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Cheers! Yea you're right starting to see some purple emerge, nice

Some pics of the snail in his new house:





Intercooler piping needs tidied, a few temporary measures in place!

Ughhhhhh so shiny

Intercooler piping (re)done! Couldn't stand the mess of accordion thing to one scrap to another and the mild steel on feed. Blah. All alu alloy now except the turbo outlet


One piece


Turbo to IC


3" downpipe yo

Nice.. that intercooler piping set up looks much better..

Thanks crazycanadian!

Been working at other projects atm but went to a meet for a while yesterday:



JDM side skirts yo!

oh man your paint looks so great. I cant wait to get mine done up the same. Is that factory or has it been resprayed before?

I bet barely anyone at the meet knew what type a car it was without looking at the badge thats how it always is i love that about these cars

Haha yea man only a few know what they are, and that's as mx3 nevermind autozam az3.

Yesterday I replaced:
Timing belt and pulleys and spring
Cam seals
Crank seal
Water pump
Also stripped and cleaned 8x intake hla






It was all a pleasure to replace! Very easy on this engine

It still didn't cure my HLA tick but that's because that turned out to be an exhaust gasket!

It's amazing working on a B5/B6/BP compared to the K series engines, absolute breeze. Nice work.

One thing I did is buy a B6T exhaust mani gasket. It is a 3 piece gasket with two N/A like gaskets around a thicker piece of metal. The B6T has a bit smaller ports than our DE motors do so I bought two N/A mani gaskets and used the center from the B6T gasket and just dremmiled it out a bit to match it. Don't know if it really made any difference but I am sure it helps with heat a little.

One thing I noticed with my DE is the intake mani and the VICS system. Have you had any boost issues with it?

I ended up just strapping the butterfly valve open with a ziptie and boost was a lot better, more consistent.

Great looking car man!

Thanks!

Cheers Josh its holding up nicely now boost no problems yet, I figured it would help spool it up.

Wee video for the craic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HT6M3Z ... ata_player

Cool video. That gauge pod is quite sweet also.

Nice video !

Remind me again; why did you switch from your v6 to this i4 ?

WhiteFinish wrote:Nice video !

Remind me again; why did you switch from your v6 to this i4 ?

+1

WhiteFinish wrote:Nice video !

Remind me again; why did you switch from your v6 to this i4 ?

I can do that for u!

1. he was going to school to be a dentist
2. It looks like from last pics and post from work log it was rusting all over the place and he was doing major body work to just try and save it
3. He also noted gas prices were getting higher

I think that is why he painting most parts when he puts them on correct me if I wrong Marc!

Did I miss anything Marc?