wow, looking good so far....all of them :) good work. keep it up.

that rear strut bar is GOLD!!!! did u cut the bar off and re weld it?? also, just realy love ur engine!!! JUST MISSIN ITB'S!!! :)

yeah, the inner holes on the front strut brace lined up with the innermost bolts on the rear strut towers. but on the front brace it curves around to the front bolt on the strut top. we cut this mounting point off repositioned it and rewelded it back onto the brace. so it mounts under the 2 inner bolts of the strut towers on the rear
 
ITB's won't be too long, really wanted to run the engine in in a stock condition. that way it would get the best run in rather than having experimental ITB's trying to run on stock ECU. possibly stuffing up my short run in window.

thats a good way to go with your motor, i did the same thing, my first build did all the engine internal mods, mainly just the head and cams, and on the second build we put the AM ecu, then the itbs and it all went nicely from there, so good thinking on that one :)  im realy liking the car, also, when u change back to the stock front end on, can i bug ur for lots of pics on the install, stock front end was badly rusted on some mounting brackets, just wana see were it all goes becaus i never took the bar off, only put it on and my car didnt have anythinig

I have already mostly put the stock front end back on, got the front dams and skirt on, just haven't put the bumper back on yet. 
 
the car will be fully back together on Saturday. Hopefully going for her first drive. not worried about the engine, but am a little worried about the gearbox going bang. its the firstime I have ever pulled down a FWD transmission and put an LSD in it.

ah yea, i forgot u had the LSD in there, ive been wanting to do that for years, i gota c52 spare im guna give that a crack :)

I like aarons way of going through the bell housing to swap the diff. makes the job very easy. thus far I have tried 3 times to remove the 5 gear setup to get the case off and have been stumped every time. 
 
when using a spyder LSD in a c5* box for the AW11 the SW20 NA shafts do indeed fit. I wasn't quite sure as when I put them side by side to the AW11 NA driveshafts the SW20 ones were almost 10mm longer from top of the spline into the gearbox to the mounting face against the bearing in the hub. but they seemed to have worked ok, won't know for sure until I drive the car. 
 
That would have been tonight, but for some reason my rebuilt clutch master cylinder does not seem to want to pump fluid. worked fine for the last year, but for some reason its not now.
 
hey domma, got some photos for you showing the mounting points for the front bumper. the onlt thing I didn't get is the side 3 mounting bracket that holds the back face of the bumper onto the guards
 

 

 

 

Thanks heaps.. thats spot on.. all along the the top I had rusted bolts and hsd to grind off. Now I know what im looking at.. thanks heaps :)

Also thanks for the info on the lsd. .

well I guess this will teach me for spending the cash rebuilding a motor then using a second hand unknown oil pump.
 

 
all that engine work undone in a day. started the new engine up today for the first time, all seemed to be running well, went for a quick drive around the block looked down noticed no oil pressure. quickly get home. Nick popped round with a replacement sender unit and he quickly ascertained it actually is no oil pressure.

so off came the sump and oil pump in car. I have pulled the bearing caps they still look fine so I have to now put a new pump on and put her all back together. this time laying on my back
 
well it was sitting pretty in the engine bay

well I think the car is finally going ok been a couple of weeks pulled the sump off like 5 times. done 800kms
 
anyway. got some photos how she sits atm with the original front end. I am not really a fan, I think the blue is soo flashy that the fiberglass bar really sets it off, so once rego'd that will be going back on.