Offical progress post, its all comming together...

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?

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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...