Project P00n (Exotic Killer)

[scheides]

Woohoo! Glad you got it running man, now get it on the dyno and let it be all it can be Talk about a freaking maxed out stock turbo setup on pump gas, this thing should kick ass.

[TkrPerformance]

Way to go. To bad it took a while to get stuff back

[Kracka]

Definitely a successful project! Car feels good and has a nice fat powerband; a great street/autocross setup.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Originally Posted by DoughtCom

... Also without Mark's tensioner tool my car would have probably blown up, so thanks for letting me borrow that too man!

Actually, I'm pretty sure that's my tensioner tool, and I've been wondering where that's been. Haha It's all good though, not like I need it. Congrats on getting it all up and running again!

[DoughtCom]

Yeah it's really really hard to not drive it, I put about 350 miles on this weekend! The powerband is AMAZING I effin' love the car!

Haha, I'm not sure if it's your tool Kevin, I think Mark made it, he said something about making it at his job. I have no clue, all I know is it did the job!

[DoughtCom]

Been a while since I've updated this thread as I've just been enjoying the car's awesomeness for the past year.

But in the upcoming months I'll be figuring out the broken tranny situation. I was going to have MAP store it and work on it, but they didn't have room and Shep doesn't do 6 speed fixes so for now it's sitting in my garage

I'm tossing around a lot of options right now, but http://teamrip.com/ seems to be a good option for rebuilding my tranny, I'm also thinking about pulling it myself but may pay MAP or someone to do it still. I know it's a PITA but there's noway it's any worse than what I just endured.

Any ideas/options people have would be great. A 5 speed swap would be sweet too, but that's looking like it'll cost a LOT more and be a lot more of a PITA than just rebuilding the 6 speed to be strong.

[Kracka]

You know my vote; keep the 6!

[GG_9_SE]

I thought shep was only a few months out on the new 6-speed gearset/ final drive?

[t-revzr]

Pull the tranny yourself and save money! I know you can do it!

[GG_9_SE]

It is rather easy to pull an evo tranny, now that I've done it once on my IX, once on scheides X, an about to be a second time on my IX this winter. Just make sure you have a slide hammer to pull the input shaft once you pull the driver side axle and after that its like 9 bolts. If you want help I'm down

[goodhart]

I would go through TRE again in a heartbeat, even though I have driven my TRE trans a grand total of 4.3 miles so far, after talking to him, and the other tranny re-builders in the biz (Shep, Jack, and Jon @ TRE) Jon seemed the most knowledgeable to me. Plus he shot peens all his stuff standard, which none of the other guys do. I don't think Jack even does 6 speeds. How bout Buschur? Does he still do his Bushwacker trannies, or does he do 6 speeds? AFAIK, Shep only does stock rebuilds on 6 speeds also, or he can convert it to a 5 speed for $450 extra. Good luck man.

[turbotalon1g]

I'd say jacks transmission they seem to be one of the best on their customer service and builds, they are also trying to invent new things for the transmissions in these cars which makes me think they want to stay around a while.

TRE was good when I wanted to buy something from him, but after I had the trans in my hand he was impossible to get a hold of again.

[DoughtCom]

Time to bump this. Not because of something awesome or good. A few things went down which most of you already know the first which I'll touch now.

Back in Fall my shift fork broke and I had to limp it back to MAP. They couldn't touch it due to it not being a serviceable item, which is definitely a good reason not to touch something. Shane @ DB says it should be doable so I was planning on getting it towed there early next week which brings me to topic two... read on.

Thursday night my roommate (Shane a lot you know him), left the garage door open... for about a day. Needless to say people ransacked my car and stole a lot of stuff, just a few days too late I guess. In doing so, they also destroyed a lot of the car. I would assume they're young because they didn't think to look for a trunk release!? So they tore up my rear seat and also the keyhole on my trunk looks like someone shot with a shotgun point blank and they also managed to break my spoiler in half. Good times. I'm sure there's more damage but my garage is dark and well, I can't move the car.

The items they stole was my p600.2 rockford amp, my computer screen, I'm sure my computer however I forgot to look, my custom enclosure and my sub. A little over $1200 in stuff, excluding my deductible for the damage to the car.

$MD just can't win can he.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Holy shit! That really sucks

[Spikesoftail]

God Damn it, it just makes me sick when I hear about shit like this. People just can't have nice stuff without some douche bags stealing it. This sucks big time. Just hits close to home as I just had some stuff stolen from my fenced in back yard of my shop.

[turbotalon1g]

WTF?
Sorry to hear.

[Kracka]

Wow man, really sorry to hear that This is about the worst news I could read in this thread.

[goodhart]

Fuckin people. Sorry to hear man Have any pictures of the damage?

[cmspaz]

Wow, that's super shitty dude. Sucks that people feel a need to steal stuff and destroy things that others take pride in.

[Goat Blower]

Sorry to hear it, thieves really suck.