Was +15 here today, was absolutly beautiful, Installed a walbro 190 and took her for a nice cruise. But with nice weather comes lots of radar traps lol, I saw alot of those today.

Yeah, forgot to add that to my list of "Spring is coming to Canada"

1: Roll up the rim to Win
2: Geese fly North
3: Buds on Trees
4: OPP and local police do their speed blitzes.

lol Sweet, Don't know when im going to get it on yet. You still bringing it come cruise time?


Went to my car today too. found out I will need a new rad and cv joints. Still haven't even got the timing belt done. Hopefully tommorrow =[

Yes Jay, I will bring the FMIC to the cruise for you.

So I've decided, that though it is over.. I too am sick of winter. I'm stuck with my car inside of a building and cant get her out ... it's a long building with one person who can access it, and there are about 10 other cars parked between mine and the entrance. I can't drive over them, or under them, so I have to wait

If we didnt have winter this wouldn't have happened

Patients Eric. =] I get to go see mine again tommorrow unless it rains. Maybe one of these days I will get to drive it though.

Finally got mine running today. Back to my old 14b and old 2.0 but it sure beats the hell out of the Chev 1500. Now I just gotta spend a couple hours detailing it inside and out. The speed limit comes up a lot faster than I'm used to again.

I found that out last time I drove mine. But I have been driving a Neon for the last year. After I have a temp I will be cleaning mine inside. Then I will start the annoying task of tackling the paint. =[

I haven't been without boost ALL WINTER!!

Eric, does this mean next weekend's out?

I'd say so for now Ryan, I'm going to call monday to find out for sure.. but I'll let you know. Going to give some of the other people a chance to get their sh!t out before I annoy the guy who is storing my beast.

Then she's off for paint! I really hope to have it done before the spring cruise.

So... any of your cities still have snow kickin' around?

Ottawa is more or less clear on the streets/sidewalks downtown, but we still have ~two feet of snow in various places in the region. The roads are more or less dry but they have yet to clean the salt/sand/rocks... Man, hurry up so I can stir the beast awake!

We're clear in Belleville, minus the odd pile here and there. I live across the road from a beach (sandbanks provincial park), and I have discovered that at least half of the beach has made its way to my front lawn.

can't spot any snow around toronto during my daily commute. streets are still horrible from salt/sand/debris.

It seems all good here in bellevile indeed. My wifey told me some people said it was going to snow friday. Good thing they didn't tell me cause thats a paddlin.

Well, a little update on mine. I'll get some pics today.

90% completed the wire tuck, relocated the fusebox and hid all the IM wires in the IM.

Pull power steering (tossed a coin for this one).

Installed the new Kinetic FMIC
Installed the BC 272's
Installed the 3" exhaust
Relocated the battery down lower on the crossmember.

It's going to be pretty nice today, so we're back at 'er again!

Pics in a bit.

I want pictures!!!! I'll be back at my build as soon as I can get to a home hardware. Gotta make custom mounts for the 2gb eclipse bumper. She sits about 2" too low.

Ask and you shall recieve Eric!



New fusebox location. It's going to have the cover on it, and the splash shields are going back on.


Cleans it up a bit


No more P/S!!


Pulled the FPS and EVAP solenoids as well as tucked the wires and throttle/cruise cables.


Exhaust:



Pins and contrast between the red/black:


Strut bar:


The interior, the way she sits now:


And asleep after a long day...
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Cams and ARP's are in. I still have a bunch of stuff to do, as little as they are, they add up to a lot!

Enjoy!

Ryan! That FMIC is HUGE! Man is that ever looking good. Can't wait to cruise bud.

I like the wire tuck idea, but that fuse box location makes me nervous just looking at it. I hope you don't ever drive that thing in the rain!

I am going to have the splash shields up and it's going to be covered. If need be, I'll fab something up to prevent it from getting even more wet.

Ryan, any reason why you choose to mount the FMIC upside-down?

It fits better, bolt holes line up with ones on the frame. It's a Kinetic FMIC, and it looks like that's the way it is supposed to fit. The pipe coming in on the PS side has an angle facing upwards towards the throttle body.

Looking Real nice man :Tu:

Lol, you beat me to it, I knew something looked odd. I never seen a Kinetic FMIC mounted upside down.

Ryan I guess it doesn't matter right, as long as it fits
From the picture it looks like you chopped the 16g j-pipe. Is that to accomodate the new angle of the FMIC inlet pipe ?

Is the fuse box gonna stay upside down?

Other than that looking great and the hood is blinging!

Yeah Reza, the fuse box is going to stay upside down. I'm going to Zip-tie the box cover on it.

I had to cut the J-Pipe to fit my last FMIC setup. I still have the piece I cut, I am just going to have it welded back on.

Yeah, the FMIC fits better that way, less cutting of the crash beam and there are 2 bolt holes on either side of the rad support that the FMIC bolt holes line up perfectly with. I just have to make a bracket to support it from the top.

The FMIC has to be welded a bit as well, the last guy had damn near snapped one of the brackets off, it's holding on by a thread. I'll get that fixed too.

It's 1:45PM on Monday. 35h 15min left before my week off.

This is what I'm going for.

I believe some people have relocated the fuse box to inside the cabin, either in or behind the glove box. That might be a better choice if you feel like redoing all that work (doubt it! :))

It does look good though, I look forward to seeing what it looks like after your week off!

I'm getting anxious to get it running. I have a few things to be welded, waiting on some parts from Ziggy and it should be ready to fire up by next Thursday.

I am also going to run new brake lines. Mine look like hell.

Ryan, your parts should all be in this weekend

Weather forecast for tues, wed in sudbury. snow!

=S glad I am a little farther south =]

Ouch... sucks man. I'm happy to live south too!

Yeah, that SUCKS.

Ok, so I take my holiday's right. End of April, beginning of May. You'd think it was going to be warm out right? NO! It's going to snow this week, and rain all weekend. How the hell am I supposed to work on the car?

DAMNIT!

Well, you've got time off.. come south

Would if I could man, gotta get this car done. How's yours coming anyway?

My car is coming along well! I'm not able to bring it to paint for a little while though I dont have enough cash yet. After my SQ I'll be able to.

The wing has been removed, and holes are sealed as best I could using plastic bags and duct tape. Guess they're getting tested today, it's raining here.

All that's really left is paint, wing and skirts.. all of that is being done by body guy.

So what you are saying Eric, is you'll be driving a multi-colored Eclipse for the cruise?

Better then primer grey. Although I don't think mine looks too bad from a distance. Although once you get close its kinda like. "Oh thats what that is" =[

I wont be driving my DSM for the cruise

lol, I like how most of the dsm members will be in "other" cars when they come. =] Hopefully I don't eat my own foot and end up taking my neon =|