Here she is the day i bought her!
The replacement suspension i ordered (2-26-2011)
Replaced a couple of mounts (2-27-2011)
Suspension arrived (3-4-2011)
Install (3-6-2011)
And wouldn't ya know it, the front was already lowered on S2 springs lol
And it was obvious the rear had gone to crap a long time ago with as much greasy nastyness the ebay sleeve overs had all over them
I was so concerened about getting it done and getting it done right that i totally forgot to take after pics so sorry about that
Oh and before i forget i swapped out the muffler that came on my car for a friends old muffler off of his EG hatch, it looks and sounds much better now! (3-7-2011)
Before:
After:
When i first bought the car the first thing i noticed was that the headlights were in bad shape, they were foggy you could barely tell they were on at night and the first time i popped the hood i realized they were in worse shape then originally percieved. Most if not all off the tabs were broken and they were litereally falling apart, so i went ahead and ordered a new set along with some 10k HID's
It was hard to get a pic to show just how good they looked but take my word they looked much better than the old ones, and they werent falling apart lol
I did a console console swap with one of my friends that also owns a hatch because i personally hated where the armrest was located and he wanted an armrest so it worked out for the both of us. I also installed a Wink mirror for better visability while driving
Old one
Newish one
Wink Mirror
Also as many of you know, the longer you have a car the more you start to notice problems with it as have i. I mean i noticed in the beggining that the core support on my car was a little rough but a little rough became a huge understatement the more i got to looking at it. Originally i only noticed something was wrong because my front end wasn't lining up so me and my friend Kyle that owns his own body shop just planned on fixing it but after i had taken a detailed look at it i came to the conclusion that it was beyond repair and would simply need to be replaced along with the roof of my car. One of the other significant issues with the car was the motor and tranny, i had absolutely no idea how many miles were on either of them, they both leaked fluid, and the tranny would grind going into 3rd gear. Luckily i had a "spare" motor swap sitting in my garage :naughty:
I finally got some wheels for her, when the guy i traded with described them to me i was under the impression that they were Rota Slips but they turned out to be Drag DR-23's which is fine because they are almost identical, im pretty happy with the way they look personally and most if not all of the criticism i've recieved has been positive. Here are a couple of pics!
The night i got them (4-17-2011)
And for reference, Before:
After:
So you remember that "spare" motor swap i said i had laying around!? Well....
What was in it!
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