in the sun the color doesnt match as good as i would have liked...but silver metallic is hard to match, you can hardly tell in the shade, but in direct sun its a bit darker, still looks better than it did all beat up and cracked paint, eventually ill repaint the whole car, at least it will be lookin good for DGRR

now its just little things project wise, finding tires, sorting out the speedo eventually, might upgrade the brakes, but honestly...i dont know why, the gslse brakes stop the car pretty hard....if it was a track car, yeah they would probably suffer fade, but as a street car that only sees hard braking occasionally, i have never complained.

also to come will be the conversion to the r154 toyota transmission, it doesnt need it yet...but i want to be ready if(when) it does break the T2. ill document that best i can for those in mind to add a beefier trans, because i intend to use the T2 bellhousing, therefore the mod will bolt to a rotary should anyone still have one.

straightened and repainted the rear bumper, its not "perfect" anymore...but most people will never notice, I will...but just going to have to live with it until I chance upon one that is better, which ya'll know isn't easy to find....I am still very amazed at how it withstood that impact, how the car managed to escape panel damage and at how i managed to collect my senses enough to not get myself put in jail...

  Wonderful job on this build! I can't believe how tame that engine sounds at idle...truly a 100% sleeper. Beautiful FB. Now find some damn tires and have fun!:)

well it is a limo engine i can tell you the loudest thing on the car at normal throttle and speeds is that *$&#&&^*&$^# A1000 fuel pump....that thing is on the hit list for sure...im tired of listening to it.
as much as i didnt intentionally build a "sleeper" it pretty much is one, i just wanted it clean and simple....well...simple as can be expected of something that complex...but still...

ill get the tires sorted out eventually, first thing is first, and that is being ready for DGRR2013!! i want to drive it there AND home and we will not be having any more problems!!!!
luckily my friend is taking his truck..ya know...it never hurts to have backup if you have backup nothing will go wrong!!

OH that reminds me, i did a run to sanford looking for a new bumper and logged right at 200 miles on the car, using just over 8 gallons of fuel....that is near as much 25mpg on a 75/25 highway/town split, with one pretty long traffic jam on I4 where i went almost no where for like 20 mins....once i get the dyno tuning done and really refine it i bet i will see the 30mpg highway i was shooting for from the get go of this installation.

the thing that puzzles me is with me gearing, i changed to a 3.08 final, with the .71 5th gear of the T2 trans and a 245/50/15 tire, it should cruise at 70mph at approx 2200 rpm, BUT its nearly 2700rpm  ....beats me...unless i did something wrong in the calcs....but it runs good that way it seems, i just wanted it a little lower down at interstate speeds, for better MPG and its quieter...you know...so i can hear that F(^$&((^$% fuel pump better......

Step up to 275's.   

http://www.nittotire.com/Tire/nt555r#size

nah im not turning it into a drag queen, those tires do not fit under an FB wheel well without A: tubbing it, or B: jacking the ass way up, either way its a no for my desire of a drivers car.

the 245/50/16 is an option, but its a full inch bigger O.D. and its already higher in the rear than i want it to be, and that also requires the purchase of a pair of matching wheels in 16 inch, they are available in theory..but ya know how that goes....its very frustrating....the car limits the sizes that can fit and the manufacturers have all but stopped making those sizes 

ill be up there come hell or high water!!

what a sleeper!

Any performance numbers?  HP/TQ  ET/MPH?

weight?

No air filters on those turbos? 

thank you and no and no, not yet, im going to DGRR first, then ill torture it in case i break it, i did do a little roll race against my friends 430whp vette and it was pretty even untill i got into 4th then he starts creeping away, im not making a lot of power yet on 6psi, its still very mild, i need to set up the speed sensitive traction control before i add any more power because it cant hold it down low, need it to ramp in at top of 3rd and up to about 450-500whp...then its all over but the crying

weight, not been on scales yet, i estimate its nearly the same as a stock gslse, and balance wise near as makes no difference, when i get a chance on some corner scales i will post the facts of it, right now im only going by estimating of parts, added/removed and moved around.

air filters...ah yes...no room for them...ill have to come up with something very custom at some point to locate them in front of the intercooler maybe....i dunno its so tight its stupid....they have FOD screens on them, its a pretty fine mesh stainless screen material. best i can do with the time/space i have to work with right now.
dont worry they arent just open to suck in random objects. and i stay away from dirt roads anyway

the car is not perfect, i have a lot of corrections and mods still to go...its a work in progress and probably always will be.

wow thanks guys, first time I ever won anything other than a street race with it hehehe