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Just bought her last Sunday, drove up 4 hours in the rain to get it. Once we got there I discovered it was a little rougher than described.... Kid said the rockers were a little rough, and it had a few dings and scratches here and there, well it turns out the rockers are completely gone, there's a hole (small) in the driver side rear floor, both quarters are rotten and have been fixed temporarily all ready, passenger side door was swung backwards in the wind into the fender (caved the door right in and didn't allow door to open/close properly), the front lip of the hood is covered in small rust bubbles, and the roof was supposedly fine even though the portable garage it was in collapsed/blew over the car, well it isn't fine its full of probably half dozen good sized dents clearly from the garage coming down....and the driver side quarter window is smashed.
So anyways the good is that the car has a sr20det black top swapped into it, has hsd adjustae coil overs, full 3" HKS exhaust, short through shifter, xspower intercooler, mushimoto aluminum rad with dual slim fans, HKS bov, xxrs 17/8.25&9.75,and a few other goodies. Unfortunately the wiring in this car was done really quickly and basically just so it worked so I have spent the last 4 days going through it all and fixing what needed fixing and undoing a few things here and there..I had to rewire the headlights, both electric fans, the power cable running to the trunk, and the battery box aswell as the ground.
Also changed the door, banged out the fender, fixed the trunk latch (had a rope to pull it open) rewired the fan switch, aswell as the boost gauge and light, fixed a power steering leak, swapped out old sticky power window switches for new ones... And a few things I'm forgetting... Anyways here's some pics of her so far.
Ride home
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Got her home
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The right quarter is the worse
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Pass. Door beat up
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Spare parts
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Changin out the door
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Some nasty power steering leaks
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Fan wires/grounds/power cable when I got it (glove box and heater box removed)
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Tiddied up a bit
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After I cleaned up the fan switch wires and power cable (runs along tranny tunnel)
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I wanted to eliminate these two switches but couldn't get it without blowing fuses so I left em, the racecar switch is for the fans lol and the other is for boost gauge light.
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Needs tires bad
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Ended up running power from the left side headlight to the right side because the wires were dead, too bad I already ordered a new hid kit lol oh well, I'll have spares..
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This pic shows how the bottom of the intercooler is pushed in, will this affect anything?
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This is what the engine bay looked like before I got it, if you look you can see wires running everywhere down the left side, there all routed half decent now and the main power cable (big blue one running over the back of the motor) is now ran straight through the left side (looking at the picture) with all the other wires
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Well that's it for now, if you guys see anything concerning or that I should know feel free to let me know, I'd appreciate it a lot.
More to come...
 
Discussion starter · #3 ·
Which lights are you talking about? The one picture from the left, the bulb is just burnt out by the headlight, they do come on with the lights, the two amber lights in the bottom front are turn signals.
Hid cut offs?
 
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Nevermind on the turn signals, I had a moment of cranial rectosis. Yea, you know how regular halogen low beams have a line after a certain point where the light is cut off, putting hids in usually tends to do away with that giving oncoming traffic serious glare. And I would definitely get some camber adjustment before a new set of tires.
 
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Oh ok yeah I get ya now.
Yessir, already adjusted the front, they were pushed in as car as they could go (max camber) and I pulled it out as far as the current bolt holes will allow but they're still in a few degrees so I'm going to use the bolt holes further out. I'll post new pics when I get her al set up..
Is there any way to adjust rear camber?
 
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Yeah this kid was basically just trying to be "cool", meanwhile his brand new tires had gone to shit.
Thanks I'll check that out in the back, I definitely want to get the camber straightened back out before I put new rubber on her.
 
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Got rear camber bars
30mm rear overfenders
New window (old one was smashed with potable garage)
Worked out the damage on the roof from the garage
Also bumped out caved in fender
Found a dead mouse above the headliner
Just adjusted the coilovers to a mad Jdm drift stance.
...Well it looks better to me anyways hahah
Pics
Quarters mocked up
They're duraflex so they aren't the greatest... Especially the gas door filler panel...
I plan to mold the panels on though so everything will be fixed
Probably won't use this abortion though:
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Quarters
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Adjusted coils
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This is how they were when I started with it, now the collars are all sorta stacked up at the base and I turned the centres down
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Camber bars not yet installed
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Nobody likes my car?? :( lol

Screwed the quarters on today for a more accurate kinda idea of how they'll look.
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Also just messed around with some cardboard and duct tape lol
This isn't the final product obviously, if I end up going through with it it will be molded in glass.
Didn't really have any dimensions to go off if so this was just winging it basically, looks awkward from the back though , might be too tall but like I said just messing around here
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I like it, I just try not to comment on build threads unless I have a question or have something intelligent to say. what kind of overs are those? you get fronts too? what kind of screws are those and how secure are they with screws?
 
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Yea I noticed that too, not much activity here

The overs are duraflex (extreme dimensions) they're 30mm and not the greatest fit or quality, but they were only $199 for the set (+shipping and import fees for me though)
They will be molded on when I bring her into work, I only have about 10 screw is I. Each side right now, like I said just seeing how they'll look and rough idea of how they'll look. They're actually pretty sturdy once mounted on the car, off the car they are rather thin and feel fragile almost.
I don't have any plans for fronts yet as I would like to go to a kouki front clip in the future so it will stay stock with the exception of a GReddy lip I have on order aswell.
Stay tuned!!
 
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This is a really noob question I know, but my intercooler hangs a few inches below the front bumper causing it to apparently take a beating, right in the centre it is pushed up quite a bit and the bottom few rows of fins are damaged and all folded over, obviously this isn't optimal for performance, but will this affect it so much to start overheating or anything I should worry bout?
Kinda hard to see but here:
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