Austarion

I've posted some of these pics up before, but I thought I'd put em all in here.

16x8 -10 on the front, dirty and raining... how I roll on the daily:



205 tires on the front for less rubbing haha, sun makes the paint bad:



She's my daily.

-Robert

Interior:







In action


Local guy was selling these silver gauge faces that he had Importcarparts.com make... they're not overlays. I HAAAAAD to have them, as they were pretty much what I was looking for at half the cost. Original plan was to go white numbers/lettering, and I had 24 white LED's in... but... it just didn't do it for me, since there was a slight blue tint. Then I saw Silvia S15 gauges with thier stock silver face/orange backlight... and it was a no brainer... orange = 80's Mitsubishi styling.

The needles are lit up by some EXTREMELY tiny SMT LED's... in RGB. Meaning, they'll light up to Red Green or Blue + tons of other color combos. I haven't finished the wiring for the green or blue or made a controller for different colors, so for now, they're red. When I get my "shift light" I can have the tach needle change color at my preset shift point... a dream/idea I've had for 7+ years now. I ordered these on ebay direct from the manufacturer in China, right after that my paypal was stolen... coincidence... I think not.

These weren't 100% finished, but there was a meet and I wanted these in. There's 30 orange LED's and 8 RGB's (2 for the big needles). MANY hours of work into this, as I had to redo all the backlighting from white to orange.

I had the white odometer number set in, but that speedo was my broken one(I forgot I did my testing on a broken set)... so I had to swap in a different speedo for the meet. The boost gauge is a 60mm Prosport electronic gauge (I also have matching water temp, oil pressure, and fuel pressure from them). Our team has been running prosports since prosport first started offering gauges about 3 years ago... one of the few companies out there that know what customer service is about.

Would I do it again... ha... maaaaaaaaaaybe... the needles were hardest part because of the tiny LED's, the solder pads are less than 1mm thick and very fragile.

Broken solder pad... busted about 7 of these.

It makes the car feel like a much newer machine since the old gauges had old school backlighting by today's standards, and orange from the needles have faded away... plus the Prosport pwns.


Gauges off, flash lights em up though.


Park lights (needles on, gauges white)


Headlights on, all orange backlighting.

-Robert

Finally built my new suspension:


Cut right through the stock spring perch. Measuring for the next cut.


Cut down and ready to be welded. Compared next to the original height.


Mmmmm... arc welder.


Excellent fit!!


Add in some ultra strong DOM tubing for strengthening, and a spring perch(sleeve perch... haha) Stock tubing vs DOM tubing.


Finished vs Stock


Yessssssssssss...

In that pic it's resting on the inner fender liner, so I might be able to go lower if I cut it and move the fender liner up more. Just a quick pic I took at 3am... I will try the rear 8's on the front tmr and get some better pics. I will definitely be able to go lower if I didn't have the MK1 camber plates on the front... but then my camber would uber mega jacked... haha...

I need to do the rears.

Put the 16x8 -10's on the front again:







Seriously.

Yeah... I'm not going to leave it there... ...maybe.

-Robert

Some of the latest pics.

-Robert

Here is half my new exhaust(inspired by JAS), I haven't finished the back half... or the midsection either... but... it'll look something like this:








Haven't finished the other hanger yet, so it's a tad crooked

3" mild steel mandrel bends, laser cut turbo/dp flange, SS vband clamp, and a REAL o2 bung... instead of just a nut... like SOME exhausts out there... LMAO...

Speedbumps, here I come!!

-Robert

And here's the midsection, still need to do the rear.


Control arms parallel OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL...


Yes... I made it over some speed bumps!! I also took out a chunk of my friend's driveway, took it at a bad angle. This exhaust is not louder, just deeper... it does NOT sound like a tractor at all, which is awesome. I still need to put on the rear muffler.

-Robert

Ok but when are you going to move the steering wheel over to the correct side rofl

I love the photoshopping of your number plates which keep changing.

Also what effect did you use in the first two photos?

Vulpes wrote:Ok but when are you going to move the steering wheel over to the correct side rofl

doesn't matter which side the steering wheel is.. they don't use it in the USA eh? :P

I used HDR (High Dynamic Range) exposure style on the first pics.

thrash wrote:

Vulpes wrote:Ok but when are you going to move the steering wheel over to the correct side rofl

doesn't matter which side the steering wheel is.. they don't use it in the USA eh? :P

LOL... Lock it to the left and you're good to go!! Anytime I see an American land yacht approaching a corner, I cringe and warn others... LOOK OUT, CORNER AHEAD!!

It's just me here that uses the steering wheel, and gas pedal.

-Robert

A few quick photos on my way home, before the cops showed up and harassed me.







I need to find a place with a cool background at night... like a sweet building, or the Death Star perhaps.

-Robert

it is cool!!

The Death Star would be perfect!!! :D
Cool pics!

Some new pics...



205/50 on the front. Took the 25mm spacers off the rear so I could go lower, going to get some new thinner spacers after I adjust the camber.

-Robert

Fuck these widey's in black look the duck's nut's!!! especially loooooow