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Rakuny
04-14-2010, 02:57 PM
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/8892/11171074322260407694im1.jpg (http://img59.imageshack.us/i/11171074322260407694im1.jpg/)

Before:
http://img594.imageshack.us/img594/1303/11171074329260407694im1.jpg (http://img594.imageshack.us/i/11171074329260407694im1.jpg/)

After:
http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/6352/enginebayaftershot.jpg (http://img72.imageshack.us/i/enginebayaftershot.jpg/)

mods are not much right now TD04L 13T turbo's, MBC, gutted pre-cats and intake.
the story...
I bought this car the end of April last year... about 3 months after I got it I put on a Greddy Type-RS BOV and took the car for a test drive I drove it about 4 miles. The car stalled about 200 feet from my driveway, I started it back up and it stalled again in my driveway when I got out I saw a big puddle of oil underneath where the car had been parked and a line of oil going out of the driveway... I ran it dry and started it back up again... I have no idea how I didn't spin a bearing... turns out the previous owner took the oil cooler out and hooked up the line with a single hose clamp, as if it could hold the pressure. I drove the car for 3k miles after this incident until I started blowing smoke out of my exhaust between shifts my front turbo had a bad seal and a lot of shaft play it was almost time for the 120k maint Anyways so I got that done and the engine rebuilt at performance engineering, there was damage to 1 cylinder from the oil incident but that was about it, hope you like it :D :P

Gripper
04-16-2010, 10:20 AM
Hi and welcome. What a nightmare story about the oil loss. I still can't believe you only damaged one cylinder. :omg:
It looks good and your engine bay is super tidy. What wheels are those?

Rakuny
04-17-2010, 03:41 PM
I couldn't believe it either. Especially with the history these cars have for spinning bearings...

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/3861/11171074330260407694im1.jpg (http://img138.imageshack.us/i/11171074330260407694im1.jpg/)

the rims are stock painted, this is an old pic I recently re-did them because they were chipping the previous owner did a bad job and I still have to do the center caps...

Gripper
04-21-2010, 04:46 PM
Not bad at all. What kind of paint did you use?

Rakuny
04-24-2010, 05:09 AM
I used whatever brand of Hi-performance wheel coating they had that came in black with a dupli-color clear over it

AUD-A4
05-08-2010, 10:54 PM
welcome, and nice car!!!