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Looks awesome, I bought those same hood pins but the CF ones. You can do what my buddy did to his hood, he added some black into the clear when he re cleared his CF hood. Cant even tell its CF until you get right up to it and hold like a light to it. it looks awesome.

totally agree, growing up around a body shop ive seen lots of mixed match things and NOTHING looks sexier then a shinny as all black car... but sucks to keep clean haha and u will see everythingggg on it as well.

couple quick pics i snapped last night for jim, painted hood and bumper.
today imma go out and finish the hood latch install, and try and remove a bunch of broken bolts from the upper bumper support, so i can reinstall the bumper.

in this cold weather how do you manage to paint?

i've done it in the garage in the winter before, but it takes forever, cause i have 2 kerosene heaters that i use for heat.
on days where its below 35-40*, it takes a couple hrs before the garage is 50*+.
so i would go out to the garage first thing start the heaters, wait a couple hrs, then go out, shut them down, then paint, then restart them.
super dangerous, because of all the overspray, and then i'd have to run the heaters for another few hrs while the parts dry.. not really cost effective, or safe.
rudy @ the maaco offered to paint them for me for the same price i would have charged jim (150$ for the bumper and hood) so i just brought the parts to him and had my boy mikey paint them.

so, i finished up bunch of stuff on the car this weekend, finished the hoodlatch install, removed the upper bumper support and removed a bunch of broken bolts, reinstalled that and the bumper, fit and trimmed the heat sheild, installed that, and made a couple brakcets to hold the fuse box, and installed that.

some pics of the progress.

hood latches installed. in this pic, the hood is not closed, obviously.



hood closed:



the gap thats left, and the reason jim wanted to install hoodpins to begin with:



hoodlatches closed:



heatsheid and fuse box installed:







and a few pics of it outside:







we're on the home stretch now, jimbo!!!

Very nice, sir!

That FMIC is menacing.

Wow.

yea, it fills the opening in the CS bumper nicely i think

as it looks right now, jim and crew will be coming up ~the 5-6th of febuary to pick it up, and drop of the built bottom end and a stock 3rd gen for me to start working on.

for now, just a couple little things to finish up, (make an intake, install a boost controller) and i should have plates for it by the end of the week.
once i get them, ill get some rolling vids.

This is moving along nicely and the rolling videos will definitely be frighteningly inspiring.

If I saw this 5th Gen on the road I'd probably crash ogling it.

I can help you out making the rolling video because I have two cameras and editing software on my laptop.
It would also make a good addition to my college portfolio

cool!
ill hit you up once i have plates and what not.

Alright that sounds great!

that CF hood sure looks like the ones that i had made. I sure wish that company didnt screw me over. they were a perfect CS hood since my actual CS hood was used for the mold

Manny AMAZING job as always. Car looks great! You ALWAYS go above and beyond the call of duty in your projects, and it shows. Thanks a million times over bud.

its the same hood that pat has on his car.
its made by siebon.

thanks jimbo!!

I want to thank you for showing how you solder those large terminals/connectors. I never would have thought about it! I just redid the connections on my power and ground cables for my amp, and it looks a million times better!

oh yes, Pat did get one from me but it was damaged in shipping, i dont know if anything was worked out in that deal. i cant remember now if that was the final one to go out.

This thread deserves a sticky in every single section of 6gc. JDM Guy Garage ftw.

Omnipresent-Sticky Vote!

X2!