sabretooth's NA8

sabretooth · Postby **sabretooth** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:02 am

Here's my pride and joy. It's a 1994:

Those are BSP low profiles:

with an engine I built myself:

which is cooled by my 38mm aluminium radiator:

The intake air is heated up by a TD04 turbocharger (minus the red cam cover, urgh that turned out so badly):

but cooled by a Forge Motorsport intercooler:

I sit in an NB interior (with some work still to go):

which is home to a Mazdaspeed gauge cluster:

Shifter and handbrake by Voodoo. Boots by Benny:

Traction is helped with a Torsen Type II LSD:

fastfreddygassit · Postby **fastfreddygassit** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 5:29 am

*sigh*
*pure envy*
awesome car dude!
Your site (http://workshop.sabretooth.id.au/) has helped me out heaps.
and given me too many ideas

timk · Postby **timk** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 6:34 am

Very cool! Now up ze boost!

Alex · Postby **Alex** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:39 am

wow, that's alot of DIY
are you going to do the door trims as well or leave them??

bensale · Postby **bensale** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 4:19 pm

Wow, thats an awsome car. You could never sell that, it must be almost a part of you considering all the work you've done.

sabretooth · Postby **sabretooth** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:26 pm

Thanks!

The boost will be upped soon - I have a dump pipe flange I'm waiting on.

The door trims are a work in progress. They'll actually require a fair bit of work to fit - but when it's done it should look great.

Postby **orx626** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:42 pm

sabretooth wrote:The boost will be upped soon - I have a dump pipe flange I'm waiting on.

I'm ready whenever you are Geoff

Cheers,
Danny

ps. By the way, great car.

sabretooth · Postby **sabretooth** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:38 am

Heh, excellent

I'm still waiting on my mate to send it over! When I get it I'll definitely let you know.

sliq · Postby **sliq** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 1:35 pm

wow! good stuff!

where'd u get that interior dash from sabretooth? is it possible to get one that revs up to 8000rpm instead of 9000rpm?

sabretooth · Postby **sabretooth** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:26 pm

I'd totally forgotten about this thread and subforum!

The dash is a Mazdaspeed - it was on the car when I purchased it, so I have no idea where to get one, unfortunately!

I've done a few things since posting this thread, the most notable of which is the NB roof install. The original NA one started to degrade - cracked a few times in cold weather, and then the roof slammed down on the motorway in cold weather, resulting in:

No photos of the NB roof yet, but it's bloody brilliant. I finally picked up a few final parts that were missing from it today - the tensioner springs and a seal for the driver's side.

I'm still yet to wind up the boost, and am currently diagnosing a cooling issue - possibly a blown headgasket. Once I clear that up, I'll fix up an exhaust leak on the manifold, and wind up the boost!