The latest build update is not major progress, but holding myself accountable - "
you need to wrench...every day". Fall is definitely arriving in New England, and I'd love to get to first drive by Thanksgiving.
Getting ready for the next phase, parts are rolling in:
While I wait for everything to arrive I knocked off a couple small items:
The car has been sitting for a long time, so I removed the seats and brackets. I'm going to clean the brackets up and paint them this weekend:
Decided affirmatively to go with the rear coilovers from DF. DF, by the way, has been AWESOME to work with. I've dealt with other kit car companies and the experience with customer service has always been "meh". With DF I get crisp, friendly responses quickly, and follow-through has been great. There's a box on its way here with the rear coilovers and relevant hardware, as well as the brackets and install hardware required for the Type 16 intercooler. It should be here next week. Other random bits and pieces should arrive today.
I hope to get the nose bits of the a2w intercooler solution worked out this weekend, and get on to fabricating the heat exchanger bracket. I don't know how to weld, so I'll be going with a bolt-together/loctite epoxy weld solution. Hopefully it will look good after I paint it.
The pipes and silicone joints I have are for the original air-to-air solution, so I need to spend some time going through them and see if I have the right things to get the a2w airflow routed. If not, I'll order up what I need next week.
The shop needs a good cleaning and organizing, as does the car, so I'll get on that this weekend too. And get those seat brackets painted.
On the drawing board at the moment: in-line air box, and air intake ducting. I'm not thrilled about the air filter just hanging out, and want to do something cleaner.