The 02 VX SS project

[berroca]

thats a bloody nice collection of parts there

what times you aiming for?

[evlss1]

watching with interest......

[bartsisgod]

Loving this build so far

[cjf]

Ok got the engine back last week and spent today preping and painting it in 2K sting red, I will give it 2 coats of clear later tonight.

[cjf]

ok cleaned up the engine bay.




Bolted on the accessories today ready to fit back in the car tommorrow.

[cjf]

I bit more progress today but the wet weather held me up a lot + my air compressor broke down and that took 2 hrs to fix.
here are some pics of my day.

First I did a trial of some mulberry pearl paint on the extractors.





But I decide it was a bit girly so i went for a Gold Pearl on the extractors and a sivler pearl on the Highflow cat pipes.















Im pretty happy with the outcome.

Also did a port & polish on the throttle body, its as smooth as a babies bottom inside now.
Pulled the auto trans apart and cleaned it , and fitted a new filter and pan gasket, i also drained the converter and refilled it with new dex 3 and fitted back on the trans.

[Mick1]

Hey, lookin pirdie!



glad u gave the mulberry the arse.

[***VX*R8***]

!!!WOW!!!
That looks awesome. I love the gold pearl. I reckon the rocker covers would look really good in the gold or silver pearl aswell.

[cjf]

Thanks Mick1, my wife didn't like it either, she said it would suit our daughters pushbike though .lol

[cjf]

VX R8 that was my thought as well, I will be doing the valve covers in the gold pearl later on.

[cjf]

Got a quick video of it running on my phone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0DyNWdNKTw

[cjf]

Got my DuSpeed OTR fitted up tonight.

[Mick1]

Great to see it all back together.

OTR looks cool, hav you had it tuned? How does it go? Happy?

[cjf]

It had a quick mafless tune done yesterday but it has still got a fair bit of tuning to be done when I fit bigger injectors and a Hi stall. Yes Im happy with it ,but I'll be a lot happier when she gets a few runs at the drags.

[cjf]

Tidying up the brakes, fresh disc's and painting the calipers. waiting on some new QFM pads to arrive.