Ooooooooo new front brakes. These will help to slow down all that power that we are going to be making. You can see that the new discs are bigger and shinnier than the old not at all shinny drums. The drums only look bigger because they were closer to the camera. The red anodized finish also helps them to work better.

These two pictures give a better look at the new four piston calipers. They are practically race calipers and are very high quality. The old drums had only one small wheel cylinder. These will give a huge boost in stopping power.

These two pictures show the new wheels mounted on the rear of the car. We had to use new one inch wider drums to have them fit but they look awesome.

This is the lower block girdle hat ties together the three middle main caps. This adds incredible strength to the bottom end. This helps to make more power.

The pistons actually in the block.

You can see the ARP head studs that will hold the head down. The studs clamp the head down better to keep the head gasket from blowing out under high compression.

These are the ARP main studs that hold the main bearing caps down. These are much stronger and will hold more power.

Another view of the main cap girdle from Z-10 Motorsports.

The new steats installed. Much Much better.

There are actually side bolsters to hold you in to the seats while you turn :-).

Mounted front and back to the floor and centered much better to the steering wheel. The best part is that they recline and won't fold you in half if you rear end some one.

The new steering assembly installed. We had to cut and modify the old steering column to accomidate the bigger engine and new steering rack.

The begining of the final engine assembly.

Comparison of the new and the old pistons. The new ones are forged aluminum pieces from JE while the old ones are high pressure cast units from Honda. The forged units are much stronger. The higher dome on the forged unit also means more compression or squish and that means more power YES!

The tops of the pistons.

Comparison of the new and old connecting rods. The new ones are forged steel H-Beam rods from Eagle Specialty Products. Again gorged means dtonger for better power.

You can see just how much more rod there is for holding more power.

Mini Pics

These are the totally huge new tires and wheels. A whopping 13 inches an diameter. The four new tires when stacked on top of each other are taller than the five old tires. The old tires were on 10 inch steel wheels

The new fender flares. Not huge but definently help to clean up the lower body lines.

Wow its Shiney! The head after polishing the combustion chambers for better head flow and to help keep the carbon from building up on the combustion chambers.

A stock head for comparison.

Stock exhaust port.

Shiney polished exhaust port.

test fitting the engine on the subframe.

Ahhhh new seats that are fastened to the floor in the front and the back and actually recline YEAH. From a subaru legacy.

See it really does fit barely.

New front suspension test fitted.

Day at the Park

Logan loves to play at the park. He loves to play on the see-saw with Daddy, swing, climb everything he can, and most of all, he loves to run. Logan will watch any other kids at the park and try to follow and copy them as they play. He plays really well with the other kids in nursery and with his friends in our ward. As long as nobody takes a car from him!


Logan has so much energy. We played with a frisbee at the park, running all around the grass. When it was time to go home Logan did not want to go, he ran back to the playground to swing some more. He doesn't care if it is hot or cold or windy, he loves to play at the park.

ultrasound pictures

This is her beautiful halloween face, yea. :-)

yup, she is sucking her thumb!!!!!!!

Monster Mini Project

Old Engine

New Engine

New suspension installed

Monster Mini Project

New suspension parts (left)
Old suspension (right)

"Yea, they're actually springs!"