Originally Posted by DMad8724

Originally Posted by KLoWnPR109

I dont think anyone is gonna be too jealous of a dirty dirty engine bay

Originally Posted by Brad92SE

Looking good so far, I like the way your corners turn on low with the parking lights, and high with the low beams. I may have to do that sometime

Have you cut your grille yet?

Originally Posted by DMad8724

After who knows how long I've been looking, and several deals that had fallen through (Brian! ) today I finally have a beautiful 93 VE5spd sitting in the drive..It's dark now and I've been busy all night with work and other stuff, but pics will be up tomorrow ASAP!

Got up at 7:30 this morning and my mom and I took her minivan (Olds Silhouette) to Freeport, IL, where I met a fellow .org member (The Sleeper) at the Wendy's, I looked it over (although I already knew I was gonna buy it when he pulled up) and rode around with him then we went to Menards where he had to buy a screwdriver to remove the plates and then I drove it home, and it was the most non-boring 3 hours ever, I usually hate road trips, especially alone, but I was just fine..

126K, new clutch, new tranny, Warpspeed Y-Pipe, CAI, ebay fstb, 35% tint on the side windows, body colored mirrors and a nice Blaupunkt MP3 player are the only mods I've come across so far, and it seems to have been very well maintained, I've yet to hear the VTCs tick!
It's the dark blue color, I think it's "midnight blue pearl" if I read paintscratch.com right, and it's a very pretty color, and looks nice with the tinted windows, all the people I've shown my new car to have complemented the color. Black cloth interior, airbag, non-power seats, and it's all about it mint condition, one burn hole in the headliner above the backseats and some minor scars in the driver's side a-pillar, but very minor. Sunroof works great, windows are very fast to move up and down, even the back ones, which were extremely slow on my GXE..overall I think I might a very good purchase and was lucky to find such an awesome car with an awesome owner at an awesome price (in total I paid $2300).

It has some issues:
-First, it has an 'exhaust leak.' Gavin, the guy who I bought it from thinks it's the gasket on the rear manifold, and actually included with the car a new gasket, but I'm not sure if it's this or the exhaust manifold studs or what, the car is very loud and it sounds like when you put a baseball card in your bike spokes, very loud clacking, it also varies according to RPM/acceleration..
-It has some door lock problems, the passenger side door lock doesn't go up and down with the master switch, you can lock/unlock it manually, and from the door (even though the lock on both doors is very stubborn, have to wiggle/fight with it a lot), but I locked the master switch and shut the door and came back; my friend opened the passenger door (it was still unlocked) and the alarm went off, so it still thinks that it's getting locked or something, not sure..
-It doesn't have any fog lights! Not a big deal but I'm gonna get some soon!
-The 2 rear doors are hard to open, might just need some WD40
-The trunk doesn't pop like my GXE one did, I have to push the button in the door a couple of times, then open it up by grabbing the bottom of the center-sail piece on the trunk lid, not a big deal but I think there might just be an alignment problem with the lock/hinge setup
-The car was broken into and his previous sound system setup (headunit) was stolen and now the radio trim piece isn't quite flush, the cd player sticks out way too much, and if you turn the hazards on it's hard to get the switch to come back off (rubs against the radio trim)
-Has very little rust, and most of it is surface, I've been talking to Brian (1992maxman) and I'm gonna look into sanding it/applying naval(?) jelly/painting it with rustoleum to try and get rid of it..

As far as that, I find the problem's very small and am gonna go work on it tomorrow when I get up, considering it's going to be warmer tomorrow (hopefully). As far as upcoming mods/projects I've got some things lined up..

>e36 projectors..w/ completely custom/rewired corner light harness
>Heads-Up Display..have it all wired up but still have to purchase the Main Control Unit and the harness that comes along with that, but should be in fairly soon
>240sx Steering Wheel..Similar to RedMax92SE's steering wheel, but it just has 'NISSAN' engraved in the middle
>LED (front) turn signals..to go along with the all custom lighting up front

I'm gonna be having my own little "project of the week" threads, to show my mods, sorry Matt, not trying to bite your style or anything, I hope you all find them interesting, I'll get pics tomorrow before I do any work to it!

edit: just a temporary pic to hold you all over, I think Craig is right, it's the same color as crazy4maxima's VE, a very pretty color, I might start on the projectors today!



..dmad

Originally Posted by DMad8724

That's the part I like the most about the new harness, except it goes back low when the brights are on, but I don't use them that much so I don't really care..

I havn't cut my grille, and I'm hoping I don't have to..the way they are now with the grille in it still sits about half an inch away from the grille, hence why I said the whole thing needs to move to the left a little, and I'm hoping I won't have to cut it, I just need to get it angled more to sit right..

Originally Posted by Brad92SE

Good luck getting it to fit. You will probably have to cut more off of the fender side where the light sits, because I had to remove around 1/4" of material off of the sides of my grille.

Originally Posted by awsm66

Brian what happened to your car today?