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Ha! As much as I'd like to 2Jz it, the wiring alone would scare the nuts off me. We did consider putting something different in it, along the lines of an LS3 as they're easy to get big power out of but the end cost would have been mega to the point where I could have just bought a newer M5 (which is what I should have done in the first place).
Anyway, as expected I got well acquainted with my friend San Nigel last night and consequently this mornings ride was dismissed in a blur of foggy vision and dry mouth. So with a sore head (bad pint yo) I decided to finish the odds and sods left over from yesterday. Firstly, a spot of heli-tape on the chain stay and round the head tube. Not pretty but I'm not running a clutch rear mech so it wouldn't take long to remove most of the paint off the chain stay.
Next up, mudguards. I've got a lot of odd sets and by 'lot', this is about half my supply.
Because the rear calliper is mounted on top of the seat stay (unlike the newer designs that have them inboard on the chain stay) it means you have to get creative when mounting guards (fnar). I could have bent the stays all over the shop to accommodate it, but in the end it made sense to use a slightly longer bolt on the adapter for the calliper and mounted them from there. It took a bit of bending but nothing like if I'd used the smaller lower down mounts. Which was a bonus because I finished it in time for crumpets. Win. What I didn't cater for was the lower bolt hole on the chain stay bridge being full of paint (Widget and his masking eh - no breakie for him next week) so I had to clean that up before fitting.
Searching in the box o' bits turned up an SKS flap that should normally reside on the front. Bit of drilling and nut and bolt later we have a rear flap. Win.
Then it was just a case of doing the front. Again, I used the calliper mount on the left side for the stays as again it would have been a major ball ache to reroute the stays. Clearance wise its fairly tight with the 30mm's on but I think it should be sufficient and doesn't currently rub. I'll be taking an 8mm spanner out with me for the first few rides in case I need to make some adjustments.
I did offer the rack up, but its going to foul majorly on the rear calliper. I could space it but that'll look shit, or I could by a disc specific rack but they too look shit. So Revelate bags it is.
Next step is to ride it. It weighs a friggin ton but I suppose thats why I've got a 32t on the front. A quick roll down the road with 50psi in the tyres shows it does ride pretty nice. Once it stops being quite so baltic, I'll nut up and go for a proper spin.