These recovery pictures are after I started rebuilding the car. The car was in MUCH WORSE condition.

Full recovery pics and story at

http://www.psychographix.com/fragmen...ery)/index.htm

Please don't flame, just looking for constructive criticism.










This is the current rebuild...

Respray Frost White, Spoon Mirrors, Softline Lip (Mugen Fake), WW Lip Wing




Stock B18c1, Spoon Toys, JDM valve cover


Momo Race, Del Sol buckets, Spoon ****, ugly tach, blah blah


Spoon Rear Strut Bar


Still building... Comments?

 

niceee coupe..

p.s. ditch a tach

 

NICE restoration!!!!! Gotta love the money from insurance!

 

True that. Was thinking about pulling it off this weekend. BTW: I acutally hate my coupe. Want a hatch

 

SW88's...lovely on frost white

 

If that was me...i would have chalked that one up as a <u>loss</u>.

Thats a 180 degree turn around with <u>alot</u> of work. Nice job

 

Where did they find it? Should have taken a pic of the writing and talked to graf writers and they might tell you who it was

 

They found it in Kings Bridge Heights (Bronx), NY

And you're right. In retrospect, I really should have. The car was originally stripped completely bare (except for the d16) and some trunk carpet. Everything else was gone. But I think it's probably a little too late to do that now. Besides, at some point in their life, they'll get what's coming to them. They always do.

 

Looks good. You turned it around coooo.

 

oh my god. my boy did the same thing! he found a salvaged white coupe and hooked it up exactly like urs. well..not exactly, different engine...but other than that, same thing. hehe ill show pics later.

 

by the way, do u feel a difference with the filter right at the throttle body, instead of an elbow pipe?

 

HAHAH. You caught me! Waiting for a skunk2 manifold, ITR TB and ITR AEM CAI. Good spotting though. Wasn't sure who would be the first to pick that up.

 

For all intents and purposes, you shouldn't be able to feel the difference a filter directly to the TB, and an elbow ram intake. You should however feel diff. between those two and a cold air system or a well design JDM intake system.

 

Fanstastic! Glad to see real product (Spoon) than all knock-offs!

What gauge cluster is that? USDM GSR?

 

haha...i didn't mean to...i thought it looked neat. nice set up though....i'm waiting for my skunk 2 manifold as well.

 

Nah, it's just a stock EX cluster. However, I'm looking for that special edition EG cluster they have for the Canadian EG6 that comes black with amber needs and words.

 

soldier..dont let me ever catch you talking such jibberish again!!! ...

 

Hehe. Sorry. The coupe has much sentimental value to me. That's why I've kept it for so long.

I assume you have a coupe as well.

 

ouch, that sucked! but keep the koop! i know how ya feel about sentimental!

what is hanging in this picture: http://www.psychographix.com/fragmen...es/recov27.htm ??

alarm? how'd they take it?


[Modified by j.fuggi, 1:06 AM 11/9/2002]

 

Nice car

yea keep the coupe, trunks need too.

 

I see no reason to flame

nice job

 

Nice recovery work, someone destroyed what may have been your dream before and you rebuilt it despite the amount of work and effort that needed to be emphasized on it to get it back to good shape. Good at this point is a understatement though.

 

nice

 

does ur car have a salvaged title now?

 

Yeah, carving the backroads of Long Island, NY & Northern Jersey has been key for such sentimental value (although I acknowledge it's only a material possesion). So far I'm on my 3rd suspension set already! (I've had the car for about 4 years years now)

I had an alarm and club on it. Basically, long story short:

1. I parked the car in the movie theater lot at night.
2. They broke in, popped the hood, cut the battery
3. They disconnected the alarm brain & Auto Page (that's what's hanging in the picture)
4. They reconnected battery, cut the sttering wheel to get the club off, broke the ignition cylinder off to unlock the steering lock, jammed a screw driver in and started the car.

The rest is history.

Nowadays, the car is NEVER parked on the street, or public parking lot unless it's a safe neighborhood in the day time. If I have access to a manned, gated parking lot, I will immediately go to that instead.

At night, I ONLY take the car out if I have access to a manned, gated parking lot. Otherwise, she stays home and sits pretty in the garage.

Sounds kind of extreme but I'd like not to go through that again. And I have secure places to park my car in about 90% of the places I goto.


[Modified by spoon-ej1, 6:40 AM 11/9/2002]