View Full Version : Well took it out today for some fresh air!!
Hi guys took the beast out this am ( so I could clean the garage floor and brag to the neigbors a bit !) this is the first time it has been out of the garage, its 99% completed And I have started the TAG process. I did measure de Db of the exaust at Iddle to be 80 db (4 feet from the car) and 100 db at 3000 rpm cant wait to try it on the open road. I did not take it for a spin since up here all the roads are covered in pebbles and the streets are still frozen and we still have white stuff up here.
http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc388/jfb280773/Completed%20car/?action=view¤t=CIMG8218.mp479727973797479757976
enjoy
MK4
Sailor
02-18-2012, 01:33 PM
Nice. I like the little lamps in the oil cooler intake. Great idea.
Dave O
02-18-2012, 01:45 PM
Very Nice. Beautiful workmanship. How about a photo of you console/dash?
For the console just click the photobucket link and you Will also hear it!
carbon fiber
02-18-2012, 03:36 PM
beautiful. love the color. there should be two long black marks in front of your house! tell your wife the clutch slipped, works with women but not with cops!
Smyrnabs
02-18-2012, 06:04 PM
Wow. Great looking car I like the location for the radio and the rear bumper.
Great Job
edwardb
02-18-2012, 06:42 PM
MK4 -- Your car looks great. Barely was able to drive mine late last year before winter arrived. So I know what you're feeling.
Nice. I like the little lamps in the oil cooler intake. Great idea.
Those are from Tangent Technologies, here http://www.tangentkits.com/Driving_Lights_and_Grill.php
Have 'em on mine too. I agree it's a nice look.
http://i867.photobucket.com/albums/ab234/edwardb123/Factory%20Five%20Mark%203%20Roadster%20Build/Finished/th_IMG_1522.jpg (http://s867.photobucket.com/albums/ab234/edwardb123/Factory%20Five%20Mark%203%20Roadster%20Build/Finished/?action=view¤t=IMG_1522.jpg)
riptide motorsport
02-18-2012, 08:09 PM
Very cool!!
patpur
02-18-2012, 09:22 PM
I've been going through some serious "cruising" withdrawl this week. Did what you did last Sunday. Removed the trickle charger and backed it out of the garage and just let it run for 1/2 hour. So today is beautiful, sunny, mid 50's so I decide a good day for a ride. All the salt has been washed off the roads from the past week's rain so it seemed my winter detailing (even under the car) wouldn't get messed up. There is a beautiful stretch of country road near me and its a blast to drive. About halfway down the road there's a guy who's flashing his lights at me. I though maybe I was going too fast? Maybe he just liked the car? On the road home I see the lines in the road that shouldn't be there. Salt brine? Thought the rain had washed all of it away? The farther down the road I got it started to get wet, then a huge puddle of the stuff all over the road. Then coming the other way (two lane road) the truck spraying the road for the snow they had already called off for tomorrow. Needless to say I'm pissed. They use salt brine around here to pre treat the roads. We were supposed to have a storm tomorrow but it's gonna stay south. So now my car is covered in salt brine. So I come home and get out the hose. Probably should have left it in the driveway like last week. Now I think I know why the guy was flashing his lights! Spring can't get here fast enough!
Scott_Samson
02-19-2012, 07:53 AM
Very nice job. I should be picking mine up next month. Are those just stock exhaust?
Scott
They are the polished stainless one from FFR with the ********** heat Shields (that cool!!!!)
MK4
jlfernan
02-19-2012, 08:21 AM
Very, very nice!
http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/2561/jorgec.jpg (http://thefactoryfiveforum.com/private.php?do=newpm&u=111)
Scott_Samson
02-19-2012, 08:25 AM
Thanks, I am hoping mine is not too loud. I know some guys like them that way, but for me with so much hearing loss already I am looking for something a little toned down. I did order the same ones. It should be a good starting point.
Scott
I have the 4.6 l with the FFR cathalist and their polished exaust. Mesured dB at iddle is 80 dB and 100 dB at 3000 rpm just to give you an idea.
Mk4
WIS89
02-19-2012, 09:42 AM
I've been going through some serious "cruising" withdrawl this week. Did what you did last Sunday. Removed the trickle charger and backed it out of the garage and just let it run for 1/2 hour. So today is beautiful, sunny, mid 50's so I decide a good day for a ride. All the salt has been washed off the roads from the past week's rain so it seemed my winter detailing (even under the car) wouldn't get messed up. There is a beautiful stretch of country road near me and its a blast to drive. About halfway down the road there's a guy who's flashing his lights at me. I though maybe I was going too fast? Maybe he just liked the car? On the road home I see the lines in the road that shouldn't be there. Salt brine? Thought the rain had washed all of it away? The farther down the road I got it started to get wet, then a huge puddle of the stuff all over the road. Then coming the other way (two lane road) the truck spraying the road for the snow they had already called off for tomorrow. Needless to say I'm pissed. They use salt brine around here to pre treat the roads. We were supposed to have a storm tomorrow but it's gonna stay south. So now my car is covered in salt brine. So I come home and get out the hose. Probably should have left it in the driveway like last week. Now I think I know why the guy was flashing his lights! Spring can't get here fast enough!
