Lots of other things going on, which has limited time on this project.

Things are slowly moving though.

moved ahead a bit with tidying the wiring routes in the engine bay:

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Clutch slave and lines are in:

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The exhaust is installed.

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Although it does not look like a lot of progress, this next step took me a lot of time...

I wanted to apply Cerakote to the exhaust parts, and originally wanted to sub it out, but quotes were quite high, so I decided to do it myself, which meant hours of blasting with aluminum oxide to prep the ...

Very keen to see this develop!

Spent half of Saturday and only got 5% done what I hoped!

Wrestled for an age getting the big clamp for the DME harness as well as the DME ground and battery negative attached to the bell housing.

I guess this was the price to pay for the way I mounted the engine.

Still quite messy, and I have to ...

A long gap... basically I have not done anything on the car since June of last year. In the meantime I did MAJOR rust repair on my brother-in-law's Buick Regal (took every weekend of the summer and fall, pretty much) and also got the Subaru project back on the road:

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I checked out their site. Definitely looks like impressive quality!

Not sure what I will do in the future... Right now I am hoping to get things going nicely with the stock exhaust parts, but it is certainly good to know of a Canadian source that can do custom work. There is not a ton of ...

As stated in the prior post, have been mostly focused on the Subaru project. It is almost done.

While that was going on, I managed to find what I believe is a decent OEM mid pipe. The old O2 sensor was stuck in, and despite lots and penetrant and some heat, the thing came out in pieces, with some ...

Very nice RS5!

Looking forward to seeing the new paint...

I had almost convinced myself that the knuckles I had were actually correct, after scaling dimensions from pictures of S2/turbo spindles on the screen and called off the hunt for replacements. I was thinking that I had just been too tired when I tried to bolt the calipers on and had misinterpreted ...

Thanks everyone for the encouragement and commiseration on the spindles!

I am starting to feel a little better about things, and it will all be sorted in time. I had been waiting on some updated strut bottoms for the Subaru's front coil overs which finally arrived last week, so I am going to switch ...