No not quite gone yet................. House is currently being renovated, its a real hassle doing things like this from the UK, flying to the sun once a month to look at a building site, tough life I lead!!
Back on topic:
SPC are involved because I was completely fed up to the back teeth waiting for an appointment to get the tuning sorted out, and the gearbox swapped over (main input shaft bearing rattles), I have been waiting patiently since before JAE (which was great I may add). We are now in fact putting an altezza RS200 gearbox on and this moves the starter motor to where Monster Matt said it should be, under the intake manifold. I have no idea what the gearing will be, I don't know if there are different gear ratios in the RS200 box? but the TRD modified RS200 LSD currently on the car really is great at launching the car anyway so its not an issue really.
There are lots of other things we are going to be doing to the car, one is in fact changing the inlet manifold to one that is designed properly to maximise the BHP available - again one of Monster Mats comments way back in the build - he was 100% correct, bet he gets fed up being right???
I have a feeling the new inlet manifold is going to be based on an uprated Nissan 200 turbo one, as it is the right shape and size only the runners will need changing - they nearly mate up anyway but the bolt holes are a bit different.
There is a new rear spoiler going to be fitted also one of the large RS200 ones, just as soon as I can get a boot lid without a spoiler on already, in platinum Ice so I don't have the expense of welding and spraying the existing boot lid, as the lip spoiler mounts in different places to the new one.
The sound system is almost finished also............