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It's a great kit with pretty usual fit issues as one gets from time to time with many kits... Didn't think it was really that much more difficult. Detail is wonderful out the box. Your motor is looking fantastic, can't wait to see the progress

It seems like such a long time since I posted an update, but although tons of work has been done, there really hasn't been much to show... Until now... I started working on the brakes, it's time for the rears to be installed, but I wanted to do the fronts at the same time, then they're done, and no risk of major colour differences if done months apart from the rears. Doing the brakes meant I have to get the brake cooling ducts done, and they're supposed to be carbon fibre, so a big chunk of time went into creating templates and trying to get the carbon fibre decals to conform to the shape of the ducts. The fronts were a lot of work, all in all 14 separate decals cut and applied to each of the front air ducts! Here is an in progress shot of the front and rear ducts busy creating templates for the decals. And after applying clear and leaving to cure for over a week.. Quite happy with the results! Been building the brakes and what a rewarding step as the brakes just look miles better than the kit parts In progress : Complete and ready for fitment : Reached a big milestone now over the weekend with the rear brakes fitted! Total build time to date 247 hours 34 minutes.

As I think something fiddly is finished the next fiddly part appears! Trying to finish up the rear suspension, so built up the dampers, these electronic connectors, wiring and the little pe brackets were a bit more challenging than I thought. The hydraulic tanks were fun to build, but fitting the pe strap turned out to be quite challenging to get it to sit down correctly. And finally installed and ticked off the long to do list! Tried my hand at carbon fibre decals on the valve covers, first time working with this, and with a bit of patience I am quite happy with the results. In progress : Complete, except for some pe bolt heads and a clear coat which I still need to do : Progressing on to the brake assemblies now... 169 hours!

Lol, my apologies Pierre, I don't know how, but for some reason I got your name mixed up in my post, I corrected it now 😳. But same compliment applies, really am looking forward to seeing the updates on this one.

Other than a few little things here and there I am basically at the end of the engine building phase. Some key parts like the fuel injection, etc I plan to do later as the part under that is such a nice place to get a grip on the engine, I don't want to cover that all up now! I will prepare those parts and a few other bits, but I will soon be getting stuck into the rear suspension and brakes! So turbos, intercoolers and their hoses have been fitted, my wife helped me mix up a custom colour to represent the pinkish purple hose clamps! The engine is starting to get quite full of wires and hoses now! Here is the hose clamp on the 1:1 And my attempt to replicate it: Some shots of the turbos, intercoolers and various cables and hoses: Time sure flies when you're having fun! Sitting on 134 hours! Do I build that slow, or is the 100s of parts, new techniques and skills I'm needing to acquire!?

This is a very interesting build to follow, Pierre your skills working the analog mods are seriously mind boggling!

Looks great, but I think you should post some completed photos here to finish off the thread and maybe a link to to the under glass thread.... But nevertheless fantastic build and wow, how quickly you got through it!

I was way over confident thinking I would be able to fit the hydraulic controller and reservoir the following day... All was going to plan, except the parts on both were so delicate, that they kept coming loose, the little 0.3mm legs, and tiny wiring terminals just weren't in the mood to go together as planned. So over the next few days I redid these parts countless times until finally they came together, Here's the hydraulic controller with the wiring harness. And here's a pic as we ended today with some extra hoses fitted. Sitting now on 112 hours!

No I did not, but I should have, these decals were difficult, and I am not thrilled with the result, they look ok from far, but horrible up close..... ? Haven't done much more since I lost a bit of interest since these decals didn't turn out the way I had hoped....

So I've added the rear wishbones, so that I can tie up the brake hoses, which feed under a bunch of wires between the engine and gearbox. I am not ready to install the rear hubs, so made up a styrene t-bar to support the upper wishbones. Finished all the connectors on the hydraulic reservoir, quite happy how this came out, all in all there's 20 parts making up this little piece (finger tip in the top of the photo for scale) Will try get this fitted along with the hydraulic controller tomorrow! 96h40m

This is a wonderful build, just love your details, it is great inspiration for my build, and I really hope mine comes out similar to yours.

Thank you for the kind words Noel. Yes I have seen some of Tomasz's work, and am continuously relooking at the various completed builds on the web to learn. I am really trying to take care to do my best on each part, and not rush through it. So I do hope the results will be worthwhile and representative of the effort.

Hey Rich, Looking good, I feel your pain about all the PE (and other things lacking from our youth, like our eyesight of course) ?. Keep up the good work, it's gonna be an impressive build.

Did some work on the hydraulic controller, this little item is made up of 9 individual pieces, excluding the wiring harness which I still need to connect up. In the kit there is 4 of these little terminals, you need 3, so have 1 spare... I lost this one twice, and somehow found it by accident twice...! Really didn't want to use the spare in case I really lost one! Here's the harness, almost ready to be fitted. Sitting on 84 hours so far.

I am enjoying this build so much, with the amount of wires and cables I am constantly thinking and planning what should go first, and then one leads to the next, and with such tight margins and space to work don't want to fit something and then struggle to connect the other end of the hose... Really enjoying all this planning and the details... So I have been working on the hydraulic pump, got that hosed up and fitted with a really lovely turned aluminum pully, in my opinion it looks so sweet! Also did some work on the right hand side gearbox cover, and got that fitted It's starting to look like something!