The car drives really nice and seems solid, but dude, you NEEEED to get rid of that alternator whine. It's SO bad...

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i know...im gonna check the wiring again today when shes off work, if it keeps up, im just gonna find her a cheap sub and box and throw it in with my old amp instead.

so quick update...sarah's birthday is coming up at the end of the month, so as an early b-day present to her, i bought her a set of s-techs. So we spent a week up at my cottages and came home and her car was nice and low. Changed the look of the car sooo much. It rides alot nicer now too cuz we had all 4 corners shocks blown.


you can see the difference that the S-techs make too...
BEFORE:

AFTER:

How much were the s-techs??

Congrats to Sarah! That's so awesome

on a side note I wish I had a boyfriend that would spontaneously do things for my car! Sarah your a lucky lady

after 20 minutes of waiting for my pc at work to load all the photos.


GOD DAMN! Those S-techs SLAMMED that car..a full HAND to barly 2 fingers...NICE

Great work. so..when u bringing both down to the USA? specificly the East Coast region? lol

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$237 from JRP in missisuaga with tax. I think they have another set instock too

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Well i have 2 loves...sarah and cars...so when one of them wants me to do work on the other...im always happy. I still got plenty more work ahead for it..im just waiting for a sertain EC6GC member to send me a spoiler.....

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We are probably gonna head back your way for next years DWG meet....im workin full time now and sarahs gonna b working full time and going to school..so we wont be able to get too many days off. But next years DWG meet we are both gonna b there, and im gonna try and convince Nader to come down too.

sweet find! nice work on the rims!

more work done...sarah started her new job..well..new location, same job today, so i had the day 2 my self to just do what i wanted to do...so whats there to do on a saturday afternoon with some friends??...work on the car...again....nothing majour today, we spent a bit of time working on sarahs car and a bit of time working on my buddies intrepid thats been sittin for a month and a half while he was away in Lebanon.

My freaking messy shop..i just had every thing every where cuz i had so much on the go..


Any ways, todays updates are:
Painted small sections of the car to cover up dents and scratches...i did a light sand with some 800 gritt then just masked and sprayed..im gonna wet sand tomorrow to blend the colours a bit better.




Then i also tryed to work on the hood..when we got it, it was a little fadded, but nothing too bad...but after i tryed to use some of that nufinish crap on it..it made it sooooo much worse...so i decided to wet sand it to bring some of the luster back in...didnt work..just like the roof...so i painted it too..but i dont have any pic of the finished product yet...so heres a teaser..


also i did some engine bay dressing up...aswell as a well needed oil change


i got bored too and decided to make some of the inteiror look a bit better too...sarah wants to keep a full black interior, so she wants to do a black headliner sometime..but untill then, shes just gonna have to deal with the gray one and the map light and mirror painted black...


ill take some more pics tomorrow after i do some more work....what im gonna be doing...i dont really know..probably brake job and re-finishing her other 2 rims.

Whats the paint u used for the wheels? like whats the exact color called? Thanks

For your (her) headliner, check out www.stockinteriors.com, that's what I'll be using and they look pretty good. Of course, I'm getting a full pre-molded carpet as well as the headliner kit, out with the tan in with the black! Car's looking great by the way!

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Its Duplicolor bronze wheel paint. Its like $7 a can at any autoparts store.

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Ive been on their site b4, im probably gonna be ordering my self a new carpet from them sometime soon. But as for the headliner, theres an automotive upholstery shop maybe 10 min away from my house, and they sell headliner material...its like $15 for the material to make it...its just i dont wanna go out and tear hers out and try and fix it my self right now. But im gonna be doing it sometime in the next few months.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Aug 12, 2007 - 10:55 AM

Nice. You'll probably wind up getting their carpet before me, so let me know how it is. Are you getting the pre-molded stuff (I don't actually know if they sell regular carpet)?

Hey Valo. What shocks/struts did you need and where did u get them in T.O area?

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on my car i have KYB GR2s i got from Performance improvements on the queensway...but on sarahs car i have a set of lower end KYBs that i got from CarQuest here in windsor.

new update..we finaly got the back wheels on and refinished, i installed a colour matched grill *same colour as the wheels*, painted the hood, and also did some glazing over the big dent in the rear 1/4 pannel. It looks decent but you can tell that it was puttied..i gotta re-do the section and do a bit better paint work...but im gonna be doing that when paint time comes around. Any ways, enjoy..