Patpur-
What an awful story! Man would I be twisted if something like that happened! I understand the brine solution, as they use the same thing down here in Tar Heel country. But if it is still wet, you might as well be driving into the Atlantic (the Pacific for you "left coast" guys). The worst part is that it wasn't even necessary as the storm went bye-bye... Sorry man! My empathy can't help clean your car, but it is there nonetheless!
Regards,
Steve
well the sun came out!!! here are some killer pics. and a little Video
http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc388/jfb280773/Completed%20car/?action=view¤t=CIMG8231.mp4
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Well I Will have to wait a bit longer to strech the roadster legs, we got a foot of snow yesterday!!!!
Patience.
Mk4
myrtille2004
02-26-2012, 10:04 AM
Very very nice car JF. I like your paint job, you should let me know where you did it. The touch of the front with the fog lights and grills give a great look, may consider it for my kit. Let me know when it will be registered in Quebec, I may need advice for future.
Stephane.
skullandbones
02-26-2012, 10:23 AM
MK4,
How did you attach your vertical bars to support the grille? I would like to see details of the grille project. It looks great. I am making an assumption here. Since I haven't seen this grille, I thought you fabbed it including the custom cut oil cooler hole (running lights) and the hood scoop. I didn't see any holes in the inside of the grill opening so I figured you must have glassed some mounts in there. Thanks, WEK.
Well you are right this grill is 100% my design. It is made of 1 inch wide aluminium bar 1/8 thick. the bar are mounted on 2 threaded rod and the bar are separated by ruber bushing (that act as spacers, from a plumbing store) this set up give flex to the assembly and is very sturdy! Inside the radiator inlet I glued and screwed 2 braket that are loted to received the grill assembly, I also used the lower cowl panel from FFr to lock in place the whole assembly at the bottom. I included a bunch of picture for your pleasure. as for the Oil cooler set up I bought it from Tangent, cool and comes complet with running lights.
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hope it helps
MK4
NicksPapaw
02-26-2012, 05:10 PM
Love your grill. It was sunny here today and I had to take mine for a 2 hour exercise. Mostly to clear my brain. I love to cruise in my roadster. Nothing better. :)
Guys THANKS you for all the good comments on this grill I appreciat it à lot
Mk4
Well today I took m'y apointement with our local police to start the tag process. So the stress Will be kicking in real soon! I met the mechanic who Will inspect m'y car to discuss thé inspection process. Its all becoming real very fast!!! So next wednesday the process starts!!! :confused:
Mk4
Well things are getting more complicated, in the last 3 days we received à foot of snow !!!!!
Mk4
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8zk8QyAvOHo/TSOGKs9EjVI/AAAAAAAAAHM/1b54Ou-ZIcY/s1600/image001.jpg
Two feet of snow is worse.
Well this week ends plan was to complet the roadster 100% for this wednesday's inspection...... Well stuff kind of hapenned!
First started by a leak in the kitchen this morning, off to home depot to get all the parts needed to redo the complete darain systeme in the kitchen total 2 hrs of work and running around..
Then the kids went playing outside, and ho surprised they started bringing me some roof singles (where are those from?). Sure enough the where from my roof, last night we had a major wind storm, so to the roof I went, to see that I could see plywood in a few spots, so back to home depot for some roofing tar... that will hold a few days until I get a crew up there to replace the complet roof..
Nevermind the rest of the distractions this week end I still managed to complet the roadster 99%, the only thing left to do is the cold air intak to finish welding up. I even took the time to clean and detail (roughly) the car, It cant hurt to have it looking stunning for the inspection, so all the chrome leather and rims got some attention
Over all a busy week end but a very satisfying one..
MK4
Well guys it is official I just passer m'y first inspection. Our local police just left the garage and gave me the ok for the next steps the mechanical inspections now I need to wait for the apointement..
Mk4
gtaroger
03-07-2012, 09:08 PM
Really nice car. Good luck on the inspection. Roger
patpur
03-07-2012, 09:41 PM
Congrats on the police inspection and good luck on the mechanical inspections. If the pictures say anything about the job you did on your car, you have nothing to worry about!
Gorgeous. I took mine out for the first time today.
