bspaulsen
01-04-2021, 02:19 PM
Figured I'd do one of these at some point - y'all can call me Brandon (or bspaulsen).
I'm a mechanical engineer and I'm going to be building a track-only Coupe-R in the near future, contingent on my lady and I locking down our first house (mortgage rates right now, huh?). We're in SoCal, Los Angeles area. My current daily driver is a 2017 BMW M3; its dual-clutch automatic is my favorite thing on the planet, so I'm going to emulate it on my Coupe-R.
As for my build, I've got a running google doc with everything I want, derived from all my 5.0 Coyote research and all of the build guides here (Moroso oil pan, KRC, digi dash, etc). I'll flesh it all out a bit more when I finally pull the trigger once I have the garage space:
- Track-only Coupe-R with IRS front and rear suspension
- Gen 2 5.0 Coyote (I like the look of these more, favor the dress-up kits, and want to mate to a 6R80 (not 10R80 that the Gen 3 likes) [currently holding a quote for PBH to build me a complete Gen 2 5.0 with their upgraded 6R80]
- 6R80 automatic transmission with the electronic Lokar bump-shifter and steering column paddles to allow for manual-automatic gear control
- Going to keep the ducktail spoiler as opposed to the APR wing (ironically went to college five miles from the APR location!) but may rotate to the chassis-mounted spoiler at a later date if I need to balance out the downforce generated by that fantastic Coupe-R FFR splitter and canard setup.
- NiCopp brake and fuel lines
- AEM CD7 Digital Dash with standard analog supporting gauges
- Wilwoods on all four corners, undecided on which forged wheels I'll go with, as I want something a bit more meaty than the Halibrands.
Incredibly excited to get to the build, I'll make a build thread once I place the order. Until then, I'll continue snooping through all of your build threads; catch me refreshing the hotrod/coup/mk build threads each morning with my coffee. Great to meet you all, I look forward to the help you all will undoubtedly provide to a novice like me when I get to the gritty stuff.
I'm a mechanical engineer and I'm going to be building a track-only Coupe-R in the near future, contingent on my lady and I locking down our first house (mortgage rates right now, huh?). We're in SoCal, Los Angeles area. My current daily driver is a 2017 BMW M3; its dual-clutch automatic is my favorite thing on the planet, so I'm going to emulate it on my Coupe-R.
As for my build, I've got a running google doc with everything I want, derived from all my 5.0 Coyote research and all of the build guides here (Moroso oil pan, KRC, digi dash, etc). I'll flesh it all out a bit more when I finally pull the trigger once I have the garage space:
- Track-only Coupe-R with IRS front and rear suspension
- Gen 2 5.0 Coyote (I like the look of these more, favor the dress-up kits, and want to mate to a 6R80 (not 10R80 that the Gen 3 likes) [currently holding a quote for PBH to build me a complete Gen 2 5.0 with their upgraded 6R80]
- 6R80 automatic transmission with the electronic Lokar bump-shifter and steering column paddles to allow for manual-automatic gear control
- Going to keep the ducktail spoiler as opposed to the APR wing (ironically went to college five miles from the APR location!) but may rotate to the chassis-mounted spoiler at a later date if I need to balance out the downforce generated by that fantastic Coupe-R FFR splitter and canard setup.
- NiCopp brake and fuel lines
- AEM CD7 Digital Dash with standard analog supporting gauges
- Wilwoods on all four corners, undecided on which forged wheels I'll go with, as I want something a bit more meaty than the Halibrands.
Incredibly excited to get to the build, I'll make a build thread once I place the order. Until then, I'll continue snooping through all of your build threads; catch me refreshing the hotrod/coup/mk build threads each morning with my coffee. Great to meet you all, I look forward to the help you all will undoubtedly provide to a novice like me when I get to the gritty stuff.