Dirty car alert!!! lol

yall are doin good work, but imo i dont like dark wheels on dark cars...

i think it makes them look like they are rollin on spares.

they honestly arent that dark, its just the lighting when i took that picture.

It's coming along nicely man

new update..after a month and a bit of waiting, the TRD spoiler should b here on wensday or Tuesday. So that should really give the car a better look. So that means, new spoiler aswell as a new trunk lid coming within the next week.

hey i'm alive!

congrats on the car!

todays update. I did some little work on the car today/tonight. I decided to change the interior light colour. I did the clock, gauges, and turn signals. Also the original stereo surround was broken in to 2 peices, so we got a new one from a scrap yard and i got around to installing it. We also finaly got our TRD spoiler in the mail...well..kinda..we have 2/3rd of it. We got the 2 sideposts today, but not the center section. I decided to re-paint them cuz they were a bit rough. I also tryed to install the spoiler side posts on the trunk..but theres somethin not right with the spoiler on it right now and the bolts wont come out. But i also noticed that the trunk is starting to rust pretty good. But luckly theres a wrecked convert at this scrap yard about 20 min away and they have a mint trunk for $40 . Any ways, ill let the pics do the talking.





The Family...we painted the 83 flat black and i shaved and filled in all of the little holes from the side moulding.

and the TRD spoiler

todays update. We were suppost to go out to my friends work and get the car aligned but his hoist was being used for undercoating so we couldnt get out there. So we found this out about half way to his work *about a 40 min drive down the highway* so we figured we would make the best of the trip, so we headed over to this scrap yard that i knew of that had a wrecked 95 convert. So we went in with some plyers, sockets, etc and came out with a bill of $210 and a car full of parts. We got a new deck lid *in red with the underside cover*, GT front sway bar, OEM GT strut bar, lighted ignition ring, climate controll *for me to tinker around with*, blower motor, shifter surround with convertable switches, shift knob, vent for the peice under the steering colom *for some reason my GTS doesnt have it but sarahs coupe does*, a OEM leather wrapped shift knob and a couple other little parts. We were gonna take the steering wheel out, but i couldnt remember how to get the airbag out. It was a pretty nice leather wraped gt wheel too. So im gonna b headin back out that way in a week or so's time to pick that up too. Ill have pics of the progress in a few days.

Looks good Brian

Wow. It's really coming together slowly. It'll look so much better with the TRD style spoiler and Curren tail lights. You must love your girlfriend alot to be doing all this for her.

jus kinda curious but what kinda paint did u used for yoru (her) top?

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Currens are probably gonna be coming in a short time. But i think its more she loves me more to trust me to do all the work. But i like working on cars and customizing them. with her car, i can try new things on her car, and i can always do more work. Plus with her car being the lowest end model, i can always build up on it.

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I used Duplicolor 9oz. touchup paint in a rattel can. It was like $8.50 a can or somethin. Its universal black.

It's really coming along, nice job!

So, what was the point of moving the mirror switch to the center console next to the cigarette lighter? Just aesthetic(sp)? Or do you have something else where it used to be now?

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it's an ST with no power windows/locks so the mirror switch is not on the door.

yep....

so yesterday was a fun day. we took the car to a shop to get a safety check. So we go bring the car down, and pick it up and e found out we need new drums, a new front caliper, and 2 new tires on the front *good thing they are only $60 a peice*. So now we got a new caliper, drums, etc on order..should b in on wensday, but our temporary trip ticket is expired today and we cant get another one because we imported the car. So we are kinda screwed in that sence. But also, as we were coming back from the shop..sarah was driving at first and noticed that the brake pedal felt kinda spongy and the brakes didnt grab very well..so half way home we switched, i started to drive and then we had no brakes what so ever. So we pulled over and called the shop..and you have to love the conincidence of us leaving a shop where they were checking the brakes and pulled the drums off, and that within 20 min of picking it up, we blow a wheel cylinder. So we got the cylinder on order so its coming in on wensday too...but heres the best part....we are heading back to toronto untill like the 3rd on tuesday *yay*..lol. So we had to get Keroppi towed home...poor Keroppi. But when we get back in Sept, the work is gonna start all over again and she should be better than new.

Pics
Sarah next to pour hurting Keroppi