I decided to start a new thread to track progress of the kit as it is now in the hands of the people who are going to finish it.
I decided to dedicate my NYE holiday to the stage 3 kit and picked it from the 034 motorsports on Monday the 30th around noon. Keep in mind the engine and kit had been at the shop almost 3 months. I arrived and it was pushed back into a corner, nothing I repeat NOTHING was even touched on it. It was exactly how I dropped it off. My contact from the company was very friendly as he is always is and a great guy, but I was a pretty annoyed and just loaded into the truck and left. I transferred it into our long distance truck, woke up at 4 am the next morning and headed off to Portland.
The kit was dropped of at Doc Rac yesterday morning and the entire crew was very excited about it. I was shown around (the shop is under construction but you could tell it was going to be very nice when finished). After we got it off the truck and into the shop, me and Pham (the owner) spent about 2 hours mocking the original prototype kit back up with the new manifolds etc. Pham was hands on and right away pointed out some things he wanted to change, I gave him full creative control on the production kit and told him to improve any and everything he thought could be improved upon. After a lot of discussion we shook hands and I left. Below are some pictures of some of the stuff they were building when I was there. I know they are excited about the kit as 3 hours into my drive back to the bay I got send some pictures that Pham had already got rid of the DP's had and mocked up a new set with a much better fitting design. 3 hours instead of 3 months, I think we should see some pretty serious progress on this kit now and hopefully we can have them in all your hands in the near future...:music-rockout:
First few pics is a BAD ASS Twin Scroll Vband set up with a GTX3076 for a Nissan. The rest our just projects scattered around the shop, you can see a big run of the stage 3 flanges in there as well, as the jig for the manifolds. Bottom pics are of the quick progress of just a few hours.
I decided to dedicate my NYE holiday to the stage 3 kit and picked it from the 034 motorsports on Monday the 30th around noon. Keep in mind the engine and kit had been at the shop almost 3 months. I arrived and it was pushed back into a corner, nothing I repeat NOTHING was even touched on it. It was exactly how I dropped it off. My contact from the company was very friendly as he is always is and a great guy, but I was a pretty annoyed and just loaded into the truck and left. I transferred it into our long distance truck, woke up at 4 am the next morning and headed off to Portland.
The kit was dropped of at Doc Rac yesterday morning and the entire crew was very excited about it. I was shown around (the shop is under construction but you could tell it was going to be very nice when finished). After we got it off the truck and into the shop, me and Pham (the owner) spent about 2 hours mocking the original prototype kit back up with the new manifolds etc. Pham was hands on and right away pointed out some things he wanted to change, I gave him full creative control on the production kit and told him to improve any and everything he thought could be improved upon. After a lot of discussion we shook hands and I left. Below are some pictures of some of the stuff they were building when I was there. I know they are excited about the kit as 3 hours into my drive back to the bay I got send some pictures that Pham had already got rid of the DP's had and mocked up a new set with a much better fitting design. 3 hours instead of 3 months, I think we should see some pretty serious progress on this kit now and hopefully we can have them in all your hands in the near future...:music-rockout:
First few pics is a BAD ASS Twin Scroll Vband set up with a GTX3076 for a Nissan. The rest our just projects scattered around the shop, you can see a big run of the stage 3 flanges in there as well, as the jig for the manifolds. Bottom pics are of the quick progress of just a few hours.