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Well i bought my car January 2nd 2012 brand new i can not find pictures of when i first bought her. It has been a long build and it is still going on.
so the build as it sits right now is
ets t4 6870 turbo kit 4 inch hood exit
ets 5 inch intercooler
stm rear crash bar
exedy triple disc with ams push pull conversion
driven fab front crash bar
driven fab heat shield
driven fab steering reservoir
driven fab coolant tank
ati fluid damper
radium engineering surge tank
radium engineering fuel rail
magna fuel pump
fic 2150cc injectors
-10an line feed
-8an line return
fully port and polished head
magus exhaust mivec delete kit
gsc s2 cams
supertech +1mm valves
wiseco pistons upgraded wrist pins
manley I beam rods with 625+ bolts
darton sleeved motor
acl bearings for crank,rods ,thrust
gsc valve guides
ferrea valve keepers
supertech dual valve springs
arp custom aged 625+ head studs
arp main bolts
arp cam studs
map performance timming chain guide
boomba throttle body.
custom power steering lines
innovate flex fuel gauge
aem digital oil psi gauge
aem digital boost gauge
aem digital afr gauge
trans has upgraded center diff pins in it from shep
Rpf1 18x9.5+15 r888 tires 275/35/18
fortune auto coilovers
all torque solution motor mounts and solid rear diff mounts
torque solution rear control arms
twm shift cage
twm phantom shift knob
whitline full front arm bushings and tie rod end links
Here she is in the beginning years with just lowering springs
When she was brand new traded in my base modle cobalt !!!
hailey brand new by nate smith, on Flickr
with stock wheels and bolt ons 330/350
hailey stock wheels bolt ons by nate smith, on Flickr
stock frame turbo 504/385
hailey stock wheels bolt ons 2 by nate smith, on Flickr
while i was on full bolt ons my stock clutch went so i went crazy and did a exedy triple disc and then just my luck evene with all the precautions in the tob popped out so i bought the conversion kit from ams to convert from pull to push, i did not have time to do it since it was my only car at the time someone did it for me and decided to flip the discs on me and the clutch pedal was weird and me not knowing no better took it to the track and well cause the clutch was not working right it did a clutch drop it ripped the rear end in half. i got that fixed had a whine replaced tcase was not it. found out it was the transmission so replaced that. no she is running right no whine.
so after she was fixed and running well, i bought a DD and did a custom stock frame turbo, that was fun with full bolt ons she made 505 on e85
had a oil line break on the stock frame and then i found a ets t3 kit with a 5858 so i got that and installed it i made 550 on e85. well i had a motor noise so i parked it until i could build the car how i wanted.
Now the fun starts, motor comes out and getting fully built
motor pulled first time by nate smith, on Flickr
We painted the engine bay
engine bay painted by nate smith, on Flickr
we painted the new turbo that is a 6466
6466 bronze by nate smith, on Flickr
took my new headlights apart and painted them
head light painted by nate smith, on Flickr
got new shoes for her for the new found power, rpf1 18x9.5 +15 with r888 275/35/18
new wheels rpf1a r888 by nate smith, on Flickr
new meat by nate smith, on Flickr
while waiting on the motor to be built i started building my fuel system
it is a radium engineering surge tank with a magna fuel pump and a walbro 450 intake to feed surge tank -10an line feed to motor and -8an return
fuel system round 1 painted by nate smith, on Flickr
Had to lay the pump flat it was cavitating on me
dyno sheet by nate smith, on Flick
motor was finally done so time to install it
sleeved block and pistons by nate smith, on Flickr
picking up longblock by nate smith, on Flickr
ohh yea we painted the transmission as well
motor trans tcase round 1 by nate smith, on Flickr
got her all done. was time for break in
20 miles into break in and she stopped idling
found out something was wrong with the exhaust mivec so we deleted it with a magnus ehaust mivec delete kit.
so while i was waiting to be able to get to her i found a ets t4 6870 kit for sale with a ets 5 inch inter cooler so i picked that up installed it while car still did not idle she had a another new turbo kit.
so the build as it sits right now is
ets t4 6870 turbo kit 4 inch hood exit
ets 5 inch intercooler
stm rear crash bar
exedy triple disc with ams push pull conversion
driven fab front crash bar
driven fab heat shield
driven fab steering reservoir
driven fab coolant tank
ati fluid damper
radium engineering surge tank
radium engineering fuel rail
magna fuel pump
fic 2150cc injectors
-10an line feed
-8an line return
fully port and polished head
magus exhaust mivec delete kit
gsc s2 cams
supertech +1mm valves
wiseco pistons upgraded wrist pins
manley I beam rods with 625+ bolts
darton sleeved motor
acl bearings for crank,rods ,thrust
gsc valve guides
ferrea valve keepers
supertech dual valve springs
arp custom aged 625+ head studs
arp main bolts
arp cam studs
map performance timming chain guide
boomba throttle body.
custom power steering lines
innovate flex fuel gauge
aem digital oil psi gauge
aem digital boost gauge
aem digital afr gauge
trans has upgraded center diff pins in it from shep
Rpf1 18x9.5+15 r888 tires 275/35/18
fortune auto coilovers
all torque solution motor mounts and solid rear diff mounts
torque solution rear control arms
twm shift cage
twm phantom shift knob
whitline full front arm bushings and tie rod end links
Here she is in the beginning years with just lowering springs
When she was brand new traded in my base modle cobalt !!!

with stock wheels and bolt ons 330/350

stock frame turbo 504/385

while i was on full bolt ons my stock clutch went so i went crazy and did a exedy triple disc and then just my luck evene with all the precautions in the tob popped out so i bought the conversion kit from ams to convert from pull to push, i did not have time to do it since it was my only car at the time someone did it for me and decided to flip the discs on me and the clutch pedal was weird and me not knowing no better took it to the track and well cause the clutch was not working right it did a clutch drop it ripped the rear end in half. i got that fixed had a whine replaced tcase was not it. found out it was the transmission so replaced that. no she is running right no whine.
so after she was fixed and running well, i bought a DD and did a custom stock frame turbo, that was fun with full bolt ons she made 505 on e85
had a oil line break on the stock frame and then i found a ets t3 kit with a 5858 so i got that and installed it i made 550 on e85. well i had a motor noise so i parked it until i could build the car how i wanted.
Now the fun starts, motor comes out and getting fully built

We painted the engine bay

we painted the new turbo that is a 6466

took my new headlights apart and painted them

got new shoes for her for the new found power, rpf1 18x9.5 +15 with r888 275/35/18


while waiting on the motor to be built i started building my fuel system
it is a radium engineering surge tank with a magna fuel pump and a walbro 450 intake to feed surge tank -10an line feed to motor and -8an return

Had to lay the pump flat it was cavitating on me

motor was finally done so time to install it


ohh yea we painted the transmission as well

got her all done. was time for break in
20 miles into break in and she stopped idling
found out something was wrong with the exhaust mivec so we deleted it with a magnus ehaust mivec delete kit.
so while i was waiting to be able to get to her i found a ets t4 6870 kit for sale with a ets 5 inch inter cooler so i picked that up installed it while car still did not idle she had a another new turbo kit.