My Project (Jacquemond kit)

[Sky240PWR]

well to tell you the truth, i haven't been up there for a couple weeks, he has to finnish a car that was there before mine, so he's only working on mine on fridays but i knew that before i took it in so no biggy, might be longer then I thought though, car might be done late winter or early spring.....can't rush perfection!...lol

[s13jus10]

sorry if it was mentioned somewhere before in the past 11 pages...

...but what is it that you do for a living again?

[Sky240PWR]

I was a server at a restraunt for seven years(11pm-7am) the for a year i was a delivery boy for an Italian restraunt, I've been a manager at a differnt restraunt for the past five months, and no i don't sell drugs!...lol

well i know I've said he's taking a small break, he won't be able to get back to my car untill early Jan. But it works out great for me, I've placed my order for my Bride seats, Ganador mirriors, C's short shifter, Ikeya Formula racing Acryl windows(quarters), Nismo-urethane GT shift knob and Nardi steering wheel(classic,330mm) I need a rear suspention kit but I'm still not sure on which one is the best bang for the buck, I'm thinking the PowerTrix kit but I'm not sure

[CBCUSTOMS]

Hey if your interested and haven't already done it. I would like to sponsor you with something. Shoot me an email when you get a chance

[Sky240PWR]

well, I got a few things in the mail the past week, my Origin carbon fiber door panels are in, here's a pic(not my car)

[Sky240PWR]

my Nardi classic steering wheel, same as in pic

[Sky240PWR]

I ordered some leather boots for my shifter,ebrake and armrest, same as in pic(will match the steering wheel)

[Sky240PWR]

MY seats, same as in the pic, color and all

[Sky240PWR]

and I have a company making me a carbon fiber middle console trim, I emailed him about making me a dash too but he hasn't got back to me so thats still a maybe, if I don't, we're dying it a semi gloss black to give it the new look.and I got my cusco roll cage, here's a pic but not my car. from the front seat back, it'll be stripped and painted with just my cage, fuel cell, battery back there

[Sky240PWR]

oh yeah, can't forget about the shift knob!..lol

I'm prolly going to go with some Blitz gauges, I like the blue ones but I might go with the white face ones and a 4point Takata harness. besides new carpet up front, I can't think of anything else at the moment

[yelnatsch517]

Holy... that's some nice work man. When its done post up how much everything cost. That looks like some really clean work. You found a really nice shop to do everything.

I need to get a job so I can start doing stuff to my car.

[Dano]

Nice

I like these updates

-Dan

[amolao]

Those are best looking seats out there, love them. You will never drive with anything less than a Nardi wheel. Excellent grip and top notch quality.

[s13swaaangin]

This is just an amaizing build and its funny to see all the people that flamed in the beginning backing down and showing support now. The level of commitment is ridiculous. Are you doing any audio/video or is it strickly performance?

[teddy]

Everything is looking real hot so far. Can't say I wasn't a bit iffy from the beginning of the thread, but you're doing a great job so far.

BTW, I want whatever job you have.

[Sky240PWR]

Everything is looking real hot so far. Can't say I wasn't a bit iffy from the beginning of the thread, but you're doing a great job so far.

BTW, I want whatever job you have.

well teddy, right now I'm a manager at a fast food chain(Sonic) I bring home like $1200 a month, so not the greatest job!(helps to have a supportive girlfriend!)..lol...before that I worked as a server at Steak n shake on the midnight shift for 8 years, that was a good job, I brought home like $2200-$2400 a month...i miss that! thats why it's taken me 4 years to come up with the $42,000(to date)

This is just an amaizing build and its funny to see all the people that flamed in the beginning backing down and showing support now. The level of commitment is ridiculous. Are you doing any audio/video or is it strickly performance?

yeah it feels good!..lol...as far as audio/video, my car prolly weighed 2900 with the RB25 in it, my goal is to have it weigh the same or less after the build, so a system is prolly out of the question, but I might do a in dash flip up screen and fill the front with some really good speakes, but subs will weigh too much.

thanks for all the good replys guys!

[the_momo]

the heavy system is not necessarily true. you can do a relatively simple system and actually balance your cars weight. JL makes a wonderful 8 inch sub and is really light weight. or go with a alpine type r (no flames, this is actually a really good sub) in a ten inch.

and remember, its not the total weight but rather the weight distribution that is really important. if you are doing a total suspension setup you can fully take advantage of this and corner weight your car. and for what little the rb25 adds up front, you can easily offset the extra weight with a pair of sups and an amp. modern audio equipment for the casual user (not competitoin crap, garbage imho) is much lighter than one would initially percieve.

i added a single 12 inch apline type r sub, a custom box (im a style whore, its flush on the back between the shock towers) and an alpine mrdm350 amp. sounds great, and it only weighs 40 lbs total. get a high end head unit and you wont need to worry about a 4 channel amp. im partial to alpine, but eclipse also makes a good headunit. get a separate headunit and a flipout and youll be happier. i used to do professional car audio for a living and i would constantly get people with porsches and bimmers who auto xed and were worried about the same things as you. more often than not they ended up with a better weight balance or just a more pleasurable driving experience. also, if this is your shop car, people want to see all around things like that, if you are going to the trouble of a wide body, youll want to tough on an audio, even if it is heavy.

oh, and most can be made to come out for track days. i leave mine in my srt though, i corner weighted my car with it in, the balance was better. fwd=the devil for balance

[Sky240PWR]

I will give it some thought, maybe even weight the car before and if it's where I want it, get the system. the rb weighs arounf 180lbs more then the KA, there's alot of things I'm doing to cut on weight, so we'll seethanks for the heads up!

[postism]

dude... if you dont mind me asking how much did the origin door panels run you?

[Sky240PWR]

dude... if you dont mind me asking how much did the origin door panels run you?

$475shipped

[whiterps13]

Those door panels are sick, where did you order them from?

[Sky240PWR]

http://www.tougefactory.com/tell him I sent you and he'll take off .50 cents!..lol

[1990 pignose]

VERY VERY NICE PROJECT, cant wait till its done

[TOPSECRT88]

$475shipped

WHAT?! I thought these things costed around 1K?! Im def. going to look into getting a set of these...

btw...i dont see them advertised on TougeFactory's site.

[Sky240PWR]

it's just the door skin, not a full cf door. I couldn't find it either, i called.

[amolao]

I seen these on Ebay, very expensive....

[217zenki]

Good **** sky now buy my car for a dd..

[Sky240PWR]

sure, you take payments!

[217zenki]

Im sure I could find some manula labor for your GF

[Sky240PWR]

I'll think about it.hey I also sent a email to [email protected] .....there's a funny storry on there but don't repeat it on the forums

Modified by Sky240PWR at 1:35 PM 10/11/2006
Modified by Sky240PWR at 1:36 PM 10/11/2006