drove it!!

 

hopefully have time this weekend to change tranny fluid

 

I polished my headlights earlier today.

 

I was doing yesterday still need to do the passenger side, I use SEM paint.
color coat. gloss black 15233 and portola red 15363.

 

blew the power steering pump wondering what else i could replace when i do the job

 

So far, I've washed it and compound polished that dumpy booty with some wax. now to wait for the California sun to go down so this stuff stop insta-drying lol

 

gave it a nice wash, added some oil since the 2.5 quarts or less warning light popped up, should do an oil change next week

 

DIY clear running lights, pulled my projectors apart and cleaned the moisture out. painted my chrome trim and badges black. more to come tomorrow, ive had my sc400 3 days and im already making it my own!

 

put my turbo back on the car, took me a hour to bolt everything down, towed it to the exhaust shop, to find out my v-band flange is the wrong size so i told them to just weld it together cause i had enough of looking for parts. drove it home to find out it wasnt making any boost,

mess around with hoses and clamps for 3 hours trying to solve the problem, go for another test drive. it hits boost!!!! only to have my fun stopped by the sound of my compressor wheel scraping against my compressor housing. nothing was damaged thankfully because ive already rebuilt this turbo twice and im not about to strike out on my third attempt.

so to do list for tommorow, reatach compressor housing (shop did a ****ty *** job) properly bolt down my exhaust manifold, clock the turbo so my oil drain line doesnt catch on fire then should be good to go i hope

 

started it for the first time in 2 weeks. cleaned some bird poop off of it... thats about it

 

got some borla mufflers 0o

 

Finished Tokico HPs, tanabe springs, and rays.

Ignore the dead grass and profusion of crab grass. It has rained once in Houston in the past 2 months. I was hoping the drought would kill the crab grass. No such luck.

 

changed my radiator to a mishimoto radiator, modified my gte water neck to finally install my intake pipe on.

 

i installed a new alpine head unit. not as bad as people made me think it would be, then i changed the oil, trans fluid, and a wash her

 

took off my ugly worn automatic shiftknob....looks a little better to me