07-24-2006: The new look of the engine bay is ready! Or at least in part: I still have not received the CF covers I ordered, but the NISMO Cold Air Intake, the ARC Titanium panel and the MaxGround grounding wires are all installed and functioning correctly! The clear sidemarkers are ready too.

And I had a great time at the shop! We started to work at about 2PM and ended with all the stuff by 8:30PM... we were talking half of the time, of course! I tried to participate on all the processes and get my hands dirty a little bit. It went well and no CEL came on after the CAI install... that was my main worry from the beginning.

Frank is a very through mechanic... no slopiness there! The attention to detail was more than reason enough for me to be calm during the whole process.

I shared shop with a Camaro 350 '67... the engine awesomely modified to reach in excess of 500WHP + nitrous oxide if it ever comes to be needed, ha! The original exterior restored to show a classic car, never betraying the beast under the hood.

There was also another work under way: a JDM Toyota 'Hilux Surf' (looks like something like a little Land Cruiser) was getting the 'driver to the left' conversion, an awesome and very clean job... these guys made a Skyline conversion at some point in the past... so there is one good place to get that done if someday I get the Skyline craving!

07-24-2006: The new look of the engine bay is ready! Or at least in part: I still have not received the CF covers I ordered, but the NISMO Cold Air Intake, the ARC Titanium panel and the MaxGround grounding wires are all installed and functioning correctly! The clear sidemarkers are ready too.

And I had a great time at the shop! We started to work at about 2PM and ended with all the stuff by 8:30PM... we were talking half of the time, of course! I tried to participate on all the processes and get my hands dirty a little bit. It went well and no CEL came on after the CAI install... that was my main worry from the beginning.

Frank is a very through mechanic... no slopiness there! The attention to detail was more than reason enough for me to be calm during the whole process.

I shared shop with a Camaro 350 '67... the engine awesomely modified to reach in excess of 500WHP + nitrous oxide if it ever comes to be needed, ha! The original exterior restored to show a classic car, never betraying the beast under the hood.

There was also another work under way: a JDM Toyota 'Hilux Surf' (looks like something like a little Land Cruiser) was getting the 'driver to the left' conversion, an awesome and very clean job... these guys made a Skyline conversion at some point in the past... so there is one good place to get that done if someday I get the Skyline craving!