Fiona: A 1975 2002

[M.Doban]

This is insane. Your work and attention to detail are absolutely amazing! I cannot WAIT to see more of this!

[Arteeste]

Marvelous bravo bravo !

[TinkWithanR]

Had a busy Black Friday. Here's a small teaser of the payload.




Ti Lug Studs and Nuts. Cause nobody likes rusty nuts.

[TinkWithanR]

Here's the rest of what I picked up over the weekend.

New assortment of sockets. I've been using my old craftsman "121" piece set for the past 4 years, and finally decided it was time to upgrade. The main difference is a greater range of socket sizes for each drive size, as well as a whole lot more deep well sockets. The old set only had 1/4 and 3/8 drive DW, and only 10 total. This set has pretty much everything from 4-22mm in DW, 12 and 6 point. It also came with standard and metric ratcheting wrenches. Half off as well!





Next up I got the inserts for the front suspension. Koni 8611-1259 double adjustable's. I'm still working on getting the compression adjustment mods figured out on the strut itself, but it should do the job nicely. It also leaves plenty of room in the strut housing to shorten it.





Then I sorted out the rear suspension. I decided to go with QA1 Double Adjustable shocks with Eibach Springs. These have urethane bushings in each end, but if that ends up deflecting to much I can change them out for spherical bits easily.





They are also very easy to adjust, just reach under the car and turn the knobs.






Then I got all my AN fittings and hose for the fuel system and oil system, as well as the necessary wrenches to put them together. I still need to get the hard lines for the long runs under the car, but I should be able to get the engine bay lines run.





More fuel system goodies including a billet fuel rail, fuel filter and adjustable regulator:







Last but not least the new set of wheels came in. I already split them before I remembered to grab a couple of pictures, but they are Epsilon Meshes. Once I rebuild them to the right specs they should be 16x8 front and 16x9 rear with gold centers and polished lips. Kinda like a poor mans BBS E50.

Centers:





Lips:





For those that haven't seen them in good condition this is what they will look like when done:




Happy Holidays!

[benfer]

what?

[TeckniX]

I have seen some of those epsilon for sale locally didn't know if they were any good. How is finding hardware and lips for them? Same stuff as bbs or you can get cheaper alternatives?

Keep gooingggggg

[Unit01]

It blows my mind what people could do with so little amount of tools.

[MikeyRa]

HA, and I though I was going to sleep tonight! Nope, read this entire build, I love it!

[loekaaz]

It blows my mind what people could do with so little amount of tools.

...like..

MAKING MORE TOOLS!

[bobbyjones]

this is my new favorite build.

[jlaffo91]

how have i not noticed this build before?1?!?! just stayed up till 1.40am reading the whole thing. this thing is awesomeeee. sub'd

[TinkWithanR]

what?

Haha, awesome.

I have seen some of those epsilon for sale locally didn't know if they were any good. How is finding hardware and lips for them? Same stuff as bbs or you can get cheaper alternatives?

Keep gooingggggg

Lips will need to be custom, unless you can find wheels in the sizes you already want. So same or more $$ than BBS.

It blows my mind what people could do with so little amount of tools.

Thanks, but I do have a LOT of tools. Just not an extensive socket set, until now.

HA, and I though I was going to sleep tonight! Nope, read this entire build, I love it!

Thanks!

...like..

MAKING MORE TOOLS!

The main reason I wanted a lathe, it's the only tool that can make itself.

this is my new favorite build.

how have i not noticed this build before?1?!?! just stayed up till 1.40am reading the whole thing. this thing is awesomeeee. sub'd

Thanks guys!

[Heist]

this build always puts a big smile on my face.

[jackjamesw910i]

great build, I long to see the car one day but I'm from Europe so slim chance.. do what you do and use that go pro some more

[btober]