I figured i would just keep updating this post instead of keep making new ones like i did in the past. The car has been torn down as far as she was going to be this year, Its only upwards and together from here on out.. :)

Ahhh.... a Sawzall and a pile of plastic @!#$.... eeek. Someone murdered my car.... :P

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Nahh.... I just showed the crush guard who's boss...

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Then i beat this @!#$ out of my knuckels again today reinstalling my control arms with the new Prothane bushings, what a freakin chore that was..

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And the teaser shots.... I should have the entire front end buttoned back up by the end of this week.
















wait for it.....







here ya go.... ;)

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My garage is a royal cluster fu(& right now with all my tools i've needed to play around... Look for some more pics tomorrow night as tomorrow afternoon i will be sweating balls in the 92 degrees is suppose to hit installing the CF fenders, and seeing how i like them or not....

It wouldnt be such a bad idea to take care of some f that rust while you are gutting the car. Would hate to see you have a great shot to do something about it only to need to do it again later whe you end up with a problem. Those exhaust pipes look like dead ass along with most of the undercarage.

The exhaust i'm not worried about i've got a new one sitting at the shop all fabbed up...Just waiting on a little more cash to pay for materials because i want to go dual mufflers and the ones i had originall i didn't like, and the under carrage is getting coated this summer with some rust inhibator from a local shop. Or if the quote comes back too high, i will just hit everything up with some black rocker pannel spray to stop rust at the shop on the lift.. ha ha.. i love have a shop and great friends.

*cough* JERK! *cough* *green with envy...:cwm27: *

Lifts do help ALOT

Well the fenders are basically both on, i have to unfortunatly have to take both of them back off again and drill some new holes in the fenders since they were meant for 95-99 style and its all fukkkked up. Also being its fiberglass underneath, the fitment is pretty damn good i must say, but I still need to do a little tweaking so the 2000+ headlight brackets fit better since something isn't sitting right and causing the headlights to get all discombobulated.... lol.. I will be continueing tomorrow afternoon again.

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Oh yea, and also painted the bumper flat black like james suggested above and your right its alot better off and dosn't show when the bumper is put on...

I'll have more pics up tomorrow night... Enjoy.. :)

Do you have to do all that modding for every 95-99 cavy that does the 00+ headlight/typeJ conversion? Also, what are your plans with the color difference between the white/black(cf)? Leaving the car half/half? Painting the rest black, or other color? Painting the cf fenders? But aside from that, it looks like it's coming along well man, glad to see it's working out for ya.

Yeah cody, methinks you may need to get a cf trunk or something to give an even contrast to all that cf in the front. With all the cf in the front at first glance to normal people its just going to look like you have been doing way too much junkyarding and not enough painting.

Also to the above.....I really hate it when people paint cf. Carbon fiber IS a color in my opinion. If someone plans on painting cf they might as well have just saved some money and went with some craptacular fg.

Do you have to do all that modding for every 95-99 cavy that does the 00+ headlight/typeJ conversion? Also, what are your plans with the color difference between the white/black(cf)? Leaving the car half/half? Painting the rest black, or other color? Painting the cf fenders? But aside from that, it looks like it's coming along well man, glad to see it's working out for ya.

Yes everyone who does the headlight conversion has to cut their stock fender brackets in order to have the 2000+ one clear properly. I tried using a hack saw, but i ended up saying fuck it and went out and bought a black and decker rotary tool... life is soo much easier with proper tools. ;) AS far as leaving the carbon fiber the way it is, i have decided i am going to have to do some painting over them because i don't like it, my car is waaay to light. So i am going to do a 2-tone design a portion of the car is going to be black and the other still artic white. I am just too unsure right now. I am going to finish up the install, and take some really high res pics and see what the photo shop people can come up with design wise.

durr... not totally paiting over them. Which ever portion of the car i decide to turn black the part where it extends into the Cf will show the CF there.. and white will be below that.

Here is an idea of sorts. If not a cf trunk and you want to go with a paint break up idea. Why not ask around and see about going off the cf lines running toward the back of the car in not so much a flame job but like a cracking break up that goes back maybe a tad into the front doors.

It will give it an effect that due to speed the cf is being pulled off the car and underneith is white.

Yeah, its a little out there but the mental picture looked really kick ass to me.

