Thanks for the compliments, guys I appreciate it. I just want to get my damn car back on the road. I have a bunch of little things left to do and those seem to take the most time. My intake manifold will be here Tuesday, but I'm going back to Texas on Wednesday for a long weekend home so I can't work on it again until next week. I still need a catch can setup for 6AN lines, probably go with the STM one. I also need to get to my hydraulic supplier to see if they have a 1/8" BSPT male to 3AN (or JIC) fitting to hook my Defi oil pressure gauge into the factory oil pressure gauge location.


The car has never been tracked while I owned it, but I don't know what the previous owner did

The armrest is a cover, it's from redlinegoods on here (I think that's their name)

The wheels are 18x9.5 +38mm all around, but the front has a +20mm spacer to just BARELY clear the Brembo's... I'm thinking it's about 1mm of clearance

 

The final piece of the puzzle has arrived





I think all I need is a catch can at this point and I should be able to start the car (after install of the remaining parts and fluids of course)

 

very impressive man! i love the detail of the photos!

 

Very clean and nice sir

 

thanks guys. I'm back from my weekend home in Texas so I plan to tackle this thing tonight. I will hopefully have everything hooked back up and just waiting on a catch can from STM to be able to finish. I still need to fill it with coolant, oil and get a base map from Tom so I can start the car and do any troubleshooting necessary. Oh and i also need a new coupler for my boost leak tester since mine was for the stock turbo inlet and this EF3 is 3"

hopefully the odds and ends aren't what screw me over with this project. I still need to do vacuum hose install for everything and also some fuel return line since I removed the ugly stock hardline

 

this is what I came up with after many many options for the oil sensors:



hopefully it lasts, I'm not 100% comfortable with the little brass close nipple. You can see it's threaded fully into the AMS fitting, but only goes a little into the brass T... I didn't want to really wrench down on it after it got tight in fear of breaking it

 

What did you use to polish the car? It looks great..

 

The attention to detail is amazing. Car looking great.

 

small update



Also, I just couldn't stand the brass fitting home depot crap, so I ordered some Earl's stuff from Jegs and that should give me some piece of mind...

 

Wait, why didn't you just thread the AMS fitting directly into the oil filter housing instead of that brass T setup?

 

I have to also put the oil temp sensor in there (you can see it on the right side of the Tee). I originally had the oil pressure in one hole and the oil temp in the other, but with the new EF3 oil line taking one of the spots, I'm left with few options. I thought about dropping the oil temp sensor all together, but I didn't want to change my gauge and all the wiring through the firewall - plus I like to know the oil temperature...

 

looking awesome man!

 

If you found a way to mass produce those armrest covers you could make.... billions!

 

Another top favorite build thread on EvoM

 

What polishes, buffer, etc did you use?