Charlie's NA6 - Finished :(

[plohl]

Saw you car yesterday dude! Looks mint.

Was surprised at the intake from the IC though. I thought i would have been bigger? Is that to keep the velocity up, or more because it was an easier fit?

[charlie_s13]

holy fuck lol. well not much to update.
just got back from the whitsundays. Last i heard they were getting ready to start it up after a lot of delays in parts etc.

Ill have more info tomorrow when i go down there

[charlie_s13]

Update:

So i went down there today to see how its all going. All the lines are done bar one coolant line which just needs a different fitting. Need to run vacuum line to everything needed as well.

Should be off the hoist then and hopefully get ready to start the car. Then its putting the dash in, clean it up, and off to get the motor run in etc.

Still no word from the panel shop about there not so quality work so ill be giving him a call tomorrow to set up a time to meet and discuss a few things.

Anyways one pic. I know i say this every week but hopefully tuned by the end of next week ^^


488081_10150737262371055_586521054_11806750_157957 0138_n by charlie_2011, on Flickr

[prego]

this has come a long way from when you first had it

[charlie_s13]

Cheers dude. Will be good to catch up at a meet once ur car is done. ^^

[.Dave]

so epic, massive changes, props for all the hard work and waiting!!!

[charlie_s13]

Waiting is not something I like doing anymore

Spoke to the painter, gonna try and organize a meeting for tomorrow just to go through what we are gonna do about all this.

He only wants to repaint it himself but I don't really want that given my experiences with him and I'm gonna make that clear to him tomorrow. Hopefully we can sort it out. Ideally I'd prefer to send the car to another shop and the original painters take care of the bill. Money is another option but the likely hood of that happening is pretty slim. I have a legal document written up with everything I can charge him on as well as a detailed timeline of my dealings with him which highlights him fucking me around countless times. If he doesn't want to play ball I'll show him the document and hopefully after he has read it he will be more open minded about a solution that's in my best interest

[charlie_s13]

Update:

Got some roll cage tabs and ends from cusco today

roll bar tabs by charlie_2011, on Flickr

This is what im gonna do. All the coloured bars are the ones that are added.

RB-6.7 by charlie_2011, on Flickr

[charlie_s13]

Hey guys

so its almost ready to start ^^ pretty excited. Hopefully tomorrow if all goes to plan. Then its just get it together and off for tune

Booked my first track day this week so still a few things to do before the 25th of april . Also got my dash back in.


dash by charlie_2011, on Flickr

[crooz]

Wow that looks good. Soo much suede. Would love to see this out on the track!

[charlie_s13]

update:

sup guys.. so everything is ready to start now.. we actually did try and crank it but no power to anything so that was gay

So on monday there gonna check all the grounds, plug in anything that we have missed and HOPEFULLY its an easy solution.. otherwise it might end up costing me a fair bit haha

[charlie_s13]

Update:

So last i left u with it no power to anything. We got it to crank finally ^^ It ended up being just a few plugs and we ran more grounds just for good measure.

Unfortunately there is no spark.. Not sure why this is because it had spark when it came out of the car now it doesnt and nothing has changed so hopefully its an easy fix..

Where we're up to now is just making sure everything is perfect before it goes off to get tuned. It will be there for a week and the last thing i want is for something to go wrong on the dyno because it will end up costing me $$$$..

Anyways.. made the first of my braces for the wing to keep it stable.. im gonna run two more cross wires going to the frankenstein bolts once i can put it on the car this should keep it nice and stable.

Ill be down at the workshop tomorrow hopefully with better news


wing brace by charlie_2011, on Flickr

Last thing.. Ive been looking for ways to mount a splitter really strongly.. I saw this pic and thought it was great but i dont think it will work with my lip/bumper without modification. But i might still be able to do this.

That along with turn buckles side and front and mounted to the subframe at the bottom is what i want to aim for.


splitter mounts by charlie_2011, on Flickr

[charlie_s13]

Car is almost ready for tune. It goes down to GT Auto first thing monday morning.

Once there it will get a run in tune, be run in on the dyno and a proper tune its there for 4 days so will definately have it just after Easter

Pretty fucking excited.

[mrpham]

Fuck yeah!

Did you end up moving the FPR back into the engine bay?

[Crayske]

What power goal are you going for/expecting?