donderdag 10 juli 2008

Chp6 - Starting it up…

As the sun came up the guys had already begun stripping the fronts of both cars. In the meanwhile Yoshua was picking up the 3UZFE engine. It was going to be a beast. Hiroki started working on getting the supra front end off and Rob started checking some catalogs for some nice exterior parts for the car. “Hey Hiroki, what kind of look are we going for?” Rob asked seeing a couple different styles, “I think Yoshua wanted a GT look” Hiroki said “kind of like the Top secret cars.” “I think the vertex bumper looks good for upfront, maybe we can widen the front fenders some, kind of like the r32 rear fenders, just not that wide. For the back we can modify the supra fenders by widening them, and use a Varis rear bumper with a Varis diffuser custom fit. We can use a Carbon fiber GT wing from Top secret. The wheels depend on the colors. But this is what I think would look good.” “That does sound good” Hiroki said and laughed, “But it costs a fortune!”
They waited and looked some more until Yoshua finally came back with the engine. He came back with a lot more though. He came inside, “Hey guys, can you give me a hand?” De van was loaded with stuff. He got the 3UZ-FE engine, turbo’s, intercoolers, pistons, cams, sequential gearbox, etc. Basically everything needed to build the mechanical parts of the car. After all the stuff was inside they were going to try to put the engine in the supra. The engine bay needed some modifying but it would fit eventually…

Weeks went by and the car was coming together fast, as was the shop. They had cleaned it and dressed it up some more. They also made a nice Logo and Name sign on the side of the building. It had Garage Redox in a green font with white and black outlining. The logo consisted of 2 coilovers melting together, also containing green, white, and black. These were the new shop colors. It was no surprise then that the car was going to contain these colors as well. Some clear headlights and half red half white tails where fitted. There was decided on a pearl white paint job, royal green Work emotion XD-9 19 inch wheels in the front and 20 inch wheels in the back, and some black accent pieces. The body parts had arrived and were fitted, and the fenders had been modified. The car was basically done. The engine consisted of 2 HKS GT Ball-Bearing Turbos, custom titanium exhaust, cleaned and fine tuned heads, and bottom end en lots and lots of other interesting parts. Almost everything inside and outside of the engine is replaced or fine tuned.

“Ready to start?” Yoshua said and turned the key before the rest could answer. The car fired up immediately and sounded like an earth quake. After some fine tuning to the ignition and the fuel computers the car was ready for a test drive. Yoshua took the soapra and the others their own cars. As they got to the highway the real test could begin. Rob pulled up next to yoshua knowing he didn’t have a chance but wanted to see what it could do. After honking three times the cars rushed away. Well, one did, the other looked like it was standing still compared to the almighty soapra. Rob got an amazing feeling. “Wow, I worked on that…”

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