Danger to Manifold

[imagine.]

sucks that the "danger to manifold" joke got bittersweet.

sick car tho.

I know man, I actually got quite bummed out when I heard that. He's the reason I kept this car through all the shit it's been through. Just ordered a sticker in his memory.





Rest in peace you glorious bastard.

Anyway yeah, I'm going to be making a sort of "half tub" to replace the stuck guards with the vents.

And for the battery I won't need anything if I get the quick release which I might do because I take my bumper off quite often.
If not I already have jumper terminals, but I don't know where to locate them.

[imagine.]

A couple of things to update.

Lip got destroyed. I manged to go back to the site of death and scavenge a good chunk of whatever was ripped off.



Aftermath.







I figured with a big enough chunk like the one I recovered I could fix it. So I tried my hand at it. Bought some glass bondo and went to town, the end result wasn't too bad.




Sprayed it over with some plastidip to give it that authentic look, lol.





It lasted a good couple of days, took the beating quite well but the inevitable was bound to happen.








SO, after that all happened, I took it off and went back to the HD lip. I just wasn't satisfied with the look of that lip anymore though.

I decided to grab the real deal. Carbon fiber version of the lip.





A couple of nights later, I got popped for loud exhaust, but I can't blame them as It's currently straight piped to a themal r&d tailpipe.

He let me off with a fix it ticket so I've ordered a MilSpec 200 Cell Cat, and a Vibrant Ultra Quite Resonator in hopes of it passing the "fix it" test.

I'm also surprised he didn't ask me to open the hood, because I've been the passenger in plenty of cars that got pulled over for the same thing and they were told to, so in fear of that happening, I've decided to throw on my aerocatch locking hood pins.

It was the scariest thing cutting into my hood, the only thing that got me through it was knowing it wasn't the carbon fiber hood being cut yet.










As I've already said once, excuse me for the shitty iPhone pictures. So i'd like to finally upload some pictures that I took earlier today from my fathers pretty nice camera.














And here's one with my brother's E28.





Next time, I hack up my exhaust again in hopes of making it quieter.

[Belvader]

Looks awesome man!

[EasySpeed*Inc]

Damn this thing is good looking, put them Hoosier's back on!! I like your xxr's to, but there is nothing meaner than slicks on all four.

[4g63lover]

Hot damn!!!!!!

[way2fastx3]

This thing is just to sick. Awesome work dude.

[imagine.]

Thank you guys. I'll put the hoosiers on when the time is right

But time for an update!

My parts came in. I ordered a MilSpec 200 cell cat, and a vibrant "ultra quiet" resonator, and a lot of vbands, to try and quiet my exhaust down.

Luckily I had left over 3in from when I fabbed up my exhaust. Well I should say, helped my brother out. He's my welder

Here's what we had to work with. He already welded on the vbands to the ends of the new items.



We measured it off to try and get a close match, as we were going to make this whole section removable.



Our work area lol.

And here's the final product



Removable cat & resonator!

This is how we removed and put on the exhaust lol,






And I also got a shout out on instagram by StanceNation! I thought it was pretty cool.





I can't end this update with all good news though.

[4g63lover]

you are making me want one of these!!!! definitely distracting me from finishing my galant.



































and at the same time... you are inspiring me. really clean build man!

[dubs&boost]

i love this dsm. soooo clean!

[imagine.]

i love this dsm. soooo clean!

Thank you man. I wish to make it better over time.

you are making me want one of these!!!! definitely distracting me from finishing my galant.


































and at the same time... you are inspiring me. really clean build man!

I just looked over your build, and man does your car look mean. I dig it. Keep at it man!

[idontFlinkso]

This has gotta be one of the best DSM builds I have EVER seen! Being from wisconsin I am surrounded by rusty ass underbodies (especially on my talon) and nonexistent front strut towers on 2g's, so it's a nice change to see a pretty much perfect 2g. Keep it up!

[imagine.]

So, I left you guys off with a blurry picture last time as bad news. This is what happened.




As always, I decided to ghetto fix it.





The setup up.





After a couple of passes and a night of fiber-glassing.





After more fiber-glassing.






And the end result. I painted the broken side with plasti-dip, lol.

[07NJx355]

love the setup on this thing, I think the bumper is off more times then it's on keep up the sick build!

[imagine.]

love the setup on this thing, I think the bumper is off more times then it's on keep up the sick build!

Yeah, it really is! And it's a pain in the ass getting it off 24/7. I swear I've taken it off at least once every other day for various reasons lol.
Every time I lift the car I have to take it off too, don't want to smash the lip.

Which is making me seriously consider the quick release. My tabs on the end of the bumper to put the bolt through are broken, so it would eliminate that problem too. I've just had it fixed with fiber glass, and drilled a hole through it and nutted it on the back. Works for now.

[imagine.]

A couple of things happened. First, my mr2 power steering decided to blow up on me.

I thought at first one of my tie rods broke. I was leaving my parking spot when I heard a loud "pop" and then I couldn't turn the steering wheel anymore. Turns out I was just being a weenie and not turning hard enough.





So after I figured that out I checked my fuses and they were all good. Stumped, I took off my bumper as usual and decided to open up the power steering's ecu. Then I saw this...





My car has been garaged for a couple of days now. It should be back with power steering on Wednesday.

But I couldn't just leave my car untouched all those days it was garaged.

I got up early one morning and dismantled my brothers project 1g gsx. I took his turbo set up off and wondered if it would fit on my car. He has a twin scroll t4 6266 while I have an open t3 Hx40.





I had to slightly modify my block to get his manifold to fit.





Mocked up. I couldn't use my radiator because my hose got in the way of the turbo, so I stole his radiator too.





All together now.





His radiator was shot.
Oh well, at least I found that out before he did on start up of his car. So I threw it out.




I wasn't about to give up there and put my old set up back on though.











And this is how it sits as of five minutes ago.





His downpipe was 3.5in while my exhaust is 3in. So, of course a new downpipe is slowly being made.





That's all for now.