GEMS ECU arrived as did the 3" decat and 3" downpipe last week, build time is near :D

Anyone any good recommendations for intercoolers without needing to take out a mortgage ?

Here's my Veterans' Day weekend in a nutshell:

Thursday:Spent all day driving around getting tools and parts to convert my Evo IV to Evo V Brembos. This is especially important because my front left caliper is seized up or something and has worn down the pad to the point the rotor is grinding away quickly. I let this continue for a while b/c I knew I planned to toss the stock parts anyway, but's it been doing this for weeks so I'm starting to consider it unsafe and in need of immediate rectification.

Anyways, so I finally get the stock parts off around 1730 only to find that the stock caliper bolts don't fit the Brembos. I've read a dozen threads on this conversion over the past 4 months and somehow never noticed this little point. I put all the stock **** back on the car and hurried to Makeman (like a Japanese Home Depot) to buy bolts, but they don't sell high tensile strength ones, and didn't recommend what they had for use on something like automotive brakes.

Friday: Picked up 10.9 tensile bolts in the morning. Then I spent all day doing the conversion. New rotors, Brembo calipers, put in the brake pads, attached new SS brake lines. I've never done any of this so it took me forever. I was finally bleeding the brakes around 2100hrs. Then I went to mount the wheels and declare it all done.......only to find that the OZ Racing Superleggeras I bought from the junkyard, supposedly off an Evo IV that was modded with Brembos....don't fit over my Brembos in the front. The back is fine, but the front calipers are waaaay too big.

Turns out I needed OZ Racing Super Turismos, not Superleggeras. And now I have <24hours to find a full set and get tires before the MP's write me a citation for doing extensive auto work in front of the barracks (and spilling brake fluid). :( Living on base sucks.

just woke up, about to head over to my friends shop and I will be doing the following

- MIL-spec Ported Intake mani
-MIL-spec 65mm throttle body
-Buschur ported exhaust mani
-FP 84mm Anti-surge housing for my BBK full.
-Aeromotive Stealth pump
-fuel lab FPR
-fuel lab Fuel filter kit
-AMS fuel rail
-all brand new gaskets and seals
-Map stainless heat shield.
after all this going to get retuned on E85!!!!... dyno thread coming soon..

shaved 02 housing for downpipe to fit, removed interior and installed Sparco Sprint 5 competition seat!{thumbup} only one seat in this evo;)

cleaned the engine bay for the winter and then went to subway to let it dry off

changed the oil adjusted the e-brake.

Pick up the car from the body shop.
Put my rally armour mud flaps back on.
Changed my egr valve.
Checked out my alarm made sure it
still wrks after a month of being in the shop.
And washed it by hand.

I didnt do anything but i bought something. Just got my AMS F1 intake mani and the boomba 75mm TB

Rewired my DW pump for more fuel:D. Definitely need a FPR now:crap:

I took the tranny out for a very near future TRE rebuild. I also found out that the 3 month old clutch disc was about to break apart :(

Installed Defi Red Racer boost gauge.

removed the borla exhaust mani (for my BR ported) o2 housing and turbo

installed new mini battery, installed new vortex generator...next week is 2 piece brakes and new pads, ss brake lines, new fpr with gauge and cold air intake box with duct from headlight and rexpeed air duct....will have pics up in my for sale thread tomorrow.

tried finding out why i keep getting p0401 egr SES =/

installed evo 7 tails. so much cleaner! :D