This is what it looked like then. And yes the Razzi body kit is pretty gross.
The shifter was extra sloppy, turns out the shifter bushing was just gone. Picked up some booger bushings and fixed that right up.
Next thing to go was the exhaust, it was pretty bad. The guy had welded in a y-pipe before the muffler to make a ghetto dual exhaust with ugly twin tips. I ordered a camaro muffler and had that welded in it's place.
After that I tinted the tail lights, then some douche hit my car in a parking lot and took off.
I added an srt4 rear sway bar with daboots adapter, and upgraded to a pt cruiser 24mm in the front. Car handled good enough to put off suspension for a while. I think I did the timing belt around this time as well.
Then came time to deal with that body kit. It was so ugly and scraped everything I had to get rid of it. Wanted to swap with another flame red neon, but nobody was close enough. The front bumper had been cut to fit the lip, so I had to buy a new bumper cover. That left me with a black front bumper and the chrysler grille I picked up.
Having an unpainted bumper is kind of ghetto, but I didn't have the money to paint. I decided to buy a $35 car bra and it actually hides the bumper pretty well. I might get it painted in the future, maybe.
The wheels were really ugly and had to go. Luckily I had a set of steelies from my brothers old golf gti in the attic. Ordered some cheap khumo 205/50/15 tires and slapped them on.
I put on an OBX long tube header and magnaflow high flow cat because the stock manifold was pretty bad. Extended the O2 sensors, switched to pennzoil synchromesh fluid and added energy suspension bushings to the front.
Had the car for 4 years so I figure it's about time for suspension. Have 89K miles on the stock struts, but they're still holding up pretty well. Will be replacing with Tokico Blues and H&R Limited Edition springs. Luckily I snatched up the tokico's when they were still $230, and the springs are still $100 I believe.
This is what we'll be starting with, and yeah it's got hella wheel gap:
They are a little dirty, but otherwise look pretty good. The left rear does seem to be a little easier to compress with my body weight, but not blown out like I've had on previous cars.
Here is what will be going in the old stock suspensions place. Everything is so shiny, too bad it's just gonna get dirty.
Will be filling the mounts with urethane and installing it all tomorrow as soon as it dries up, will post more pics then.
