djfury05

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Nice build.. carbon wrap looks great nice work.

tai-lun

Yea I'm up in Van, parts are nasty expensive up here heh.

Car will be in paint until at least the end of the month, they are taking their time with it. It won't be a show quality paint job or fitment, but it is not meant to be winning shows heh.

I'm sure your not the only one who thinks it's a bit garish so far, and even when it's done, but every bit of aero on the car is there for function>form

Some Jenvey copies I came across online, quality from inspection so far is a 7/10 maybe, but we'll see once the install happens.

It was such a pain to do, but thanks!!!

If anyone knows of a LS1 AEM 30-1220 ECU for sale, please let me know!

BoostinIx

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Looking good!

cosmo22nov

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Amazing looking car! Do you happen to have the part number for that air filter in the first set of photos?

tai-lun

Thanks!

If I remember right, this is the filter I was using:
http://www.knfilters.com/search/prod...x?prod=RP-5161

tai-lun

Some progress pics at the body shop below, still figuring out the gas cap... but its looking really good.





I am looking for a AEM ECU 30-1220 for my setup (it has been discontinued by AEM for some reason), if anyone knows of one for sale or can direct me to one for sale online it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!

Stage7

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Great car! I love the build. I had one with a 2jz and a widebody.

red04montels

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In for updates!

Badass build!

thehazz12

Those look to be the OBX ITB's. I know this because I just bought my own. Quality is kind of poor, but that can be fixed.
My shop installed these on an AP2 S2000. We did some homework and found that these things have a tendency to stick. So what we did is knife-edge all of the throttle blades and we gasket matched, ported, and polished all of the runners. I'm in the process of doing this on my own for my GTO. I'm now giving thought to sanding down the outside castings before powder coat.

Awesome build! Can't wait to see it completed.

tai-lun

Thanks for the info!

I was thinking about swapping out the hardware when I first opened up the package as some of it looks bleh. We will do the same as you guys with the throttle blades to make sure nothing sticks, how much porting did you have to do on the inside of the runners? And what powder coating color route are you going?

Not a lot of progress as the car is in the shop for paint, located a ecu and some bodywork pics:

All panels have final fitment now, the Aerocatch pins are gong in next, and my rear fenders have been blended into the body. They also trimmed all the fenders to get the best wheel/tire clearance possible. I will have a hidden fuel filler cap keeping the body nice and clean.

djfury05

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What color are you going with now? Somethng different than the blue?

vazfx16

Whoa!
Nice

scj

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I don't understand why everyone with a nice stock FD does this to them. It looked better before you started than it did in v1.0. I hope you turn it around in v2.0 but "keep it simple stupid" really is true.

tai-lun

Same color, I like the matchbox blue heh.

Thanks, your build thread is looking good also!

Well, as you could see I didn't start with a nice stock FD, before v1.0 it was a AT oil burnt chassis. The car was also in some fender benders so it was Frankenstein's monster already before I made it my abomination heh. Stock FD's look nice, but I like my FD to have a bit of flare to match the swap and my personal style. Keeping it simple would be the whole LS2 swap and the function over form body in v2.0 as it is now. I have friends with stock FD's and they do get a bit tired of being asked about their hard top Miata lol

green manalishi

nice, i like both builds...cant wait to see this new one finished.

still have any of the parts left over from the first build?

tai-lun

Thanks!

PM what your looking for as I have a lot of random stuff for the car sitting around heh.

This week I should be getting the new look on the front brakes, and getting some color on the Katech covers!

thehazz12

Not A TON... We gasket-matched the runner to the intake port on the head, took out a little material to get rid of any casting imperfections, and finally went over everything with a few high grit cartridge rolls for a polish. We didn't really want to open up the runners a whole lot.
If you'd like, I can take a picture of them sometime this week. I actually have the whole setup and head off the F22 so the head can be ported.

Sometime in the next year, we'll be swapping a 1UZFE Toyota v8 into an '87 Turbo II and doing another ITB setup. Should be pretty neat... I think I'm more excited for that build than any of the current builds.

The S2000 guys deal with the same thing...

vazfx16

guess you can make those demands when he is building your car LOL

green manalishi

^ funny how that works...

no matter what forum your on, there are ppl who like to do things a little different, sometimes tasteful (like the op has done) and others not-so-tasteful. then you will have your stock body ***** who will say "maybe wheels & engine only" is all you need.

i say forget what other ppl think...do what you like, its your car.

tai-lun

thehazz12 If you could get me some pics it would be greatly appreciated!!!

I can say I have been in both the "keep it stock" and "got all out" camp so I can see it from both sides. But now and with this project and I think a lot of the projects on here, we see wheels, colors, body parts etc that are bleh to us but it does make the builder/owner happy so as long as that is the case, that is what matters and I support it. There are definitely a lot of things on my car that to anyone who doesn't know me might think is odd or stupid even I'm sure heh.

Almost primer time!

All the blending is done, it should be all grey this week for me to have one more check over before the color is sprayed on.




Aero catch and side markers are on:



Bumper is smoothed out:


Getting pretty stoked to see it all one color again!