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In between eating leftover turkey, I spent some more time in the garage working on the car. I installed the front strut tower bar, ran the vac lines, and tucked my boost controller up on the cowl.

A few front end shots

I also did a quick test fit of the door sill plates that I had powdercoated by Juan @ SnailMotorsports

Next, I need to extend the power wire for the starter so that I could tuck the harness the way I wanted to. I went with the most overkill butt connector, but I know that the connection will never come loose. The connector came complete with the biggest shrink tube I’ve ever seen.

Once the wire was made longer, I was able to complete the wiring and tie down the battery. The rubber tie down is only temporary until I can make something cleaner.

Then I tackled the task of building my intake. I decided to skip the $200+ aftermarket name brand intake and build one using a coupler and filter I already had, and a pipe from eBay that cost a totaly of $29 bucks.

More or less the engine bay is done now. I may change up some of the powdercoat, but that wont be for a while.

I started wrestling with the front bumper. With the AGP Race FMIC you have to trim some sections of the bumper a bit to clear the larger than stock core. I was able to get it to bolt on, but the bumper needs to eventually come back off for more trimming.

At this point, the car was roadworthy enough to take a test drive around the block. The only thing that absolutely needs to be done is the exhaust, right now it is running open downpipe. Parts of the interior need to be reinstalled as well, since I was planning on installing the stereo at this time too.

The car did great on the street. There were no major issues. I am getting a little bit of a hanging idle, which could be the tune learning the larger than stock throttle body, or the TPS sensor could need replacing. Either way, I’m not worried about it. For the first time in months, I was able to pull both cars into the garage.

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