Crisis
 

I thought it was about time I put together a build thread.
I bought the car from the US about 4 years ago. Long story short bad buy.'
It looked good in the pictures, but we all know how they can lie.

As it was when I bought it.

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The start of the strip down

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I own blasting company, so we stripped it and look what we found.

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We replaced both quarters, full floor,trunk floor, firewall,roof and both outer wheel wells. I sold of most of the car as I decided to go with a Pro touring setup.

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I purchased Art Morrision front and rear clips.

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It's been moving along pretty well the last year.

Bringing it home after the firewall, interior and underside where painted.

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The red is Sting Red, the interior is Matt Black and the underside is Gregorio Silverstone.

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brake lines made.

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I have set a mock up engine in place, I am running a tall deck RHS block, but I don't have it here yet, so I needed to simulate it by raising the heads of the one I have.

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I have set up the breathers for the diff and fuel tank.

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I have been working on the headers and exhaust the last couple of weeks. I have used a header design set by icengineworks, that works great.

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one of the headers all fabbed up.

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And the exhaust well underway.

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Radiator, coolers, support panel and dry sump tank in place.

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you have been holding out on us way too long,that is some great looking work,gonna be a real nice ride

Only for a little while Jeff. I will keep it upto date from now on.

Nice work, excellent choice of parts going into this build....

Thomo