Michael.

Yeah the final drive ratio wouldn't be helping. Wouldn't hurt to do a good service to the motor too, it may have lost a bit of power over the years..

I love the car, but the wheels spoil it.

Good old unfinished projects.

Holly crap. I'm too lazy to polish a car so this would be ideal!

I thought it wouldn't be long until the hull started to give. It's going to be a catastrophic mess

Fitted new coil packs, rotors, and distributors. Runs like silk now.

Hmm Id love to weigh my car. I should do that sometime.

Hi guys, I'm looking for a place to go to get a high pressure power steering hose made up. I called up Hydraulink and asked, they said it would be best to use the original line fittings and weld them to their high pressure line, of which I need about 520mm Banjo eye center to banjo eye center. They quoted $150 - $180 Does this sound about right? Could anyone recommend a shop that could do the same work in Auckland? Thanks in advance.

Does this mean RE001's will become cheaper?

You're a credit to that car!

Just ticked over 500kms with the v8 engine. All going well aside from just a few small things I had to correct.

This is the temporary exhaust I'm running, what was on the car before. Twin 1.8-2.0" 328i twin system, Cats, x pipe, resonators and a Remus dual in dual out muffler. Later next year I'll be upgrading the headers, running 2.5", high flow cats, twin non balanced resonators, swap-able with a twin H pipe resonator section out to twin Audi RS4 mufflers (requires custom removal of the tire well cavity) Sporty...

Well that is just brilliant

Looks fun.

What a beaut!

Awful.

It's even sadder how all that money couldn't save him.

I rather like these, but prefer them with factory aesthetics.

When I had the roll cage welded in the back of my car the clown didn't remove the 1/4 glass windows like we discussed so on one spot theres a nice little melted spot of glass where a hot weld shot off and contacted with the glass.. Bargh. Apparently he didn't have the tool to take the glass out. Uhh.. I am being pedantic here, not that it worries me.

194,818 when removed.

hah, would that be the inside of my old M50 you bought? Did it seem alright inside?

Theres about 5mm of clearance from the steering arm to exhaust, its pretty tight, I even had to use a vorshlag steering arm, stock wouldn't work. Under the car I've used one of the stock engine braces as a mount fail safe so If a mount gives it will stop it resting on the steering arm. The header set I will have made up will allow for more clearance, its just these stock 3uzfe manifolds stick out more than they need to. That did cross my mind. We shall see

The mounts I did mimicked the vorshlag LS1 ones. Sooo I went on my CAD program and designed some. Had to draw an entire 1UZFE millimeter to millimeter! (Header idea) Heat tape and alloy heat shield over top of urethane mount.

Cheers guys. It goes pretty well at the moment. The trouble I anticipated is the A431E gearbox I used (just to save some costs) has much too tall gearing, coupled with my final drive of 3.71... so it dampens acceleration a bit. So at this stage I will look at changing the final drive ratio to 3.91 or 4.10. My intention is to install an A650E I am rebuilding with a different valved body, upgraded clutch packs and a stronger torque converter. Might also have to replace the commonly failing solenoids too, I will then run it through a TCM-2000 controller, so I can use it to its best potential (torque converter lock up etc..) I suppose I could go to a manual, but I feel I prefer the automatics at this stage and the A650E has really great ratios (No one wants them so the market is swamped with cheap gearboxes) With a 3.91 diff it would run to a max speed in each gear of: 1st - 56 km/h 2nd - 85 km/h 3rd - 132 km/h 4th - 186 km/h 5th - 250 km/h The 3UZFE headers I used were a temporary fix, I mean they are loosing me a good 15-20hp, but at least they are something I can upgrade next year once I find the right person to build me some. The rest of the exhaust is from a 328i so 1.8-2" tube is less than ideal. The intention is to run proper headers, 2.5" tube, high flow cats, twins small resonators out to the back with a pair of Audi RS4 mufflers (means deleting the tyre well) - but that alone is 2k at a minimum. At present it's pulling 0-62mph in just over 6 seconds flat, so not too shabby for a stock 1uz with a stock auto, it would only be putting out 250hp at best.

A few quick pictures I took today while testing some changes. Off to the paint shop next week