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I think you meant " wish i had the motivation and skill to do this to my car"
Did I translate correctly?

OP: This is one of THE best looking 2gs I have ever seen, hands down. Would love to see that in person.....would HATE to keep it clean tho!!haha. Nice work bro
Btw, how you like the ride with it sitting that low? That thing is slammed, not my cup of tea but i bet it holds the road very very well.


Haha, yes I think you translated that perfectly. And thank you! It takes a lot of money to keep it clean and do what I want to do with it. To be honest it is a super rough ride. The coils are cranked to max stiffness. Lets be honest, a slammed 2g with no ac/ps/abs and 2 inches off of the ground isn't the best DD but I like how it looks.
 
LOL no i really mean I wish I didnt have to pay rent, utilities, cable, college loans and etc I would have a ton of money to spend. But ya he is doing pretty good for his age. I remember rebuilding my first vette with my father at 13 reminds me of that.
 
I'm have same annoying oil leak at the oil pump/front main, replaced the seal 3 times already damnit! I only have the stock oil pressure gauge so I don't know what kind of PSI I'm getting, whats your readings at? idle and WOT?

Very clean bay man, I really want to shave mine to but im keeping to much stuff to make it worth doing haha.
 
LOL no i really mean I wish I didnt have to pay rent, utilities, cable, college loans and etc I would have a ton of money to spend. But ya he is doing pretty good for his age. I remember rebuilding my first vette with my father at 13 reminds me of that.

Just because I have a lot of money invested into my car doesn't mean I don't have rent/utilities/insurance/phone/student loans.

I'm have same annoying oil leak at the oil pump/front main, replaced the seal 3 times already damnit! I only have the stock oil pressure gauge so I don't know what kind of PSI I'm getting, whats your readings at? idle and WOT?

Very clean bay man, I really want to shave mine to but im keeping to much stuff to make it worth doing haha.

I still have a little leak somewhere on the timing side, hopefully a CC will fix that isssue. First of all you need an aftermarket gauge. I read under 80 WOT, idle 15.
 
Other stuff that has been accomplished in

the last bits of summer.

I bought a catch can off of Gamble here on the dsmforums. It has internal baffles and 10an fittings welded to it. I asked him to not put a bracket on it so i could fab up my own, which I did.

I still need to get the valve cover powdercoated after the fittings had been welded on but that can wait for this winter or something while i'm not driving the car.

Here are some more pictures.

I also went to the shootout and had a great time putting faces to the names of forum members.

Here is before I started on the catch can.

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This is the rough lay out of where I wanted the can to go.

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Where I decided to put the fitting on the intake.

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Where I wanted to put the bulkhead fittings.

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This is it all welded up.

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Still have an oil leak I NEED to fix.


Until next time,

Brady
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Alright, so not much has happened in the last year, I'm super broke while in my last year of college.

After attending the shootout and MOD in 2014 I put the car away for the winter in my buddies new garage. Huge shoutout to Griff, I have kept my car in one of his garages every winter since highschool. This is his biggest and nicest garage to date, heated floors, full kitchen, lift, perfectly level floors, nice drains, wash bay, the whole 9 yards.

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When spring time rolled around I took my car out of storage and brought it to Ames Iowa while I took classes. I was pretty broke this last year so I didn't do much. Over the summer I had noticed that my tires were on their last leg so new tires were on my radar. I also had begun to feel that if i were going to pay top dollar for some new tires, I was going to get a wheel that was the proper size so I was on the hunt for some new dubs..

I chose to go with Vordoven wheels in a 18 x 9.5 size and 255 Bridgestone Potenza re760's.

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While I was waiting for my tires and wheels to show up, I decided I was going to have a go at fixing my pesky oil leak. After about three complete tear downs of the timing side, I had found that the castle plug was finger tight...

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Got the wheels and tires mounted, I am super happy to be able to not have to run a spacer and have a great fitment.

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Thats about it. I graduate next month and will probably be moving.. I'm really not sure what the fate of my eclipse will be. I may part it out I may just leave it in storage for a while. I just know I will have to get a new car when I get a new job so who knows...

Peace.
 
What is the offset on those rims? I originally wanted to go 18's .Unfortunately my 17x8.5 rpf1s 40 offset with the 245 40 17 tires hit the rear control arm. Need a 5mm spacer Which I actually have. And does your friend rent out the fender roller to folks out of state?


This is a great thread dude great job!!
 
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I just read through part of your build, and saw that you said you bought your HX40 new. Where did you get it? Any link you can post or PM me? I haven't been able to find any new yet.

Got lucky on Ebay and found a truck shop liquidating all of its parts, it was extremely lucky. Bid like $400 on a best offer add and accepted immediately.

What is the offset on those rims? I originally wanted to go 18's .Unfortunately my 17x8.5 rpf1s 40 offset with the 245 40 17 tires hit the rear control arm. Need a 5mm spacer Which I actually have. And does your friend rent out the fender roller to folks out of state?


This is a great thread dude great job!!

Offset is +38! Also the fender roller is mine :) PM me if you would like to rent it from me.
 
I want to go over two little projects I did with the GSX that I think some of you will like and appreciate.

The first problem I always had with my 99 was the bumper had horrible fitment, not the oem perfect that I wanted. I noticed it had no support basically except for the corner bolts by the wheels and this caused the areas under the headlights to sag. I also wanted to address this issue because with the whole bumper being hung by two bolts on the very corners, I was worried the bumper would possibly tear or be damaged beyond repair.

Notice the sagging and horrible fitment.

