bigal07
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- Aug 2, 2007
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Fort Dodge,
Iowa
This build has been going on for 6 years on and off now due to money, ambition and other projects i've done. At the beginning I didnt take many pictures and a lot of things have been changed through the years on my car so I will do the best I can.
A little about me. Currently I work as an industrial mechanic in Iowa, working half the week and making good money. I was a toyota mechanic for awhile and at that time the car didnt get much love since I was constantly broke.
The ultimate goal now for the car is to make 500-600 hp and run mid 10s down the track. Now from the beginning.
This is the car the day i bought it off ebay for $2500 with a grinding transmission and bad clutch
The motor was completly stock. It just had the ugly body kit.
This was summer 2007, in fall 2007 i bought my first big purchase. ACT 2900 clutch, fidanza flywheel, 1g big rods, and an evo3 16g.
I installed the turbo on and drove it for a few months until the stock clutch sarted slipping so we put the ACT in and ran into problems. Crankwalk. The flywheel could be moved about an 1/8 of an inch so it was pretty close to junk. Time to put the stroker in.
Put in 2.3 stroker with mitsu crank, eagle rods, and wiseco pistons. At the same time i got ecmlink, brian crower 272's, fidanza cam gears, PTE 880cc injectors, greddy xl intercooler, tubular manifold, ebay bov, greddy profec spec b and other small upgraded
These pics are when I lived in Chicago building the motor in 2008.
After this I moved back to Iowa and started to drive the car again after being down for a few months. Driving around doing logs I went half throttle at 10 psi and got 325 hp out of it. I decided to take it under the knife again and get a bigger turbo. Decided on a hx40 with mitsu housing.
The old evo3 and hx40
Went to a Tial 38mm external wastegate, MAF translator, and got a aeromotive afpr, and aem uego
About this time (fall 2008) i also put 2gb from and rear bumpers on it.
Now for the major downtime. I got my current job and moved to a new house and decided it was finally time to paint the car black. Engine bay and all jams would be matched and all body work.
That was how the car sat for a little over 2 years as i worked on other projects like a bobber, dune buggy, snowmobiles and wasting money on fun stuff.
Spring 2012 i started working on it again. Filled holes in engine bay, fixed frame damage from previous owner, which i lost all the pictures of the finished product. And filled holes for 2gb spoiler.
In May she started getting the paint. Went with a black called Nighthawk Black, its black with blue flake, pictures dont do it justice in the sun. My old evo3 was payment to a buddy to spray it for me as i helped with what i could.
Everything except paint.
Now for the fun that was a 18 hour day.
A little about me. Currently I work as an industrial mechanic in Iowa, working half the week and making good money. I was a toyota mechanic for awhile and at that time the car didnt get much love since I was constantly broke.
The ultimate goal now for the car is to make 500-600 hp and run mid 10s down the track. Now from the beginning.
This is the car the day i bought it off ebay for $2500 with a grinding transmission and bad clutch
The motor was completly stock. It just had the ugly body kit.
This was summer 2007, in fall 2007 i bought my first big purchase. ACT 2900 clutch, fidanza flywheel, 1g big rods, and an evo3 16g.
I installed the turbo on and drove it for a few months until the stock clutch sarted slipping so we put the ACT in and ran into problems. Crankwalk. The flywheel could be moved about an 1/8 of an inch so it was pretty close to junk. Time to put the stroker in.
Put in 2.3 stroker with mitsu crank, eagle rods, and wiseco pistons. At the same time i got ecmlink, brian crower 272's, fidanza cam gears, PTE 880cc injectors, greddy xl intercooler, tubular manifold, ebay bov, greddy profec spec b and other small upgraded
These pics are when I lived in Chicago building the motor in 2008.
After this I moved back to Iowa and started to drive the car again after being down for a few months. Driving around doing logs I went half throttle at 10 psi and got 325 hp out of it. I decided to take it under the knife again and get a bigger turbo. Decided on a hx40 with mitsu housing.
The old evo3 and hx40
Went to a Tial 38mm external wastegate, MAF translator, and got a aeromotive afpr, and aem uego
About this time (fall 2008) i also put 2gb from and rear bumpers on it.
Now for the major downtime. I got my current job and moved to a new house and decided it was finally time to paint the car black. Engine bay and all jams would be matched and all body work.
That was how the car sat for a little over 2 years as i worked on other projects like a bobber, dune buggy, snowmobiles and wasting money on fun stuff.
Spring 2012 i started working on it again. Filled holes in engine bay, fixed frame damage from previous owner, which i lost all the pictures of the finished product. And filled holes for 2gb spoiler.
In May she started getting the paint. Went with a black called Nighthawk Black, its black with blue flake, pictures dont do it justice in the sun. My old evo3 was payment to a buddy to spray it for me as i helped with what i could.
Everything except paint.
Now for the fun that was a 18 hour day.
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