Fast Road/Track Ultra Red 197

Got the dash out to lighten it a bit and do some work,removed the passenger airbag and with the help of some speed holes got it down to 6,7kg from the original 11,5kg (this is the bare dash with no vents trims etc) so saved 4,8kg or 42% which is quite good:






the dash skin weighs 940 grams:





front seats wiring removed:






















I had bought and fitted this aftermarket mount for the gauges but fitment was worse than the original as it has no clips and being one piece its harder to retrim with my limited skill so just went back to the oem one I had before.



The problem with the oem was that it is way too tall and obstructs the view which was the reason why I went with the aftermarket option,so I have cut it and shortened it as much as I could and it's a lot better,from the driver view it's just in line with the end of the dashboard and doesn't poke out like before:

The original radiator support was getting rusty again and wanted to shed some weight with an ali box section so got one to modify:















The two fixing bolts were mauled for some reason so replaced with new ones.



Saved a massive 800 grams,the original was 2.5kg (legs were already cut):





Also got some custom sill trims from a guy off instagram from France:

Bought a spare lower and upper intake to get ported/polished and powder coated,the gasket is pretty much the same size as the intake now:





Went with PTFE gasket to try limit heat soak,I thought the description was interesting:

"For every 3.3 °C rise in intake temperature, air density drops by 1%. - An intake temperature drop of around 10 degrees C is expected when using these gaskets on a road driven engine, which is good for around 3 percent power increase."







I didn't know how beatifully machined our cylinder head already is lol:



The first time I fitted the gasket the wrong way around,what a cock!





Also have used heat reflective tape on the back hoping it will do something good lol.

Yes I was only able to find out from another member on here which gave me his name on Insta,was it you? That was much appreciated as I had been looking for the past year for some custom trims,I was impressed with the qualty considering they are handmade,it's never easy to find people like this as they never seem to do much advertising lol.