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Message: <blockquote data-quote="fry" data-source="post: 1095567" data-attributes="member: 14584">I had a more organized, well written build thread on here but it's hard to be that detailed. This will be less formal, but I have a feeling I'll keep up with it a lot more. I bought my tangerine dream on November 30, 2010. It was ghetto'd out with the paint literally falling off. Brought it home, cleaned it up, drove the piss out of it for a year. I started auto tech in 2011 and actually started fixing the car. I started by lowering it on BBK springs and Maximum Motorsports caster camber plates. Didn't change the shocks/struts cause I wanted to half ass it. Changed out the wheels from the chrome 18in GT4s to some 17" machined with chrome lip deep dish 03/04 cobra wheels with Nitto N555 255/40/17 on the front and 315/35/17 on the rear. About this time I rear ended an old lady in a tank. Tore up the front end but no real bad damage. I swapped out the front bumper, both front fenders and hood off a parts car. I'm not a body person by any means so the gaps are off but I've never done before, so it was all trial and error. I went back to driving the piss out of it till the transmission started taring up. By this point it was burning through a quart of oil every 1,000 miles. Took it back off the road. By this time I'm working full time and not able to work on my car myself, so I leave it at school and let the students there do the work. Swapped out the trans with a working one along with a Hurst short throw. Got rid of the motor. Got a different block, all Manley internals, PI heads, TFS cams, PI intake, lots of good things. Got new BBK shorty headers, newish h-pipe and stock tail pipes since nobody liked the dumps. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> lol Drove the car about a week before taking back off the road. Front brakes were messed up so swapped the rotors/calipers with ones off the cobra parts car. It was smoking/burning oil, cutting off every time I would stop, and the brake booster went bad. The valve seals have to be replaced (think the students messed up some of them), needs a tune and the rack and pinion was pretty much destroyed from the lines not being run right and so they tore up one side.No big deal. Now I'm back in class, I got laid off at work, and my car is back in the shop lol. I'm redoing the valve seals after class and I'm gonna let the guys in suspension class replace the rack and pinion and the shocks and struts. I'm in HVAC class. Since I've had the car the A/C hasn't worked so we're gonna fix that while I'm in the class. After we get everything done with it this time I'm gonna let it be for a while and just work on the interior this year. I spent way more than I'd care to mention on the motor last year, so this year I'm just going to focus on getting the inside done to were I actually want to drive the car. Next year I'll make getting it painted my plan. <img src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/308593_10150858305800323_810741683_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />When I first got it.<img src="https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/425312_10151377456065323_448821042_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />Lowered and cleaned up<img src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/420069_10151377457930323_239550209_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><img src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/252296_10151859036650323_1366241494_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />After I wrecked it.<img src="https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/551839_10152103547400323_1431300201_n.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />What it looks like now. lol</blockquote>