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Hello everyone i finally decided to make a build journal as I feel it will help me stay on track and help me accomplish my dreams with this build. I’ve owned this car for three years. In that time frame I’ve managed to do a couple of good things such as build the motor, finish the brakes, and do an awd swap. Unfortunately I didn’t document that so this journal is going to consist of things that I finish from here on out.
I have chosen not to name her until she is driving. I feel like the right name will come to me at that time.

Intro: I bought this car after my gsx went down for bad rust. (used as the parts car for the AWD conversion) I envisioned a badass white awd spyder with a roll cage and a healthy 450hp minimum. The car needed a lot of work such as a new interior and a new top. So I started of with the cleaning.

This is how the car was when I got it.
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After a little bit of cleaning
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And the new top was purchased and is now fully installed.
A short time after this the awd swap was completed and the engine was installed.

Time to fast forward to where she is now. She isn’t missing a lot. I need to finish the timing and the fuel system. After that it’s all the little things that need to be installed like the piping, some lines, and such.
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Wheel and brake set up.
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Rear brake set up
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The car is in storage now which is where I work on the car. Unfortunately it’s pretty hard to get good pictures in there.. or work on the car for several reasons but I try to go every day now.

This is where I’m at now and I will update from here on out what gets done to the car!
 

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Here’s today’s update. Got some new parts in!
Oem water feed pipe for the turbo from the block. Sources from extreme psi. I need the block adapter (on the way)
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Radium engineering 10 an fittings for the valve cover. These are pricey but they’re worth it.
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I also ordered a stm 2.5 throttle body elbow with the iat bung. I had to do a little bit of work to grind down the tack welds on the inside. I just used a dremmel to smooth them out.
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And here it is installed on the throttle body.
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I also received my oil feed restrictor for the turbo. It took me a while to figure out the threads for this thing. Not even the ones I ordered from precision fit. Thread pitch is a 7/16-24 banjo with a 1.8mm restrictor.
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And here it is installed on the turbo with the ss line.
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I want to finish all the plumbing for the turbo and ofh that goes behind before i mount the turbo. An oem ofh hard line is on the way as well.
 
Update. A couple of parts came in so I should be able to install them soon. In the meantime I did finish my harness for the alternator. I have the relocation kit which requires to extend the power cable and the pigtail to the back. I bought an extra pigtail and made an extended harness. I then soldered each wire accordingly. I didn't want to use regular plastic wire loom so I bought braided wire sleeving. This stuff looks great when done correctly. I did not extend the original power wire for the alternator. Instead I cut open a spare harness and pulled out that double 8ga wire and ran it through the back of the motor. (retained original length). I connected it to the fuse box directly and insulated the original power wire in case I have to move the alternator to the front. I also sleeved the power wire to protect and hide the white wires.
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So I got my hard line for the OFH cooling system in today. Installed it and I realized that the ofh has an fittings welded to it. idk why It does if it only requires like 3 inches of hose. I am technically using an hose to connect the barbs but I just don't want to buy more fittings for that. I might just take off the ofh cut the welded ends off, bead them, and install the hose. here what it looks like. I should be getting the block junction from JNZ pretty soon so I can finish the turbo cooling plumbing
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Here’s the ofh with the bottom fitting for the feed cut off. The hose is 2inches then connects to the other hard line. I rinsed it out with a hard cleaning solution and then i ran compressed air to make sure there was nothing in there. I decided to keep to return fitting on cuz why not. I’m sure I have a 6an fitting somewhere and at least that hose is considerably longer than the feed.
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Following. Im planning on doing very similar build with my spyder. The awd is a must. What are the bronze wheels in the "new top"
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Thanks! And yeah makes for an interesting and challenging build. That’s my old wheel set up. They’re Rota sub zeros. I know that’s a rep but I’m not sure what the original real wheel is.
 
All right got some more work done and installed a couple of parts. I finished my top 16an hose and installed it. Looks pretty good!
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I also managed to finish the plumbing for the ofh. I added the hose to the return line off the oil filter.
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I also received to joint block for the coolant feed that goes on the block.
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And then I installed the banjo bolt with the hard line
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So I did notice that the junction block might need to be threaded in more (even though it’s pretty tight not all the threads are in) because the banjo hits the turbo and doesn’t let it sit flat. I just didn’t do it today because I need an 1/2 extension. So I’ll go back and do that next time.
I have a new valve cover coming in with 10an fittings so I can finish the plumbing for the catch can. I’m also waiting on a polished power steering reservoir that I ordered from stm. Once I get that I can fully install the power steering.
 
Dont try screwing it in further its tapered pipe thread and could crack the block. I know on 2gs a lot of times to fit the larger compressor covers that banjo bolt head needs ground down.
 
