New Beater

[TkrPerformance]

that sucks

[polishmafia]

Ouch. Hope you can get it back to how it was (or better)!

[4seasons69]

shitty dude. hope you can get her back to mint soon. that's a nice looking car

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Shitty! It doesn't look too bad though, and you might not have to replace the core support, just pull it back out so that everything fits.

[CarRacer]

Man even for how much of a tank these cars are, the sheet metal still bends pretty easy. Hopefully it isn't too much of a bitch to get it back in line.

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I was at work on my day off today to straighten out the core support.

I figured since I had the bumper off I'd throw on a larger Evo FMIC that I've had laying around for a while.

Old Ebay FMIC on top, Evo 9 FMIC installed on bottom

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Sweet! Looks like the core support pulled out pretty easily?

[C3L1CA]

Looks good Brian, how much of it is hidden by the bumper?

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Originally Posted by C3L1CA

Looks good Brian, how much of it is hidden by the bumper?

It's pretty stealthy. I was contemplating giving it a light coat of black.



I'll get a closer pic up later

[awd-drifter]

very nice stuff man! I was also contemplating about painting my fmic black but alot of people and friends tell me that my fmic is totally sleeper because of the grill. lol...the way i love it!

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

I'd leave the FMIC the way it is. It's not like it really stands out anyways.

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Got most of my new"er" motor put together tonight. It's a stock rebuild motor with around 8-10K miles on her. Can't remember milage as it was rebuilt 7 years ago.

Did a balance shaft delete and some other random shit to it over the last 2 nights. Tomorrow I get my head back from Gosh. The head had some porting done by Steve at HeadWerks back in 02.

The motor (and head and cams) are out of my old Laser from way back in the day. The long block had been sitting in my garage for about 4 years minus the WebCams I stole from it to put in the Galant a while ago.



Do you guys think I should paint the block and pan(Orange)while I have it out? I Degreased it and I think it looks horrible.

[C3L1CA]

I say paint the block black

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If I paint it, it will be Hugger orange with a little black for contrast.

I painted my mad tyte JDM valve cover. I'll post pictures tomorrow. I don't know if it will look good having most of the engine orange though

[tehehodi]

what did you use to degrease that bad boy?

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Orange would be pretty badass. Do it!

[TalonFiero]

Paint it "ginger"

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Originally Posted by TalonFiero

Paint it "ginger"

Damnit Jim, I'm going to beat you like a red headed step child!

[goodhart]

Would the orange paint be to match your hair?

[CarRacer]

I painted my block machinery gray. They stock it at NAPA. I think orange would be a little loud in an engine bay. It's your car though and you don't really see much of the block anyways when its installed.