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Hello All,
First post as I assume I will be needing some help as time goes on. I am an OFM (old fat man) that went looking for a first car for my 17 year old son (Connor in South Florida), by having my 24 year old son who has a shop up in North Dakota (Brett) source and build his dream car. Uh, I may have gone overboard. Brett found a very clean AP1 with a perfect interior and I then had him add a hardtop. Thinking about it, I thought "what about the wheels and tires:, Connor liked red so Brett powder coated them and put on some new decent tires. Then I thought, "we need better brakes, maybe suspension", so we put new stoptech rotors on along with Hawk pads and new coil overs. Then I was thinking it maybe needed some more HP, so out went an order for a SOS stage 2 blower kit. Hmm, its South Florida so we need better cooling, as such a new Koyo radiator was sourced. Then there was the clutch, with more HP we need a better clutch. Science of speed to the rescue again along with the slightly lightened flywheel. Then it was a new gauge cluster, sound system and alarm system. The following pics show what it looks like today. The only thing left is a catch can which Brett is just finishing.
So, it will need a headliner when it gets down to Florida in a couple of weeks and I need to find a decent shop for that. Past that, I hope that it will be well received by Connor. It turns out that I somewhat lied to him over the years as we spoke about cars. I kept saying that I was going to get him something with a supercharger sticking out of the frickin hood, but it turns out I failed in the sticking out of the hood part. I gotta say, my son Brett does nice work and Connor is thrilled his brother built him a car.
The cover plates and valve cover are predominantly stock. My son welded on the bungs for AN fittings to connect to a catch can, and then powder coated everything. The plates around the engine are just powder coated.
The cover plates and valve cover are predominantly stock. My son welded on the bungs for AN fittings to connect to a catch can, and then powder coated everything. The plates around the engine are just powder coated.
Never seen them before; my UK MY05 car doesn't have them; but I do have a very similar after-market engine cooling panel...I circled them in blue just in case my description is terrible
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