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Haha a lot of $ with not much gain, I'd be looking at about $5 - 6k to do the ITB's. Well to do it properly anyways.

Since the VE's use a MAF I'd be looking at full aftermarket. So straight away there is 2K for computer + tune. Then the ITB's range from $$2500 - $5000, depending on setup.

A better way to make power with the VE's is more compression. Around 12.5:1 is still good for the street :)

Though still being a dailey makes it hard to strip the motor down. Lol.

Another small update, I have started making a headlight intake.

I've taken a few pictures:

So I've started a new project recently, hopefully it'll be done in time for the track day:

I started with a cracked headlight, removed the glass from it and cut out a 4" hole in the back of it. I centered this hole to be in line with my airbox.

I used expandable foam to fill the headlight so i could fibreglass over the top of it.

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Once the foam had set I cut the excess off the top of the face using a hacksaw blade, i also pushed a large screw driver through the hole and then started cutting away at the foam until it ended up looking like this:

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I started fibreglassing it this morning, so this is a current photo of it:

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Will keep updating with pictures. I plan on doing 2 more layers of glass, sanding in between each layer then i'm going to use some body filler to smooth it all out.

I've never fibreglassed before, so i'm just having a bit of a go lol.

Love it mate, should of gone the distance with the body filler, but still looks good. I have a carbon duct intake light on my 33, they are awesome and very effective. I wouldn't have believed it if someone told me the difference it makes, not so much power, but helping with heat soak, lap 10 is as strong as Lap 1.

So I just thought i'd update this with my new PB at Wakefield 1:16.075. Thats the good part...

The bad part is i blew my box up in the next session and can only select 1st, 2nd and reverse now.

Luckily i did an engine conversion for a bloke a while ago and he had a spare box sitting there :)

That will be going in tomorrow.

Top result man.... The car sounds and looks awesome in person, can't wait to have some track time with it too! Nice build thread mate, awesome!

So I just thought i'd update this with my new PB at Wakefield 1:16.075. Thats the good part...

The bad part is i blew my box up in the next session and can only select 1st, 2nd and reverse now.

Luckily i did an engine conversion for a bloke a while ago and he had a spare box sitting there :)

That will be going in tomorrow.

So blown up gears or did you just break a selector fork???

Hopefully it's just the fork and you can still use bits inside :D

So blown up gears or did you just break a selector fork???

Hopefully it's just the fork and you can still use bits inside :D

I have a feeling it will be a selector fork or something similar. There wasn't any metal that came out of the box when I drained the oil out. I will find out this week though :)

I've just been watching the video of my quickest session, i reckon the car has got an easy 1.15 in it. I only had one run where there wasn't traffic in front of me and the best start to one of my runs i had an M3 up my arse, so i let him pass. Lol what an idiot!

Anyways...

I have another gearbox which i fitted up on Sunday. I remember what a pain in the arse job it is now lol. Thanks Steve for keeping that gearbox spare though. And thanks beenowened for giving me a hand with it.

I dropped my gearbox off to my gearbox specialist this afternoon and i'll know whats wrong with it at some stage this week :)

I'll upload the video of Wakefield and let you guys be the judge about my time. My best time of the session was a 1:16.075. I don't even know which lap i did it on.. They all look slow to me.

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