Clubber the man, "slightly cheaper than stealer prices"

Looks amazing, like magic, from used and old to new. When this is done and the weather gets better, I wanna see it next to your M3 please!

 

hahaha. Thanks. Once this is done I will have a duo photoshoot with my Henna for sure. They will make a nice couple I guess

 

The carbon airbox looks amazing mated to the engine. Can't wait to see it sitting in the bay where it belongs!

 

Thanks my friend. The engine went in today but the shop was too busy so no photos, hopefully Monday I'll take better shots when the transmission is in too.

 

It's been a busy weekend. The engine went in, most of the cabling are done, wheels and calipers are restored.

First, we took of all four wheels cuz the lips on the BBS rims had slight clearcoat peeling and scratch marks on the edges. I took them to my wheel guy to have them dismantled and cleaned. He took them apart and cleaned each lip,







Inside the rims were filthy,



Since the wheels were apart, I decided to polish the lips for a change since my polish guy is awesome, I thought they might look good.

Before they came back from the polisher, I found the opportunity of having the calipers and wheel wells out in the open, so I decided a through clean of the area,

Front Stoptech BBK Calipers before,







They needed major cleaning and some touch up. I emailed Stoptech to ask for their red color code but they said they don't have one and the closer code to their paint was Dodge Viper Red. I found the paint code online and went a paint shop to produce a small amount for touch up.

Viper Red,



The color seemed too bright for my calipers untill I found out have much filth and dirt was covering the real color of the calipers, so we gave them a nice clean and scrubbing.





And after a lot of touch up, here's how they looked,









Then we moved on to the rears, OEM calipers looked worn and the disc base was all rusty, We gave spray black to the calipers and spray silver to disc bases for OEM look,

Here they are before,



After cleanup and paint, much better,





and the next day, my wheel guy called me to check the wheels polished before he mounted the tyres, they looked great







After my approval of the splendid work, they went on the car,









and finally mu lonw awaited injectors arrived as they were the last missing parts for engine start up,



All lined up and installed,





That's it for this weekend. Tomorrow, the transmission will go in and mated to the engine. Then there will be some welding on the exhaust as there is a slight line up problem. Later in the week, we plan to start up the engine with CF airbox and continue with ecu mapping for it. Keep watching !

 

I LUVZZZ this project! Coming along very nicely Can!

 

Thanks Bro, engine works are almost there. Today we took care of the exhaust line up and connections and hopefully tomorrow will be first ignition attempt. Fingers crossed. I am dying to hear the CF airbox and new exhaust setup after the removal of the turbo.

 

Small update for today,

Cleaned up some of the heat shields under the trans,



Missing additional fan came and installed,



Wheel bolts looked worn and rusty, so a fresh coat of paint helped,



and finally the radiator was cleaned, you wouldn't believe the amount of dirt came out of that thing. Just take a look to see the difference,



Later on, CF airbox is mounted,



Next up, we will finish fabricating some pipes and holes for the airbox and find a suitable air filter for the end of it. I am open to suggestions.
Because of the space limit, it looks like we will have to use a mushroom type unit

Tomorrow, we hope to start up the car, fingers crossed

 

Nice update. Will you be going with an alpha-n style tune? Who will be doing the tuning?

 

Yeap, I'll be using a TSI piggyback system, very similar to Alpha N to do the AFR tuning.