UNDER PRESSURE

[93hulk]

Sweet!!!

[92coupe]

That looks sick!

[Rick93coupe]

Got a cool part that should have been here already, apparently Wolfe is backed up. I'm trying to borrow a tool to roll the lips on the fenders. When they get rolled and the new part is bolted on, I'll get some pics of the car on the ground over the tires. Gives me a chubby just going out to the garage to work on it.

[Ryan218]

wow. nice build!

[NXcoupe]

SUHWEET!!! Looks killer. I need to swing by and check it out sometime soon.

[Mustard]

Rick, that this is comig along really nice. The 325's look awsome

[Mustard]

stopped over and picked up some seats tonite. The car looks so much better in person than in the pics. The welds on the cage are Art.

[Rick93coupe]

Thanks Steve.

Worked on some suspension tuning today and installed the Wolfe chute mount. I used a 2" hole saw to make a nice clean cut. In hind site, I would probably go with a 1-7/8" hole saw. The gap around the receiver looks fine, but like everything It could be a little bit better.

[ibstrokin]

Good Game

[Rick93coupe]

Was doing some under hood body work tonight and needed to let the filler setup, so I vented my front bumper. Heard it helps with the air to air intercooler, but who knows for sure.



The radiator sits underneath the top of the core support which is going to take up some intercooler space. You guys see any problem with me cutting a section out of the bottom of the bumper cover? I don't want to, but the i/c is pretty big and there's not much room behind an lx front bumper.

[TurboNG]

Was doing some under hood body work tonight and needed to let the filler setup, so I vented my front bumper. Heard it helps with the air to air intercooler, but who knows for sure.

I did my engine bay, not perfect but its ok, you gonna go this far with it?

[TurboNG]

only photos i have right now...

[Rick93coupe]

Nope, not going that far with. I started by welding up the majority of the smaller holes in the strut towers and a few here and there. Been grinding, filling and sanding trying to make them look good. Sort of wish I hadn't touched them, cuz now they have to be fixed, lol. Also doing some work on the frame rail's. Just trying to make an improvement, not really going for show quality.
Yours does look really good though. You apparently have more patience than I do.

[Silver Bullet]

Checking out your post, when you told me I'm going to need more! lol

I cut the bottom of my lx bumper out and braced the top..... Looks pretting clean, you might want to check it out.

Pg 7 post #135 bottom pic. We ended up trimming and cleaning it up a bit more after that pic. Also that was before the brace which opened it up a bit, it pulled the top of the opening up and leveled it out.

[Rick93coupe]

Checking out your post, when you told me I'm going to need more! lol

I cut the bottom of my lx bumper out and braced the top..... Looks pretting clean, you might want to check it out.

Pg 7 post #135 bottom pic. We ended up trimming and cleaning it up a bit more after that pic. Also that was before the brace which opened it up a bit, it pulled the top of the opening up and leveled it out.

Yeah I pretty much did what you did to yours. I ended up laying under the car for awhile and pictured where it was going to go.

[TurboNG]

When i started i didn't know what i was getting into, by the time i finished i wanted to shoot my self. Here is what it used to look like.

[91boost]

Put up a pic of the bumper when you cut it.

[Rick93coupe]

Been working night and day in the garage, I get frustrated with one task and switch to another. Seems like everything at this point has become a pain in the ass. I keep telling myself it will all pay off in the end.

In order to make room for the 5" downpipe the radiator had to be moved under the upper core support. What I hadn't really considered was the amount of valuable intercooler space that was going to eat up. After several hrs of cutting/checking/cutting and checking, I'm sort of stuck. Have the radiator and intercooler in the approximate place they're going to sit. I'm probably going to have to get rid of my tubular bumper support though.
Got this new radiator from Ray when he changed his system around.


Intercooler core


Mounted




Nose isn't sitting where its supposed to, so you can see the bumper support bar through the vents.

[ibstrokin]

If you have Ray slant the I/c tanks from thin on top top wide at the bottom, you should have clearance, looks good though. I like your radiator hold down. If you need more clearance you can always cut you bumper support in half, lengthways, then weld flat stock back in for support.

[Rick93coupe]

This is the problem I'm having right now and as you can see I've been hacking away everything I could.