My Big build Thread

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When I'm done we're gunna have some sick ass aero for this pig that's gunna blow these mfers minds. We are officially acknowledging I'll never recoup anything reasonable on the car so my only goal now is to blow ******* minds and get it rippin and embarassing some much more expensive cars (which in test driving almost every reasonable luxury performance cars comparable it already does)

I commiserated with the fabricator since he said yea bro "I know how you feel I have a turbo LS swapped 350z with a rocket bunny kit that I know nobody wants" lol
Awesome can't wait!
 

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Stainless steel exhaust with much nicer resonators going in and just got started mounting the seats and planning the harness bar out to go with the back seat delete.
 

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Just got back from my fabricator, had him throw together a couple of brackets for the catch cans in the 2 c63's real quick so I can switch to an improved racing can. But ** boooooooy! ya'll hoes gunna be so jelly! The seats were in but they gotta get dropped down a bit since I'm 6'3" and the automotive world hates tall folks, Harness bar was almost in and the rear seat delete was in the harness bar is gunna connect to the back seats it's looking ******* amazing! He said when he gets the harness bar in he'll shoot me some pics to thirst trap you hookers with.
 

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A few gussets left to do but this is what he sent me tonight.

The hex pattern is to match an orange hex pattern fabric that I'm gunna wrap the door trim in ❤️
 

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updates from the front!

Aero is getting worked on today as well so we're out here doing it!
My boy is a true artist and I'm 10 kinds of pumped.
 

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Auspicious day indeed! Got the last bit of my finishing materials in today! Gunna really tie the room together

Hex material has an adhesive backing to help adhesion
 

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Updates! Winglets done! Harness bar and brackets at powder coating.
 

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Sorting out the gauges, probably just gunna gram a sfrom my mobile carrier and run the internet and apps off the tablet. Working on a solution for the things obd2 won't show me like oil temp and trans temp ptu temp (which I know there's a sensor for!)

Marrying the obd2 info with info gotten from self run sensors is my next target. Gotta get all the datas
Do you have any info for that shift ****.
 

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Oh and surprise!!! Your boy hit up the Black Friday deals and we got a 3d scanner a scan rig and a fdm 3d printer on it's way.

We fitt'n to get stupid ya'll

First project I think will be GT3 door handle pulls
 

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Let me cook here for a minute -

I got a SHO fluids care package today (Diff fluid, Trans fluid , Cabin air filter , aluminum underhood dress up caps) and it was the saddest gift I've probably ever received.


So there's one other guy up here with a SHO and we've become pretty good friends. After he got back from visiting family in Greece and not driving his car he texted me " Uhoh I see some coolant on the garage floor"

So he gets it to the Ford dealer and has Brett check it out. Of course it was the water pump! Oof! once the pump and chains is done they tell him the rear turbo is going and the ptu has a leak at 80k miles! So long story short he sold it since it really wasn't worth dumping all of that into with what things cost these days. This is all after finding out his position no longer exists at his company and he's been made redundant

It was really sad but ******* if that's not how it goes with this platform. We met up today and he was driving his Toyota Tacoma that his dad had bought new here in town in 81 and had been residing at the farm in Greece most of it's life.

We commiserated and I threw him the keys to my C63 since my SHO is at the fabricators and we motored around for about a good 30 minutes talking about a bunch of different topics. By the end he had a big smile on his face and was feeling better.

Cars are Therapy! I'm a particularly ****** up individual after doing dumb stuff in Afghanistan and cars are therapy for me and I'm a big advocate for making that more widely understood.
I've talked about it a bit here if anyone cares


a cool broski who does a podcast talked to me about it

look out for your boys it's ****** out there!
 

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I need to buy a whole ass building like ******* fr fr. I keep telling myself to just wait til we build a house. Gunna have to finish the garage in the spring so we can get a couple stackers in there to tide us over.
 

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Updates from the fabricator. GT350 wing is on and lined up like I knew it would!

Powdercoating on the aero and interior pieces getting done this week!
 

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So I have a 2012 Taurus Limited as a beater car and the time has come to do the rockers on it (RIP)
But I'm gunna try to turn it into an opportunity to learn some metal work. Picked up some rocker panels and my fabricator is gunna let teach me to go nuts on it after the holidays, so that's fun.
 
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