andesmint
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:th_nervous:Well i guess i'll give some background on the car to start with. My step dad bought it for me at an auction for 2000 bucks. Long story short he paid way to much as the car had a "tick". A few months later the motor blew completely and kept ticking and clicking and popping for about 5 minutes after we shut it off haha. Idk exactly what went wrong, because I just didn't know anything about cars at the time. Sooooo, since the motor blew we paid a shop to put a new one in. That one blew two days later... I didn't even hot rod it. I was going 25 down a dirt road and it basically just decided it didn't want to live. So the shop put in another motor with only 60k on it which was great because the first replacement motor had 85k on it.
So, now the car had a good motor... but it still looked like dogs A$s. The clear on the hood was gone, it had hail damage, front right fender had a huge dent, it was maroon (no offense to maroon lovers... i just don't like the color maroon alright!), and well the rockers were missing. So i got to work fixing all of that. Here is the only picture i have of that process...
aaand here is what she looks like now
this one shows the color better. It's a gm color. Dark ming metalic blue
After painting it i drove it for about a year before blowing the LIM gaskets. That's pretty much when i started learning about how to work on cars besides body work. I ended up rebuilding the whole top end, new water pump, rack and pinion, replaced the tie rods in the rear, new UIM and the list goes on. This was all done in my garage with the help of some friends. I also did an alignment on it in my schools auto tech shop.
Well that's got to be enough background. time to talk about more current matters.
Got an L-67 top end from the junkyard for 100 bucks!
Nasty looking M90
All cleaned up =)
I don't really think the other parts are interesting yet so ill post pics of those as i get them cleaned up... Oh yeah I also got a set of Stainless ZZP exhaust manifold off of the same car for 50 bucks! scoooore. I decided to polish them up quick with a compound and a buffer wheel on an angle grinder. took about ten minutes haha.
Before
After
And here is a pic of the doner car
I'm hoping to get the top end in the car over Christmas break. I just need the gaskets at this point I believe. The headers are already on my car and ill try to post pics of them later. Much more to come!
Current mods: HAI, ZZP stainless headers, magnaflow mufflers ( I actually like this set up it's super quiet but with a low low note), added a HUD and a DIC, got rid of the fabric interior and replaced it with the leathery graphite one, 04+ needles
In the works: hand porting the L-67 heads, LIM, Supercharger outlet and intake... yaaay topswap soon to come! Reptile PCM with the shift button doodad
So, now the car had a good motor... but it still looked like dogs A$s. The clear on the hood was gone, it had hail damage, front right fender had a huge dent, it was maroon (no offense to maroon lovers... i just don't like the color maroon alright!), and well the rockers were missing. So i got to work fixing all of that. Here is the only picture i have of that process...
aaand here is what she looks like now
this one shows the color better. It's a gm color. Dark ming metalic blue
After painting it i drove it for about a year before blowing the LIM gaskets. That's pretty much when i started learning about how to work on cars besides body work. I ended up rebuilding the whole top end, new water pump, rack and pinion, replaced the tie rods in the rear, new UIM and the list goes on. This was all done in my garage with the help of some friends. I also did an alignment on it in my schools auto tech shop.
Well that's got to be enough background. time to talk about more current matters.
Got an L-67 top end from the junkyard for 100 bucks!
Nasty looking M90
All cleaned up =)
I don't really think the other parts are interesting yet so ill post pics of those as i get them cleaned up... Oh yeah I also got a set of Stainless ZZP exhaust manifold off of the same car for 50 bucks! scoooore. I decided to polish them up quick with a compound and a buffer wheel on an angle grinder. took about ten minutes haha.
Before
After
And here is a pic of the doner car
I'm hoping to get the top end in the car over Christmas break. I just need the gaskets at this point I believe. The headers are already on my car and ill try to post pics of them later. Much more to come!
Current mods: HAI, ZZP stainless headers, magnaflow mufflers ( I actually like this set up it's super quiet but with a low low note), added a HUD and a DIC, got rid of the fabric interior and replaced it with the leathery graphite one, 04+ needles
In the works: hand porting the L-67 heads, LIM, Supercharger outlet and intake... yaaay topswap soon to come! Reptile PCM with the shift button doodad
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