MRWEST

Are you in my neck of the woods now by the looks of it?

Back into 2025 and on the missions to get this done this year. Car went back to Rocket after new years to finish off a few minor bits. Mainly plumbing, brake, fuel, oil, water all done. Fitted 12a savannah lip, made the rear exhaust cut out in lower valance larger to suit the exhaust tip. Im short on time with 2 young kids and work so figured get them to finish so it can keep moving forward. Cars basically fully dummied up in terms of fab/plumbing etc now. Have dropped off for wiring on Friday and hopefully about a month and will come back all wired up. Running Haltech Nexus R3, PD16, WB2 (3 widebands/1 per runner), IC7 dash and then all the usual safety features, fuel/water/oil pressures/temps etc. Ill get it home tear it down to a bare shell and get it back to the painter

Nice work man ,big push, she looked awesome in person on sat, love the colour! Very cool

Well picked up the car yesterday from Rocket. Dan and the team have done a killer job. Ended up being quite a list of stuff to do: - Modify gearbox mount to suit Tremac TKX gearbox which required raising the tunnel 50mm to get angles right - Raised driveshaft tunnel 50mm to get clearance -Modify driveshaft to suit TKX tailshaft -Raise under rear seat area an behind fuel tank for diff head clearancing -Make intake manifold, with custom DBW mount -Mount airbox and modify intake feed to line up with airbox -Mount pedal box and reservoirs remotely in windscreen cowl -Modify diff and rear shock mounts -Modify exhaust to tuck it more - Few other minor bits and pieces Because we had raised the tunnel and diff head area there wasn't much extra work to allow the car to be a heap lower. So we ended up notching the rear rails, notching the inside edge of the rear tubs, modifying the rear tubs (Factory half the tub is flat and half tapers down approx 3 inch from the centre to the outer guard lip) so its flat across the top. Now have heaps of clearance at the height its at and nothing rubs which is awesome. Really happy with the outcome, car looks a heap better at the height and starting to come together real nice. Few bits and pieces to do over the holidays then back into it next year!

Nice to meet ya saturday man, Car looks 100x better on the simmons and the blowers the icing on the cake, looks and sounds bloody good!

Dan and the team at Rocket down in Hamilton have been busy as! Tunnel raised 30mm and restitched in, did a bit of clearancing around the firewall/merge collector too to give a bit more space. Have plumbed up oil cooler, cooling system, mounted overflow bottle. Modified the MFR intake by cutting the back half off and folding up a new sheetmetal feed so it lines up better with the airbox intake. Modified the exhaust, moved resonater back from under driver to before diff so it can be tucked up into base of tunnel so hangs way higher, also cut exhaust and went under diff instead of over to add clearance. Can still run my centre console which im happy about was a key thing i wanted to keep with the modified tunnel so that worked out well! Few things left - Finish clearancing under rear seat/over diff head, - Brake/hand brake cables/lines - Modify rear tubs and rear rails to allow it to go a bit lower, now we have raised gearbox and d shaft tunnel its the last bit of clearancing thats needed to get a bit of extra slam. [

yeah nice, small world. Grew up round ngatea so figured it would be.

Is that Phil?

Swung into Rocket this week to check out progressing, Dan and the lads have been hammering it out, bloody stoked on progress. -Have cut the tunnel to allow gearbox to be raised to a better angle (had to come up about 30mm) -Modified gearbox xmember to suit TKX -New driveshaft to suit TKX -Welded up old master cylinder holes in firewall -Fit wideband ports in each header runner -Mounted the pedal box -Mounted wilwood billet reservoirs in the windscreen cowl so nice and hidden away but accessible -Braced EWP as its coming out from the radiator a fair bit -Mounted overflow bottle -Made up the Greens intake manifold kit and welded it up, to get the EFI hardware intake to fit with the MFR airbox overtop and fit under the bonnet -Redid rear diff shock mounts to suit the BC Golds (old shocks had a way narrower eye) -Few other misc holes filled and fab bits done Few things left to do - Clearance floor for diff head an low -Finish sheet metal work for tunnel -Sort brake lines, handbrake cables to suit wilwood rears -Modify MFR intake filter pod to work better with the 20b position /air box angle -Change exhaust to go under diff instead of over (fitted but was really tight and not much clearance) Very happy with how its all coming together and looking!

So i got a bit lost at some point is the rotary rx3 front one going to be bagged as well ? or are ya doing a bagged non rotary version too?

Looking so good man, still have memorys of your old one etched in my young teenage brain , so sweet your recreating.

should of popped in @Nominal im not far from there!

Yeah there! He makes factory style parcel trays for rx3 as well, and the airboxs to suit 13b or 20b as well as a few other things like 10a front chin spoilers. very impressed with the quality, Julian is a good rooster (ex kiwi that lives in auz) and turned the order round quick as !

Yeah man i reckon! actually really well made too was impressed. The whole rotary air intake over top of hot exhaust never really made much sense from the perspective haha.

Bit more things going down. Bought a MFR Moffat style airbox to run with a behind headlight panel filter feed as well. Cars getting loaded up tonight to get dropped off to Rocket tomorrow (Did a heap of Tim Woods car) for a list of things - Gearbox xmember to suit Tremac - Clearance floor and tunnel for diff and lowering - Change rear diff shock brackets to suit BC Gold - Intake manifold - A "quiet"exhaust running a dual muffler setup under the boot floor now its flat floor - Mount pedal box and reservoirs - Few minor small bits and pieces to finish it off \