viele's 02 SXT (1gn project added)

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Sun Mar 07, 2010 5:29 pm

I agree,

my father got four complete assemblys from the jy for 40. we got everything changed today. so I have all new oem springs and struts with all the stock rubbers, etc...

how low it sat before

getting it done!

can you tell the difference? the strut/ spring from the jy is on the bottom the coil over pos it on the top

and my favorite... Goodyear eagle gt's with about 900 miles on them. thanks to a crap suspension

I have no after pics because the phone died...
and my property is complete mud hole right now if you didn't notice.

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 11:19 am

Alignment done last thursday, my front tires were toast so I threw my 16" MB seven X's with Hankook K106 (205/50/16) off my old neon on so I had decent tires. had some time friday so she got all washed up. (of course it been raining sence...)

will be getting pics later.

going to put a headunit into the sonoma (fathers using it, he's sick of having no radio, gave me cash to get a radio and put it in, lol)

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sun Mar 14, 2010 2:37 pm

Holy shit how the hell do you work in the mud like that

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:32 am

it sucks! this we actually did really early while the mud was sorta frozen still, later on you would just sink ankle deep the worse part is we have dumped probally a dozen tri axle dumptruck loads of stone to get it built up, put drainage in and it still gets bad.

def, looking forward to the summer when I get my garage finished, big diffrence, mud and outside to heated concrete floor and walls and a roof!

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:33 am

Wow....that's nuts those truckloads of stone aren't cheap either!

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Mon Mar 15, 2010 9:38 am

well, the guy down the road has several trucks and a pit... we traded some work (re built and welded one of his dump beds that flipped on its side.) so it really just cost some time.

lilnicko11 · Post by **lilnicko11** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:44 am

yo tom, im sure we could find a place to work on this shit. i got my buddys garage where i store whichever car im not driving or we could do it in any parking lot. If your ever doing shit alone and want a helping learning hand let me know. Im eventually gonna have to replace shit on my ACR and the SRT4 will continue to be upgraded. Im always trying to learn shit and im sure others would like to see as well bro. and I vote for kicking me in the nuts and trying to steal my SRT4

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:53 pm

yeah I could have used a Friends shop, just didn't want to drive to Hudson falls, I've always been the Grassroots type.my father helped me with it so it was fairly quick and easy. definitely cannot wait till my garage is done, (40' x 30', heated floor and 1 1/2 bedroom apartment upstairs to stay in while I am doing the house)

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:31 pm

That would be heaven....huge garage with an apartment upstairs. SOLD!

camcam11 · Post by **camcam11** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 8:28 pm

thats awesome bro. when do u plan on having ur garage done?

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 9:13 pm

the lot is cleared, as soon as I can get the concrete pad poured it will take me probally a week to frame it and probally another two to finish it out. I have cash in hand for everything from start to finish, no loans, doing everything with me and my father, so no contractors. hopefully going to have it finished by late summer.

I have a few jobs coming up by mount snow, VT doing siding and converting a barn to a apartment building (2nd one so far) and a few welding jobs so I will be keeping busy!

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Fri Mar 19, 2010 11:01 pm

I voted to get rid of body kit, but I would stick with the hood you currently have.

I like things neat, simple and clean, and feel that the body kit is an overstatement. Adding an SRT hood (unless you had one that I'm working on [shameless plug

] would also be an overstatement.

[/b]Though........... [/b] I'm not in anyway saying that what you have done is bad or anything of that sort. I, personally, am not a fan of most body kits out there.

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Mon Mar 22, 2010 7:36 am

I like the kit, I want it to look less cheezy, it'd be one thing if I had a turbo or srt swap or something but it was looking a little too much like someone had watched The Fast and the Furious too many times.
I want to make it clean, with some subtle diffrences.

on the srt hood, I like it, it is a little more agressive than stock, and being oem it fits good and no hood pins. I like the cf hood but I hate the hood pins, I am considering the flush aerocatch latches, just not sure I want to go hacking it up.

