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Old 06-05-12, 06:26 PM
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the first day my friend delivered it to my house.
and a few from one of the first times I went to hang out with some local cars guys
I will be uploading more as soon as I get it organized

As you can see the body and paint is actually pretty rough








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interior was swapped out from the horrible brown to they grey and also installed a mk4 supra steering wheel. Still have a few more pieces that I need to find and install




old engine bay starting to clean it up


and new one after finishing it up

and here it is dirty again


Swapped out the kyb's and lowering springs for a new set of megan ez coil overs


and some new shoes and rubbers


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installed my wideband display incognito and then finally added a boost controller too. bought an apexi turbo timer but still undecided if I want to install it or not




and finally found a MINES ECU!!!
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hanging out with the local guys and blacked out the chrome in my headlamps (still need to change the lenses though):



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what are you gonna do with your old springs/struts?
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Originally Posted by TBender
what are you gonna do with your old springs/struts?
they were sold


here is some work that got done yesterday as we are getting ready to paint the car.
replaced the back bumper after I took these pics last night with one that wasnt cracked


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little more work done today on the frt


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How did you hook up your EBC? I have mine ran but not hooked up, not sure where to run the vac lines and what i thought was the right way, didnt change my boost at all. Can you do a write up on it? ive searched and searched and cant find the correct way to install my EBC
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what ebc do you have?
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blitz duel sbc
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http://www.mkiv.com/techarticles/blitz_dsbc/index.html
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Finally got some color on the car

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slowly putting it back together
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