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Old 04-19-14 | 05:05 PM
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One more teaser. Next set of pics will be with the front end all buttoned up.
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Old 06-09-14 | 07:06 PM
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Here's how she sits now, quite the transformation from when I first got her in January. Still waiting on some aggressive wheels hopefully by the end of this season or next. As my teasers showed, I did have the sidemarkers deleted and all license plate and emblem holes filled... I am in love with the clean look. Actually the car is about 3/4" lower in the front now as well.








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Old 06-10-14 | 12:12 AM
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wow that is awesome!!! one of the cleanest SCs i've seen so far. love the side marker delete, i'm gonna have to copy you on that lol, i'll be rebuilding my front bumper soon cz of all the spider cracks and scratches so i'll delete the side markers as well.

def needs some wider wheels with lower offset but looking great anyways. did you black out your high beams as well? my lowbeams are the same as yours too.

who took your pictures? great compositions by the way, finally some decent pictures on here, kinda tired of garage pics lol
Old 06-10-14 | 01:48 AM
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wow that side shot from a top... looking good man!
Old 06-10-14 | 06:47 AM
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Thanks for the kind words. The high beams are the eBay black housing projectors and the low beams are oem painted black and matched with clear lenses from the eBay headlights. I have another set of fogs I've torn apart and am tentatively trying to mock something up to complete the triple projector with black housing look. As for the photos, I took all of them using my Nikon D5100 and Nikkor 50mm f1.8 lens.
Old 06-10-14 | 01:38 PM
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super clean SC. i like the way you think..
Old 06-11-14 | 10:27 PM
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Looking good. very nice clean setup so far. what plans do u have for wheels? have you figured out which ones u might want.
Old 06-12-14 | 10:15 PM
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Thinking I will go with Zedd SL5's 18x9.5 +12 and 18x10.5 +15 in black chrome.
Old 04-26-15 | 05:55 PM
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Well it's been a while guys and my car looks quite a bit different from the last post. As of now, I'm done with all of my planned major mods. Really thrilled with the outcome of the car. Thankfully, I got smart and ditched the replica wheel's idea and built my own set of Weds Kranze Borphes in aggressive sizes over the winter.







Old 04-26-15 | 06:26 PM
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That looks awesome man. Great pics.
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Looking good man, you've pretty much confirmed my plans for Modded eBay high beam projectors to finish my look off. I'm also going to eventually retrofit my fogs for a triple projector look as well. Your headlights came out looking great btw, and that whole care is choice A+. You're also making me realize that I've been putting off 97+ door mouldings for too long.
Old 04-26-15 | 10:59 PM
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That looks amazing! Nice set up!
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Oh damn.. Perfect, tasteful, THIS is my favorite 97+ speciman. We are so lucky to have such well thought out cars to where we hardly need a handful of things and its done.. I went to your photobucket and downloaded the 8MB pictures for myself, don't mind if I do..

Do you mind sharing the wheel specs?

I guess if I had to add anything myself, I feel like the fogs are left a bit brighter than the other lenses, have you thought about a very mild tint to maybe even it out?

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Old 04-27-15 | 10:52 AM
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Thanks for compliments guys. I've definitely thought about the fogs and what I can do to them.. I have a spare set torn apart that I want to do a projector retrofit and clear lenses on if I ever actually get around to doing so. Lots of work to deline those suckers. As for wheel specs, I'd like to keep that info to myself. They are 18's however.
Old 04-27-15 | 10:57 PM
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So how much did you initially pay for it when you got it on ebay?

And how much $ would it take to pry away from you now?



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