Blood's Project Abby, Looks like we're starting over... Options

[bloodMoney]

After all is said and done, I still thank god that you didn't.

It was a heartache to get her where she is, but 1600 miles later, I love this car the more I drive it.... I don't know that I would've bought a 6g if I hadn't picked this one up.

[bloodMoney]

So I went back to Chicago for the weekend and the wifey had a little suprise waiting for me....





Apparently, her a Vincent_Doggy went behind my back to get me a great early birthday gift!

I really don't like being kept out of the loop, but by all means Vince....

I also took a pic of the engine 2000 miles after the blow

[bloodMoney]

So, I figured that I'm just going to make this my project thread....

Anyway.... Time for a little update! After making a huge mistake and remote starting Abby into my neighbor's jeep I've got almost all the parts I need to get her back into shape (I'm waiting on my headlights from a guy on alltrac.net). I'll be replacing the body panels in the spring so that nothing else happens this winter. But on top of replacement parts, i decided to spoil her a bit and pick up some JDM tails that I just couldn't pass up.

I just got back from putting them on and they look AMAZING!!!

In process....


Done!


After a little wash





Huge props to Richee3 for getting me these tails! Thanks again buddy!

[richee3]

I'm not gonna lie, those lights look pretty good on your car. Glad to see they got there!

[bloodMoney]

I think so too...

Turns out the passenger side harness didn't work, so I just swapped out my USDM harness on the one side lol

Thanks again Daniel!

[6gen91]

dam from chicago ey? yer the first ive actually seen. lol we should meetup sumtime. btw nice ride

[bloodMoney]

I think that there are a couple of alltrac guys may be getting together this weekend, apparently there is a meet

From alltrac.net:

theres a meet with JDM Chicago, at grossinger toyota. its an indoor meet, kinda like a drive in movie. therell be food drink and people to talk to. therell also be raffle tickets to buy, and a free car wash. its a free meet. its at 830.

I'll find out later all the details.

[bloodMoney]

I just wanted to post some pics that I just took of both cars freshly washed before the JDM Chicago meet tonight...








In the words of the GF "Baby's got a nice ass..."


~bloodMoney

[bloodMoney]

I got Richee3's HIDs in this week and put them in yesterday. Needless to say that I'm really pleased with the way they look.

Dan: I ended up using the 4300K bulbs b/c I couldn't get the 6000Ks to fit in the light housings properly. Thanks again though!

WOOT!WOOT


EDIT: That knocking that you hear is my throwout bearing.... Its done that since I put the motor back in the car. I'm not too worried about it cause I'll probably end up changing out the clutch this summer.

This post has been edited by bloodMoney: Feb 6, 2010 - 7:54 PM

[6gen91]

it's very nice yet u left out yet custom driver side fender. And it was FREE lol

[richee3]

HID's look good! Hopefully you get to use them longer than I did! I never had anybody flash their lights at me with them, and I was always worried about how the yellow fog lights looked with the white HID's, but I asked a few of my friends when I passed them and they all reported that the fog lights actually looked kinda white too, so don't worry about those. Everyone also said it was very easy to tell when it was me coming down the road because of how the lights are arranged on the car and the fact that I had the brightest lights, but not blinding. So you're all set

[Shigexile]

Looking good!

[bloodMoney]

Wow. I need to update this.....

After my little oops over the winter, I finally got around to getting the new fender put on....

From this:


To this:


Finally!


I'll post up more when I'm not feeling so lazy.....

[bloodMoney]

Alright, so I haven't updated this is a minute, but since the last time some stuff has happened....

On my way to my college graduation, the clutch went out on me.... So a clutch job in 10*F was fun....

My two babies in the same garage! (it doesn't happen often)


We pulled the motor to get to the trans since we were having issues with frozen cross member bolts. Harness unplugged from inside the car and pulled through the firewall.




Hood off, check. Though we put it on top of the car rather than on the floor for fear of our friend's Australian Shepherd.




Cherry picker, check.





I decided that 1 human power was momentarily better than a 5sfe's horsepower.





So the throwout bearing has been clicking for over a year, and we thought it finally grenaded itself. But once we got the trans apart, here is what we found.







Check out those awesome springs!






So, we come to find that the clutch disc threw a spring. The spring itself snapped into four separate pieces, which is what I'm holding in my hand. That was our problem. Surprisingly, the throwout bearing was still intact. In any case, it all got replaced.

This post has been edited by bloodMoney: Mar 13, 2011 - 2:41 AM

[bloodMoney]

Okay, so two weeks ago, a friend came in to visit us and we decided to have a little winter photoshoot
















^Soldier Field


^This is on Lower Wacker Drive. (where the chase scenes from Dark Knight and Blues Brothers were filmed )






^I thought this was cool, it shows my 4300k lows and 3000k fogs



The next two were taken in front of the Field Museum











^I liked this one a lot, but it’s for celicatech lol

This post has been edited by bloodMoney: Mar 13, 2011 - 2:49 AM

[Shigexile]

looking good my friend

we need a photoshoot again too

[bloodMoney]

Thanks buddy! We sure do need to get together again.... Especially now that its getting nice out!

[4-eyed-freek]

i wanna come lol

Thanks buddy! We sure do need to get together again.... Especially now that its getting nice out!

[bloodMoney]

lol

We probably won't actually meet up until the meet, but if we do, I'll send you a text Skyler

[bloodMoney]

Got this done earlier today and all I have to say is that I'm in love.....





Now I just need new doors and front splitters and I'm done body-wise