Agreed, i want to watch videos when i have time but thats rare these days. I can skim text and pics quickly keeping up to date and its perfect. Thanks for the content either way.
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Agreed, i want to watch videos when i have time but thats rare these days. I can skim text and pics quickly at quickly keeping up to date and its perfect. Thanks for the content either way.
Looks great. Love the wheels. I have some BC forged rz21 on my car with the same finish.
eagerly awaiting to see this running. everything about this is killer.
Nice job so far! Looks sweet!
Is there a vent at the top from tank to tank so you don't trap air filling from one side?
I have Grundy with my Terminator. They have been good.I will probably use Grundy for insurance, same as I used for my Viper. They do agreed value and from my understanding, it is not more expensive than a regular car due to the owners typically being the ones to fix the cars. They don't have to pay a shop rate and can ideally just pay for parts. Obviously a full loss would be a full loss.
I don't anticipate issues getting it registered mostly because I live in Florida and there are TONS of Factory Five cars that go to the local Cars & Coffee. From my research, it is a simple DMV inspection of the car and a notation of where the powertrain came from- if new, show an invoice and indicate new, if used (in the case of my transmission), then provide a VIN and receipt/invoice.
What you don't want to do is buy one of these in California. Not only do you have to pay a sales tax when you register the vehicle, you have to tally the amount of hours it took to build the car, then pay a shop rate to the government. So 300 hours x $100 = $30,000 you have to pay to the DMV.
Wow this is a very cool project. I like your color choice - I prefer that over the red Ultima RS in the video you posted. Good call on that!
I assume they ship the kit with a detailed manual and instructions on how to assemble it all? Do they include torque specs for every fastener? You're going to have a blast with this car. Not sure if you posted this yet but what type of head unit / audio setup will you have? Many of the newer head units now support wireless CarPlay and Android Auto.
Awesome that the end is nearing. The burnt bronze pipe do look really good with the orange paint. Great choice.
So all in all, how many hours do you estimate you will have put into the assembly when it finished?
The entire series is fun to watch. I hope when you are doing the editing of the engine install you do a time lapse of that. Was almost disappointed in the last video because I thought it was all just going to be "results". But then you threw in the lapse of the dash and canopy install.
Call me weird but I like the time lapse of all the rivets. It gives me a good dose of reality that I do not have the patience to do it LoL.
6-8 weeks on a "regular' assembly/build is really impressive. 400-450 hours roughly for this one is mind-boggling. You obviously are enjoying it, and your Ultima RS will be a one-of-a-kind build and you'll really appreciate what you built. Awesome sir! Awesome!!Thanks, Bob. I wish the hours were something I kept track of, but I would estimate around 400-450. I did go outside the box and do a bunch of things that aren't required by the factory build, so that accounts for a good amount of it. I'd bet I could build one of these in about 6-8 weeks if I had all the parts right in front of me and never had to wait for anything.