Here is an idea of sorts. If not a cf trunk and you want to go with a paint break up idea. Why not ask around and see about going off the cf lines running toward the back of the car in not so much a flame job but like a cracking break up that goes back maybe a tad into the front doors.

It will give it an effect that due to speed the cf is being pulled off the car and underneith is white.

Yeah, its a little out there but the mental picture looked really kick ass to me.

I agree. It'd be something unique that no one else has.

~Crazzzyj

I agree. It'd be something unique that no one else has.

~Crazzzyj

I thought of that after I posted so ummmm......I take it back and thus keep the idea for myself. It will look better on red anyways. :lol:

looking good CRJ, when is the turbo kit going on?

Ok here is todays update... Fenders are offically on the car, headlights are on, and dun dun da... Type-J front bumper is 3/4 of the way on. I just have some minor tweaking to do with it... I love urethane kits.. I am soooo glad i got one, there is nothing to it! :D

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I just have to finish securing the front bumper, put all the fender well liners back in, attach the mesh to the front bumper since the car won't see paint till next spring ( no i don't plan on driving the car either its going to stay garaged but i have like 4-5 planned trips with it and thats all) then put the steelies back on and roll the car out into the driveway and start working on the side skirts and then the rear bumper. So i've still got alot left to do.... and the next 2 days are completely off from work... woo hoo!!


looking good CRJ, when is the turbo kit going on?

I'm seriously looking into doing an ecotec swap then drop the 3K on the GM supercharger. :wink: But thats along way down the road, after i get this bitch painted and rubber for my wheels. Oy vey...

I sure do hope you can manage to pull off that type j cody. Ive yet to see that damn park bench get put on a car and look good but Im hoping this is an odd case that it works.

Damn thing gives me da jibblies.

I sure do hope you can manage to pull off that type j cody. Ive yet to see that damn park bench get put on a car and look good but Im hoping this is an odd case that it works.

Damn thing gives me da jibblies.

I as well agree, every kit i've seen like that looks like ass, but there's always a first.

This car is my inspiration for the whole project. I have yet to see another 4 door pull this off like Aaron's from JBO...

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.. and the more I look at the rksport dual exhaust setup on his car makes me leans towards scraping my whole previous idea, dropped the 400 on that the biggest fucking resonator i can find.. oh and the prostock wing is comming too. lol... I am in love with his car...

It is nice indeed, I think his is the only car i've seen, and actually like the half taillight idea. I can't stand that! But for some reason, it doesnt bother me on that car. Not too keen on the spoiler tho, I like them short and low but that one is just too....far out towards the rear? Idk how else to explain it, it sticks out too much?

but that one is just too....far out towards the rear? Idk how else to explain it, it sticks out too much?

I call the prostock/type j combo as the park bench/picnic table effect and cody that just kinda hurts that you are trying to emulate someone elses car. Its now a sad day for myself indeed.:disappoin

I call the prostock/type j combo as the park bench/picnic table effect and cody that just kinda hurts that you are trying to emulate someone elses car. Its now a sad day for myself indeed.:disappoin

So your saying having the type-J kit and importfighter side skirts is a crime?.. lol

So far.. I will be the only 3rd-4th guy on JBO to rock this routine with a sedan, let alone starting from a base 99 car. So this is nothing really new or unique, however I have more carbon fiber than any of those guys so thats my seperating factor and the 2-tone paint job that will be done. The type-J kit is unfortunatly very very common. Just not on sedans... I will also be keeping my tail lights and i am thinking about actually going back to the stock red ones. Then the few guys who have this done are in like kentucky, michigan, and one other place. No one in NY... i've only seen coupes with the type J

Man, this thing will be so sick when its done, it'll probably be the one I refer to when people say cavvy's cant go fast or look nice :P

Well I got the entire front end all buttoned up, then realized i missed one of the tabs on the fender and it is on the wrong side of the freaking metal tab its suppose to be on... $#6*(28*(&*&*#Q&!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

With that vented... I am going to see if i can just remove the top bolts and loosen the bottom ones and pull the fender back towards me a little bit and get it to where it suppose to be and not have to remove EVERYTHING again... Then i have another freaking problem to deal with now thats going to require me to do a shit load of lookin crap up... ugggh..

