Never ending quest of badassery

[loekaaz]

Damn that's just too much gold for me to handle.... Nevertheless I'm going to try to subscribe to my first Golf-thread

[mrkrinkle]

Haha, glad I could convince you!

[floatingdino]

$$$

[mrkrinkle]

Anyhoo, still just waiting on parts to come back from either plating or powder. I should have everything back in my hands tomorrow or saturday morning powder wise. The plating may be Monday or tuesday. Only thing stopping the motor from going back in is the transmission case as it needs to be rebuilt with its guts. I don't think my transmission guy actually knows what to expect. Told him all the plans. Gonna have to be careful with a bright white case and gold plated ARP hardware... haha. Hopefully it doesn't get too ****ed up..

Bye bye IE logo..


Shift tower, gives a good idea of the color I went with.




The powder is a 2 stage. Silver sparkle over a bright white, this is with no clear on top. Should be fun to keep clean..


Had the idea of painting Greg's logo on the tank instead of having a sticker. Roach killed it with this.. That kid is going places. Details, details, details..


Nevermind the pencil marks, I'll clean them off once the paint has had a few days to cure.


Unrelated, but at MAPerformance we're developing a larger capacity oil pan for Evo X's with a baffle (the baffle isn't anywhere near finished in these pictures) since those cars starve for oil on the track. This piece started out as a 120LB chunk of 6161 aluminum. Final piece will be cast aluminum, or stainless. Haven't decided on that quite yet. Love my job.

[Design]

This is beautiful

[rice4life]

Wow, this just keeps getting better

[loekaaz]

Wait, what? No gold?!

Well that's a disappointment....

[mrkrinkle]

Okay,Okay.. No talking. Let the pictures do the talking..









Moar tomorrow..

[cheaptalon]

Love the gold! I can't believe it took me so long to find this thread. Shot you a PM about your hardware.

[lamsv]

Sweet mother of gawd....

[fifty3bags]

Followed you on IG last night, they powder and plating is crazy!

[Semu]

Ohhh my.

[mrkrinkle]

Bahahahah fantastic. I was getting tired of the Goldmember meme's

[mrkrinkle]

Did some mock up the other night, pretty happy with how it's turning out! Also got the wheels together. The center caps weren't fun to get perfect. The red is vinyl so I can remove it should it ever get a little tired.






Finally got all the stuff ready for swoops to do his magic. Sending it all off to him tomorrow! Reallllly excited to see what he has up his sleeve with this one. Dual 440c and doing something fancy with the manifold(s).




This picture has been floating around over the last couple days, you may have already seen it..

[cheaptalon]

Hhnnnggg. That red vinyl changed the entire look of the wheels. Gorgeous.