Spring things..

Car is out of storage, returned home and driven again. Despite the near-crushing amounts of snow the little garage held...glad I didn't try to park it outside, the hood would definitely have been crushed.

Since back i got a speeding ticket, so I decided I have to get the speedo fixed...estimating with RPMs alone is not good enough! I am going with a GPS unit...with heads-up display. I am sick of trying to get the stock setup working again, I picked up an NX1600 tranny to install the LSD in and in disassembling I was dismayed to find the speed pinion was not the same length as the electric speedo I have on hand...I've spent enough $$ trying to get that crappy stock one online again. Benefit to no speedo connected = no ECU top speed limiter heheh

Getting the ticket and not getting harassed for modded car (which at that moment had the dash all gutted with wires hanging out) was a blessing in disguise...I decided to keep the cars low-key as I can, and as legal, so I put back my orange side markers and orange corner bulbs. And sprayed my muffler black ;)

In the meantime the turbo checklist is slowly getting checked off. I picked up some mechanical boost and oil pressure gauges, boost is connected now but only reads vac obviously. For the oil pressure, and for the turbo oil feed line soon, I picked up this inexpensive option from tunertoys: http://tunertoys.zoovy.com/product/OTODK/Oil_Take_Off__Dual_Outlet.html

I am in the process of (finally) drilling for the hood pins. I must say I prefer the clean look but the pins are for safety and cheap insurance for the hood to not fly up. With the suspension so stiff, bumps and all can do a good job shaking things around. I also put lock washers where the hood mounts to the stock hinges.

Anyways pics soon after the pins are in, and a wash n wax.