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And now here is my problem.....

One headlight is brighter than the other, when i tested them out after i did everything it worked perfectly but i never turned the car on untill today. Now i have my DRL light flashing and this... WTF!!!!!!!!!

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this blows ass.....

Trial and error my friend....trial and error.

The car looks real good, I like the kit and the carbon. I however am not very fond of the pro-stock spoilers, to me they just look rediculous, but to each his own.

Looks like a tricked out cop car lol Kinda cool

OK.... Back to square one with the lights. :wink: Spent the past 4 hours fucking around with all my wire connections just to find out the fucking fuse was blown. But i also did another mod during the process.. no more DRL's... :biggrin: I was diggin deep into JBO history using the SEARCH function and oh boy does it ever pay off for me. This is actually required when doing the conversion without the complications of using wire relays. So they say, i haven't started the car back up yet to just prove the theory correct or false. But as of right now both headlights are functional right now.

i havnt looked at the post for a while and i like the progress...i was reading the posts and as soon as i heard weak healight i knew weak or blown fuse...lol then i kept reading and realized that YOUUUUUU already found out...the car is very confusing and i have to say that i dont like the carbon fiber fenders...but other than that i like the car as a whole....

The fenders look better in person rather than in pics.. but i have a whole 2 tone scheme i am going to do to them.

Are you shaving anything (locks handles?)

I may do the rear doors shaved, but the fronts will remain. I have to stop working on my car for a while now, while removing my rear bumper today there are plastic mounting brackets that attatch to the bumper and car, the screws were rusted in place and i couldn't get them to budge, so i tried drilling them out, the drill bit snapped in half and the drill slipped and the remaning part in the drill went right into my palm, barely missed a vein i think, but now my thumb feels weird. So i have like 85 days till my dealine i have to make so i am taking a break from this right now....

Ouch, major bummer.

sounds good, I was thinking about getting rid of just the rear handles, and the locks on the front two doors and the rear trunk. I think you can't run on the track with out front handles

Here is an idea of sorts. If not a cf trunk and you want to go with a paint break up idea. Why not ask around and see about going off the cf lines running toward the back of the car in not so much a flame job but like a cracking break up that goes back maybe a tad into the front doors.

It will give it an effect that due to speed the cf is being pulled off the car and underneith is white.

Yeah, its a little out there but the mental picture looked really kick ass to me.

Hmm... Cody, take a good shot of the side and I'll photoshop a few ideas for you, in my "Spare" time.

Glad to see it's progress, hope your hand heals quickly so you can git 'er done.

mmm... this looks like its better...

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My hand is healing alot quicker than i thought it would, So i will be progressing more this week on the car. I have to order 2 new brackets for the rear bumper since the ones are rusted to the stock bumper by screws that will not budge and drilling them did no good but inflict pain and lots of blood. So yea just gotta wait on them and we'll be back in buisness and i should have rubber in another couple weeks.

looks good man. keep up the nice work.

So with the modding you do to accomodate the 00+ conversion, could you install any 00+ bodykit on a 99-? I'm in love with the Wings west Avenger kit. Also, will the 00+ sideskirts and rear bumper need modding to fit on a 99-?

So with the modding you do to accomodate the 00+ conversion, could you install any 00+ bodykit on a 99-? I'm in love with the Wings west Avenger kit. Also, will the 00+ sideskirts and rear bumper need modding to fit on a 99-?

Yep with the 2000+ headlight conversion you can slap any front bumper designed for 2000-2002. You can even do a 2003-05 if ya wanted aswell. Its only a matter of swapping fenders, hoods and lights. If you even wanted to be more creative, you can turn your car into a Cavfire.

side skirts are the same 95-05 and rear bumpers are the same 95-02, the 03-05 don't have the little filler plate.

So with the modding you do to accomodate the 00+ conversion, could you install any 00+ bodykit on a 99-? I'm in love with the Wings west Avenger kit. Also, will the 00+ sideskirts and rear bumper need modding to fit on a 99-?

Heh:grinyes: . I'm with ya on the body kit selection, 5 days and I'm ordering the Avenger Kit. Finally got the money.

Hmmm, maybe in the future i'll consider the conversion. After doing it, how difficult would you say it was overall crj?

