Building it from the frame up.

Starting off with nothing:



Sand


Weld


Grind


Prime/Seal


Order Parts:





Powdercoat Parts




Order More parts


Work on motor


Rebuild stuff


Oh yeah, I need 6 wheels because...



Lots of work to finish up my trailer, but it'll get there

Shaved the ground and bottom lip down



More engine work







Tranny: Put the 5th gear in and LSD, New clutch is in also



Type R LSD


Turbo mani:


Transtop gears broke again


Rebuilt the transtop tilter


works again


I changed my mind about closing up this hole so it was opened back up


brought the car home for some more body work/primer



Finished up the paintbooth


More turbo parts


even more turbo parts


got the car back to the shop (in the paintbooth)


30 hours straight priming/sanding/bondo/sanding/bondo/sanding


layed down some paint





all the previous work on the engine bay was re-done. (wasnt good enough so I started over)


I didnt really like the Milano red so I repainted it (the 3rd time this week) to "True Red"






Why does nobody keep these rubber linings?



=-0



Took me 30min to put the subframe back on by myself


10min to install the hood dampers (one side was being a bitch to latch on)


Worked on the wire tuck


Heres where it goes through the firewall


zoomed out a bit:


reinstalled these tab thingies for the side skirts


side skirt is on


a little wire-loom makes it all pretty


more stuff installed


test fitted a few turbos, still not sure how im gonna make one fit




tried another "AC Compatible" turbo manifold


Alot more wiring


New overflow tank


Mocking up the turbo pipes


-Axles are installed
-Fluids filled
-Side Skirts installed
-Mudflaps installed
-Electrical (light) issue fixed
-Exhaust installed
-Fenders/Bumper Installed
-Hood/Doors/Fenders Aligned
-Brake rotors surfaced
-Clutch Bled
-Brakes Bled
-Hood & dampers installed
-Battery Charged

prolly more, but here are pics:













Still lots to do



A little flake



I let the pro do the welding on this part



Perfect Fit!




I have been looking for del sol seats so I could get the rails from them forever, finially I got some (Donation from PI Auto in Austin)


I chopped them up


Installed them and measured the width


Cut a cross bar (Home depot steel) and measured/drilled the bolt pattern for the seats


Welded them and spraypainted them black




And repeat:




I picked up some parts from Honda:


Installed them:


Mounted the tires (learned how to use the tire machines in the process)








Started on the traier


aw, it wants a belly rub


a little measuring, cutting and tack-welding


More measuring, cutting and tack-welding


measurements look good, gonna weld it all up tomorrow



$165 worth of connectors from jegs


Cut off the nipples from the intercooler. Gonna change it up to a -8 an fitting


Gonna weld it tomorrow


Same for the heat exchanger (was a -12 an fitting, gonna make it smaller to be consistent)


Changed up the ice box a little, decided to use 4" pipe instead of making a custom box about the same size/shape:




Still just chillin on the lift


removed some stuff to get a clear shot for tack-welds


Tight fitment


Had to make a custom adapter (not sure where the AC compatible part comes in)



Icebox all welded up



This came out how I saw it in my mind



Everything was a perfect fit (as always)


Made a custom downpipe from scraps


Alot of work done on the trailer lately

Electrical has been wired to match my taillights



Now you can start to see what was in my mind


temporarily spray-painted to prevent rust, might paint it black tho, I like how it looks


Added a 2nd loop to hold the connector when the trailer is unhooked.


Took the car to the show even tho its not done


That tape turned out to be a bitch to peel off





She raised my pole

 

Reppin TX hard yo!

 

wow a work of art

 

SOOO nice, love your bay, love your wheels, love your trailer, very very nice

 

 

Very interesting..I like

 

Thank you, thank you... :D

 

Nice project. In to see the rest.

 

thats what im talking about. a guy with a welder, a spray gun, and a fully functioning human brain. you dont see that around here much. thanks.

 

lol, thanks.

 

best build evar

 

nice work, cool idea!

 

Right after that carshow someone backed into my car leaving a huge scratch and several small ones that buffed out.


Last weekend I repainted it (good thing I bought extra paint)

 

thats cool

 

hot d4mn that's a nice car dude. I have a sol, this is inspiring all the stuff I've been workin on myself lately.

What's that thing on the passenger side bumper in front of the light? A laser gun?

keep up the good work, i can see you know what you're doing.

 

awesome build.

 

Its called a bumper pole. Its one of the extra features available for the japanese del sols. The purpose is to help with parking in tight spaces, you can extend the pole (with light on the end) to see exactly where the far corner of your car is.



(I also got the bumper guards (left) that I gotta stick on, was just waiting to buff the paint first)

Oh and I forgot what the middle one was for

 

Car looks great.

I want so see more shots of that chick too! LOL.

 

I shoulda known.... Okay

 

Oh and the reason I started this project finally was because I only won 2nd place at carshows and got to do:




I know it was a slow time, remember it was mostly stock and I didn't feel like beatin the crap out of it. I get nothing for doing that show, and I really had nothing to prove. But after the show, I realized how crappy the paint was, and how slow the car is. Every time I watched the video, I saw how badly I would need a LSD. So this was the main reason for the power upgrades and I was determined to get 1st at a carshow, so thats why everything else.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crNhaQqtiXQ

 

HOLY **** BATMAN!

 

I say throw an ASR brace and sway bar on the tailer lollololol

 

I seriously thought about that, I wanted the Function 7 LCAs too, but that meant I'd need 2 sets of everything... That would be around a grand for both rears...so.... yeah.

 

"might as well be a volkswagan!"

props on the work dood

 

Very nice work! Did you get a new sol project after the car show?