Another Project Car
03-25-2006, 02:20 AM
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Another Project Car
Well, I had made a post a while ago about an EG that I picked up. I had traded some misc stuff that I had laying around and got this.
It was Z6 swapped and needed to be wired for vtec and 4 wire O2. I did some general maintenance on it, bought some partial quarter replacements (but did not install them), put in a new clutch and new intake manifold gasket and sold it for $2500 :P
I then bought this at a local salvage yard:
I believe the previous owner hit a deer as there was deer hair stuck in the bumper and there was blood and fat all over the underside of the car
I put on a new OEM core support, got some used stock headlights and put a new OEM bumper cover on it and ended up with this:
I paid $1600 for the car from the salvage yard and it took about $520 in parts to put it back together body wise and have a new windhshield installed. I had to replace an O2 sensor and it will need a new radiator because the old one is crooked and has the mounting tab broke off, but it does not leak. It won't get new airbags, I made a replacement cover for the passenger side one, might go with the tray later and I will replace the steering wheel with a Momo wheel. I guess the beauty of the whole thing is that I had next to nothing into it because I used the money from the sale of the EG to fund it and I had next to nothing into that. I would say that I have about $1k out of pocket into it. I get it inspected next Friday, then I can register it...wohooo.
It was Z6 swapped and needed to be wired for vtec and 4 wire O2. I did some general maintenance on it, bought some partial quarter replacements (but did not install them), put in a new clutch and new intake manifold gasket and sold it for $2500 :P
I then bought this at a local salvage yard:
I believe the previous owner hit a deer as there was deer hair stuck in the bumper and there was blood and fat all over the underside of the car
I put on a new OEM core support, got some used stock headlights and put a new OEM bumper cover on it and ended up with this:
I paid $1600 for the car from the salvage yard and it took about $520 in parts to put it back together body wise and have a new windhshield installed. I had to replace an O2 sensor and it will need a new radiator because the old one is crooked and has the mounting tab broke off, but it does not leak. It won't get new airbags, I made a replacement cover for the passenger side one, might go with the tray later and I will replace the steering wheel with a Momo wheel. I guess the beauty of the whole thing is that I had next to nothing into it because I used the money from the sale of the EG to fund it and I had next to nothing into that. I would say that I have about $1k out of pocket into it. I get it inspected next Friday, then I can register it...wohooo.
03-25-2006, 02:28 AM
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1.5 BAR
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Join Date: Mar 2004
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Re: Another Project Car
Originally Posted by hotrex
sweet, not my fav color or body style tho
Should be fun though.