LuckyWinner
03-09-2012, 12:09 PM
Someone needs to mass produce those grills!!! I would love one.
Well indeed some digging was necessary! the trailer was under 2 feet of snow, so after about 1 hrs of digging we freed it from its prison!
The car is now safely on the trailer ready to go to the SAAQ for its mechanical inspection
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MK4
Well today it was sunny and 23 degre celcius up here (very,very Nice weather for this Time of year) m'y wife had to tie me down, in order to stop me from trying it out around the block à couple of Time!!!! Y'a know, nô insurance, nô registration, nô plate, details,details, ah well she must be right.......Soon!!!!!!
MK4
Well called in at the registration bureau, and big surprise they are back logged!!! So they tell me 2 more weeks than they should get to m'y paperwork! Your tax dollar at work! At least the weather is great up here!!!!
Cheers
Mk4
Its official, next monday april 2nd Will be m'y mechanical (saaq) inspection!!! Finally some mouvements on thé be hall of our bureau of vehicule... Hope to be legal in a Few weeks.
Wish me luck !!!:cool:
tenncobra
03-30-2012, 09:41 PM
Good luck.
Captainmelo
03-30-2012, 10:13 PM
Beautiful job. I love the stripes on the inside of the hood.
Movieman
03-31-2012, 01:49 PM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8zk8QyAvOHo/TSOGKs9EjVI/AAAAAAAAAHM/1b54Ou-ZIcY/s1600/image001.jpg
Two feet of snow is worse.
Now this just cracked me up!:D
I'll save this for the next time we get 2 feet of snow here in NH to send to a friend..LMAO!
Well today is THE day!
Yes its m'y mechanical inspection (last step to allow me getting m'y tags). I was prepping the car and the trailer to travel and sûre enought something needed looking at! Started to smell gas! Lucky it Turned out to be a clamp that needed a bit of thightning on one of the fuel lines, all good to go now!!!!!
Ill report later tonight the experience at the inspection.
Mk4
mcwho
04-02-2012, 01:46 PM
Your Car is a beauty, I like all the details you did like the grilles and the lamps. I live in FLorida and mine is still in progress but I have Tags and Title already, no inspection here, nor weight slip.
Well the ins pection went well took about 2 hrs and he only found 1 minor thing on the front suspension (my bad) when wheels off ground the coil over springs are loose and could move up and downn about 1 inch. But that is the only thing he found wrong. So I am very glad this is done, my VIN number is now on the car (so I can think about insuring this as a car finally!!) Now all the paperwork is going to Quebec city for their final blessing, Hopefully no more changes or questions from anyone, then I go back for them to inspect the minor and get the little but Ho so important sticker that will allow me to go and get a license plate. A sausual here are some pics...
An here is a little video of the short drive the inspector did with the car... Fiorst time ever that someone else then me drives it!
http://s1209.photobucket.com/albums/cc388/jfb280773/Completed%20car/?action=view¤t=CIMG8328.mp4
Cheers
MK4
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Well today i got the car weight and it Tip the scale at 1110 kgs or if you prefer 2447 lbs
Next step registration sticker!
Mk4
Got m'y TAGs today!!!
Yes today was the day between 2 rain storm I went to the registry office to complet the process à few hundred dollars and I have the title as à 2012 co..a. After 18 months of fun work and countless hours in thé man cave ( Many of them with m'y brother in law Christian) and the help and support of so Many, familly, friends and forum member we have another canadian registered FFR in the province Of Québec.
When the weather improve I Will take the traditional pics for graduation.
Cheers
Mk4
riptide motorsport
05-09-2012, 05:50 PM
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!! great feeling Eh?!
Mark Dougherty
05-10-2012, 05:48 AM
congrats mk4
I have been following your build and have admired your patients.
Congrats again and a well build car.
Later
Mark D
The traveling Builder.
riebelt
05-10-2012, 02:48 PM
Hello Jean! Congrats on making this far! You guys must have unbelievable patients with your DMV there.
I noticed something that you need to be careful with. One of your pictures shows your car on the trailer covered. May I suggest that you not tow with cover on it.
The reason is that the cover will do very nasty things to that beautiful paint while towing. As odd as it sounds, the wind passing over and around it will turn that cover into a piece of sandpaper.
It can do some serious damage.
Just want to pass that along!
Gotta close the barn door before the horse get out!
BTW, The DMV driver looked like he wanted to take your car out for a spin.
Have fun with it!
THANKS TerrY. The days of the car cover are counted i am closing the trailer up this week end. Sonô prying eyes or rain on the car
JFBrule
WOW WOOOOOW
Nothing else to say!!! The feeling of driving this car on the highway is next to none!!!!
Went for one hrs drive and grin all that Time (I actually still am):)
Mk4