Zhneon's log:College mod=slow modding =/

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 9:33 pm

Hm-mm well I've been on this site for nearly a year now and haven't made a progress log. Was bored after driving four hours to and from Maryland. So I'm making one now:
No pictures of the car when I first bought it in '08, but it was your average stock sxt, except for one thing:

Atlantic Blue. Definitely my favorite 2gn colour. Back then i was looking for an auto. Dumbass.

Today, it is just as slow, but a little easier on the eyes.

And here is how it looks tonight!

I need air tools...
Future mods:
Install rt rear section
New hood and chrome pieces
SRT springs on stock struts
then Prokit on tokico hp's
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Thanks for looking I will have some updates soon...

ZeroChad · Post by **ZeroChad** » Sun Aug 08, 2010 11:43 pm

Good luck man! After living in the rust belt I always hate suspension work!

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Mon Aug 09, 2010 12:07 am

Ahh you understand, in Texas I would have been driving the car for two days already.

eford33 · Post by **eford33** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 1:16 am

All that stuff looks good! Where'd ya get it? :p kidding, hope all goes well! Car looks great!

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:10 pm

Why are you changing springs twice??

FAC3L3SS · Post by **FAC3L3SS** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 2:26 pm

How come once you put the lip kit on you didn't take any full shots of the car?

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Wed Aug 11, 2010 11:30 pm

@ Sidepipe
Got the Srt springs for free, and I needed practice tearing down and building up my suspension. I want to run the pro kit with legit struts, so when I get the chance I will buy tokico hp and switch again.
@FAC3L3SS
viewtopic.php?t=51184
I took a few more but didn't really want to re-post.
I guess I was too preoccupied with mad tyte jdm angles on my point and shoot lol

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:12 pm

Well I have done two interesting things in the past few days:

AND ??????????

Yes. Got the rear section on and it looks perty gud.
And I was really bored one day, and my mom's van was sitting around when she took my neon so I worked on blacking out the van's turn signals.:

In my defense, I was supposed to reseal the turn signals anyway. They had almost an inch of water pooled in them.

Muffler Comparison

The hardest part of doing the rear section was taking off the bumper and cutting out the inserts. It was easy. The tips are kind of staggered though. Perhaps something I will have to fix later.

Tam · Post by **Tam** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:22 pm

Did you mount your mopar lip lower than it should be? It doesn't line up with your license plate area.

And the dual tips look good. Mine's are not straight with the cutouts either but I'm ok with it.

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:27 pm

Im early 03 so there were no x's to mount to. Also the lip physically didn't fit properly up so high. I was expecting that because I read somewhere that early 03's like mine had to have the lip mounted lower. On the plus side it looks better IMO.

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 8:51 pm

Tam wrote:Did you mount your mopar lip lower than it should be? It doesn't line up with your license plate area.

And the dual tips look good. Mine's are not straight with the cutouts either but I'm ok with it.

early 03 bumpers are different bro...

also what's up with the tips?? how are they off center? were new tips welded on crooked? That doesn't make sense since there's cutouts on the lip FOR the oem r/t muffler

Oh, and Penn State FTL. Pitt FTW!

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Thu Aug 19, 2010 10:07 pm

Haha. The tips are not pointing straight back, but rather out in more of a v pattern. Its no big deal, in fact I kind of like it.
Also, I am not going to Penn State.
Temple honors college, Philly FTW.
I do have plenty of friends going to pitt though.

eford33 · Post by **eford33** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:24 am

i thought the tips stuck straight out, but sorry about that bro, i didn't know that they were bent :/

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:09 am

Hey Evan it's barely noticeable and like I said before, I kind of like it. So it's no problem dude

eford33 · Post by **eford33** » Fri Aug 20, 2010 1:38 pm

oh, good! so when am i getting that chrome grille piece?

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:07 pm

So this is kind of a shitty update without pics but...
My car gets modded whether I'm in berks county or Philly.
I am sitting in my dorm now before dinner but I just received word that my car is home from some improvements...
Sorry for lame post but im so excited to get some pictures myself.
Haven't seen my poor baby in weeks!

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 5:36 pm

not only are there no pics, but you told us nothing useful... what was being done to it?

heydockyle · Post by **heydockyle** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 7:47 pm

STFU Ryan. Penn State Ftw

sidepipe87 · Post by **sidepipe87** » Fri Sep 10, 2010 9:59 pm

sidepipe87 wrote:
Oh, and Penn State FTL. Pitt FTW!

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Sat Sep 11, 2010 3:13 am

Uhh Temple FTW. and im just being annoying so no hints till i get pictors

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 11:38 pm

eford33 · Post by **eford33** » Mon Sep 13, 2010 3:08 pm

your hood is fixed?:D

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Wed Sep 15, 2010 3:53 pm

Yea and the door valences are on. I haven't even seen it in person though, I can't wait

zhneon · Post by **zhneon** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 7:49 pm

Yeaa.
Cleaned out the interior with some carpet cleaner, which worked wonders.
Washed and waxed the outside too, took some nice photos.
Only one week til the end of semester and I get a month off.

smiley · Post by **smiley** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 8:46 pm

yer first pic there dude looks really good, to bad u didnt get the whole car in the pic

eford33 · Post by **eford33** » Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:04 pm

man, buy my wheels and you'll be set!

speed127 · Post by **speed127** » Mon Dec 13, 2010 9:58 pm

looks sweet, can't wait till you lower it a bit Keep it up