Not a bad deal at all.. hmmm thinking if I should get mine done by Pros..

 

You bought your wrinkle paint already , try it first. If you are not happy then get it done by the Pros. You will just end up throwing that paint if you don't use it.

Since we are heading to our place in the South later, I did play a bit yesterday after having aligned my light support. Went out the streets without lights and bumper.

I didn't know that it is not allowed . I met a patrol and when I looked at my rear view mirror I saw him do a U-turn and I said,.. shoot , I knew I wasn't speeding. He stopped me. Told me that I can't run around without lights. He was a young dude and then he said, "When I saw your tag GERRB , I knew I have seen this car on Clublexus, can I see your engine bay ? " I opened it up for him and started admiring it and started talking about his SC project . He told me that I cannot run around also with my Nitrous setup on the streets . The line on the bottle should be disconnected or I can be given a ticket too. He just told me , buddy you better go home and put those lights before somebody else stops you and give you a ticket and find a way that you can easily enable and disable your nitrous lines / setup. A patrol who gets to know that you have those can give you a ticket. GA do not allow cars with nitrous setup on the streets. He gave me his name and username here though told me for security reasons not to let it be known publicly. I am pretty sure he will be reading this post of mine since he regularly visits the site he said. Thanks to CL , met a new friend. He did his job of giving me a warning by letting me know what is not allowed on the public streets of GA and at the same time he was really nice.



Cleaned up Red Mamba 2 and without even applying wax , cleaned up well. I am still on the fence about making it my street car although it is all ready for that setup without any expense on my part. It has a good wheel (18x11 , 18x9.5) and tire (Toyo R88 315x30 , Toyo T1R 245x40) setup that can help put down the power for my 650-800rwhp street set-up. The usable power on the streets is usually from 500 to 700rwhp. Above that not unless you are in the boonies or the track , you won't use anyway. It has the best black interior I have seen so far. It has good aftermarket suspension that will enable my 4" down-mid pipe / HKS drager exhaust not to scrape the ground in every hump and dip on the road. It has a good paint job which I believe I can do another layer or two of clear coat myself to get it more shiny. All I need to do is get into the groove and do some work , moving all the drive train from Red Mamba 1. For now, I just hate the idea of breaking apart a good running car for which I have lodged around 8k miles in the past 8 months. Though the work should be easy since they are exactly the same car.... no fabrication and no extra work.. just uninstall from one car and install into the other. Most of all, if I do that , it will save me lots of work and money for my dyno queen SC project. I don't need to roll and pull fenders to fit 28x13.50x15 tires since I have done that already on the RM1. I will just have to buy a pair of Weld RT-S rear wheels and tires since my RM1 wheels have the same 5 spoke design as that of the Weld RT-S. I just have to get one car painted and get one set of suspension to accomodate the big as? 325x50x15 tires.

 

Am trying to have a cleaner look for the Red Mamba II engine bay so am covering most of the holes and tach weld marks. Big holes got to be welded since you can't just apply bondo and smaller ones with thread inside just applied bondo. This will be a painstaking slow process. Not trying to make it all smooth .. just enough for it to be clean looking.

 

When you open the hood of our SC, the thing that is very visible would be the top of the wheel well and the strut tower. I don't understand why that strut tower was riddled with a lot of holes. It is those two areas of each side that I want really clean and smooth so the bay will look awesome and clean. This will be a lot of sanding ... . I remember one Titan Motorsports employee saying, just to get his engine bay cleaned up . partly shaved and painted, it cost him around $1500. Damn, that is the price of us getting our whole car painted. I guess doing it myself would help cut down on cost.

 

At first I thought of keeping those nuts/bolt brackets but decided to shave them out so it would look cleaner. I think Red Mamba II engine bay will be sweet looking once all done.

 

I would put some form of undercoating in the wheel well areas...to help seal it up from water and dirt and to keep the bondo in the holes

 

was thinking of spraying the whole under carriage of the car with something like line x or similar as protection...then the whole interior of the car with secondskin spectrum for noise & vibration coating instead of mats

 

I feel like welding every hole, grinding it down and using a skim of filler would've made your life easier versus what you're doing now. No doubt what you're undertaking is some labor intensive work, though!

 

I hear you. There are just too many recessed tach welded areas that needed to be smoothen also with filler that is why applying filler all over the surface after a good grind or sanding is a must . Ain't a joke with a lot of sanding but I hope the engine bay will look good after this amount of work.

Seen this picture in a built on SF , though you still see the tach weld not even / smooth, it was already nice. I am filling up all those tach welded areas too so I don't see any round recessed areas and holes near the strut tower.

 

Looking good Gerry! Might have to do this also haha jk that there is the same prop valve I was telling you about in the last pic you posted.

 

wow, that bay looooooks amazing! now i wanna get mine painted while i have the motor out

 

Richard, I am still thinking about that Wilwood... pm me the cost of everything and we will see. My only concern is if I want to bring back the ABS in the future.

I know it looks good to have a clean engine bay like this where most wires will be hidden. Danny , the owner of that car did a good job on his supra. I want a clean looking simple engine bay like this. I want mine simple black engine parts without any bling or if ever one or two not like my Red Mamba I which glitters a lot.



This is also what he sprayed for Noise and Vibration dampening.. Secondskinaudio Spectrum . What I am looking for right now will be what to use for undercoating ... Isn't Line X for truck beds ?

 

That engine bay is going to look sweet once you are done with it. Keep the updates coming man.

 

I hope so Mark . Kinda over the top I would say with the amount of work. Every time I see what I have to do , I kinda cringe and ask myself what the hell I have started here... lots of work but I hope it pays off for my Red Mamba II project., As I have mentioned to JB, it will be my last 2jz build so I will give it my all.

JB (Duwerke) paid me a visit yesterday afternoon and finally saw Red Mamba I in person . Told him about the run in I had with a z06 corvette and a mustang playing on GA400 . This kind of experiences makes me love our sleeper SCs more and more...out of the blue , can wake up and give the newer cars a run for their money. Those cars had to follow me just to check with me what the hell I had under the hood. They never expected a raggedy looking 22 year old car accelerated past them especially when I hit that juice.

 

This is my friend car I am helping him build.