Exterior now complete - Stripping continues 17/04

[Chr15py]

HKS - Looks awesome, sounds great but its much smaller pipework than the others..... Think its 2.75" all the way through. If i am only aiming for 280-300bhp then it should be more than suffiecient i would think.

Take it you're talking about the Silent Hi-power? It starts at 2.5" and becomes 3". I think it is Ian Worrall (sp) with the blue Rogue car has one on his car but with a scary, evil, rabbit chewing turbo on it. I'm sure he wouldn't have had it on the car if it was bad
cheers
Chris

[cantfindausername]

You reckon the dep2pro will be too loud for circuits in the UK? If the blitz is allowed on, then the dep2pro should pass easily. Will find out soon I guess

[2Crooky]

Dep 2 with a stock lump maybe but i doubt it with a gt35r and full rebuild!!

Skipps car was loud as fook when his build was finished and he has a dep 2 pro.....

[cantfindausername]

hmm.... maybe mine won't be the quiet cruiser I'm expecting when I go round europe again

[nakamura]

Nice to see my bumper and splitter going to good use mate

Looks like its coming on well, give us a text!!!

Ross

Hmmmm, Alex a yellow splitter, i wonder where that came from.

[lockys96]

yeh dep 2 pro + gt5r = deff

[2Crooky]

Some piccies of the new exhaust.......

16" Enkei's will be on as of tomorrow





alex

[cantfindausername]

What exhaust is that you whore?

[2Crooky]

Its the motoria jobbie but from another company so not a stamped exhaust.

HAve to say it sounds the best out of every exhaust i have had......

[cantfindausername]

Like the last one did...

[tubby_mr2]

I thought you were going for weight saving???

[2Crooky]

Its lighter than the stock system so it is weight saving

Track acceptable exhausts are usually heavy because they have more silencers to bring down the dB level......

I have stripped out the car everywhere else so whether the exhaust weighs 9kg or 14kg i'm not too bothered as it just means i have to lose 5kg to make up the weight gain

[tubby_mr2]

[cantfindausername]

How extreme have you gone with the stripping now Alex?

Did you get the light and that sorted that we were chatting about?

[rossdymond3352]

I bet the studs on the Downpipe will be worn out the ammount of times you've changed the exhuast! lol! Looks shexi though mate!

[2Crooky]

How extreme have you gone with the stripping now Alex?

Did you get the light and that sorted that we were chatting about?

Spare tyre
Toolkit
Jack
Boot lining and padding
Cubby hole boxes behind seats
Built in sub behind driver
Exhaust heatshield under boot
Fog lights and surrounds
Fog light mounting brackets
Headlight surrounds
Inner polystyrene firming of front bumper
Interior carpet and sound deadening behind seats
Passenger and drivers side carpets
Plastic side sill plates
Sun visors
Inner skin of engine lid
Engine lid prop

Lightweight 16" Enkeis
Volk Duralum wheelnuts
Sparco steering wheel - lighter than stock one
Air box removed for induction kit
Motoria exhaust - lighter than stock
Short shifter

Still to go........

Air con system - complete system
Blitz decat replaced with a SS unit
Carbon hood
Flushmount headlights
Carbon service panels
Carbon bootlid
Carbon spoiler
Corbeau Pro Series Carbon bucket seats
Lightweight flywheel
Uprated clutch
Alloy crank and alternator pulleys
Flocked dash and doorcards
Double din CD player replaced with a single


Need to find somewhere than does CF doorcards or maybe have some fibreglass ones fabbed and then flocked.

Thats all the weight saving stuff

Most people will now be saying that will be horrible as an everyday driver but i have all the interior stripped that i want and it is more than bearable and still comfortable.

When i have passengers i have my MR2 floormats that i can just throw over the bare floor. Still have a complete dash and 2 doorcards so the interior still retains its comforts.

As well as all this stripping still to be done i have the following lined up:

EMS Powered intercooler
Water injection
Link G3 ECU
CT20 Stage 1 hybrid - basically a stock rev 3 turbo with a steel shaft
555cc rev 3 injectors
Metal HG

The above lot should see me 280bhp safely in a car that will hopefully be near the magic 1 tonne. Realistically i will be happy with 1100kg. Jonb has managed 1150kg without carbon fibre and still has his dashboard and drivers doorcard.

So say i can get mine near that figure. Around 1200kg......Then with the addition of fibreglass panels, carbon fibre panels and possibly perspex windows i think 1100 is well within sight by this time next year.

Jonb also reported 0-60 time of 4.2 secs with 300bhp and 1150kg on a CT series turbo so i hope to see a similar figure

[EarL]

Alex, what sort of price did you pay for the new exhaust mate if you don't mind me asking?

[cantfindausername]

Get a couple of pics up of the interior, cos I'm considering stripping mine but want to see what its like first hand before I do.

[skipp123]

if your doing the h.g why not stick some arp's in there too????

mate ul have to come down soon and go for a drive something to eat ect would be nice to see the car again

[cantfindausername]

Dont think ARPs would bring anything to the party that the stock bolts couldn't already do. Not like he's gonna be running huge power on that engine.