rhafikjaan

can you turn it into a wagon? lol an Italian company turned the qauttroporte into a wagon looks great

Emersont503

Im sure it can be done... But come on a Tl made into a Wagon !!! how would that look??? lol

CLtotheTL32

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Emersont503

right !!!

TWiSDiT

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haha i live and work 5-10mins from 355/ROckville Town Center as well. I work across the Giant on 355 in the white townhouse looking buildings. You will see my car parked outside if you ever past by that area ( anthracite TL, dropped, CR-Kai rim )

Nice vid btw

A SiQ TL

The new TSX wagon looks cool, not sure that the TL could pull it off though.

Emersont503

Cool man we go grocery shopping at that Giant... lol and I've seen that there are meets in the TGIFridays parking lot !!! do you go to those meets ?

Definitely gonna take a look at your car!

TWiSDiT

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haha wow

yeah just let me know. For that meet, no, i havent gone yet. I wonder when the next one is.. i know they hold on every other Friday nights

acura_dipset_tl

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props for bringing her back to life. Can't wait to see more progress pics, and maybe even be able to see it in person at a meet one day sice your not that far from me.

Biggi_e

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screw the rebuild. lets all go meet at gordon biersch and drink. lol

Emersont503

Excuse me for my noob question... but how do you update/edit the tittle of your thread???

I've been looking everywhere for an answer but didn't find anything.

CLtotheTL32

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You have to get a Moderator to change the thread title.

Emersont503

This past week we received the rear clip here are some pics of it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894537152/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894537152/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040633611/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040633611/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

First off we had to trim it out meaning all the wiring and sear belt and suspension it had on.

Second we had to prepare the spots where we were going to weld it.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894539054/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894539054/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040637663/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040637663/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

After that we work on the car taking off the headliner and also the wires and harness in the rear section of the car!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894538154/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894538154/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040638851/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040638851/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894542628/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894542628/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

Next step was to get the suspension off the car, which by the way wasn't as bad as i thought it would be.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894543696/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894543696/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894548428/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894548428/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894553668/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894553668/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

After that we started to work on getting the rear section of the car off!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040651651/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040651651/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

This is when it was off the car.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040652879/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040652879/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040654059/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040654059/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

And this is how the car looked with out no ass !!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040655149/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040655149/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040656197/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040656197/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

The final steps were to put the two pieces together and fit them to make sure everything was in place before welding them.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894560212/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894560212/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894561274/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894561274/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040659329/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040659329/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

And then it was ready for welding!!!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894563658/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894563658/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

The last thing we did on sunday was to fit the doors and put the suspension back on which turned out great!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894564694/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/6894564694/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040662729/http://www.flickr.com/photos/emersont503/7040662729/ by http://www.flickr.com/people/emersont503/, on Flickr
This is also how the car is right now!!!

Next weekend objective is to have the car ready for paint. There is still body work needed to be done and also re-install all the wiring and harnesses we took off, which is going to be a pain in the ass to figure what goes where.. lol

Well thanks again for watching!!! any comments are welcome.

Also who knows of a retailer for getting a exhaust system in the eastern shore? when the car was towed to my shop the guys ripped the muffler in half. so i need to buy a new one, now i priced up on from the dealer and with the j pipe and muffler comes to be around the 1,000.00 which is almost the same to what i would spend on a performance exhaust . Any advice out there ???

guitarplayer16

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This is beyond intense.

To be honest, I don't think I've seen this being done before.

If I were you, while you're doing custom body work, do something crazy like widebody while you're at it.

quanaman

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If you're in Va there's a type-s one for 300$ on craigslist

http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/n...930635341.html

I think he's just stupid calling it 2006 but it's 2007-08 type-s quads.

rossv1

I would take GP's advice and do something totally different and make this a one of a kind Type S. Maybe add a super aggressive rear bumper with a nice sized diffuser? Idk, but I'd definitely do something to it that hasn't been down before.

Lonewhitestar620

Good progress!! Imma follow this thread till its complete!!!

dontTL'em'nothing

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this rebuild reminds of a build a guy did to a civic lol, but what he did was take the frame of a civic and put it onto an sti frame. so he has an all wheel drive civic. anyways not to take away from this amazing build.

I agree with GP also that you should make this one of a kind and do something different.

Are you planning on changing the interior also color wise? i mean a color combo to your liking? Since you have the rear half of the car off you should more pics of it all around an post. Might give someone a project to start, IE: someone might be motivated to end all rubbing issues from your pics lol who knows. Keep up the work man

ArthurL

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Wow.. great progress. I can't wait to see the upcoming pics.

Biggi_e

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great amount of work ive ever seen done on the TL. i Pm'd you by the way.

CLtotheTL32

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Holy. Shit.

Slpr04UA6

Very Interesting! ^I agree with Tyler! Thank you for taking all the pics, and look forward to the end result!

Jcaron9gt4

Reminds me of a celcia forum i'm on....guy takes a normal 94 celica, cuts it in half and welds it with a front clip from a celica gt4 from overseas....crazy stuff and he's done more than one!

A SiQ TL

JETSPD1477

nice!

eh? spec

I can't wait to see your end result. That lovely car is getting a second chance at life.

Steven Bell

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Wow.....talk about a Progress Thread.

A SiQ TL

^^I know, in just 2 weekends he's already basically got two cars put together into one. At this rate he'll be driving it in 2 more weekends.

Emersont503

Thanks for the comment!!! wide body is something that is on my mind for not as a project for right now.. we will be looking at that in the future to come.

Thanks for the info I'd give them a call as soon as I can!

That is a future project that might come sooner than we all think!!!

Yes I seen people do that to their cars.. but now working on a civic is way easier than working on a TL .

Thats is crazy... I would like to see some Pics of it to see how the final result came out.

Yes Sir. That's what I have planned .. there is a car meet on the 29 and I would like to take my car there and show everybody what I did to it!!!

Jcaron9gt4

Enjoy...

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?...1&st=0&start=0

acura_dipset_tl

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Great job, everything's coming along great.

skadoo323

Amazing progress and skills!

Emersont503

Yep .. That's the way of doing it !!!

swoosh

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HOLY SHIT !!!

you got some skills BRAHH !!!

that TL-S was nasty and you are giving her a new life....PROPS !!!

Morrissey25

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Exactly what Swoosh said... Freakin amazing!!!

honda_nut

Will this thing be structurally safe were it to get rear ended again? You did pretty much weld two halves together.

Nice work though. Props to you for taking on such a task.

A SiQ TL

Can't wait to see this weekends pics, which will be essentially only the 6th day spent on it.

24no7

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Holy cow!

Dude this is unbeliveable!! can't wait to see this baby on the road

Emersont503

Yes it will be safe for such thing . It has to go through out couple of safe inspections.

1st. Which is the one I'm worried about is the state police inspection. They inspect the car and do a couple of tests to make sure that it is safe driving it.

2nd. Is just the regular State inspection! which wont be a problem at all!

Me neither !!! I'm so excited ... But this weekend's work we won't really see a progress because what we are doing is just preparing everything so the car can be painted. It will be small stuff but it will definitely take a lot of time.

but stay tuned to see the results

Thanks for the comment ! I can't wait to see how it would look neither...

truonghthe

nice progress so far, I hope you past state inspection with ease. We love to see this car roll on the road again.