Hmmm, maybe in the future i'll consider the conversion. After doing it, how difficult would you say it was overall crj?

The hardest part was doing all the reasearch to get everything straight before i went cutting wires and splicing. The actual doing the work prolly took me like 15-20 min to cut, splice, solder and black tape everything back up. It had all been done many times in the past, but some people on JBO are real assholes and they are either not sure and didn't remember. But lucky for you guys, I did all the searching for you and i have diagrams out the wazoo to help anyone along if you want to do it. I thought i had all of it down pat, but the whole DRL threw me a curve ball. Puting the body kit on is harder than doing the headlight conversion i think..

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And the problem with every type-J rear bumper... WTF!!!

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I have a few ideas on how to take care of this... but i am not sure which one i want to go with. Putting a brace underneath won't help because the wave is sticking up and somehow i need for it to go down. Guess i need to browse the homedepot and see what i can find. Any ideas are welcome...

Wow, I have no idea other then heating and molding, damn that sucks....unless, is there anything to drill it down to? And then cover up the screw?

I have a couple different idea's I am going to try. The rear is just such a pain in the fucking ass you have no idea. There are stupid plastic brackets you have to get to align up, but try reaching into the trunk and under a body kit... you have to have some serious long arms. I can just barely do it. Its just alot of fucking around and its really annoying trying to do it on ones own.

This is just an idea, i did it when i repaired a vacuum... haha nothing to do with a car, but plastic is plastic (sort of) anyway, i would cut a small line out of that bump with an x-acto saw, then use a soldering iron to melt it back together then sand it down and i guess repeat as needed. Eventually i think it would go down.

man that really sux about the back bumper. hopes everything works out and u can fix it to look all nice. but other then that it looks like its coming together really nice. good luck with the rest.

This is kinda a two man job but it can work with one with some creative thinking.

If you can use the stock rear crush foam heat up the bumper via a heat gun or use the ghetto approach of a hair dryer. While one guy is maintaining heat on the bumper to keep it pliable run a layer of a two stage gel epoxy fiber glass to the top of the crush guard. Once that is done put the crush guard to the bumper and make sure to keep it down in all sections untill it drys fully. That 2 stage gel FG stuff works better then any other kind of adhesiv I have ever delt with.

If you cant work with the crush guard try and fab up something to sit bellow the top bumper line to ahear to the epoxy and to keep the bumper straight. It works like a charm.

Looks good man, glad to see you are pulling it all together. What color are you going to paint it? Sill going to be white?

Here's an idea, assuming you'll be painting the rear bumper white...

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I'm considering leaving the car all white..or doing 2-tone this way, just change the blue area to white..

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Well i'm offf to tear the rear bumper back off yet again and fuckin around with it somemore...

both of those pics you posted look really kool. either one you end up going with will look really good i think.

dude with the money you payed your gonna put up with that bumber? i would be pissed...id break it into little pieces and mail it back to them with a nice note. i know you didnt buy some piece of shit cheap ass kit so y did it come to you like that?
also if you want some cheap rubber for your rims y dont you go to one of those used tire places and get some used rubber....they cant sell you anything less then 70% tread and its a freakin steal...like 50-75 a tire

Tires you don't know anything about on $1000 rims....... not too good of an idea

Well the bumper is fixed now..I went a little too happy with the sawzall when cutting the rear crush guard and wasn't paying attention, there were 2 little stock brackets under the filler plate i broke off on both sides, so i got some galvinized 2" L-brackets and voila..Looks just like how its suppose to do. This has made my day now!

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Now i can go return the $40 bucks in Aluminium i have sitting in the back of my PT Cruiser and put it towards better use, like some 3M double sided tape for the side skirts... ha ha..

