Yes, ladies and gentlemen and K3, Brokes car is running.
Not only does the engine run, the entire car as a whole is
driveable.
I can hear you thinking "Bullshit" as I write this so here it is:
Look at that! It's somewhere OTHER than in the driveway or the garage!
Idles a bit off, still have to check the timing, has a power drain off something (thinking alarm system), needs a good bath and I still have to get it smogged and back on my insurance but shit, its running. And only 25 months and $10,000 over the original budget.
Only real problem is that it seems it will be hard to keep it off the boost for the next few hundred miles. Not so much because of temptation, although there is that, but simply because with all the mods on stock turbos boost starts coming on even at mild throttle very quickly. But it's not like this is a bad problem to have.
Oh and the Borla pipes....oooooooooooooooooooooooh the sound of the Borla pipes. There is a song that embodies sensuality and it is sung on 2 1/2" stainless steel.