This is a local customer’s car we have been pondering on, and he’s looking for a street-driven, reliable, 600 HP DSM… not really asking for much.
So, the idea here is to get as much out of that 600 whp as possible: Shed the weight.
Here’s a picture of when she was all normal and clean:
It’s a 98 GSX and it’s got a bit of the good 'ol NY rust. Best solution: Cut it off!!
On to the interior. If it doesn’t DO anything… it’s gotta go! We are still keeping appearances up however, and it will be a fully functional interior. I’m not going to let out all the secrets, but they went to town!
Now for the cool stuff. This GSX will be following with the elite STM crew running a forward-facing turbo set-up, a bit different than our off the shelf manifold, however. We will have pictures of that soon.
The polished Avid mounts are suspending a Buschur 2.0 built block, and STM Stage 1 head. Up front is an original STM intercooler with a Garrett core and half-sized Koyo radiator.
We’ve just finished up the custom front end and now starting to piece this puzzle together. Our goal is to have this at the Shootout in a few weeks, so updates will be rolling in quite frequently. We would like to get the car to the paint shop before then, but we will see what time has allotted for us.
The PTE 6262 is strung up into place and the first manifold runners are started.
Flex-A-Lite fan is mounted, above, ready to move some air.
AEM Digital gauges are installed in the gauge cluster along with the Sparco Lap 5 steering wheel. Most of the wiring is finished and the full black leather interior will be detailed and flawless soon enough. (Yeah, I’m jealous too.)
Brand new VIS “Extreme GT” carbon fiber hood.
You can see just inside the driver side fog light the compressor cover. A 4" hole just under the headlight should allow that bad boy to breathe.
^^ lol I didn’t see it that way the first time around, but I’m stuck giggling over that. Thanks.
So the car is getting torn apart now, headed to get the engine bay painted. Once it’s finished, I should get some really nice photos! The intercooler piping was almost finished up and the runners on the manifold were almost welded last time I checked in. Sorry I didn’t get any pictures from Wednesday (on the road all day… bought a clean 2g :))
That was a very special moment. I’ll take it though. lol
I did get some pictures of the car before it went to get painted. Austin has been the forefront on this project and has really put his heart into this car. He’s very talented.
I’ll get the photos up hopefully tomorrow, and soon, painted engine bay!! It’s going to be beautiful! All these clean 2g’s… mmmmm.