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dude with the money you payed your gonna put up with that bumber? i would be pissed...id break it into little pieces and mail it back to them with a nice note. i know you didnt buy some piece of shit cheap ass kit so y did it come to you like that?
also if you want some cheap rubber for your rims y dont you go to one of those used tire places and get some used rubber....they cant sell you anything less then 70% tread and its a freakin steal...like 50-75 a tire

errr... i missed this. I will be damned to put nothing less than the best for my new wheels, after spending $800 on the wheels alone, I'm not going to cheap out now, if it takes me longer to get the car on the road then so be it. I just have to have shoes by july 29th.. otherwise i am screwed cause thats the day of the show i am going to attend. My minimal UTQG rating has to be 400 and temp rating of AA... Tires in that range start at $150/tire. I learned that with my old Kuhmo 712's... They out right sucked ass...

hmm...well SORRRRRRRRY! lol i had no idea tires were such a big deal...just figured they were rated by speeds they could handel and that was it...

hmm...well SORRRRRRRRY! lol i had no idea tires were such a big deal...just figured they were rated by speeds they could handel and that was it...

its not big deal man, for stock tires yea go for it. I have 4 different kinds on my steelies so i can pass inspection and for when i go get alignments and winter storage. Just when you pay alot of money for wheels and attend shows, judges take notes of these minor things.

you going to buy one tire at a time?

you going to buy one tire at a time?


Ha Ha... god no. I went pricing tires tonight.. and holy sticker shock batman. I was trying to find a shop around here tonight that would have something in stock and i could get my warrenty through them and all that good stuff... I couldn't find anything deacent for the specs i wanted for under $200 a tire. So it looks like Tirerack will be getting another order from me and i will just have to have one of these places mount them for me. $110 bucks to mount which blows ass... but oh well...

Well today after fixing my rear bumper and thinking about what i need next, i decided to sell my RKSport Dual magnaflow fart cannon exhaust to a local buddy for 10 bucks cheaper than I paid... :(, but anyways i am sick of rocking the ricer burner fart cannon i have on the car now. At the RDfabs shop i have my Pacesetter Armor coated header, Magnaflow 2.5" high-flo cat, 2.5" stainless steel primary tubing all the way back to the axle, then its Y-'d into 2" tubing where i was going to run the fart cannons, but now instead i just ordered 2 of these guys...

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Oval street series Magnaflow mufflers 2.25" inlet and 4" outlet in a polished mirror finish.... oh boy. This exhaust setup is just about 100 bucks shy of $1,000 right now.. owwy.

man your pumping alot of money into your ride.. what do you do for a living? wish i could be putting that kind of money into mine... lol

it dosnt matter what he does...just the fact that he lives at home and dosnt have a brunette/blonde/red head leach on his wallet or credit card

man your pumping alot of money into your ride.. what do you do for a living? wish i could be putting that kind of money into mine... lol

I work at BJ's Wholesale club in the Tire bay selling tires and propane. FOr a whopin 7.85/hr soon to be 8.25/hr. Woot hurray for rasies... BUt i usually put in 32-37hrs a week. Sometimes more...

and CavLCD128 has is pinned right on the head.. I preffer to have a fuck buddy rather than a relationship after the girl i dated for 3.5 fucked another guy behind my back, then her family moved to GA with her.. Eat, work, work on cars, and sleep. Thats about it man.. then some nights to switch it up a little bit i work at the RDfabs shop. I don't get paid but rather help them work on their cars, etc..

did you try www.discounttiredirect.com yet?

Glad to see you got that rear bumper prob fixed. I was thinking last night that it was something missing causing the bumper to flex inwards, causing the "bubble" and a fix would be to put something between the metal-bumper and the kit-bumper. But you already figured it out...

Wow! It's looking as sweet as one of those wallet leaching redheads mentioned earlier. Bet you can't wait to ride her again. You lucky bastard, still living at home, dumping cash into your ride and calling fuck buddies (married=EXTREME ENVY!) I'm happy for you, I'd keep it that way!

By the way, you have been starting it once a week right? I'm sure you have... to keep the seals and everything ready to rock...

i must say i do enjoy my brunette leach...because my wallets not the only thing she sucks on...:naughty:

i must say i do enjoy my brunette leach...because my wallets not the only thing she sucks on...:naughty:

Hell just wait till you get married. I suggest a cruise for a honeymoon

LOL... you guys are too much. I love today, its payday and i got owned working an 8hr shift on memorial day, but hey time+1/2 plus 4 hrs of holiday pay... I will be taking my $300 check to the bank...mm... Going shopping right now.. :)

Yes since i started the car up from storage it has been started alteast once a week... lol. And.. OMG... i've put 1 mile on her so far this year... Woot Woot!

