I finally had time this week to put on all my mods that i have had collecting dust!! Wow! Let me tell you MAJOR change from stock!! LOL. If you are reading this and you don't have Redline Transmission Fluid... GO BUY SOME NOW!!!!!

I decided to give the valve cover a paint job with VHT Wrinkle Red.


It turned out like crap!!!!


Aircraft Stripper works like a charm to get it all off.


Sanded down to bare metal AGAIN!!


This time I used Duplicolor Ceramic Red and Clear Coat.


Taking off the stock headers.


Time to change the Shifter Cable Bushings!




Drain that old Transmission Fluid!


In with the REDLINE MT-90!


Installing the new exhaust manifold gasket.


Look at the pretty JET-HOT Coated MMW Headers!


Nice and shiny red valve cover!!


Injen intake installed Short Ram style for the rain.


Greddy Strut bar installed.


The exhaust installed. Tsudo midpipe w/ Aero 25 resonator.


Tanabe Concept-G Installed!


Hell yeah!! It was so much fun to drive I just got back and wanted to share!
Ok, back with old mods that I wanted to add...


Garmin GPS Hardwire


Valentine 1 Hardwire


Sony Head Unit


Alpine Amps / Monster Cable / JL 13W7 w/ Ported Box / Polk Speakers.


Dynamat Trunk!


Doc I's Short Shifter w/ Greddy ****. (you can see my PA microphone on the left!)


SuperBrightLeds.com White Led Reading Lights and F/R UV Dome Led.


Stull Stainless Billet Grille w/ 05' Chrome Ring.


Clear Turn Signal / Blue Led / PIAA H11 4100k / SilverStar High Beams


Blue Led getting swapped with RED just got in today!


Hella Super Tone Horns.



Final updates/mods before selling the car. 7/25/2010









Yes I had the best license plate ever..

 

those are the best lookin weld i've seen so far on resonators... O_o

 

wrinkled looked really good.

 

I liked the wrinkled too, but the car looks good anyway

 

u got sound clips of your set up?

 

yeah...really interested to hear that exhaust set up...

 

Looks good... looking forward to a sound clip

 

Yeah I have a sound clip I was just listening to it and it doesn't do justice at all but I will upload it.

The wrinkle looks good in the pictures but trust me I over sprayed and it looked like ___. Sound clip to come.

 

very nice

 

looks really nice. the engine bay looks nice and clean

 

Looks cool. What size Optima battery is that? I need one!

 

Thanks again for all the complements I really appreciate it no one ever gets to see my car and I needed to share with someone!!! The optima is just a standard red top.

 

any tips/suggestions for hardwiring that gps...i have the same one,and was looking for a better way to hook it up. right now i have it in the lower drivers side corner of the widshield, then the wire goes down, behind the steering column, and then back down to the 12v plug. i'm really sick of it, and want it to look cleaner...help!

 

no full-on shots?

 

Car looks good, you did a very good job painting. That header looks sweet also! where did you buy the wrinkle red paint? lol

 

Red Paint from Summit Racing. For the hardwire you need to get a pigtail from Amazon.com for the Garmin GPS. Then follow the DIY for the Valentine Hardwire. There is a ground and a power line. Connect the power line to the sunroof controls with a t-tap from Radio Shack.

 

the wrinkled red reminds me of the S2000 valve cover... nice job on the installs clean lookin engine bay

 

nice, i too liked the wrinkled red. you should have just redid it in that.

 

Bump. I sold my car. I had custom painted my headlights and I want to share with the community. I didn't show these pictures before cause I didn't want copiers. LOL sorry guys. But I blacked out the headlight turn signals with thick poster board paper and painted the outside white to match the headlights.. Taped off the eyebrow and painted the housing white. I dont know if anyone else had done this since I did but I know I was the first when I looked on here.

 

I think swtckid was the first to do it to 08+ lights. A bunch of people had done it to 05-07 lights prior to that, myself being one of those people.