klepto

Well this weekend I spent a good 18hours installing car parts. Im about to collapse, I came down with a fever halfway through the installs too.

Well first off me and my friend spent fri night installing my eclipse avn5435 until like 530am. We had one hell of a time trying to find the VSS wire and we still cant find it. So im going to be taking it into my friends stereo shop next week to have him correct everything.

Sat we spent installing my megan racing headers. The bolts were an absolute BITCH to get to and get off. And after a good 3 hours or so low and behold the downpipe doesnt connect to the cat correctly thus causing an exhaust leak.

I was wondering if anyone with 4cly MR headers had this problem as well? My car sounded like complete ASS. I just got it back from an exhaust shop today, I had them cut off the last part of the downpipe and reweld it straight. I'm going to be talking to the MR vendor guy today to see what he has to say about all this.

Then all day sunday we spent lowering my friends TC on some tein s-techs. She was pretty juiced to have to car dropped, heres some quick pics of that. The springs still have to settle in a bit. She was scared that the s-techs were too low, now she wants it lower! She said up next is a CF hood and lip.


anyways enough jabbering, here are some pict0rz

out with the old


and in with the new


heres the damn horrible gap



in the process of the AVN5435 install, looks like a whole lotta fun


90% done. Still dont have the right trim or the VSS hooked up so for now its all ghetto fabbed like this


So i also took off my sides to see what it would look like. Not sure if i'm feeling it or not...opinions?




And finally the TC lowered, and my car with skirts for reference

shineynitelite

oooo you have a driveway lip like that............ ouchhh


looking good, like the tc too

klepto

hell no I dont have a driveway lip like that. Thats actually my friend with the blue 350Z in the pics' place. We have a fun time getting up that mofo. We usually just go redneck style and go up all sideways and through the grass.

shineynitelite

lol redneck style. my friend did that when he had a lip on his contour.

Motohip

Keep the non-stock skirts. Maybe moulding them would make them blend better???

VaTECh_CL

I like your car better w/ the skirts on. It might look alright w/ the stock skirts if you didn't have a rear lip, but w/ the rear lip, the stock skirts just look funny.


just my

shineynitelite

i dunno, w/o them it flows a lot better

RiDiN CLeaN

Wow, that ass shot of your car sittin in the driveway is sooo nice, for some reason. Everything just looks perfect. Your car's stance is sooo ill.

I envy you for throwing around thousands of dollars like every 1 or 2 months, lol. It took me all winter to save up for the wheel/tire package that I'm finally buying this week...

ajbent86

nice looking klepto!!! BUT.........ive got some questions about the AVN install. Im more than likely getting the same unit next month. Currently i have an Eclipse CD5444 in my '98 2.3. When i installed that, i noticed that there is nothing to really mount the AVN unit to, just the mounting point that the factory CD player uses in the rear. There is no way that i would use a cage to install a unit like that, its worth WAY too much, if i put it in my car it HAS to be bolted in. Did it not come with a trim piece? i noticed there is a gap around the whole unit on your install. Let me know how you like it and anything else you think i should know.

THANKS!!!

Palayah8ta

The aftermkt skirts are too low doesnt line up as well as the stocks do.

Oh and my OBX SS headers i had the same fukin problem. Ask hybrid we spend a few hours trying to be inventive. I had to do the same thing..

VaTECh_CL

Are there any headers that fit perfectly? Will it make a difference that I have a '99 2.3?

VaTECh_CL

That is true, but the stock skirts look so plain compared to the front and rear lips.

klepto

thanks. I dont usually dump this much money well honestly, because I didnt have the money. Ive been making some good money lately so yea. I dont know what happend this past 1.5 months, I bit the mod bug...HARD. I dropped a good $2600 the past month and a half on my car teins, navi, hids, valve cover, headers...etc fuckkk

dude if you read my caption on top of the pic I say that its not done yet and that I dont have a trim Im going to figure out a good mount and trim this weekend. I'll update you then on how I take care of that.

fucking bastards It cost me more to FIX my headers than to buy them...wtf

klepto

although the stock sides line up better, they arent "fat" enough to match my front and rear lip. I dunno, I cant decide what to do

Motohip

Tilt your front lip down and mould it...

shineynitelite

my OBX ceramic fits like a glove

VXCL

looks 1000x cleaner with oem skirts, unless you want to lower both lips and mold them. i think since your lips are not molded its what really drawing your eyes to the oem skirts becuase its over obvious that the front and rear are aftermarket. keep the stockers

shineynitelite

omg vxcl

z3Ro

hehehe...lots n lots of comments...my advice is see if u can xtend ur fr n rr lip down to level out with ur skirts...great job on the navi...for sure i wouldnt even know where to start with all those wires...when they worked on my lcd...i saw all the wires that sucker had...i was like...o shit...lol...good to know that my guy didnt send the wrong part to u...looks like all the other r fucked too...i hope ur happy with ur headers...great job on karens car...hhmmm...do i smell a potiental d_t member?!?!? lol...our 1st girl in d_t...lol...thats kool that shes dropping so much $$ into it all of a sudden...next...widebody...lol...j/k...

1 more thing...SLAM THAT SHIT...i know u still have more to go...if its still hekka high...CUT COILS!!!

h2o-pr00f

wow

glad to see u got the eclipse unit and installed it... as for the skirts, I like it stock. The heights seem to flow better now, but it does lose some agreesiveness without them.

Motohip

You mean the one with the hole in it?

VaTECh_CL

Damn shiney, this kid is bashing you in every thread. lol

black_on_ack

i think i like it better with the stock skirts, but shit either way she always looks beauty.....those tc's are pretty decent

i love those 18 hour install days.....ha, their more like 17 beer install days around here

SupraManAG

looking good
cant you cut the skirts somehow or add to your lip

agranado

OBX header for the win Klept...

I dont trust megan racing.. they botched the 2nd gen headers no?

97BlackAckCL

iTrader: (6)

Lookin sweet, like the drop on that TC, glad you got the headers fixed, and that eclipse is just hot, how much that bitch cost ya?

shineynitelite

yeah mark thinks he is hilarious........ i sent him mud flaps for his far for free, he paid for shipping alone and this is how he treats me

ajtcl

Stock skirts look great. Just mold them in... will look so much better than the other skirts.

teh CL

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since you have a rear lip..i think you need the skirts but

klepto

almost as much as my rims/tires

teh CL

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99CL

do you rub for having it that low? Mine isn't at low as yours but it rubs.

klepto

I rub on big dips on the highway and going up some driveways where I have to really crank the wheel. I pulled my fenders and set my teins on the stiffest setting too and yet I still shed a tear everytime it rubs on the freeway

99CL

Mine are tucked but not as low as u have yours. And yes mine rubs on the dips on the freeways going about 80 and turning the wheel too. So we have the same problem. haha...i don't feel so bad now..

klepto

you mod your fenders at all? bend the tabs back, cut them, etc.

saiko_cl_duck

nice man, real nice

99CL

yea, i pushed the tabs back. With the turning it rubs when its on a incline. On the freeeway it only rubs at 80mph on those dips, i thought it might be the fender but its not. When I jacked up my car, and looked inside. It was rubbing on the inner fender part (the actual metal part of the car).

Blenz

Klepto, your CL is looking nice as hell. With the sideskirts, I think you should leave them off.

subbuzz

i have no words to describe the ness.....

asianspec

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in the process of the AVN5435 install, looks like a whole lotta fun


90% done. Still dont have the right trim or the VSS hooked up so for now its all ghetto fabbed like this


Justin, thats too much freakin work! haha damnit too lazy! haha looks tight tho!