I hate cleaning...

03blackrt · Post by **03blackrt** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:26 pm

I have had my '02 R/T for a few weeks now and I am just making a dent in the filth that covered it when I got it. So far I have ran 3 pints of seafoam through the oil and two oil changes (the dino oil that was in the car when I got it had OVER 10,0000 miles on it). I've put in new plugs and wires, flushed the coolant and flushed the trans fluid. A much needed alignment was done. I was able to bend my intake heat sheild that came off my '03 and fit it into the '02. Iv'e polished the hell out of the paint and put a nice coat of sealer on it. The interior was removed and cleand very good.

The engine bay the night I picked up the car.

The engine bay as it sits now, MANY hours of work. It still needs many more hours of work

I'm only about halfway through cleaning the rust off of all the bolts. Soon I will remove the intake manifold and give it a good polish.

Removing the interior. Broken glass was found throughout the interior, evidence that a window was smashed in at sometime.

LOTS of dog hair was everywhere!

Anyone want some free brake dust? I've got plenty! It took me around an hour to polish the brake grim off of just one wheel. For now I have my '03 r/t wheels on. The 'tires that were on the car where cording very badly too, so I'll need to mount some new tires before I can run the '02 wheels.

Why you shouldn't use the same spark plugs for 78,000 miles! The ORIGINAL sparkplugs were removed after prying them from the corroded threads of the head. They measured 0.075 gap...

Why you shouldn't drop a new sparkplug onto concret.

boostinss · Post by **boostinss** » Tue Mar 06, 2007 11:41 pm

wow man very nice cleaning that car up.

that engine bay looks 200X better already

glasswars · Post by **glasswars** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:05 am

Damn, you did a great job. Can't believe how people neglect their cars sometimes.

neonpla · Post by **neonpla** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:08 am

WOW, poor r/t... good thing you saved it.

03blackrt · Post by **03blackrt** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:20 am

Fixing a nasty gash on the front lip. If the paint on the front wasn't so full of rock chips I would have had it professionaly done, but I didn't think it was worth it. I sanded it with 220/400/800/1000 grit sandpaper and then painted it with the Mopar spraycan touch-up paint.... now It is not even noticable in daylight.

The valve cover also got a coat of gloss black...

The bolts on the airbox lid were so rusted that I had to disconnect the bellows tube a pull the entire airbox and tb out of the car and the cut the head off of two bolts and drill the head off of one...

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:28 am

Looking Real Good yo... Real Good

03blackrt · Post by **03blackrt** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:34 am

A slight bit of OCD has me cleaning the rust and corrosion off of every bolt under the hood

Before and after of a bolt...

Before I added the intake heat sheild. It was just too quiet with the stock airbox.

Then I decided to straighten out the bent heat sheild and put it in.

Chibits12 · Post by **Chibits12** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:41 am

Wow you did a marvelous job. It's starting to look show floor worthy again.

fixitmattman · Post by **fixitmattman** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:52 am

ajfldjad;jfad

Man that reminds me of when I first worked on my neon. Spark plugs had 66 000mi on them, and I had to drill and extract a few airbox screws as well.

Looking great man.

TNK · Post by **TNK** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:50 am

hot damn thats much better. very ncie work man

Mr Josh Zombie · Post by **Mr Josh Zombie** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 9:39 am

JESUS!

This is the most impressive change I have EVER seen in someone cleaning there car! Seriously!!

Bravo sir, BRAVO!

supertrick_05 · Post by **supertrick_05** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:35 pm

Wow man, looks SUPER DUPER sweet! You did a good job, and it's really good to know that you're half done with it! You are a dedicated man!

refect · Post by **refect** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 5:53 pm

damn man you really going to work on that thing. looks damn good. want to come do my engine next? haha

what were you using to get off the corrosion on the bolts?

SILVER-ES · Post by **SILVER-ES** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:00 pm

You are doing an AMAZING job.

I can't comprehend how people let their cars get that nasty.

quicksilvr · Post by **quicksilvr** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 7:31 pm

Very impressive, best turnaround I've ever seen. I didn't even know you'd gotten a new (older) R/T to replace your deer grinder.

SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 8:05 pm

What did you use on your motor mount? Any pics of it?

03blackrt · Post by **03blackrt** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:12 pm

I sprayed the motor mount with a Duplicolor textured metalic paint and used a wire wheel attachment on a pneumatic grinder to clean the heads of the bolts. I also used tons of degreaser, polish and amorall multipurpose auto cleaner to get rid of all the crap. Im using a texture silver and textured black spraypaint along with some flat and gloss black. Some of the stuff just needed refinishing and couldn't be cleaned. This weekend I'm removing the intake manifold and painting it with the same stuff I useed on the motor mount.

Tonights work... painted the IAC, throttle cable bracket, cruise servo and cruise bracket.

Woot, post 1000!

J-Villa · Post by **J-Villa** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:18 pm

wish i had cruise control

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:45 pm

Looks good man, you have the exhaust from your 03?

01rtgurl · Post by **01rtgurl** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:47 pm

Where the heck was this car located??? I've never seen rusty bolts like that under the hood of a car. Holy crap. And is it just me or does it look like your pass. side motor mount is slightly off? Like it's not straight, it's pointing to the pass. fender. I only notice because I opened my hood one day to find my whole engine rocked BACK and down. Motor mounts...

You are doing one fantastic job. I wouldn't have the patience!

03blackrt · Post by **03blackrt** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 10:48 pm

invujerry wrote:Looks good man, you have the exhaust from your 03?

No, I don't have it.

INVUJerry · Post by **INVUJerry** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:01 pm

OH DUDE! Thats so weak! Oh well, you just need to buy better stuff now

.

Good luck, 02 has so many more options for ECU's anyway.

yellowpatrol · Post by **yellowpatrol** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:10 pm

Holy crap. Wanna do mine?

teamliviD · Post by **teamliviD** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:18 pm

Very nice work!! Keep it up!

03blackrt · Post by **03blackrt** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 11:33 pm

01rtgurl wrote:Where the heck was this car located??? I've never seen rusty bolts like that under the hood of a car.

The car came from Michigan.

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 1:40 am

Dude man this should be in the project/progress log... This is some great work that your doing here, its very impressive.

lil06tecksta · Post by **lil06tecksta** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 3:08 am

wow i have to say, impressive! & now i gotta fix that similar damage on my bumper
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SlvrACR · Post by **SlvrACR** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 6:53 am

03blackrt wrote:
01rtgurl wrote:Where the heck was this car located??? I've never seen rusty bolts like that under the hood of a car.
The car came from Michigan.

LOL thats all you had to say. Its so hard keeping your car nice in MI. Damn rock salt and potholes.

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 7:53 am

(the dino oil that was in the car when I got it had OVER 10,0000 miles on it)

Thats alot of miles or a typo

Cars looking good, keep it up!

Neonix · Post by **Neonix** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:00 am

I don't understand how people can let their cars get to that point.

But you did an amazing job cleaning it up. Good work!