1 MILE!! where did u go? 2 ur mailbox? lol and a cruise sounds nice but i dont want ppl to hear us through the walls...lol

Shit the room has a hot tub and a bed, and it pretty nice

Well this thread turned into a Progress report of another kind lol

1 MILE!! where did u go? 2 ur mailbox? lol and a cruise sounds nice but i dont want ppl to hear us through the walls...lol

Out of the garage 3 times and back in, then around my block 2 times. LOL... The car isn't registered or inspected at the moment. Soooo i really shouldn't be taking it anywhere.. But anyways, this MCguard Spline drive lug nut wheel mounting kit better be the fucking shit for 87 bucks.. then i picked up my metal hubrings.. so i now have just about everything to get my car ready to rock n roll.. I kept todays buys under 110.. lol.

Got kinda bored....

so i thought i would play with 1 rim while the car was in the air still.. the rusty lug nuts i had made me order the new ones.. lol

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Back to the roots?

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Or rock the euro's?

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I thought you removed all the badges from your car? Maybe I confused you with someone else.

Negative... when i remove them, there will be a paint line since the previous owner had some repairs done to the car for some reason..... sooo.. i'm waiting till she goes into the paint shop next spring/summer then i will remove them.

use the stock tails and tint them with nightshade

use the stock tails and tint them with nightshade

Negative - Not on a white car, I vote for the stock lights or try to find 00+ tails for as cheap as possible, but of course if you can't find them cheap then obviously don't waste the money.

This is just a tide me over till i can snag up enough cash for some yoda tails...

There ya go, I'd kill to get my hands on a toyota cavalier, owning a RHD car in the US would be great. Gravanatuning.com is selling theirs for only $5000......catch is....you gotta have it shipped from Japan :-/

toyota tails are around $300, they pretty good too

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JDM-Toyota-Chevrolet-Cavalier-Tail-Lights_W0QQitemZ8073484674QQihZ019QQcategoryZ33716 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
here you go CRJ

Negative - Not on a white car, I vote for the stock lights or try to find 00+ tails for as cheap as possible, but of course if you can't find them cheap then obviously don't waste the money.whats wrong with tinted tails on a white car?? i have them on mine and i think they look really good.. whatever u like though.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/JDM-Toyota-Chevrolet-Cavalier-Tail-Lights_W0QQitemZ8073484674QQihZ019QQcategoryZ33716 QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
here you go CRJ

I would buy them right now in a heart beat... but thursday this week I am going to buffalo NY to pick up a Prostock wing, then i need $700 in tires. Probably once winter is here and i can't drive the thing anymore i will start picken up a few things again..

Ok i held off on showin pics and progress for a little while since previously i put a drill bit through my palm while trying to install my rear bumper .... but here is a little teaser.

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8959/dscf06230xm.jpg

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/911/dscf06263gr.jpg

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/7448/dscf06274sj.jpg

http://img212.imageshack.us/img212/1889/dscf06282ap.jpg

Doing all this work myself finally paid its self off... I didn't mess up my trunk while installing the Prostock wing i snagged off 1HotZ ( Mark A.) yesterday. I didn't have a stock spoiler and there was no diagram to go against. I blue painters taped the whole damn trunk lid where needed, drew a pencil line where it was to sit... and measured i don't know how many times.. Guess the old saying, Measure twice and cut once is more than true and i only have the 7 holes in the lid :).. but anyways.... Fixed the wavey bumper, and went back to stock tail lights which was for the best..

Thats all you get for an update, take care now, bye bye, then....


p.s. Next update will be pics from the Syracuse Sport Compact and Truck blast.. Rims mounted, everything put together and the whole exhaust on... hopefully.

looks really good. when u get the exhaust on you should make a sound clip of it..

This car is going to be insane, can't wait till it's done, just takes time man.

so did you decide what color you want to paint it? or are you still thinking about it?

ok so i dont check this post every time...i wait till it gets a few good pics on it...so lets start...

