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86AccordLxi
10-21-2003, 06:49 PM
This summer cdscowboy (matt), bobafett (chris), lx-i girl (amber) and myself (alex) got together to swap out my monroe sensacraps for tokicos (nice change, though still not perfect). At the same time, Matt brough his car and we installed H&Rs and konis (i'm also running H&Rs). We met at my dad's house and essentially just used him for his garage and lift :D After many many hours, we finally finished everything up and everyone was happy (there were a couple cross threaded nuts that caused some panic--nothing an impact wrench couldn't fix :D ). Anyhow, without further ado:

Matt's car on the lift; chris standing around doing nothing (typical :flipa: )
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/p83186b0880bd03e659daf75cb18feb7c/fac31bb6.jpg

lazy ass matt taking a nap
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/p07449dd622877f2ba2168fab506b0e8d/fac31b93.jpg

oooooh pretty:
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/pf3f3895e11b42c49fefd151b4c836b33/fac31b96.jpg


My dad has all his tools and whatnot for his two babies:

1966 Datsun 1600, Race Prepared for SCCA vintage class
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/p0a69493cd66d4eb69275bf74859bb13f/fac3159a.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/pa7629e8e062cbd4bb91919067ae6660d/fac31595.jpg
1988 Supercharged MR2 with 10k on a rebuilt 4agze bored out .020 over with JE forged pistons, all the bolt-ons, and boosting about 13psi....pretty quick little car D
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/paa452ed3838f9e02d3764504208f4ed3/fac31591.jpg

and here's a pic of my car a couple weeks after the install (out by ankeny hill for you Salem natives):
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/sraid85/p36946c01c1da913ee4eba347878b808b/fac31236.jpg
enjoy..sorry for so many pics.

Alex
blazin3gen
10-21-2003, 07:03 PM
dude i love your rims man!
od2681
10-21-2003, 07:11 PM
hey i checked out somethin at shox.com...they have H&Rs with 1.5drop for 150 bur are they for all four tires
3G Jester
10-21-2003, 07:17 PM
nice! thats a sick lift and it looks like your dads got some cool toys. nice paint on the lxi. how much did the paint job cost you? i see you opted for the moulding paint ;) haha
wheres amber? im sure chubbs would like another pic of her to put on his wall :rolleyes: :lol
speaking of which...havent heard from him a long ass time.
cdscowboy
10-21-2003, 07:32 PM
The paint job cost about $10 or so...rattle can :D I'm disappointed with it though...it's all dirty cause I didn't put any clear coat over it blah blah blah. But when I can afford to get her painted, it's gonna be the moldings too!!



Oh, and I'm not resting...I'm putting the nuts on the rear strut...what a pain the the arse!!!
easyryder
10-21-2003, 07:39 PM
Man your car looks sssweet
cdscowboy
10-21-2003, 08:29 PM
why thank you :D
86AccordLxi
10-21-2003, 08:31 PM
pssst...he was talking about my car :D.

Alex
3G Jester
10-21-2003, 08:35 PM
ya know? those orange tails could use a lil red paint ;)
cdscowboy
10-21-2003, 08:39 PM
I've considered it...but paint = money + time...both of which I have very little of, so orange it stays :)


And oh, Alex: psssst...you wish :D
TJ89Accord
10-21-2003, 09:31 PM
I love the MR2 :)
MattsAccord
10-21-2003, 09:56 PM
When are you guys going to come down here and lower my car for me? :D
bobafett
10-21-2003, 10:10 PM
man buy some coilovers and struts, get up here on a thursday/firday and i could give u a hand... maybe we could all get togther and use alex's dad..

(it was awesome, he started up the race car at like 12:30AM and revved the shit out of it to warm it up... hahah)
MattsAccord
10-21-2003, 10:25 PM
Neighbors yelling, dogs barking and a sweet car. What else do you need in life.
86AccordLxi
10-21-2003, 10:29 PM
Originally posted by bobafett
man buy some coilovers and struts, get up here on a thursday/firday and i could give u a hand... maybe we could all get togther and use alex's dad..

(it was awesome, he started up the race car at like 12:30AM and revved the shit out of it to warm it up... hahah)

Yeah he did!! Thank got it wasn't running the open header like he had before...that would have warranted a police complaint for sure. Of course, a 5k rpm, any car is going to be loud, but especially that one. The mr2 is also loud as hell since it's straight piped to a supertrapp muffler. I would hate to be his neighbors. But his cars look so damn cool!

Alex
MattsAccord
10-21-2003, 10:36 PM
So he races it in auto cross? And if so what are some of the other car he races agianist.
86AccordLxi
10-21-2003, 10:43 PM
No, he races at PIR (planning a trip up to WA for next season). It's SCCA Road Racing, Vintage class. In VP1 it's all cars smaller than 2 liters...saab sonnets, i think a couple old mgs...he just finished his first season...didn't do great, still got a long way to go...I'm trying to convince him to let me drive :D.

Alex