Scoobystyl
10+ Year Contributor
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- Nov 5, 2011
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Denver,
Colorado
Ill start with this is my first dsm, i bought it from a guy local to me after seeing it on craigslist, in the ad it said it wasnt running and was pretty beat up, but also had alot of pretty expensive parts on it so i figured what the hell ill take a look, and im glad i did, it was the perfect starting point for what i wanted. Built 6 bolt, shep stage 4 tranny and a 4bolt rear end, after talking to him for a while i decided id make an offer and threw out $1000, but declined and said 1200, and figured what the hell i cant lose for that price, i signed all the paperwork and went on my way and told him id pick it up later, after reading on why a car wouldnt start after doing a 6 bolt swap i decided to go back swap the plug wires and it fired right up, so i drove it to my friends shop where it sat for a couple weeks.
Youll have to excuse my lack of pictures i never even thought of making a build thread
To start off when i bought it and moved it to my house
The extent of the damages
Wiring mess
The first thing i wanted to do was get it running right so i did all maintance on it, fixed all the wiring, and installed a new front mount as the one that was there was very small and the piping was made from crush bent exhaust piping, the vrsf was supposed to be a bolt on affair but naturally in my case it wasnt
At this point it was running pretty good id bought alot of other stuff, and figured it was time to ditch these
Then i bought some fic1550's and ecmlink v3 ,which i was told was full when i bought it, but turned out it was lite, the seller was told it was full, i was told it was full, one way or another i was lied to
Then started all of the body work, first i went to the junk yard and cut out a rear quarter panel and took a door, thats when the fun started i took alot of time measuring and marking til i figured out the best place to cut and weld
Once that was all welded in where i liked it the sanding started, i dont have any pictures of this because it SUCKS, my compressor isnt big enough to run a da for more than a couple minutes so i bought an electric one which worked better than the air sander in my case, but still was awful.
When sanding was done it was time to set up a "paint booth" and start priming
Looking at the paint booth from inside the garage
At this point i was really tired of sanding, as i had just sanded 4 coats of primer while trying to get the body as straight as possible and decided id start piddling with other things, so i shaved my valve cover and removed the yellow powder coating
I dont have any pictures of me painting it but i use a chameleon paint and mix in more blue so it turns the paint more a metallic purple rather than blue and then its red when the sun hits it
Got everything painted other than the bumpers, hood and sideskirts
Hard to tell but i painted it the same color as my blazer
Getting the bumpers and everything else painted
Youll have to excuse my lack of pictures i never even thought of making a build thread
To start off when i bought it and moved it to my house
The extent of the damages
Wiring mess
The first thing i wanted to do was get it running right so i did all maintance on it, fixed all the wiring, and installed a new front mount as the one that was there was very small and the piping was made from crush bent exhaust piping, the vrsf was supposed to be a bolt on affair but naturally in my case it wasnt
At this point it was running pretty good id bought alot of other stuff, and figured it was time to ditch these
Then i bought some fic1550's and ecmlink v3 ,which i was told was full when i bought it, but turned out it was lite, the seller was told it was full, i was told it was full, one way or another i was lied to
Then started all of the body work, first i went to the junk yard and cut out a rear quarter panel and took a door, thats when the fun started i took alot of time measuring and marking til i figured out the best place to cut and weld
Once that was all welded in where i liked it the sanding started, i dont have any pictures of this because it SUCKS, my compressor isnt big enough to run a da for more than a couple minutes so i bought an electric one which worked better than the air sander in my case, but still was awful.
When sanding was done it was time to set up a "paint booth" and start priming
Looking at the paint booth from inside the garage
At this point i was really tired of sanding, as i had just sanded 4 coats of primer while trying to get the body as straight as possible and decided id start piddling with other things, so i shaved my valve cover and removed the yellow powder coating
I dont have any pictures of me painting it but i use a chameleon paint and mix in more blue so it turns the paint more a metallic purple rather than blue and then its red when the sun hits it
Got everything painted other than the bumpers, hood and sideskirts
Hard to tell but i painted it the same color as my blazer
Getting the bumpers and everything else painted
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