Hey guys, i was going through my old pics and i found all these pics of my car from when i got it two years ago to now. I figured you guys would enjoy to see what my car has gone thru the past two years.
I first found the car at a dealership in east orange with 28k orig miles, owned by 1 owner, the dealership wanted 7k for it. Well with some haggling i got him to do $3k out the door. I think this was a great price for a almost mint car (paint was faded from sitting outside for so long and the leather inside was dried up, but it had super clean history)
I next started to clean up the engine bay.
about three-four months later i decided to get the car ready for paint, in this pic i pretty much stripped the car down for wetsanding
heres a pic of the milage after those few months
I then sent the car over to maaco for a paint job, i ended up buying 89+ tails and polishing my sawblades while i waited for the car to get back from paint, heres a pic of when i got it back and after i reinstalled my painted moldings
At one point i started getting a little ricey and ordered clear corners. I also scored my first set of wheels.
I then reverted back to stock turn signals cause i thought it was much cleaner and bought lowering springs
Last spring break i decided to go na-t, after all the kinks were worked out i ended up going maft for some tunability. Heres a quick engine bay shot
This brings us to how my car looks today, i ended up upgrading to tein coil overs in this pic and got my new wheels
This winter i will be pulling some stuff out of my bay and switching over to the cressida setup and relocating my coil packs for a much cleaner look. There still is alot of history that i missed, like alot of mods that i've done. As of the beginning of last summer i was making 250rwhp (stock boost) over the stock 170rwhp from when i was NA, but since then things have been upgraded like a new IC and the car should be at 300rwhp as we speak, but i have't gotten it onto a dyno yet. Hope you guys enjoy this thread, i will try to keep it updated as i clean up the bay.
I first found the car at a dealership in east orange with 28k orig miles, owned by 1 owner, the dealership wanted 7k for it. Well with some haggling i got him to do $3k out the door. I think this was a great price for a almost mint car (paint was faded from sitting outside for so long and the leather inside was dried up, but it had super clean history)
I next started to clean up the engine bay.
about three-four months later i decided to get the car ready for paint, in this pic i pretty much stripped the car down for wetsanding
heres a pic of the milage after those few months
I then sent the car over to maaco for a paint job, i ended up buying 89+ tails and polishing my sawblades while i waited for the car to get back from paint, heres a pic of when i got it back and after i reinstalled my painted moldings
At one point i started getting a little ricey and ordered clear corners. I also scored my first set of wheels.
I then reverted back to stock turn signals cause i thought it was much cleaner and bought lowering springs
Last spring break i decided to go na-t, after all the kinks were worked out i ended up going maft for some tunability. Heres a quick engine bay shot
This brings us to how my car looks today, i ended up upgrading to tein coil overs in this pic and got my new wheels
This winter i will be pulling some stuff out of my bay and switching over to the cressida setup and relocating my coil packs for a much cleaner look. There still is alot of history that i missed, like alot of mods that i've done. As of the beginning of last summer i was making 250rwhp (stock boost) over the stock 170rwhp from when i was NA, but since then things have been upgraded like a new IC and the car should be at 300rwhp as we speak, but i have't gotten it onto a dyno yet. Hope you guys enjoy this thread, i will try to keep it updated as i clean up the bay.
