I finally got out to the garage this week to get to work. A lot of the reason I haven't started yet (besides a crazy work schedule) is because I didn't really know what I wanted to do with the engine. When I bought the car I knew that it had a tick in the engine and would need some work. I wasn't sure if I wanted to do the repair while the engine was in the donor car or if I wanted to remove it and all the parts I needed and do a fresh rebuild (much more extensive) out of the vehicle. So I finally decided that I would do a complete rebuild and test it out when I put it in the 818. So with that I started to tear the donor car apart. This has been a lot of fun. I get to reverse everything they did at the factory in 2007. Every nut and bolt. Every wire. So here are the pictures.
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This was one afternoon of work. Pictures can't describe how tedious this process actually is. I'll be working on it more this week and will keep everything updated.
On a side note Factory Five just released a new photo gallery of the 818 that they took to SEMA. It really shows what it will look like with the hard top on and the top off in convertible mode. This should give a much better idea of my vision with this project. It takes a lot of vision to imagine that the donor vehicle pictured above will ever look like the beautiful piece of art as pictured below.
And there it is. I really can't wait. Thanks for looking!
