back story:

Got a call from my friend who sells many many cars saying he needs to get rid of a car he just picked up bc there isnt any room on the lot. We go back and forth about the car me not wanting it him wanting me to buy or sell it for him. Long story short i pick it up for 1500 bucks what he bought it for.

i buy the car being told this its a 98 with a B20 swap in it. I assume LS trans shity e-bay coil overs the usual for my area.

I pick the teg up blind (never actully drove it LOL just looked at it) Well i discover that the trans is a B16 trans 2 mins into driving it home. I get home pop the hood has skunk2 intake mani and a blox 72mm TB as well. I jack the car up pull the wheels off the back. Omni Power coil overs all around and in the front omni power upper control arms bloxs LCAs Type R sway bars. then i look at this exhaust its a older greddy exhaust.

So after all i would say its a steal at 1500....i pulled the B20 sold it for 500 so im out 1k on this car

does need some body work but i went to school for it so thats not hard at all from here


here are some pics.

 

some of the pictures are small only have my cell phone ATM. but this is how i got it.

what i replaced when i got it more black interior pieces and put a new driver side tail in it and buffed the headlights.

So i drove it for a little bit had my built motor laying around so i pulled the B20 and put in the LSV

 

This is what i had till the other week i got bored with it and wanted to start something and do it the right way. Shave and tucked engine bay tucked fuse box and most likly brake line tuck and ABS delete

after a little fun time fighting with my dash i got it out and tucked the driver side and pass. side....BTW abs sucks so much



started to shave away i forgot to take pics of the welds on the pass side but i will on driver




this is where im at for right now ill have more on friday

 

sweet
no rust?

 

it had a little bit of surface on the driver side and the pass side was 100% good. Im going to under coat everything

 

Projects have a bad habit of snowballing into something way bigger...

What's with the two tailpipes in the first pic?

 

its a older greddy exhaust lol...its ugly as hell its off the car right now im prolly putting my turbo kit on the car this winter and just do a 3 inch turn down

 

been really busy with work and **** at home but i got some work done tonight got all the rad holes i wanted to get rid of welded up then put the first layer of filler on is

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not to bad for a 85 dollar welder i picked up for craigslist lol

layed down some filler

 

Today was one of my days off this week so i spent a few good hours in the garage sanding the rad. support and welding up some more holes on the side

 

wait is it b20v? i thought you sold the motor? im confused. nice pickup for 15 though. everybody in my area thinks a dc with 250k is worth 4 grand.

 

i sold the B20....i had a built LS-Vtec that i decided to swap into it but that will be coming out soon to finish the shave

 

a little more shaving has been done....both shock towers are done and the rad support is done.






what do you guys think???

 

well now i have a question of what i should do for paint.

the body of the car will be NHBP thats not ever going to change.

now the what im throwing around is painting the engine bay a bright color like a orange or blue then paint the motor trans black and paint match the VC to the engine bay

OR

paint the engine bay NHBP motor and trans black and do the VC a bright color (orange or blue)

i like both options im just not sure what way to go....any input at all would be greatful