Not much, especially when your son and his buddy were out the night before eating under cooked/raw Japanese food. I think they spent more time in the bathrooms then working on the car.

 

a.k.a. sushi?

 

Installed NT03's!

 

just an AMS exhaust and tune.

 

27 or 40 offset? I got rear trailing arms so thinking of 40

also what's going on with your bumper? aftermarket complete SE, or did you bondo it or something? looks great

 

+27 w/ 10mm spacer in the front to clear calipers.

It's the OEM front bumper and SE lip that were on the car when I got it, but "glued" together professionally since both had become damaged from track days, hitting a snowbank during a winter track day, etc, and most of the clips holding the lip to the bumper were broken. At least now it's staying on there for good

 

New rear wheel studs and 10mm rear hub centric wheel spacers are going on today.

 

Dropped my block off at the machine shop for a full rebuild

 

Installed an IC-Spray switch from an Evo7 into my Evo9; will use it to switch map.
All cabling was already there an the relative light in the cockpit lights up correctly when engaging AUTO mode

 

Our beast is FINALLY off the jack stands and on the ground. Thanks to Ronnie at RS MOTORS for the E85 tune, she fired the first time and there is pure evil coming out of the exhaust. Even at idle she sounds scarey and revved up she is a Banshee wailing!

Off to the shop for balance and alignment, this week hopefully. Then it's time to get her wrapped, and install the new Voltex wing and front bumper. Gridlife South here we come!

 

waiting on some parts to finish putting the engine back together, so did some interior work

 

Changed out some instrument cluster bulbs

 

Made up a set of dummy dealership-style plates:

 

Got honked and blinked at from two E46 BWM's, the guys in them had a stroke of jelousy on their faces.

 

Mounted this: ^ Heat diverter shield (aluminium-silver) on my IX-MR. Very useful when you are running with exposed exhaust headers/manifolds. Thinking of ceramic coating it...


Gold heat reflective tape was on years before the shield.