3/12/12
Alright so i finally have a reason to start a build . The morning after IFO we had a thunderstorm. Was on my way to my daughters doctor appointment and some idiot was "texting and driving" and not paying attention. I watch the whole thing in my rear view mirror thinking "this cant be happening". When I could no longer see his headlights I held on and closed my eyes. He rear ended me at about 45mph and pushed me under a '11 Fusion. Well here's some pics of the accident and after I got the car back:















3/17/12

Found a decent 99' sedan with 107,xxx original miles. Its auto but ill be putting my suspension set up and motor in the car.





Car was dropped on Ebay cut springs and was extremely low. The lowest part on the frame sat about 1.5 inches off the ground. Took me about an hour to find a way to put the car on jackstands being that my resources are limited for places to work on the car.

As soon as I got the car on jackstands after unloading it off the trailer, I started pulling the motor and most the stuff out the engine bay.









Pulled all the suspension components except for the LCA's.


Pulled evap system, prop valve, front brake lines...


Started pulling the subframe


Its out...






Future location of the underhood fuse box


carbon fiber vinyl trunk? Im not sure...

 

Picked up some stuff for the brake tuck...


and kevlar loom from cableorganizers.com

got 10' of .25 inch and 10' of .5 inch

remote battery terminals for battery relocation...



Im waiting on my order from DownStarInc. with there tuckin' clutch and tuckin' brake kit as well as my flare tool from summit.

 

waiting on weather to start prepping and painting the bay and subframe

 

if you dont mind me asking what does the remote battery terminals do and sorry about your accident the ek looked pretty nice

 

bump for local guy...subscribed

 

Nice!

 

incase you have to jumpstart your car with your battery relocated.

 

haha thanks andrew

 

thanks man!

 

Nice start you'll be going auto to manual correct?

 

you know it lol. putting my GSR in it.

 

dang that sucks about ur car...my 4dr got hit yesteday but it was no where near what happened to urs.at least u got another 4dr to work on tho. good luck!

 

@ killakalipoph
yeah man it brakes my heart. all that time and money and its gone in a matter of seconds. ahh well at least the motor and everything is still good. just the body is done.

 

Forgot to mention that the car came with rims w/ brand new tires. 2 already mounted.

 

Got the other 2 mounted at work today:

 

sucks what happend
cant wait for updates

 

sure does man. ill have more updates ASAP. just waiting on parts right now.

 

sedan love

 

nice ek brooo keep it up

 

Thanks!
Just ordered my Energy Suspension Kit
Hurry UPS!!

 

Update 3/24/12

Masked up the fender wells and cleaned them up nicely. Resprayed them with Rust-oleum Undercoating:





Started pulling the dash:





And this little box looking thingie is were ill be mounting the prop valve for the brake tuck:



Pulled the harness thru the firewall on both the driver and passenger side. I decided to run the harness for the wiper motor and master cylinder thru the driverside grommet behind the fender:





Cleaned up the engine bay:



Started pulling of some of the seam sealer...made more progress than this. Ill have more pics up tommarrow.





Got the remote terminals mounted up:





More Updates Tommarrow!

 

Update 3/26/12

Got the subframe pulled apart and started to sand it down for paint.





Got the most of the seam sealer off and started sanding the bay for paint.







Finally a package arrived and I bet you'll never guess what it is.



Started mocking up the lines and fittings.





More updates later!

Its hard to get alot of work done because I work 7-5 monday thru friday and the cars not at my house

Ill get done what I can day by day!

 

great progress so far......cant wait to see more!

 

killer set up i love projects i just picked up a 97 civic, cant wait to start on her

 

always love 4 door projects ... iam looking for an EX 4 door shell myself .. not easy to find one in good condition .. you lucked out