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Thanks Aaron! You and twinkie are more than welcome to come on over whenever.

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Lookin good brad! when you ditchin the dash? lol

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No crazy new updates, but a few things. Got a cover for my Kirkey, I definitely can't get any wider because its a perfect fit with the cover.

ALso a long time ago I started redoing the interior wiring of the car to take out the wires from the washer fluid pump, hatch wiper, door ajar sensors, and other random little things. Went through last night and tapped up the whole interior harness, I think it looks better than it did stock.

Also decided that I'm going to cut off my spare tire wel, and replace it with just some flat steel. Once that is all done I'll paint the hatch and the rest of the interior so it looks so fresh and so clean clean. It looks like poo right now because I had a lot of motivation to get it all cleaned up before the Mitsu cook out last year and ran out of motivation, hence why half of it is sanded and the rest isn't :lol:

Also picked up a spare 6 bolt, so as I slowly save up my pennies I'll be buying parts for a 6 botl 2g head combo. That way maybe I can be fast one day. I'll try and get better pictures as I keep working on it.

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Where you gonna mount your nawz now? right on the flat steel?

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OH fer shiz. Yea I'll make enough bracing to try and still save a tiny bit of weight but yet keep the bottle and battery securly mounted.

Also got a new cut off switch for x-mas, so I don't have to hope tech doesn't question the battery box. haha

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I can offically say things went even too far for me :lol:. Having more time than money to spend, I do stupid things...

Nice simple setup
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/ae618f00.jpg

To something a little too far for me?
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/5d7fdefc.jpg
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/17218451.jpg

The piece weighed 10lbs, and that was after cutting out the mount for the jack and what not I already cut out. I was hoping for a little more, but oh well. Live and learn.

Passenger should like the new nitrous location too.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/b525f616.jpg

Also drove it the other day to run to the store, I do miss it and can't wait for it to be nice out.
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/eca9271b.jpg

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You have left the street car building, nice race car.

lol.

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Looks like a street car to me. Time to get her back on the track and run some low 11s ;)

What I consider streetable someone else may not. It doesn't hurt that I grew up driving my Chevelle that had no power steering, 4 wheel manual drum brakes, and no sway bars. :lol:

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So what exactly are you planning on doing now that you have a ginormous hole in your floor?

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Haha you mean low 12s, thats what I ran last time I went to the track. Looking at my crappy time slips, I did pick up a solid 39mph on the back half on my crappy 12.2 trapping 130. Probably does mean as much since it was a crappy run, but I only picked up 35mph on my 140 trap.

I agree, streetable is all in the eye's of the beholder. I heard sway bars are for pany's anyways:beach:

I think you might be right, haha I now have a slow no creature comfort wanna be race car. lol

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I'll be picking up a piece of aluminum this week on my luch or after work and putting it in its place. It'll also make it so I don't swear as much when I put in rear diff bushings some day.

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He's rolling around in a leather interior. Of course it's still a street car!!!

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He knows I'm just playing, well I'm rocking dirty cloth with one side bolster with nothing.
To me right now since my dsm is my only car I want it to have everything, but since I found out it weighs 2900 I have been feeling guilty about putting weight in it, since that has probably been the key about its freakness.

Either way, I'm ready to see this "quick for a 2g" thing in action.

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Yea the car looks a little torn apart right now, but the plan is when it is all put back together you wont be able to tell what is missing and what isn't. All interior pannels will be back in, carpet, rear seats, hatch cover, duffle bag over nitrous bottle. Should look stockish when all said and done.

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Nice! I do love me a sleeper

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You should just paint the bottle grey and put a little radioactive sticker on the bottle, and get custom plates that say Enola Gay.

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All finished
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/2b67d7aa.jpg
Pretty sick huh?:lol:












Just have to rivet it in and finish painting some things and she should be good to go get the crap beat out of it on the first track day.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/a1905bdc.jpg

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^That looks good. I've always wanted to do this but I don't know if I have the balls to do it.

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You know something you 2G guys are dicks, "oh no my trunk floor is so usable with this sunken spare tire well, I can just put shit in and have a flat floor with a piece of cardboard like every other car on teh planet, its so useful"
Then fricken ginger goes and cuts it out. what an insult.
Meanwhile us 1G guys have this dumb retard camel hump thing that makes using the trunk a pain in the ass.
/rant

So JMF fuel cell time? lol How much fuel you looking to carry?

(that was a joke btw, can I ride in your car? I will hug the nos bottle)

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I don't have a camel hump thingy in my trunk! ;)

Looks good Brad! Can't wait to see the car sometime this summer.

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I love it!

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hahaha. Stock crappy fuel tank, I'd think about a JMF one if they are making one for a 2g now. Yea you're more than welcome to a ride whenber, its nothing special though.

Thanks dude, hopefully I'll see your car out and about this summer!

Thanks Scheides!

Floor is in and with bracing on the back its more than strong enough to support my bottle. So w00t for bottle staying in the trunk.

Would you guys paint the aluminum and the battery box or leave it the way they sit? Half of me kinda likes the look but the other half wants to paint it black.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/40836aab.jpg

Hopefully tonight I'll paint some of the other interior and put it back together so it doesn't look like a tin can.

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Your bottle is crooked ;) If it were my car, I'd paint it black.

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Nothing is bolted down besides the floor, I had other things to do last night but because I'm a ricer I though the bottle in and took a picture. haha.

My only concern on painting it black is if it gets scratched up it'll probably look like crap and I'd have to repaint it. I'll still leaning towards painting it though.

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Black

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negro

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Put some rhyno liner on it, won't scratch and it will be black lol.

Awesome car btw.

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What about some really really thin/light carpet to throw down back there? That way it looks semi stock, but can take the abuse of throwing junk on it?

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^^This lol


I say rhino line it or do carpet as scheides suggested.

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Put a race seat back there.

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FTFY, make sure its facing backwards! :D

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lol, I will sit in it.

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hahaha I can see it now, brownman smashed behind the rear glass:

http://i.imgur.com/flLOA.jpg

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hahah you guys are too funny!

And probably painting it black tonight
Thanks dude.

I'll always have the hatch cover on when its on the street and have my crappy owdie if I have to pick something up. But that is a pretty good idea, i like where you're head is at.

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I got some black carpet from walmart looks good but is really thin, thin where u can't see thru it at least.

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http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y20...A/9f5e88a5.jpg

Think I should paint the back of the Kirkey black as well? My dad was saying that it wouldn't stand out as much to a police officer if it was black compared to bare aluminum. I think he has a point and the less attention I get from police officers the better.


It's all a nice black now and hopefully will get time to put the interior in it this weekend and then just let it sit until warm weather and just driving the thing to and from work.

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LOL at your dad, helping you to evade the police. Yea, it would help you. Paint it. I just have dark tint, but that also can hurt.

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Looking good! Yea, paint the back of the seat too, I agree with daddy.

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I want like %15 tint, but I think that'd be me pulled over even more. I just can't justify tint yet though, that money could be put towards making the car faster some how.

Thanks Scheides!

Damn you guys, I guess I'll be painting the seat black this weekend as well. haha

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Looks nice Brad! I agree with everybody on the black seat thing.