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Old 10-10-2013, 08:17 PM
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I thought it would be fun to show the progression on my build through the years.
Bought it in 2004 with 13k miles. The pictures are the story.





































Then I sold it.

The new one. 2004 Z16 16k miles. Let's see how long it takes before I mod it. So far, nothing but a front sway bar.


Steve A.

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Nice build.
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yeah awesome build. Was that front spoiler too much? how much did you sell it for? Lots of great parts on that. When you put aero on, did you have to get stiffer springs? Are those drop spindles?
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start with an exhaust
miss the raging sounds of the racer in the videos now...
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Originally Posted by C5ZEE06
Nice build.
Thanks.

Originally Posted by 2MCHPWR
yeah awesome build. Was that front spoiler too much? how much did you sell it for? Lots of great parts on that. When you put aero on, did you have to get stiffer springs? Are those drop spindles?
Thanks. My car was used for Autocross only. That front splitter should have been bigger. They only allow 6" past the nose of the car. I sold the car for pennies on the dollar. I didn't have to change the spring rate, because of the Aero. Not enough speed to create big numbers. Those are LG drop spindles. Not good for 17" rear wheels, unless you want to do a lot of carving out on the lower control arm.

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start with an exhaust
miss the raging sounds of the racer in the videos now...
The new car came with B&B bullets. So loud, I had to take them off. Went back to stock Ti. I do miss the sound of the other car in the videos. Headers and no carpet is why the other car sounded so good. It actually had stock Ti mufflers also.

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Old 10-12-2013, 06:51 PM
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Nice composition
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Start by dropping it, looks like a monster truck! Actually, mine did too the other day next to a GS. Why'd you sell?

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