1st, i am a huge fan of those toyota cavalier tails....those are gonna look badass...
2nd, i cant stand that wing...its driving me crazy...lol i cant put my finger on it but somethings weird lookin about it...:screwy:
3rd, the exhaust is gonna sound awesome, and how you had the exhaust just put there for pics is probably because the muffler u have on their is in the way...but i hope the exhaust is going out further than that. not comming out the back more, going wider out.
4th, i defintally vote for the stock taillights with tint because i like it...and you have to do it...cuz....i said so...........so there
yea
5th, i dont see side skirts? any reason or did i miss them in another part of this thread (im guessin u stoped puttin on ur bodykit cuz of the drill bit through hand accident?) but i could b wrong

Lastly, i must say i was skeptical (or however u spell it) about the rims but i like them...nuff said

Here is a run down of what needs left to be accomplished...

Install both side skirts..
Register and inspect the car..
Get wheel alignment since everything was torn apart..
Install exhaust, yes my stock muffler was in the way and they will sit out wider..they are just resting on the boxes in those pics.....
and finally get some rubber to the rims. There is a new tire out through goodyear that i am able to get a killer deal one within the next month only..

Yes i know how I am going to paint the car now..

Yes i know how I am going to paint the car now..[/quote] are u going to inlighten us with this information??? lol are is it another secret? haha i cant wait until its all finished.

are u going to inlighten us with this information??? lol are is it another secret? haha i cant wait until its all finished.

I won't be able to have it painted till next year. So i may change my mind between now and then. Once i accomplish the above list, i have to work on paying the car off. Come january i am loosing my job due to me going away to college instead of going to the community college i have been at for the past 2 years and i still owe around 2K on the car... Basically what i have spent in mods on this thing, is required to paint the damn car give or take a little bit. However its going to be 2-tone.

I won't be able to have it painted till next year. So i may change my mind between now and then. Once i accomplish the above list, i have to work on paying the car off. Come january i am loosing my job due to me going away to college instead of going to the community college i have been at for the past 2 years and i still owe around 2K on the car... Basically what i have spent in mods on this thing, is required to paint the damn car give or take a little bit. However its going to be 2-tone. ook gotcha. that sux that you still owe money on the car. but what are u going due. o well guess im going to have to wait until next year to see the finished product. lol

lol i went 2 an auction wit my uncle...got a 2000 Cavalier 2.2L (same engine as yours cody) for 3000 stright up...lol (had 45000 miles on it) but thats beside the point

so your movin out huh? that sucks...mind if i ask what college your attending?

Buy a paint gun and learn to paint it yourself.

Buy a paint gun and learn to paint it yourself.

Um.. probably not.. Do you have a dust free environment in your garage? doubtful, because neither do I.


SUNY Cortland.

Um.. probably not.. Do you have a dust free environment in your garage? doubtful, because neither do I.


SUNY Cortland.

It would be easy to make one, save you couple grand too.

There is a new tire out through goodyear that i am able to get a killer deal one within the next month only..

You wouldn't be talking about the Eagle ones with the carbon fiber inner sidewall would you?

how hard would it be to create a dust free enviornment? you have to have some sort of vacume system setup wouldnt you?

You wouldn't be talking about the Eagle ones with the carbon fiber inner sidewall would you?

No, they are an off brand made by goodyear. Let me try to explain it.. Baiscally like umm.. Michelin owns BFgoodrich, uniroyal, etc... Goodyear owns Dunlop, kelly, etc..These are called Kelly Fierce HP and are maybe like 3-5 mos out on the market.

http://www.kellytires.com/kellytires/graphics/Tires/full/fierce_hp.jpg

They have 2 other styles, Charger HPT, Fierce UHP.

For those who like to do reasearch before you buy. (http://www.kellytires.com/kellytires/results_tire.jsp)

how hard would it be to create a dust free enviornment? you have to have some sort of vacume system setup wouldnt you?yeah i mean it wouldnt be that hard to setup a makeshift paint booth. you would need some sort of vacume system to suck out all the vapors and overspray.

Put plastic sheets all over your shop and there you go.

Put plastic sheets all over your shop and there you go.

That's what came to my mind anyway.

Put plastic sheets all over your shop and there you go.

yeah um.. thats not what he should do.

Side skirts are on.... = Body work is complete. :)

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/3773/imgp00791oo.jpg

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/6908/imgp00806aq.jpg

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Walk around view of the car... movie. (http://media.putfile.com/Car-preview)

very nice lookin...we need to take that wing out back and put it out of its missery

Haha Yeaaa, you might poke someones eye out with that. Maybe even cut off their head.

very nice lookin...we need to take that wing out back and put it out of its misserylmao yeah its not my first choice of wing, but hey its what he likes so thats all that matters. but other than that i think its really coming together..

