The back story:
I'm a 25 26 27 28 year old mechanical engineer. I started with cars with a 1980 Toyota fj40 when I was 13, I put 1500 miles on it before I turned 16 without ever leaving my parents 5 acre property lol. After 4 fj40's, a '95 powerstroke that I built and broke constantly, a multitude of Toyota mini trucks from the 80's (including a 22re turbo truck that was all forged and pushed 18 psi haha) I settled on a 96' Firebird ws6. I learned a TON with that car and ended up spec'ing my own 6.0L stroker for it (6.125" stroke lt1's are few and far between). I parted out the Firebird after attending an open house at limerock, at which time I took a few hot laps in a spec Miata with a bad ass dude wearing pajama pants!...Which made me think: "boy, I wish I worked in pajama pants all day!" and also: "I need need a jap sport car with a v8". My firebird was completely parted inside of 30 days and I had my FD shell on its way from AZ two weeks later. I bought the car here on Norotors from some sack of shit from AZ who "forgot" to mention he sold a bunch of the included parts after making a deal with me. To this day, I still have not seen a more beat down, stripped, cheap, but also rolling FD for sale. I wanted to start with a clean slate, and that's exactly what I got.
Flash forward to 2015: Over the last 4 years I’ve built the car, rebuilt the car, rebuilt the car, rebuilt the car...and so on. Its been running before, complete and ready to drive before, and moving under its own power before. But we all know how these projects go, especially for semi-broke college students. Anyway, two months ago it was sitting in my garage a complete car. It had a stock 5.3l with an ls6 cam, custom 76mm based front mount turbo setup, Holley HP efi, custom roll bar, stage 2 t56, too many stupid little mods to list...everything short of paint, which I was going to do this summer.
A few weeks ago this whole Sikky mount kit thing came around, and at the time it was posted on this forum I already knew my buddy had the first setup ready to go. He works for wiring specialties, however it was his own project car and not directly a wiring specialties project. When he decided to abort the FD build in favor of a 4-door something we talked about the possibility of me buying the whole project but devolved to just taking over the Sikky sponsorship and swap kit. After getting Justin@SIKKY involved we settled on a deal that satisfied all parties and I took possession of the parts. I never started a build thread before because of the ridiculous time table and lack of progress while in school, but part of the agreement is to help display the install of this first kit via build thread...so here we are!
Now that my life story is behind us, I’m not going to focus on my car exactly for the time being. This build thread is more about displaying all the SIKKY parts by themselves so everyone can look closely, ask questions, ask me for more pictures, measurements etc. And also install the entire basic kit plus headers. Once that is all complete I may document the rest of my build, or not...I’m lazy when not under contractual obligation!
Lastly: ANY questions that you may have regarding pricing of the kit, availability of the kit, ETA, etc can and should be referred directly to Justin@Sikky, who responds very quickly with email ( sales@sikky.com ) and is awesome to work with.
ANY questions that you may have regarding the fit and finish, install, specific picture's, clearances, etc please post them right here and don’t PM me. I'm happy to answer any and all PM's, but I’ve gotten a lot of duplicate questions already and would prefer to keep all the Q and A as a public resource.
