Nice catch on that boot. Those things will ruin your day quickly.
Sexy calipers as well

Got my Power Stop Evolution pads in today and got the calipers reassembled and back on the car.







Prothane inserts arrived too.

Check out my build thread if you are interested in swapping the front and rear roll stops to solid inserts like you just did with your side ones.

Where did you buy your baer calipers?

My roll stops are welded solid already, these were just filled with urethane but they had started to crack and look like crap even though they were still fairly firm, so I figured now is the time to coat the mounts and get the prothanes.

I got the Baer's direct from them about 5 or 6 years ago.

Great thanks.

I was going to weld my roll stops too before I found the solid prothane inserts, how do you like the solid welded roll stops?

I honestly don't find them to be bad. I had the roll stops just filled with my previous motor with no balance shafts, it had some vibration, got used to it very quickly.

Now with this motor with balance shafts and the solid roll stops, I find it to be smoother, much less vibration.

I always loved my balance shafts and still run them. I feel better you been pushing limits out of your 4G63 with BS still in it

Those Baers are beautiful!!
Love the way they turned out! Love the colours!

Jason, did you add taller 5th gear to your build?

No, I just went with the standard 5th and welded center.

I'm supposed to receive the trans next week when I get back from vacation

That's what I've been waiting to here!

Awesome...now I just need them to send me the parts so I can rebuild MY tranny so I too will have a working DSM at the Shootout

That's such good news. Let us know how those HD gears shift

I will, I need to get in some track time before the shootout to make sure it's gonna hold up in Norwalk

I'll be picking up the tranny Monday, and hopefully the car will be rolling Tuesday

In the mean time I did a few more little things, changed another CV boot, not that it was torn, but it was a universal boot, switched it for an oem.



Rebuilt my oem slave, was fine but I figured now is the time to do it.



Also mounted a 10" slim fan, I didn't have any cooling issues with the main oem fan, but I want assurance for the long ride to Norwalk that I wouldn't have any issues.

You can keep fans always on and use cabin heater fan to battle heat in case of emergency. On the side note, I see you still using manual boost controller. Have you thought about switching to ECU boost control?

You can also use the A/C button to turn that fan on and off. I haven't had any heat issues since installing this rad anyway.

ECU boost control may come at some point, as well as speed density when I upgrade to V3, for now the mbc is doing a good job.

My A/C button turns AC which makes things even more hotter for my dsm

How do you tune airflow? Stock or GM MAF?

Stock MAF + gm map sensor for the time being.

Looks like it will be one of those special weekends where Monday does not disappoint. Good luck on Monday, hopefully everything arrived as expected.

Got my new bumper back from the body shop

Gawd dammit..... Beautiful!

It's Christmas in August

Soooo jealous....

I think we all are!! Very nice!

I'm going to quote this just so we see it again as we scroll down.

DAMN!!! I was waiting to see this thing here.

Hopefully I can snag one up next season..I mean tax season

Looks good! Get her installed so you can lay down some good times at the SO with the big turbo!

Get her installed? You don't know we that well, I picked it up at 4pm and it was running by 9pm

Atta-boy. That's what I like to hear

5 hours?! WTF took so long?! I kid, I kid. Well done man

I had to take my dogs for an hour long walk and stop for supper, geez, tough crowd

So far so good, took it for about a 20 minute drive, everything feels good, tried a couple NLTS shifts at 6500rpm, went in like butter, the shifter feels very firm, but good. Gonna take a little getting used to the welded center diff though.

NLTS shifts at 6500 with a 20 min drive? Jacks doesn't have some sort of break in procedure like the other tranny shops? Usually they don't want you to beat on them till the gears & the syncho's bed in.

Isn't that why it's called "break-in"...?

I wondered the same thing.

I read through the whole packet of papers they sent me, there is ZERO mention of babying it for X miles. To be fair, it was 2 shifts at the end of the 20 minutes, I didn't just go right out and beat it in the first 100 feet.

The gears (and synchros) need to bed. You're gonna wanna change the fluid after you put on a few hundred/thousand k.

Ya, I figured I would change the fluid after returning from the shootout.

Will you be racing at all?

Engine break-in & tranny break-in are not the same

Think they normally recommend ~1000 miles of easy shifting. Synchro's need to bed in for proper operation (likely won't shift all that great until this happens). Gears also need to bed in to each other for optimal power handling.

TRE say no launches & hard/fast shifting for a min of 500 miles (when you should first change the oil). And will take ~2000 miles before best shifting is achieved.

Jason,
Awesome updates and man I'm impressed on the quality of workmanship!
Good job.