Offical progress post, its all comming together...

[Classicrocjunkie]

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...



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..





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....







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....

[PsychoJJ]

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.

[Classicrocjunkie]

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.

[CavLCD128]

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

[Cavalier2000]

Lifts do help ALOT

[Classicrocjunkie]

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.













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..

[Lances133]

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.

[PsychoJJ]

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.

[Classicrocjunkie]

Originally Posted by Lances133

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.

[Classicrocjunkie]

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.

[PsychoJJ]

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.

[Crazzzyj]

Originally Posted by PsychoJJ

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

[PsychoJJ]

Originally Posted by 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.

[-Jayson-]

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

[Classicrocjunkie]

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!

















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!!

Originally Posted by -Jayson-

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. But thats along way down the road, after i get this bitch painted and rubber for my wheels. Oy vey...