Ha Ha... there are no other J's in my area with the wing to my knowledge, so i get too feel special and rock it while atleast i know no one around me has the same one... :p

Ha Ha... there are no other J's in my area with the wing to my knowledge, so i get too feel special and rock it while atleast i know no one around me has the same one... :pyeah i know what you mean. i like doing shit that is different also. i dont like to blend in with everyone else. just wish i had the money to make my car look better. :frown:

yea that is gonna be a mean lookin cavy when u get that painted, any ideas for paint yet?

well i garantee that if you go 90MPH into a brick wall (and its still drivable) you would have something pretty origional...lol
or on the flip side
take off all the body pieces and make your body kit out of cardboard or ducktape...lol (no lie i've seen it)

that is a mighty wing.

i mean DAMN.

Haven't been here in a while. Thought i'd stop by and see what was going on. Cody your car is coming along great. Seems to me like you have your heart set on a goal and know you are going to achieve it which is awesome. Just like everyone else on here, watching this forum, can't wait to see it finished.

Nice work!!!

it's tint time

it's tint time

I agree!

well i garantee that if you go 90MPH into a brick wall (and its still drivable) you would have something pretty origional...lol
or on the flip side
take off all the body pieces and make your body kit out of cardboard or ducktape...lol (no lie i've seen it)

I definately want pictures of that, and the address of the guy who did it so i can personally slap him.

it's tint timex2!!

Might wanna set the right date on your camera tho lol ;)

lol i swear if you search google or sumtin you might find it...this guy has a cardboard body kit, cardboard wing, and cardboard hood (with some time of cardboard hood scope) on what is eather a Civic Hatchback or CRX (which brings to mind the statement...."Only a civic") LoL

(Not a civic but you get the point)

http://www.fastmagna.com/gallery/albums/Box-Kit/smokey_front.jpg

http://www.fastmagna.com/gallery/albums/Box-Kit/smokey_rear.jpg

:wtf:

:nutkick: ......thats all i gotta say lol

shit... thats my car...............http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a6/cavalier2000/Faces/fruit.gif






















or not but how would you like to be the moron driving that down the raod. it like an adversitment saying "i'm an idiot" lol

that smiley has so many uses...lol :)

I wouldnt be that moron driving down the street in that thing lol were venturing off the topic in this thread also lol

Looking great CRJ. I forgot, is it all going to be white? I'm with them, ditch that spoiler, it looks like ass. However, that kit looks bad ass on a 4 door. Did you get both mufflers in there? I only saw one.

Ok... car is on the road, inspected... i love having connections.. 1hr inspection only took 5min. Plug car into system, no codes, rolled out with sticker.. ha ha!

Now she's going to sit in my garage till i have moola for rims or to get the exhaust done.

Ok... car is on the road, inspected... i love having connections.. 1hr inspection only took 5min. Plug car into system, no codes, rolled out with sticker.. ha ha!

Now she's going to sit in my garage till i have moola for rims or to get the exhaust done.well congrats on finally getting her legal! lol :grinyes: looking forward to seeing it with the rims on.

I'm glad we don't have to do inspectiong and emmisions shit, pain in the ass

I'm glad we don't have to do inspectiong and emmisions shit, pain in the ass


yep.. but when you know someone, its no biggie.

this is true

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/8457/crjtone9rz4lf.jpg

This is what i have decided on. I am just waiting hopefully for the guy who painted all the bumper a pearl white to finish the rest of the car in the same color. I absolutly love how this looks now.

That does look good, pretty shweet paint/photo shop work as well ;) lol

wait is that your car painted already? that looks really good. going to look good once its all done

wait is that your car painted already? that looks really good. going to look good once its all done

No its not all painted yet... I have just asked people over on JBO to play with some paint schemes... and i like how the color on the bumpers are. Its like the pearl white you see on the cadalliac escalades and high end cars... I then browsed cardomain and found a car with the same pose as mine... sorta.. and chopped the wheels onto my car. I couldn't exactly get the rear one to line up.

I think its going to look effin sick..

yeah man that going to look really really good. so your going to go all pearl white then? good choice. i've always been a big fan of that color.