RESURRECTION

A lot of you know I've been driving the S2K for a while now, due to my complete lack of a modern luxurious daily. But, little do you guys know, I've been Marc's (Macaron_moon's) chauffeur for quite a while now. The usual routine is he drives his GRB STI to STI HQ, with me riding shotgun. Afterwards, he gets off at STI HQ and I go about my business in his car. Then after work hours I pick him up, and we visit HKS HQ to check up on the ULTRA SPECIAL 4B11T he's building. (I would say check out his thread but there aren't any updates yet sooooo)

Anyway. Yesterday was no regular day, as I had received a special call from Koguchi Power letting me know my SR22DET is finished

So without hesitation I called up my buddy Jack. I wired him the 780,000 yen (V$7,800) cash I was billed for the engine serivces, and with his connections, they got the engine delivered to Pudsey, the location I chose to pick the engine up from (for reasons you will find out as you read on).



Then I LAUNCHED the car out of Pudsey, and soon I was on the expressway, BLASTING THROUGH WITH NO LICENSE PLATES. I'm still waiting on the plates from the DMV so I have a certificate on the dashboard but anyway



After a quick stop at the resident UCC shop for a cup of joe, I ended my journey by arriving at Kami-Sama HQ



After that I unloaded the engine with some help from Muzahid (Niatross) and Marc.

After finishing my coffee I went straight to the business.



Got the brand new shop engine hoist in to mount my engine (shout-out to Japonic for helping me source out a good quality one!)



Ever so meticulously maintaining my critical trajectory in mounting the engine



VOILA! Shortly after I took the headlights off (to make installing the engine peripherals easier), and called it a night.

The morning after, I rushed to the garage to continue where I left off.



Intake manifold, exhaust manifold with turbo, installed!



Clutch fan, Koyo radiator and Samco hoes (oops, meant hose HUEHUEHUE), installed!



Eventually I had all the plumbing in there. I finally stuffed the battery in, wired the harnesses in, and gave it a crank.



LITERALLY BRAND NEW CONDITION. One click of the starter and I heard the GLORIOUS SR22 sputter into life. A very aggressive idle followed it. The car was finally alive, hopefully no more finallys haha.

RESURRECTION x2

Going back to why I had Jack deliver the engine to Pudsey, it's because of this.



Remember my wrecked S14? I've since entrusted the boys at Pudsey to take it ALL apart, and do their magic. And magic they surely did. It's literally as if nothing happened! They actually went through the trouble of sourcing a 2 written-off S14s to build my car up! A white S14 J's for the front end, and a black S14 K's rear end. And after a LOT of aligning, a lot of primer, and a lot of other magical shit, the shell was gloriously back in shape. Well worth the V$1,500 I paid for their body repair package.

I'm gonna stop yapping, enjoy these pictures!













I should have more updates soon! A LOT of good things have been happening lately, it's awesome! Because of these things, I took an indefinite leave from work, but I own a share of the company so it's all gucci, I have associates who can take care of business, but for now my accounting and law income have come to a halt, apart from my small weekly commissions.

And here are some other small things that have happened:
- I bought Yuan (BigSmoke)'s S15 SR20DE + E-4AT for V$500
- I donated my non-running RB25DET + transmission for his ongoing S15 project, good luck dude!
- I sold my Weds Cerberus IIs to Dominik (NightRunner) to put on his V35 Skyline for V$800, can't wait to see them on the car man, gonna look sick for sure!

Yeah that's all for now. Thanks for reading family

Finances:

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V$95,797.34 + V$940 (Weekly Paycheck x1) + V$800 - V$7,800 - V$500 - V$1,500 = V$87,737.34