100k miles. Needs an immobilizer issue resolved and obviously the standard upgrades and then it should be epic.
Yeah and they feel like they're all bent too so those gotta go. Plan is to use them to scrap the 04 on. This car will be getting Perfo wrapped in zLine AS. And 302s.I was waiting for this thread to start. Nice car. What you gonna do with door panels?
These wheels are great example of what happens when you don't care about the brakes and wheels.
So anyone remember that? Uh, yeah, that didn't really work out lol. Aside from the scratches in the hood and chips in the driver's door, this paint is up to the level of my projects. Polished up the port side this afternoon and went for a photo cruise. I think my mom might be winning for best $1200 car ever. It's almost as mint as the pictures make it look. Might try to go after those chips in the driver's door with the Volvo touch up paint kit that came with the car. Anybody have mint pewter bumpers they'd like to sell?Paint needs some help. This doesn't need to be and won't be to the level of my projects but I am still probably going to see how it'll polish out once the 850R is out of the way. I won't work on paint outside at this point.
Soap and water.Good work. Fun looking at the pics. We've all been there. What product are you using on the carpets?
That is my guess too. It was never even plugged in lol. Obviously that's not going to do so I'll need to find an oak door panel.Amazing what you can get done with a little elbow grease - cleaning up beautifully.
What's up with that driver side rear door card - when they replaced the door they didn't switch cards?
I agree... I started on a M4.4 car, and I find the ME7 cars so much easier. The intake manifold, for one... the M4.4 manifold is HUGE. Not particularly hard, but it's a little more annoying to work with. ME7 manifold comes off way easier except for that stupid banjo bolt for the PCV. That's the one drawback.Someone please enlighten me to what makes me4 cars easier to work on? I can't think of anything whatsoever that's simpler or easier on a N block
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I don't know how non-car people look at a car like a yellow T-5R... they either think "man, that's an awful color" or they think it's just your average Volvo wagon. For some reason a lot of people don't like cream yellow... I love it.LOL, I think most criminal minds these days are focused on newer cars. (Hell, here in Chicago it's the bump from behind that you have to worry about.) The GUL estate might attract attention in general, but the subset of people who know what it is AND would be willing to steal it when parked on the street has to be pretty small; especially, at some random hotel next to the expressway. You're probably in bigger danger in front of your own house just because of the info you've released online slowly over time. Not that I think that's what would happen but there's a slim possibility.
I've had a harder time with 850 interiors. Things like the dash (from what I remember, at least) required a lot more disassembly than the X70s. Nothing is particularly hard to work with on either, though.I mean it's not just that......access to everything is way better in a RN engine bay. I was pulling the thermostat off the engine from my old red/tan 850R for comparison a couple days ago and it was dramatically harder to do OUT of the car than a RN thermostat housing IN the car.
Only thing easier -98 is working on 850 interiors vs x70.
Sorry, just noticed this reply now. Yes, at a stop light or sign they will tap the back of your car lightly. When you get out to check on things, two/three guys jump out of the other car and hold you at gun point for your wallet/purse, phone and steal you car. Usually they target a nicer car but not always. A few people were taken to ATM's to withdraw money before being released. Usually the car used to commit the crime is itself stolen. Fun times.When you referred to the bump from behind, would that be someone trying to have you get out of the car, and then rob you?
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