bettfootball
10+ Year Contributor
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- Mar 7, 2010
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Denver,
Colorado
When I turned 16 I purchased my 99 GSX from a woman in Chicago, and wanted to build it up to be clean and look like how a GSX should have come from mitsubishi.
Here is my ongoing build.
How I bought the car
99 GSX Auto
Northstar White
Black leather interior
89,000 on body
Engine:
Stock 7 bolt
89,000 on it
powdercoated valve cover
jmf heat shield
Appearance:
Shitty chrome pitted wheels 17x8
Ebay full 3 inch exhaust
intercooler core (just for looks)
Day I bought it
Not much happened for a while since I was paying almost 280 a month for full coverage. I paid 6500 for the car in cash so I didn't need full coverage, but wanted it just in case for a couple of months.
The first thing I did was paint the ugly rims black so they didn't really stand out.
After cancelling full coverage and switching to liability, I had some more funds ready. I purchased;
Punishment FMIC
Safc2
Megan Boost gauge
After cruising around my gsx all that first summer for about 10k miles, I really started to research dsm's, their problems, what makes them work, and why they fail. I learned a ton by messing with things and tearing shit apart in the bay, reading on forums, and studying everyones build threads.
Winter rolled around and one afternoon it threw a rod in the high school parking lot while leaving for lunch.
I really didn't know what I was going to do at this point. Wasn't sure if I should just sell the shell or try to find someone that could help on the rebuild.
I found a guy through a guy I knew that said he would help putting a new motor in. My plans were just to get another 7 bolt block and call it a day but he pursuaded me into a 6 bolt, telling me it was an easy swap and he had done it 100 times.
So my car went into his shed and he began telling me things I needed to buy.
Well this buddy of mine told me he could do all this work for around 600 bucks. Me, not knowing dsm's that well, believed him. Well he tore my whole engine bay apart within two months or so and started running into trouble with bolting the 6 bolt to my auto trans.
This whole time my car was in his garage an hour away from me I became pretty worried about it. So I started doing tons of research on what it takes to swap a 6 bolt into an auto. I found a lot of parts that were needed that would double my budget that he said, those parts being;
Kiggly 6-bolt 2g adapter
6-bolt cas/adapter harness
Pretty much everything on the timing
After all of this I decided to pull the plug on him helping and took the car back to my garage to do the work on my own.
Car in my dads workshop
Keep in mind I had never done anything like this before so I was new to everything and working alone haha.
Managed to get the motor out all by myself to start checking everything out.
The carnage I found when removing the head.
While the engine was out, I really wanted to do some stuff to the bay/car. This stuff included;
Engine bay shave
Engine bay repaint
Wire tuck
Battery relocation
Abs delete
Fuse box relocation
Power steering delete
A/c delete
Fix a little strut tower rust
Here is my ongoing build.
How I bought the car
99 GSX Auto
Northstar White
Black leather interior
89,000 on body
Engine:
Stock 7 bolt
89,000 on it
powdercoated valve cover
jmf heat shield
Appearance:
Shitty chrome pitted wheels 17x8
Ebay full 3 inch exhaust
intercooler core (just for looks)
Day I bought it
Not much happened for a while since I was paying almost 280 a month for full coverage. I paid 6500 for the car in cash so I didn't need full coverage, but wanted it just in case for a couple of months.
The first thing I did was paint the ugly rims black so they didn't really stand out.
After cancelling full coverage and switching to liability, I had some more funds ready. I purchased;
Punishment FMIC
Safc2
Megan Boost gauge
After cruising around my gsx all that first summer for about 10k miles, I really started to research dsm's, their problems, what makes them work, and why they fail. I learned a ton by messing with things and tearing shit apart in the bay, reading on forums, and studying everyones build threads.
Winter rolled around and one afternoon it threw a rod in the high school parking lot while leaving for lunch.
I really didn't know what I was going to do at this point. Wasn't sure if I should just sell the shell or try to find someone that could help on the rebuild.
I found a guy through a guy I knew that said he would help putting a new motor in. My plans were just to get another 7 bolt block and call it a day but he pursuaded me into a 6 bolt, telling me it was an easy swap and he had done it 100 times.
So my car went into his shed and he began telling me things I needed to buy.
Well this buddy of mine told me he could do all this work for around 600 bucks. Me, not knowing dsm's that well, believed him. Well he tore my whole engine bay apart within two months or so and started running into trouble with bolting the 6 bolt to my auto trans.
This whole time my car was in his garage an hour away from me I became pretty worried about it. So I started doing tons of research on what it takes to swap a 6 bolt into an auto. I found a lot of parts that were needed that would double my budget that he said, those parts being;
Kiggly 6-bolt 2g adapter
6-bolt cas/adapter harness
Pretty much everything on the timing
After all of this I decided to pull the plug on him helping and took the car back to my garage to do the work on my own.
Car in my dads workshop
Keep in mind I had never done anything like this before so I was new to everything and working alone haha.
Managed to get the motor out all by myself to start checking everything out.
The carnage I found when removing the head.
While the engine was out, I really wanted to do some stuff to the bay/car. This stuff included;
Engine bay shave
Engine bay repaint
Wire tuck
Battery relocation
Abs delete
Fuse box relocation
Power steering delete
A/c delete
Fix a little strut tower rust
Keep it up!
