ACHTUNG's Bodywork and S52 Project

[goarmy]

How about a little video of it running. A quick high way pull or two.

[ACHTUNG]

That is SEXY! Well done sir, well done. I like your wheels BTW, and please post pics of your BBK hiding behind those beauties...

UUC BBK is back ordered. I've been waiting for them for over a month.

[krooks]

Need more pics of that beast!

[e30shmobberr]

clean!

[MrNatural]

That engine bay looks great...rest of the car too!

[pacmanE30]

That is SEXY! Well done sir, well done. I like your wheels BTW, and please post pics of your BBK hiding behind those beauties...

[grippymonkey]

Really clean sir.

[ACHTUNG]

The guys at AVA finalized everything in October and I've had aprox 500 miles with the car since the swap. It pulls and it pulls HARD. I'm loving it.

Here are the highlights:

S52
OBD1 Conversion
3.5" MAF
Schrick Cams
24lb. Injectors
F1 Stage 2 Lightened Flywheel and Clutch Kit
ZF Trans with 3.07 Torsen Diff
Custom 2.5" stainless exhaust to Magnaflow muffler

[ACHTUNG]

Brendan (fidhle007) and the AVA Restoration crew have been doing the swap. Here's some pics:

[ACHTUNG]

Bodywork and paint is finally done. See first post for pics. Now it's off to AVA Restoration in Dublin, NH for the swap to be done.

Oh yeah, I also bought some Schrick cams today...Awwww Shit...

[kingston]

I want to do that mod, too, but I want to pop an M3 antenna on the roof :)

[ForcedFirebird]

Project looks great!

I meant he and I are. It looks 1000x better in my opinion. And I was told that you can wire the antenna into the defroster in the rear window.

Lol, shaved antenna here, and my car is at the body shop as well, they sure do like to take their sweet time...




Yes, defroster works good. Silence's old car had it and it sounded just fine (if you listen to FM). Just plug the center wire from antenna to the defroster with a female spade and unplug the other side of defroster.

[87e30]

Get 'er back from the shop! Should be awesome.

[ACHTUNG]

What were you using to remove old paint? Looks like a very sharp edge between what has been sanded/scraped and what has not.

The pictures that I posted were areas that had dents/dings worked on and was just the preliminary work. Since then the whole exterior has been blocked and primed 3 times and wet sanded. I'll post pictures of the whole process shortly.

[woodisgood]

What were you using to remove old paint? Looks like a very sharp edge between what has been sanded/scraped and what has not.