333pg333

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3.0L crank lightened and modified waiting for girdle.

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Now with the Arrow rods in place.

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Showing Lindsey oil pan baffle in place.

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Engine going in. Larger matching cam under the rocker cover.

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Coated 104mm JE's going in with ARP's. Cometic to follow.

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Vitesse stage 5 turbo literally 'under wraps'.

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Top of head with race springs and ti retainers.

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Head showing all new pieces with oversized inlet valves. Head has obviously had porting valves properly reseated etc...

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Larger t-body.

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Larger t-body connected up to stock i/c pipes temporarily until custom i/c fitted.

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Newly rebuilt gearbox with S2 wheel and pinion and stock 40% lsd.

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Full 3" 304 s/steel exhaust no cat.

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Showing 3" downpipe etc.

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Kevlar clutch disk.

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Lightened stock flywheel.

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P/plate. The kit was bought as a whole from Markus Blaszak.

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New cv joints getting fitted.

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Brand spanking new Big Reds with the 928gts rotors and the KW's in the background.


Mods yet to be shown:
Dry sump system.
Bosch S4 fuel pump
Brake bias valve
Modified and extruded honed stock inlet.
Custom front mounted intercooler. Similar to those pics of ST's.
80% motorsport lsd.
Zeitronix Zt2 wideband to work in conjunction with the SMT6.
Carbon fibre hood.
Hatch with lexan for race days.
Various gauges.

Mods being considered:
Wider wheels depending what's available and what rubber we can source

I would also really like to thank all the vendors who have helped so far:
Dave McGrath at Custom Engineered Performance
Chris White at 944Enhancement
John of Vitesse Racing
Karl Poeltl at RacersEdge
Markus Blaszak of Blaszak Precision Motorsports
+ all the people on here who have helped answer all my annoying questions, thanks and sorry.
Special thanks to Sean (JET951) and his dad Bruce who are my great mechanics and friends who have, and continue to, see this project through to the end.
...what's that, the music is starting to play, better talk faster, I still haven't thanked my parents or even God. Quick it's getting louder. I wonder what this 6'7" Amazon next to me is doing after the show. OOh she's grabbing me and yanking me backstage. I'd ask her out but she can't hear me speak over the band and I don't think she can actually see me down here. Ah well, can only dream.

EDIT: I guess spending ages downloading all these photo's that only appear as links shows that I haven't got a grip on how to load them visibly. Sorry...

333pg333

Thanks Royal. How'd you do that so quickly? I was still going in and re-editing some of the pic's that didn't get captured so while you were converting them to images they didn't get picked up. I have since re-downloaded them. It's 2 shot's of the head from top and bottom view. Inbetween the turbo under wraps and the larger t-body. If you can squeeze them in I'd be appreciative.

Patrick

DDP

I assume you are using Dave's dry sump system? So where is his pan? And why are you using the AOS when his kit comes with the delete plugs?

Looking good though, that thing should rip!

333pg333

Derek,
We haven't yet decided upon where the best place to put the oil tank is. So currently it's not on the car yet, hence no photo's. It is going on sometime later this year. It's a fair bit more complex than a straight race car application. So maintaining the p/s, a/c, and stock alt. is one hurdle which Dave has negotiated. The next is the oil tank. We may just surprise some people on where it ends up. Remembering on R.H.D. cars we don't have the same room as you do in some cases.
The car should be started for the first time since the last trackday in November, tomorrow. Then a few days shakedown and some bit's n pieces still to go on.
If you've ever flown to Australia or somewhere far, far away, you will remember how long it seems to take, especially if you're not a good sleeper. Plus for some completely unknown reason except maybe masochism, they put that stupid chart up showing your current GPS position. You know the one that never seems to move? Well this is how it's felt not having my car. I'm sure there are many of you out there who can relate. It just seems to take an eternity. Not really anyone's fault. Just the time of year and the tyranny of distance.
Oh yes, the car should RIP!!!!!!!!

333pg333

You're a champion!

DDP

Last I heard, Dave had a badass solution for retaining all accessories. I'm not sure how recently you've talked with him but if it wasn't recent...give him a hollar.

Good luck with startup, hope all goes as planned.

333pg333

Thanks Derek. Yes I have spoken to Dave recently and everything is coming along nicely.
By the way, how do you change your avatar to one of your own pic's? I've tried to shrink the image down and save it as a Jpeg but while the pixels come down, the kbytes stay the same? I'm confused but that's not hard...

DDP

What are you using to resize it?

333pg333

It's called IrfanView. I'm sure it's ok and just me being an idiot but I've tried following some directions given to me to no avail.

Geneqco

Great stuff Patrick... finally. Congratulations! Looking forward to hearing your driving impressions.

333pg333

Thanks Scott. Yes hope it all goes well this week. I shall relay the progress.

MPD47

Gorgeous! Cant wait to see this evolve.

The DareDevil

Subtle changes...

You're so modest!

Jason Judd

Patrick,

I didn't realize you were keeping a/c, p/s...it's a street car!!

Just kidding, friend!

By the way, my wheels are actually working...Hoosier 275/35/18 up front and 315/30/18 in the rear. No rub to speak of and no spacing needed either. Just good old fashioned luck, I guess.

I sold my other set to a fellow who has a 944 variant, and he can't quite get the same rubber under his car; so the 968 must be slightly different.

Hope to hear of your track exploits soon!

Jason

reno808

What kind of T-body is it.