Back from the dead! I've been trying to get in the habit of updating build threads. This one's long over due, but I'll try and post some highlights since the car has changed quite a bit over the years.
Started off with wanting some hood vents. I ordered a set of evo 3 replicas, installed them, but wasn't really satisfied with how they looked. They were about a half inch too tall compared to factory evo 3's. They did help quite a bit with engine bay heat and just overall cooling system performance though. I picked up a junkyard hood to cut up, my factory hood had some goofy dings in it and wasn't really cost effective for fixing.
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Next I wanted to update the lighting. My 93 crystals worked, but they didn't work that great. The HID's were pretty blinding, so I picked up a set of J30 infinity projectors from the yard and started cutting up the housings to put these in. I wanted to try my hand at a set of demon eyes so I stuck a red LED in each projector. It was a cool project, but I don't ever turn them on anymore. I only ever turn them on to show people what they look like. The lights themselves work great now though! You can see my super tall repo evo 3 vents here.
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Tyeler Andersen, on Flickr
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Tyeler Andersen, on Flickr
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Shortly after this my 2010 date code tires developed a nice bubble from the tire separating. I wasn't planning to 5 lug swap that weekend, but I had everything to do it and just knocked it all out. I've had this set of 5Zigens in the garage for a few years and finally was able to install them
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Tyeler Andersen, on Flickr
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Had a lifter fail, they've always ticked cold but this one finally collapsed. Post 3g lifter install, it's still nice and quiet after doing these.
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Had enough of the repo vents, found a guy on the evo 3 forums from the UK willing to ship me a full set of evo 3 factory vents. I paid $80 shipped for these and they made it in like 3 days from the UK. I was pretty impressed and they fit a whole lot nicer. I was talked into adding the 3 vent for the intake, I've killed 3 MAF's from this damn vent and finally got smart and put a water guard over the filter /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rofl.gif
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Now it was time for mods. The 16g was fun, but at nearly 200k miles it was time to make some power. A local kid bought my 16g setup and I picked up an FP red, fp manifold, and a tial external setup. Also grabbed a set of 2150FIC's and an ETS 1g street core. I have A/C still in the car and wanted to make sure things stayed cooled so a 1g mishimoto X-line radiator went in. Shifted the radiator mounts and made some custom piping to use the back door exit 1g intercooler. It's one hell of a tight fit but it does work great.
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Copper color for everything!
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One of my buddies made me a -10 catch can.
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Got the parts barely in time to make it to mod, but it made it.
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Halloween-
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Some random photos over the years just driving it around.
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Getting caught back up. The car's been in storage the past 2 years as I have no more room at my house for cars. We had a pool built over the winter and put an RV gate in on the side of our house which meant I could store a car on the side of the house. Back home the galant finally came! Which also means I can start installing some of the mods I've been holding onto for it and finally get this thing cranked back up. I blew the stock clutch disc up shortly after enabling launch control on the evo ecu, so I stuck a quartermaster twin disc in the car along with a jacks stage 2 trans and tcase, but aside from that I hadn't done much on the car post FP red install. I picked up a JDM RS front bumper for the car and got around to installing that last weekend. The plan is to grab 2 good shape fenders from the yard as I'm scared to pull my side skirts off the car and see what mine look like and then send the car to a buddy for a full repaint so I can finally have a fully color matched car after nearly 6 years of rocking the silver hood and now black bumper /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hsugh.gif
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