Some Recent Chalkboard SE-R Work Options

[Coomer]

For the longest time I just drove my chalkboard SE-R and didn't do anything to it besides crash it into a guardrail. Instead, I spent most of my time on the Celica.

Recently though, I've decided to do some work to the SE-R.

First up was a front lip which I don't know if you guys have seen, Home Depot style. I got some gutter flashing stuff and made this front lip. Total cost was around $3.50.





Then I found a B14 SE-R at a junkyard, and got the 60/40 folding rear seat with the brackets and plastic panels behind it for $30. It took a bit of fabrication to get it to work and look right, but it works, and is very nice for putting hockey sticks and whatnot in the trunk now. I'm hoping to find the bottom of the backseat from a 200SX somewhere so that I can see if I can get that to work so I have a uniform look.



Then I found a steering wheel off of an older 200SX, and got it for $15 to replace my very worn stock steering wheel.



And then I got sick of having poor sound quality in my Classic, so I made some fiberglass kick panels and installed some old Pioneer REV coaxials I had lying around in them. A Clarion APX400.4 amp powers them (and my 10" Xtant sub in the trunk,) and they sound pretty good, especially considering the old head unit powering them (was in the car when I bought it) is ten years old. I only paid for the amp, which was $100 shipped from eBay. I had the Xtant sub, box, speakers, wiring supplies, fiberglass, and MDF lying around my house.





The kick panels really sound awesome even just with coaxials...much better actually than my components in the doors of my Celica sound actually. It's tempting to build some kick panels for the Celica, but I really like my dead pedal.

That's it for now...just some budget mods for the neglected other car. I'm planning on getting some Acura LS webs/meshies and boring them out and throwing them on.

Also, I'm thinking about painting it in the spring and dropping in a low mileage UKDM/JDM SR20DE with i/h/e and a lightweight flywheel, possibly even a VE or DET.

People are always asking me about both of my cars, so I figured I'd post up for those of you who are interested. Let me know what you think.

Edit: I also forgot, the non-visual mods are some cheap springs, KYB GR-2 struts, custom bumpstops, an eBay short shifter, ES shifter bushing, and a ghetto intake.

[Coomer]

Thanks for the comments guys.

I dont know where you find the time.

I'm pretty much always going...I don't sleep a ton and I'm almost always doing something when I'm not hanging out with friends/family or sleeping. I barely watch TV and don't even own a DVD player.

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U SHOULD GET ONE OF THOSE SIDEWALK ARTISTS (USES CHALK ON SIDEWALKS TO MAKE VERY COOL PICTURES) TO DO SOMETHING ON YOUR CAR...WOULD BE ORIGNAL AND TOTALLY BADASS..TILL IT RAINS.

That would be cool...unfortunately the car gets wet every night from condensation now that it's getting cold, so an awesome drawing would only last for a day or so.

I dont know where you find the time.

or the money, but it looks good. Nice work.

I have an actual job and I run my own business. But really, everything I've done to the Sentra has been cheap (Overall I have well under $2,000 into this car, including the car itself,) and will be cheap. I've been shopping for a while to get a good deal on some wheels with tires, and if I paint the car, I'd paint it myself with some sort of cheap paint. Even a JDM/UKDM SR20DE swap with i/h/e and a flywheel could cost under $1,000 if I do my shopping well...if I can get a lot of client work done it'll probably be my reward to myself next spring.