Got a couple more parts in! here's some pictures with the new valve cover mocked up. (thanks to @okm12346 ) I need to mount the catch can so that I can see what length I need to cut the hoses. I also installed a 034 motorsports turbo blanket. If you look closely you can see it but not that well. I'll try and get more pics soon. I also got my STM power steering reservoir so I should be able to finish that as well.
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Catch can was installed as well as the lines. I tried to keep them a bit tucked. Loving how it’s coming together. Unfortunately I couldn’t use my radium fittings on the valve cover so I just slapped them on the catch can. Cool thing is I can eventually switch them over if I buy a frontline fab valve cover
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Hey guys quick update. I was able to figure out a solution for the turbo water line. I didn’t want to grind the turbo housing or the oem hardware so I just purchased a m16x1.5 banjo bolt with a 3/8 barb. It cleared perfectly LOL. Unfortunately now I have spare parts left over. I’ll probably post them on my classifieds.
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Excess parts that I just ordered and won’t use :p
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My friend is also selling me his set of rpf1s so I had to test fit them. They look pretty sick. I’ll use these for track days since they are lighter than the works
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Quick update. Haven’t had time to do much to the car. I had some time off so I decided to rebuild the driveshaft. I ordered the u joint yolks from jnz and I bought STM’s bushing kit and new hardware.
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Here’s how it looked before
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While removing the u joints had to use a 2 claw puller
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Cleaned up the ends and the insides
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I had to use the thickest snap rings to make it fit in just right.
Unfortunately the snap rings on the back broke on me so I had to take it to a shop. They didn’t charge me so that was nice. Here’s a pic of me removing the last u joint for reinstallation
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Had to clean this end as well.
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After all the the work i cleaned them up and painted the driveshaft and transfer case. I installed a new seal as well
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Here it is installed


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The bushings fit pretty snug. Up next the exhaust.
 

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Installed the exhaust today. Kinda weird how the shape of the spyder still conforms to an awd exhaust set up. Might get a better one soon but this will work for now.
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These are the gaskets I used.
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Had to go through a couple of boxes to find some missing hangers
 

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Finally an update. Lol. Been a while. But I’ve been able to get a couple of things done over the summer.
For starters I finally got an nrg short hub and took out the crappy cheap one that was in there
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Looks a lot cleaner. I also got my carbon fiber parts from Carbonetics that I ordered a while ago. As many of you know. I got the hood, trunk, arm rest, and air bag delete. For now I only have a picture of the trunk. Needs a bit more adjusting and I need to bolt in the brake light
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Unfortunately i can’t get a better picture in here LOL. Next part I added an oil cooler for the power steering since I lost the oem pipe for it. It sits between the intercooler and radiator. This is the only pic I have actually
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The last thing i got was a Treadstone intercooler. The vsrf wasn’t going to cut it.
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Had to make a bracket since it bolts up on the sides. Before cutting and making adjustments.
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Going to finish bolting up the turbo and piping this week. It’s coming along.
 
I really like the color of your manifold. Is your car the OEM silver? Idk of it's your camera or what but it has a different hue to the silver than my silver 2g.
 
Added a couple of things recently. School started so it’s gonna be a slow one from here
First i removed the power steering pump to clean it. Took it apart, resealed, added new hardware and painted it.
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On the car
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I got around to tucking the harness that goes behind the radiator. Tied it down and was able to mount up my fuse box. I dont like the stock location too much, and i didn’t want to tuck it, so I just angled it down.
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My fuse box cover is a little beat so I got a carbon fiber cover from Special Carbon Fiber
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I also got a fender washer kit to mount the bumper and fenders. Had a couple of extras so I placed them around
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That’s it for now. Have a couple more pieces I’m waiting on to install. I’ll see when i have more time.
 
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I’ve had a chance to work on the car over winter break. Got more parts installed. Made some new ones and waiting on more.
Something simple. My right fan harness was missing completely. Yanked one off at the junkyard cleaned it up and attracted to the wires using these heat shrink solder connectors I found online. They work great 10/10.
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after that I installed a new coolant reservoir. Found a cheap one online. Made a quick bracket and tucked it in the stock location
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next thing
I like many other dsmers experience bumper sag. I still have the oem bumper support beams so I used those to mount mine
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here’s the bracket just used a steel rod and a bit of aluminum and some padding
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Ok the last thing I did was work on my power steering lines. I hate how they looked before.
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I decided to completely take out the low pressure hose and route it under the car using -6 to the cooler up front. The hard line is barb anyway.
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I didn’t want to get a pressure line made but I did want to asses it’s appearance at least. I bought dei hose insulation and fed it through the line. It looks a lot better while looking more subtle. So this is how it looks now.
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And the engine bays cleaning up pretty good so far. I’ll probably start the plumbing for the piping and bolting it down tomorrow. Next big thing is tackle the harness for the motor. I also am waiting for a fusible link set up for the battery as well as some engine hardware
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Well had time to install my new stereo. It’s a sony xav ax8000. Has an 8.8 inch screen. Has Apple car play. This thing dominates the center console and I love it. I also installed a new Megan short shifter (didn’t get any pics sorry) with a new vms cabron fiber shift knob.
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Here’s the radio on the bench

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Still need to finalize installation by wiring in the microphone and finish the wiring for the back up camera to the reverse lights.
My mounting point was the keyhole. I wanted it to look subtle.
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I loved how the reverse mount came out. But it just made me realize how scratched up my center piece is LOL. So I might go get a cleaner one at a junkyard and try again. That’s it for now
 

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Small update. My back piece that I mounted the rear view cam was kind of cracked so I got another one with the eclipse letters. Installed. My rear light switch went out. I replaced that and it’s all wired in and functional. Couple more parts came in. I got a subframe brace from Bobby which I need to install. I also ordered a set of gen 7 fortune auto coil overs. Those should be in soon.

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