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Due to having troubles getting a reasonably cost bracket setup for the ProCharger, I decided to bail on a boosted engine, and for the sake of getting it back on the road, am going with a 535 build.

Long story on the brackets/serp setup, but at one point was tempted to continue with what I had, knowing I would have considerable belt slip.

Sold the rotating assembly, sold the TKO-600, sold all the efi stuff I had, sold my McLeod twin disc clutch setup, and most went to funding the LeMans tribute project and replacing some of the parts I sold.

Did have an opportunity to purchase a APT Extreme TKO-600, new clutch and bell, and a few other parts.

Since I was doing a ground up on the tribute project, I had called Spotts to ask if he could squeeze machine work in on my IA2, and was going to put that in the tribute, but at the time he was 2+ years out, so I freshened up the 461 I had in the tribute.

A year ago last Oct, Spotts reached out to me asking if I was still interested in the IA2 build, and, when your name comes up, you jump on it. On xmas day, yesterday, he posted pics of the engine being fired on the test stand.

And here we are.

Here's a couple pics of the IA2 build.

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