Happy New Year everyone!

 

not sure how i missed your build thread, but how comes you had to add these braces?

very clean evo also.

 

haha well I didn't have to add them...Just like a lot of other things we don't have to do to our cars but we do...Before installing these the front end toe was always off a little bit...after installing these the toe came out perfect...I could actually feel the front being slightly stiffer after install too...Unfortunately I haven't had the car on a road course or autox event since installing them...Jim (jplgsx) is the head tech at a performance chassis shop in Cary, NC and he was the person to turn me on to these...He has a lot of track time at VIR and other tracks and he said they were probably his favorite chassis mod for the front end...

 

Long road with your evo. Nice builds.

 

ah ok nice. ya im sure that would make a hell of a difference.. its stiffening everything up.

 

Alright guys...some updates...Been taking my time and having some fun with the car while tearing into it over the winter...

BBK Full off the car and boxed up read to ship to the new owner!!



As you can see, turbo is off, valve cover off, and a nice chunk of the harness pulled out and set to the side...I plan on attempting to hide/tuck as much of the harness that I can...All of the harness that runs along of the top of the valve cover and over the intake manifold will be hidden underneath the manifold...



Valve cover off...I will be deleting the PCV valve and the breather on the right...I will be sending the valve cover to Collin @ Toxicfab and he will be drilling out holes and welding in some large fittings for relieving maximum crank case pressure...After Collin welds in the fittings the valve cover will be going to TCC to be powder coated wrinkle black...

Also you can see I pulled that ugly plastic coolant overflow out. Collin @ Toxicfab will be making me a smaller, much better looking overflow that I will mount in the same location...



Here is a box of random brackets and other crap that I have pulled out after around 2 hours or so of pulling the harness out and whatnot...After weighing the car at the E-town event and saw it tip the scales at 3350 with me in it, I realized I need to start working on some weight reduction...I know some of you may think pulling stuff like this out is stupid but every little bit helps...I also plan on climbing under the dash and removing miscellaneous brackets and whatnot that don't need to be in there...

 

Good **** dude! We should def get together sometime so that I can check out the car....even if it is on jack stands!

-Jalal

 

Looks good bro! Looking forward to doing a make over on your car!

 

Sounds good man! Next Friday I have Hernia surgery and I'm out of work for 3 weeks so Ill have a lot of free time! haha...

Hell yeah man! I definitely enjoy throwing ideas back and forth with you. Looking forward to having an engine bay filled with Toxicfab products!!

 

This car is so ****ing sick!

 

nice progress BJ

 

good luck!

 

Damn! Sucks about the surgery, but def let me know when we can chill! Good luck with that ish!

-Jalal

 

damn totaly missed the surgery thing, goodluck man!

 

Thanks guys!