Fejerys 97 GSX

[evotuner]

You think it will be ready by PG.1?

[Fejery4491]

Thanks guys! I'm glad people are interested! PG.1? Maybe...that being said I thought it would be ready for PG.1 last year haha. I'm not really sticking myself on any timeline really, though I did preregister for Powercruise ;-)

[turbotalon1g]

Nice, people keep telling me to go to powercruise, but it seems boring with an auto car.

Good luck, maybe PG2?

[DSMINMN]

Lookin' good!

[Fejery4491]

Nice, people keep telling me to go to powercruise, but it seems boring with an auto car.

Good luck, maybe PG2?

Powercruise is a whole different style of event than PG. PG is more of an actual competition whereas powercruise tries to keep it like street racing sorta. Its pretty fun just cruising round the track at like 70-80 and some big domestic will just pull up beside you and lays down a 100 foot burnout haha. Its definitely worth going to even if just to spectate.

I've actually always thought it would be a blast in a well setup auto. Not necessarily during the cruise sessions, but during the arm drop 1/8 drag racing. Losers get knocked until there's only 1 winner at the end. A buddy of mine has a newer ralliart with the sst auto and he's was killing it in 2012. That was when he was only running low 13s, but nothing could keep up since he was cutting 1.6 60fts all day long. He finally got knocked out by some 9.9x sec tubbed out domestic. Last year he was running 12.2s but was having all sorts of trans issues and it got rained out for the main event on Sunday. This year he'll be on a built sst and ef3, so he should do pretty well. I honestly think an auto 1g would rape, just so consistent that it's almost impossible to do badly.

[turbotalon1g]

^thanks for that. I'll have to look into it more.

[evotuner]

Yeah I read the whole build this morning, pretty cool project I cant wait to see it and maybe even race it at PG :)

[Fejery4491]

Got a little more done over the weekend. All axles are in and suspension is together. Knuckles got powdercoated. Installed the polyurethane bushings and if a poly bushing wasn't available (like the rear lower control arm and the toe arm) they got replaced with an oem part. Decided to throw 4 new oem wheel bearings in as well. Brembos are mounted and stainless brake hoses all around. Redesigned the only part finished part of my tube front end (lower hoop) and was able to create a ridiculous amount of extra space up front. Now I just need to figure out a radiator hose solution since I have the ability to move the radiator about 6-8in further forward. I may just mount in factory position until I switch to AN radiator hoses, we'll see. I'll post of pictures up of the progress in the next couple days.

[C3L1CA]

Sounds awesome!

[Fejery4491]

Couple quick pictures of the change I made to the front end (hard to take decent pics with the bumper on so I apologize for that!)

http://rs239.pbsrc.com/albums/ff259/Fejery4491/20140303_205615.jpg~320x480?t=1393902196

http://rs239.pbsrc.com/albums/ff259/Fejery4491/20140303_205605.jpg~320x480?t=1393902205

http://rs239.pbsrc.com/albums/ff259/Fejery4491/20140303_205550.jpg~320x480?t=1393902216

There's soooo much extra room for activities!

Also the more I'm thinking about it may be in my best interest to mount the radiator in a close to stock position so I can add ducts to get maximum airflow through the rad. Still undecided though...