a color as close to that as he could. It looks freakin sweet!

[KA-T_240]

I knew that color looked familiar.

[capitlj]

fdfreak;251701 wrote:
The color is Daytona blue. I think its a 350z color.

I freaking called it, soon as I saw it I thought Daytona Blue. Very nice color, car will look amazing when its all that color. Keep up the good work. Oh and don't listen to the spray paint haters, it looks just fine.

[fdfreak]

^thanks for the compliments. Im not worried about the spray paint haters. I know where they are coming from. There not trying to be pricks, they just dont want to see this project half assed.

[KA-T_240]

^Your not the only one with spray painted items in thier engine bay

However, does the blue on the motor match the blue the car is going to be?

[fdfreak]

no, but I dont care if it matches cause you can barely see the block when all the other sh*t is on it anyway. I guess Im not that picky. its not going to be a show car. mainly just a race car.

[DrifterExtreme]

project looks like it's coming along nicely.

btw fd's are hot

[fdfreak]

just put the engine in tonight. just have to hook up the radiator, driveshaft, and exhaust and it will be ready to fire up. hopefully it wont start on fire this time. I ment to take pics but I forgot my camera. I will post pics tomorrow.

[Parker]

sweet....

shits gunna blow son!!!!!

[gsrEK]

^^ his car was put together nicely. so stfu ha

[fdfreak]

it will blow eventually! but hopefully not for a couple years.

[Parker]

gsrEK;252690 wrote:
^^ his car was put together nicely. so stfu ha
...... i dont remember talking about what you thought in my last post.... hmmm..

[fdfreak]

not that rebuilding an engine was a big enough project, I decided to do a 99 spec tail light conversion as well. Ill post pics tonight

[fdfreak]

here are some before and after pics of what they are supposed to look like

[zbrown]

fdfreak;252932 wrote:
here are some before and after pics of what they are supposed to look like

why in the hell would they go away from that style like the s5 had, and then back again

[weshole]

zbrown;252954 wrote:
why in the hell would they go away from that style like the s5 had, and then back again

So it wouldnt look like a taurus. HAHAHA!!!

[fdfreak]

^lol. true! ive never noticed that before

[fdfreak]

Well, 5 hours and $40 later I was able to do the 99 spec conversion. it was actually easier than I thought. Just extremely tedious! out of the 5 hours, 2 hours were spent getting the circles in the right spot. the painting was a bitch too. I think there is a total of 12 coats. enough explaining, Ill let the pics speak for themselves