I think after talking with nick today my decision is to clean the car up and make it stock looking, get her decent looking and try to make it down to carlisle this year. than over this winter I think I will go through the engine, turbo and get the interior out of its sad state. base 1gn 2door seats out of my 96 looks sexi, lol and finish making the gauge pod piller for the driver side (i'd buy one but I am going to mount the scangauge in there)

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 8:03 am

not much of an update, cleaned up car. have been working on the property. unfourtinatly I am not going to get to the mopar nats. this year (cannot get it off, it was that or the anniversy both are same week)

on with the pics!

My two favorite machines!

2 of 3 stumps I had to pull

I don't have a before pic, but you can see how the surrounding area is and get a good idea.

and tried a panorama

sorry about the phone pics.

so now I am having some fill brought in and a freind is letting me borrow a bulldozer and his truck.

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Sat May 22, 2010 8:43 am

not much of an update, car hit 100,000 the other day,

the property is getting there, I have the ground built up, just waiting on a few loads of lighter stuff than starting on the concrete.

the amount of mud and bird crap on my car has me considering trading for a Subaru.. lol

and my favorite part, did a side job, got extra money, held onto it for 5 minutes, and now its gone, had to put tires on the wifes car.

I hate cars

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Fri Oct 15, 2010 9:52 am

Property is coming along nicely dug trenches and ran 1500 feet of power line and phone cable underground.

Neon, not much has changed, threw a set of plugs and wires and did an oil change a few weeks ago.

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:17 am

Lovely mornin ain't it! put my daughter in her car seat and hopped in to drop her off at grandma's and go to work. the brake pedle goes straight to the floor... WTF? moved it a little, very little brakes, got out looked around and found this beauty....

the thing that irritates me is that the pads are almost as thick as new and I do not ride my brakes or over heat them, just something else the PO must have cheaped out on...

can you guess what I am doing today? its not going to work

LilSparkPlug · Post by **LilSparkPlug** » Sat Oct 16, 2010 11:35 am

I'll forgive you for the JBody pictures solely because it's purpose is to protect the neon

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 4:45 pm

another update in less than a month![/b] the sunfire alternator locked up so trying to find that at the jy for cheap, prob. going to get it running and sell it.

Mom's neon just took out the waterpump and head gaskit and I am guessing it chewed something up because the oil feels like sand paper. trying to talk her into pulling the 2.4L out of the sebring out back and building an Srt clone I have another complete engine but it is SOHC so I am hoping the head is ok on hers.

So I got my tires / wheels back off that car so I have my car set for winter, and got the remote start installed and almost finished last night.

my helper

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:17 pm

wouldn't pass inspection due to a bad ball joint, so I bought both complete LCA assemblys from advance (LCA, Balljoint and bushings $99 each) I wanted to use urethane bushings but couldn't wait on having them shipped. (I got a ticket at a checkpoint the day after I failed the inspection

)

Car drives so much nicer quieter now! both ball joints were destroyed and the LCA bushings weren't far behind. I cannot believe the problems this car has had with the suspension and I am only at 109K miles!

on a lighter note I got one last wash and wax before the weather turns to complete shit.

proof that in fact you can polish a turd!
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vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Mon Jan 30, 2012 3:02 pm

Been a while! Little update. Hit a deer a few weeks ago on the way to work

Other than that not much. Ordering a few goodies from modern later this week. Can't wait rill its warm going to try and get her lookin good again and crusein around

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:32 pm

Went to the local u pull it to find a wheel for the jeep and ended up finding a 02 bumper and a pass Side door for my car!

vielecustoms · Post by **vielecustoms** » Sun Feb 12, 2012 12:19 pm

Got my stuff from modern!!

I got the intake and motor mount bushings in. Just waiting till it gets warm to do the rest also waiting for the pillar to come in modern was out apparently its all good tho!