The TSX Equivalent! Hi from Aus.

[AccordEuro]

Right well. Sorta Significant update.

Yesterday and today I have as usual been working on the boot install. woooo. Everyone must be getting sick of this by now surely....

Anyway, I started by getting my tank back up to spec with all new teflon tape and loctite.




And this is what happens when I am a spaz, thankfully it only happened once and it was an easy fix.



Then put it all in the tank, got it looking good and proper, all the joins look good, now I just hope it holds air. The teflon tape is thicker than the last I was using and it was perfect, no reason it shouldnt hold air just as well then!

Anyway, made up some mounts on the floor to hold the tank and then got bored. Yesterday was wasted really.

Spent my day wasting it again today, wooo. Came home and then decided I should probably put in a bit of an effort with the boot, so I got stuck into it.

I got my main idea going, which was the belts just for something a bit different!



And then got the whole whole floor done and varnished the last two planks and its all looking much neater than what it was, even got the last few bits of wiring done and everythings ready to roll again, just need my copper lines on monday and it will be set!



So yeah, thats how its looking. Its not the greatest and its not the best, but hey, I got the wood for free, it was warped from sitting outside, had a half working jigsaw and a few tools and I am no carpenter. so. I'm actually glad and impressed about how it turned out.

[AccordEuro]

Purple with gold sparkle on the tank.

This and purple shag carpet instead of the wood.

Yes. All of the yes. I'm getting purple shag carpet for maximum silliness.

[Smeeeb]

Purple with gold sparkle on the tank.

This and purple shag carpet instead of the wood.

[Randomofodication]

polish the tank? could be cool.....

[floatingdino]

Purple with gold sparkle on the tank.

[AccordEuro]

so after being an idiot in the afternoon and not being able to measure, got all that sorted and everything fitting semi-awesome. Being even worse at wood work than I am wiring, its never going to be a perfect install and for the fact that all the wood is bowed as I picked it up free off a mate, eh. I'm working with what I have, and this is where I am up to!

What I started with this arvo;


then onto:



which the rest looks like:


And then in the boot its like:


Now, the holes on the right are for the management system and like the oldschool beetles etc im going to get a couple oldschool looking belts to hold it down a bit more classy-ish.

anyway, have another photo of the car.

[AccordEuro]

It may conflict with the finish in the on the wood.

Full polish with copper lines would be killer little over done but.

Agreed, hence my scepticism of doing it.

I do love me some crinkle black, seems to go well with almost anything

Agreed also, crinkle coats like that godly thing where if you have no idea what to paint it, black and textured is the way to go.

[Randomofodication]

I do love me some crinkle black, seems to go well with almost anything

[Smeeeb]

It may conflict with the finish in the on the wood.

Full polish with copper lines would be killer little over done but.

[AccordEuro]

yeah! I might just get it sprayed the same blue as the car, that would be pretty awesome I was thinking

Edit: Either that or crinkle coat black

[Smeeeb]

Tank could look cool if it was the same colour as the car or like a light blue or something like that.

I saw that video earlier I thought it was you.

[AccordEuro]

Anyway! I will start off with this awesome photo, almost my favourite ever of my car - thanks to UpperClass for the photo!



Apart from the dent in the door (which drives me insane) I like it.

anyway, onto a bit of todays efforts, got the cover on the air compressor all well and good;



everything there fits snug and perfect, however, I started laying the boot floor, got two down to acceptable standards and then the third plank, somehow I went from reading 995mm at the boot and then turned full retards and cut it at like... 875mm or something. anyway it turned out like a bag of asses as one can expect like



And anyway. chucked the sooks as I have only JUST enough wood to complete it and now that I ruined one whole plank I need more to finish, but the good news is I have enough to run my setup as everything fits!



And now I just need to stain the wood, get the copper lines and pressure gauge and a few other things. Re-painting the tank something different or just polishing it up, but polished might look out of place, so I will think of a paint scheme

Anyway, leave you guys with a photo from all stars! Lip to ground.

[AccordEuro]

Right! a little update, nothing fun.

So as suggested by floatingdingo on here that I didn't say hi, I was at a car show on the weekend! Pretty big one, for any that are in AUS and know of them All Stars had their SE QLD show so I went and chilled there, awesome day, awesome cars, I wasnt anywhere near decent enough to be there and hence more motivation for this dam car build.

Anyway, I parked up, walked around with mates then decided that being my car wasnt good enough looking (and pretty dirty - having uni exams the night before left no time to get it clean and polished) we decided to just crush cans with my car, was good fun, got a huge crowd going and everyone loved it!

Anyway, heres a bit of a video of the day! My can crushing skills do make an appearance, small, but an appearance none the less!

All Stars Video - Watch it.

Anyway; moving onto my update.

I got busy yesterday, and for the millionth time pulled my car into many small pieces. So the garage I work at started looking like this;



And by the end of the day it was looking more of a mess like;



Well, stuff got done! slowly but surely. It is time for my boot floor to be completely wood with hard lines all around so I got to it. Will let pictures do the talking!











Also this is the stain I will be using! I was actually hoping it would have been a bit darker; but in the boot it should be dark enough... the wood had no prep and was shitty hence the grainy look, I just wanted to see the colour!



So I have only done the compressor side as I was mucking around and being lazy a lot of the time, but the drivers side will hopefully - after a bit more wiring tidy up - be done tomorrow! then start laying flooring tomorrow also.

Also I was told the other day my car wasnt ridiculous enough, so I added this for more ridiculousness;



And I added that as the dead switch for the compressor. I had one hidden under the dash, which was working fine, however when I got pulled over the other day by the cops I leaned under to switch it off (nothing was said as he didnt see) however I thought to myself if he was quicker and already walking towards the car he could get the wrong idea and guns be drawn and what not in the thought I was getting a weapon, so I thought I had better change it up - just to be safe!



And heres a brilliant mod; its not a car and its certainly not stanced, but I give to you the good old 'sock air filter' on a postie bike that parks just down from my house every day, lost my mind when I saw this ha, was so brilliant.

[AccordEuro]

They were sold for a bit, then the dude pulled out. Hence the confusion. I was selling due to all these new laws, but cops can just get screwed and I want to become one of the cleaner and better known cars around Brisbane so in order to do that I have no kept the setup.

As I type this I'm sitting on my phone in my dark car boot where the wheel should be as a spare instead its completely stripped with the start of my floor going in, there will be some update here later tonight, it's hopefully going to be very cool at least get people to giggle and laugh.

Edit: sorry man! We're you standing just in front as we were leaving? Fuark I thought that was you but I didn't even realise until we were on the motorway and I just thought 'shiiiiittttt if that was him I would have seemed like a total dick,' sorry man! Didn't mean to seem like that or disrespectful at all, I just had no idea who anyone was and wasn't paying attention and if you didn't notice the group I was with aernt the most organised and tend to be hopeless at leaving event at a time. They all just instantly decide hence the rushed leave sorry man, when its running, I will bring the car down to you to check out the install in person if you want!

[floatingdino]

Bro, I totally came up to see you and you just drove off! Far out.

We are definitely doing a shoot soon.

I seem to remember you saying you'd sold your bags on my thread, which confused me because you were saying you we're doing hard lines at almost the same time. What's the deal there?