Well after my mega-FAIL with my old 98' base coupe(2200.. Z-kit.. primer black.. yeah) and my not so much, but still a FAIL 98' Z24"cavfire".
I'm at it again.
This time its a 96' Z24 I grabbed off of craigslist.
Body had 204k on it, but surprising is as clean as the day it came off the floor!
No rust, bottom of car is nice and black still!
Motor has less then 50k, tranny has around 115k.
Had the car less then 24 hours... tranny decides to dump on me. great. AGAIN.
So after the 2nd Isuzu tranny swap(last Z had same problem), thank God for pull-a-part and 3 months waiting on the time/money...
Its back on the road.
While waiting for the transmission, someone ass hole decided to push the car off of the jackstands...
After a few hours of wrestling with the car to get it back up, only damage it caused was destruction of the side skirts.
It has a rebuilt 99' block, with a 96' head(paperwork on both).
Pacesetter 4-1 header
Borla Muffler
I've since removed the EGR and swapped to the 2.3 "lo" manifold W/ tb.
Here in the next week or so going to be swaping to the 2.2 coil packs, switching from the dodge neon coils I had before.
Come Jan/Feb "secret cams" will be going in hopefully along with a tune.
Exterior its pretty much the stock 95-99 Z24 kit, minus the skirts(which have been a item I've had no luck finding).
00-02 inner tail lights and 00-02 Z/LS spoiler.
Rear tails, corner and bumper lights were tinted with NightShade, headlights were painted by a shop as a trade.
Interior is stock.. and blue.. Brackets are being made for Celica front seats, and in process of collecting black interior pieces.
Rims are black painted 17" Eagle Alloy 193's with Kumho tires
Fronts are 45, rear are 50. Bought then like that, the front are brand new, the rear has a brand new and the other needs replacing.
Not bad for $125, need to get some center caps tho.
Friend is going to powder coat some lugnuts for me as soon as I decide on what color.
I was thinking White. not sure...
Anyhow... still a work in progress, but here are pictures.
Also.. I want to remove the side moldings, and tried but the pain keeps chipping underneath, so they are staying for now.
Also the bumper had a huge hole underneath the filler plate(sold), so I just cut it out completely.
Trying to keep it clean and simple, somewhat of a sleeper I guess you could call it.
Tax time is going to bring 03-05 LS skirts and ether LS rear bumper or base with rksport rear lip(maybe 00-02 if I can find).
Front end will be ether 95-99 Sunfire GT or 00-02 base W/ rksport lip. Evil eyes are a must.
When I purchased the car, it had a fiberglass ram air hood, which I traded along with some money for a stock white hood.
I think it looks better IMO
Under the hood needs a little cleaning up still, gonna paint the upper mount as soon as I get the insert.
Moving the alarm horn thing behind firewall, bolt down strut bar, hide some more wires/vac lines.
Have a alternator I pulled from a junkyard being powder coated black by a friend.
Hoping to get carbon fiber covers for the Coolant and PS Reservoirs.
A/C will be removed within the next few weeks(don't work anyway).
Carbon Fiber radiator shroud is slightly warped, and had to cut ends off to fit, but it was free and looks better then the plastic one.
After a quick scrub down, gotta go back and do some detail cleaning.
Right now the only issue I'm having is all the suspension bushings, ball joints and wheel bearings dying on me at one time.
*SIGH* a quick trip to the junk yard and a Autozone trip and that should be taken care of.
Next big upgrade will be motor/tranny mounts. Hopefully for christmas
Come tax time hopefully I can get alot done with the car, looking at lowering it as well.
Another thing that has to go is the horrid tips on the muffler, I love the sound of the muffler, really don't want to lose it.
Was thinking of having the muffler pushed back and having ether dual exits or even doing a "stealth" exhaust with ether no tip/s or a stock looking/low profile tip.