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I figured I wanted something to push the area under the light up so the pumper theoretically could sit there and look fully attached but just "pressed" into place, without bolting the corner bolts in.

Here is what I came up with.

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Just threaded rod and fuel line for the rubber black part. The rod actually presses the lip of the bumper against the bottom of the headlights.

Here is an after shot of the passenger side. This has gotten tremendously better after a few months to let the bumper take shape. Its much better than it looks in this pic now.

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The next project was to tackle my fu*ked up trunk panel/carpet.

I knew this area of my car was lacking and it was always pissing me off whenever I went back there to get something out of so I went home one weekend and tackled the project.

So my oringal was cracked in the middle because I had no support (spare tire) to hold it up, and it had more stains than a frat house so I found some almost identical wood at the local hardware store and got right into tracing out the old material to make a new one.

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Then I drilled the old rivets out of the hinges and re-riveted them on my new wood panel.


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Wow look at that!

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Then I traced out the carpet pattern on some heavier duty automotive black carpet. I went with black because I would maybe want to dye the plastics black with some SEM dye someday, and I have black carpet in the cabin so why not.

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Then as some of you know, the original carpet has this weird material that I forgot the name of, attached to the underneath for more cushion/sound deadening, so I added that to the carpet with 3M adhesive spray.

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In order to prevent the wood from caving in, and giving it some better support, I rigged up this aluminum bracket to hold the center of the panel. Works great and looks just as I wanted it to.


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Here is the piece ready to go in, with string and all.


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Was just missing one minor detail..... :)


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There! Finally.


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Oh and about the little "T" hooks to mount the bottom of the cargo net to, I opted to not put these in because previously they became squished whenever I put heavy objects back there, I wanted to keep the trunk cover completely flat with no obstructions. I may put them in though when I stop putting stuff in the trunk.. Who knows!


Thanks for looking!
 
Okay..

I got bored thanksgiving and really wanted to give my engine harness a one-over. I had previously already removed a TON of shit from it, but I didn't really route it before I wrapped and tapped it up so there was tons of leftovers and plugs stretching from far way to make it. So I wanted to change all that.

First step remove harness. Before removing it a had the car running, then turned it off, then taped every connector that wasn't plugged in so I would know that those were not needed. This was my way of being 100% sure they were uneccessary. Majority of them were trans plugs from the auto and some random stuff on the firewall that wast left in the harness from the first tuck.


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Next, was to completely strip the harness of all electrical tape and loom. This way I could plull all the individual plugs back to the firewall and route them where I wanted to.

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Once all the connectors were separated all the way back to the firewall, I installed the harness back into the car to route them and check everything worked fine. Now, I left out a lot of small details as to how to get all the plugs separated. From the factory a lot of the plugs are tangled, and routed up and down the harness multiple times to random grounding spots. I separated it all. Made all grounds go to one terminal, and put the transistor near the ECU so it wasn't behind my IM. This is all very tedious shit, but take your time and do one wire at a time and you will be fine.

With the harness installed back in the car, I could then route things where I wanted, keeping bundles together as far as I could.

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This picture shows some of them laid out. What I did was route everything where I wanted, then just made loops with the harness for that plug so i would know how much could be removed.

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Heres just a random pic, it really shows how little shit is in the bay haha. And yes, stuff will be getting powdercoated and painted again, small oil leaks and being at college with no tools messed my beautiful bay up.

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After marking how much of each strand could be removed I took the harness back out and got to work. This is my finished product. You can see the transistor right on the other side of the firewall grommet.

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Now, I would really like to get some ray-chem loom and all that nice jazz but I am honest to god the worst at de-pinning these connectors. I might just wrap it in some 3m and some nice loom and be done with it but who knows. Anyway, I don't have any pics of it installed but I tell you what, it is hard to find a wire in there LOL.

I just graduated with my Bachelors in Mechanical engineering so stay tuned for great things to come on the GSX now that I am not relying on money from donating plasma to buy parts LOL.

Heres a little sneak peak at what I have in mind.

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Peace.
 
Looking good man. Really glad to see you're not parting it out or selling it. Your car has definitely been a big motivation to me. Keep up the good work!
 
Congrats on graduating. Wish I went to school now, but the car is just WOW. Had to read it all before sleep. But I'm glad you didn't sell it, and only making it better and cleaner. As I've said to others I truly wish I had skills like that. Maybe one day, but hats off to you good sir. And props where props are due :applause::applause:
 
I ordered all new fender liner/splash guards for the GSX. Also a brand new 70MM s90. I need to order some new wheel bearings before they completely dissapear off the face of the earth also.

I found a little paint bubble on the passenger side strut tower and decided to investigate. Turns out it had started to rust over there as well. I have been in contact with miller imports about getting another rust free tower to replace mine. We will see if I go through with it. The passenger side is so hard to get to due to the windshield wiper motor cowl area completely covering some spot welds that need to be removed. We will see.

I am REALLY leaning towards sending Justin an entire box of things in the bay to powdercoat. I really need to get them coated and not just painted.... I also will more than likely be buying an evo 3 intake mani to accompany the s90 and help this flow better.

Here are some pics I never uploaded in the meantime!

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21854781603_8926583158_o.jpg_DSC3431 by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

22475992845_76e01f4030_o.jpg_DSC3426 by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr


22486949801_d832e8f60f_o.jpg_DSC3446 by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

21854765353_25c8e64d37_o.jpg_DSC3445 by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

22288014250_e953bb2c76_o.jpg_DSC3441 by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr

22288269798_b2f6c8c702_o.jpg_DSC3440 by Brady Dingeldein, on Flickr


Thats about it for now!

Peace

-Brady
 
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