There were suppose to be more goodies but some parts aren't going to make it here in time.

Alpine IVA-D300 and Ignited switch panel








Carbon Fiber Hood. Sorry no day pics yet since I just installed it tonight.

 

hubba hubba. if you're planning to show, best of luck - your car is looking very nice!!. would you mind sharing where you bought your alpine? that thing looks hot.

keep up the good work

 

ur cars looking hot. wish u luck in HIN......unfortunately I can't make it......btw r u coming to after party?? I could probably b at after party.

 

ugh...didn't know you were showing tony...guess i have to stand in the 3 hour line

where are you staying?

 

Good luck...the car looks great. I should see you there.

 

dang you sure do have alot of switches....btw I like how you got those three gages below your bad as* head unit

 

looks damn good tony

 

Woo...PM or email me with the afterparty info.

 

I only got a room for Friday night at the Courtyard Marriott I think. Good thing you asked Chris because I don't remember where I made the reservation. I'll be parking with the New Image Motorsports. We should have a Banner and a DJ in our section.

 

My local Tweeter store. I have a friend that works there so I got a pretty good discount.

 

It's a good place for not so important gauges. I have oil pressure, water temp and voltage there. I want to move some of my gauges to the steering column, but that would take some custom fiberglass work. I'll see how bored I get later in the summer.

 

Did you install hood pins on your car yet? Just wondering if you had a link to the ones you purchased. Oh, by the way, car is looking good as always. Good luck at the show.

 

I bought hood pins but I don't know if I want to install them now. The latch on my hood looks pretty sturdy. I got the Morso hood pins from Summit racing. My freaking hood got stuck last night and it took me 4 hours to figure out what was wrong with it. I had to stick an entension inbetween my Trenz grill to remove my latch. It turns out the secondary latch got caught on the fiberglass frame of the hood.

This is the part that the secondary latch was hooking on instead of the metal latch. I dremeled away the excess material.

 

That looks good, I'll see you at HIN this weekend.

 

Good luck! Nice lookin Max.

 

BTW, what are those stickers on the windshield?

 

looking good

 

No floormats..... You wont win

 

That looks sick as hell

 

County poperty tax sticker and VA inspection sticker. I think Virginia is the only freaking state that you have to pay a personal poperty (car) tax. I remember back in 1999 I had to pay $900 and that's with the 50% reduction because of the new tax relief act.

 

Looks good Tony.

Where are the seats? I thought those were coming

 

Lots of states tax the value of the car each time you register. it's usually called the ad valorem tax. That's latin for "according to value."

 

That's one big shifter

 

Tony-

A Carbon Fiber lip sure would look good with that hood!

 

wow that car is definitely a winner. Hope you win!!!!

 

looks good man. I cant wait until HIN atlanta this august. I'll have a few new mods by then myself

 

good luck this weekend man, i will be there and cant wait!

 

We have to pay tax every year. They tax on the value of the car.

 

love the Alpine screen and cf switches... Good luck at HIN!

Ant

 

I'm surprised you haven't got the one piece Cefiro headlights yet. They would look very good on your car.

 

You gotta paint those horns black. BTW, how do they sound? loud enough?

 

I realize at shows most of the judges won't even notice mods like that. I'm not going to waste my energy/money on mods that aren't going to be obvious to a non-maxima owner.

 

Tony looking sweet as usual bud keep it up....

 

Looking good. Thats the alpine system i'm looking into purchasing. See you at HIN

 

is it me, or does he have a super long shifter?

 

It's not the latch that's on the hood itself that is the problem. It's the factory latch that is the issue. You can latch your hood and pull up on it all day it will seem like it is sturdy as all hell, but then one day, doing 55mph entering a highway the fukcing thing flips up and cracks in half along with the windshield.

Take it from someone whose gone through some carbon fiber hoods and windshields. Fiberimages has had 3 different types of latches on their hoods and 3 different times my hood flipped up on me. The third time you don't even pee your pants anymore, you just lean your head out the window and keep driving.

T.V. looks great, that's taking the money away from boost though!

 

As a person who's been in the car when one of those things goes up, it's pretty violent and happens w/o warning. It's why Shadow owns one of Sadler's old fiber images hoods.

Kind of funny but last weekend I ran Shadow's car w/ your old hood w/o hood pins for one run at the track. I had opened it to pass tech inspection but there wasn't a line at all so I almost immediately went to stage and forgot about them. Ran a 13.9@104 and parked it to cool down before I realized it. Of course we double check the pins every time drive the damned thing now. Jeff was less than happy to see that.

One of the Batlground Supras forgot their hoodpins the week before on a Top Secret Carbon hood and it flipped open at about 100mph. Hit hard enough to crease the T-tops. $1800 buys an amazing hood though...the thing is still in pretty good shape except for some minor cracks.

 

Looks very nice! I would take off that phone clip though.

 

heres a few pics I took...