pete25r's bugeye progress by pete25r

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that's what I was looking at doing to for my splitter. Home Depot, probably Lowes too, has sheet aluminum. I built an "air box" for my short ram, helped a little to keep it cool. I was going to chop up some aluminum and pop rivet the raised portion. Looks like a fun project. Haven't played with aluminum for a minute so I'm excited.

Wedding? ah snap! Wedding funds are a good thing, for sure. Weddings get expensive fast.

Build update: looking to do my brake lines and clutch line(gotta SS one for that too), this week-end maybe next.

3-24-2014

changed my diff fluid the weekend before last. a quarter tank into it and it looks like I'm getting better gas mileage. 

hooray fresh gear oil!

4-9-2014

4-11-2014

got some WRB on that primer. its not looking as awesome as I thought it would. I might have to wet sand it some more. I'm gunna spray a super light coat of clear on it and then wet sand it to get a good idea of what it'll look like.

also test fitted the GS TMIC, got the AC line bent out of the way a little. there was like 1/2in(eyeballed) clearance each side of the AC line. 

I was test fitting it against the stock splitter and noticed the rubber part "almost" touched on the passenger side but driver side was making good contact. Popped the hood back up and notice a slight tilt to the passenger side. I didn't have it bolted down though. It did look flush on the mounting brackets. Something wasn't right though. I ran out of daylight or I would have found whats wonky on my car.

4-21-2014

update mode

photo from a few days ago, gettin' er done...

Put a few coats of GS WRB rattle can on there. Looks alright. Nit-pickers gunna pick...

So all day Saturday (19th) I hacked up, "re-engineered", and painted my splitter. It didn't turn out exactly like I wanted it too but it works good so far, isn't damaging anything so I'm good till I get my allowance saved up for a for-realz splitter. No pics of that yet. I'm lazy. I'll get some up though. 

So After I got my JDM hood scoop painted and installed with my hacked/painted splitter, I got my GS TMIC installed. I hate recirc hoses. Hate. I don't know what it is, maybe I just suck at installing them. I had a big fight getting the GS one to go on. First it was the Tbolt clamp, how do you get a wrench down there? I need some deep sockets. Then I guess I lubed it up too much because I was trying to clamp it with a normal worm gear clamp and it decide to work itself over the hump on the intake connector. I'll save y'all the rest, but it wasn't much fun for me. Your results will vary.

So GS goodies all installed(TMIC, Y-pipe, recirc). I'm a happy camper.

Throttle response. YES! I haven't really pushed it yet, still got some minor issues in my tune and a missing bolt on my downpipe, the one that secures it near the tranny. Anyway throttle response is awesome. Car feels like it has more grunt.

I owe you guys some photos. I'll get unlazy/unbusy and get some soon.

Here's a quick snap of my installed hoodscoop...

This one is a little closer, you can see the bar and plate awesomeness that doesn't get heat soaked too bad after 5min of idling on a 60-ish degree day.