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Old Jan 18, 2017 | 09:31 AM
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well the tear down began.. I also removed the carbon from the center waterfall and trimmed the center bar and mounted the 3d printed trim piece for my touch screen.. so light.. I love it.

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These wheels are frikn huge lol.. I sure hope they fit well.
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Old Feb 6, 2017 | 06:33 PM
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diff dropped:

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Savanna's Quaiffe:

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took this cheap china rep oil pan and had it stripped and re coated.. all sorts fo crap fell off it under the bad paint job.. this was a must do process.


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Subframe is off ready for new bushings.

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Akebonos are sold and ready to ship off.

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wheels are waiting patiently still:

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used kitty hair to fill in the notches from the turn signal area:

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final shape and fill soon, just ran out of time that weekend.
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Old Feb 9, 2017 | 02:31 AM
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Those wheels look sick, can't wait for the final product. Subbed.
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Old Feb 9, 2017 | 02:38 AM
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There will never be a final product. It is constantly evolving.
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Old Feb 9, 2017 | 10:04 AM
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I do hope to get to the point that I can simply enjoy it.. so that way new front bumpers are only required due to the 405 eating them on trips.


Would love to get the leather and alcantara all done this year so I can feel a bit more luxurious in it, and to get the standalone set up so that it runs well and doesn't freak out on me. IF things go badly w the AEM, it simply pulls back and reduces power etc.
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Old Feb 9, 2017 | 10:07 AM
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I do hope to get to the point that I can simply enjoy it.. so that way new front bumpers are only required due to the 405 eating them on trips.


Would love to get the leather and alcantara all done this year so I can feel a bit more luxurious in it, and to get the standalone set up so that it runs well and doesn't freak out on me. IF things go badly w the AEM, it simply pulls back and reduces power etc.
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Old Feb 10, 2017 | 12:58 AM
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I hope you do you. Still an amazing build!
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Old Feb 21, 2017 | 12:11 PM
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subframe bushings.. and gave it a good cleaning

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picked up a quaife from Savanna Little last year, time to install..

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Got my Caddi CTSv Brembo six pots machined and finished finally. Will need to swap the cross over tube and bleeder locations still, but all set.

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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 08:24 AM
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we are on the home stretch here folks.. got the diff lashed and installed, sub-frame bushings are in place, the entire front suspension is reassembled and awaiting a new torque wrench so I can spec it out... and now we just pulled the rear knuckle and upper arms to burn out and replace the bushings there as well, and then it can all get put back together with the new voodoo13 arms.

Also picked up new arp 3 inch studs for the rears due to the ridiculous negative offset, and already has ichiba extended fronts.. 2 inch I believe.

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we enlarged the drain orifice on the oil pan a bit too, and are making a custom fitting tube. Hopefully this helps, but it seems as though the best way will be to tap the UPPER pan at some point later on.

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finally received my G7x mark ii... time to start vlogging on the youtube channel.. please look me up and subscribe, guys.

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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 11:31 AM
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hey, i know you mentioned earlier that the cadillac calipers will be very difficult to mount. Did you find some type of solution and what did you end getting "machined".

Very curious, since I know there was a small group/company on FB that was trying to come up with solutions to this and ended up seriously chopping up the spindle to a point where it looked structurally compromised:








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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 11:41 AM
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that's what I used. I actually had them do the machine work there and also had them tig the bracket in place fully as well, so its all been welded up on top of being bolted up.
The pics are accurate, its not optimal, but when in hand, its much less scary looking... there's a lot of metal in that area, and I don't foresee any issues tbh, and if and when I do face issue, ill easily sell this knuckle and caliper set up and just get a Mercedes /AMG 8 pot front.
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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 11:44 AM
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we do still need to swap the sides that the crossover tube and the bleeders are on w these calipers though.
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Old Mar 7, 2017 | 12:54 PM
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when you get a chance, would you be able to share some pics of the spindle modifications , caliper install
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Old Mar 8, 2017 | 03:02 PM
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FRONT CALIPERS GET A SLIGHT SHAVE, ALSO HERE IS THE WELDING.

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Old Mar 8, 2017 | 03:07 PM
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Worked a sponsor deal with FourtyFour Wheel Company of the UK for a set of titanium lugs as well.. natural hand polished finish.


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Old Mar 9, 2017 | 01:21 AM
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The caliper setup looks very interesting. Looking forward to seeing the final install and your comments on the braking performance.
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Old Mar 22, 2017 | 10:05 AM
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hers the brain to what will be my car computer dash, a udoo quad. :

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picked up a set of 06+ controls to have the leds switched out to white.

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3 inch arp studs installed.

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got an oem steering wheel core to send out for modifications.
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Fourtyfour wheel company did a partial sponsorship on the build towards these dope natural finish extended titanium lugs:

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Old Mar 22, 2017 | 10:10 AM
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Got one side of th caliper set up mocked , and we ran into some issues.. its only meant for a one piece rotor, not a 2 pc w a different sweep and hat area. Pad overhang is bad, and wont work.. so.. we've come up w some differ solutions.. Ill post more about this as I go.

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Will likely also shave this pin just a mil or so for better clearance.

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Old Mar 22, 2017 | 10:16 AM
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oh lol.. bad@ss new license plate was approved and just came in


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