Now that I put the car all back together, and have it ready to pass a very picky inspection tommorow, I thought I'd post all the pics here - rather than link them to Turbobricks.

I probably wouldn't have went out on this project without the help of these forums, you guys and T-bricks. 'Twas my first car project, to the first and only car I've owned. Enough talk, here are pictures:








Bad fender below:


Good fender below:


So, after a couple weeks of thinking about what I was going to do with the car, I decided I was going to fix it. I ripped all the crap off and discovered that asshole rust. What a towel rust is.






Let's kill all that mofo'n rust:





I did a much better job than the above two pics, but I didn't take pics every lil step ah the way. After grinding down rust to the metal, it becomes time for paint:









The hood I'm going to paint soon:




Then last week, on Thursday I believe... I wanted to see if the car worked..





So I was like awesome, because she started first try, so naturally I ripped around the block like the car is pictured above. It was pretty sweet with the 150lb weight reduction. My car definately turned some heads that day.

End of April edit: Decided on project name "Slowly But Surely" Sorry about huge pics, I forgot to shrink them down.

Pics of the grille I blacked out:





Pics of the crosspiece in:










Slight Airbox Mod:






Hood:







After throwing the hood on, I also removed those fugly fogs.





FCP groton goodies. Props to those guys. Here are a few pics:








here's Watters, he was giving me **** about how most my bolts are loose. I apparently lost one bumper nut (those 17mm suckers) on todays rally around the neighbourhood in second/first gear

But good ol' Watters put the 10mm wrench to work and bitched at me a bit.




Then I thought I'd do a one tire fire N/A autobox burnout up my driveway



and then I threw up the big V sign



Installed the stereo and my guages:





threw in my awesome seatbelt thinga-ma-jiggers and head rest inserts



installed the 100 wet shot of nawzzzz, there's the button:



yes it is true,




now for the hood stuff,



here is the really bad corner that is warped to ****:



here is the corner I fixed easily and is smooth as a baby's bottom:



Had to repaint because I had forgotten to properly latch my hood down, went for a rip and sure enough - it flew up and damaged it really bad. I did a very horrible job for the second spray...

So, my first car project winds down to an end. It was an awesome learning experience, and had it's fair share of frustrating times. I feel good I finished this project 100% myself, with no help from anyone else. What will I undertake next? Maybe I'll learn to be a bit quicker HAHa!

Here are the pics, yeah I know the hood looks like crap and isn't fullllly aligned. But it latches and shuts properly ;-)









- Amar




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