My Murtaya: Second trip to see it |
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My Murtaya Pictures
My Murtaya: Concept
My Murtaya: First Shots
My Murtaya: More Pieces Coming Together...
My Murtaya: My Tub Emerges & My Donor: STi Type-R
My Murtaya: More of My Tub
My Murtaya: My Kit's Pieces
My Murtaya: Donor Disassembly
My Murtaya: My Engine and what my car should look like...
My Murtaya: Body Awaiting Paint
My Murtaya: Before and After
My Murtaya: All in the Details
My Murtaya: Using Your Heads (ok, that was bad)
My Murtaya: Starting to Emerge...
My Murtaya: Donor #2
My Murtaya: Engine Assembled
My Murtaya: Getting it Together
My Murtaya: Brakes, Rollbars, and Console Cutout
My Murtaya: Getting Painted
My Murtaya: Post Painting
My Murtaya: Roll Bar, Seats, Clamshell
My Murtaya: Still Coming Together...
My Murtaya: First Shots With Hardtop
My Murtaya: Down on the Wheels
My Murtaya: Interior
My Murtaya: Almost done!
My Murtaya: Finished! (Save for the Engine)
My Murtaya: All packed up, on the way to get tuned...
My Murtaya: Engine getting final assembly and tuned
My Murtaya: On the Dyno!
My Murtaya: Break-in on the English Countryside
My Murtaya: Final Shots Before Shipping
My Murtaya: There be Murtayas in the U.S.A.!
My Murtaya: Coming Together...
My Murtaya: First trip to pick it up...err, see it
My Murtaya: Resurrected!
My Murtaya: First pics from new body/interior guys
My Murtaya: Second trip to see it
My Murtaya: New Life
My Murtaya: Radical Redo
My Murtaya: Final shots before pick up
My Murtaya: Shakedown
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The pictures do the body too much justice; in person you can see the bumps and cracks on most of the GRP. I can see why the body guys wanted me to come and see the car in person.
New USDM STi gauges...Will need some custom fabrication to fit them as they're taller than the older ones
Passenger side glass is fitting well
Driver side glass not fitting so well...but the door and seal is worlds better than the last time I saw the car!
The trunk is a little bumpy and has some seems, but it's not terrible.
Under the front of the bonnet...probably going to put in new/bigger hinges. Also, rewiring needed in order to not blow fuses...
The rear window shattered coming out (was the first time in seven years this happened for the glass guy), but it needed adjusting and had leaky seals anyways.
The right side of the bonnet after adjusting--because of the big gap, it will probably need some custom GRP work, but that will allow us to get rid of the latch and the side light, thus cleaning up the looks (the latches will be replaced with some guide poles and a bearclaw latch)
Finally, with the new components, the blinker switch is finally on the correct side!
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