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[jeverts]

So far this story is 2 years and counting but I will get everyone caught up.

 

[jeverts]

At this point the car was moved to my parents house for storage. A year ago I made a move to the twin cities to start a new job.

 

[jeverts]

A year later I started up again getting the car torn down even more and get things cleaned up and replaced.

 

[jeverts]

11 hours of sanded and painting engine bay is back to a good color.

Boring out my TB to 63mm and half shaft modification.

Then port matched to the cyclone intake manifold

Finished TB ready to go.

 

[minneSNOWta]

Nice man. Great work so far. Where do you live in the Twin Cities?

 

[jeverts]

At the moment Eagan.

 

[minneSNOWta]

That's where I grew up. Live in Duluth now, but make it down quite a bit. I may have my car down at MAP in a few weeks and will be home. Should talk cars. If you don't mind me asking, where are you working?

 

[jeverts]

At MAP lol

 

[minneSNOWta]

Nice man. My buddy Matt Gesch worked in the turbo department. Probably will see you soon, haha. I'm Andre BTW.

 

[jeverts]

I have met Matt once maybe. I know he stops by here and there.

 

[jeverts]

Continued to work on some more stuff on the car. Put the headlights back in trim pieces, Brake master.

Dropped the gas tank and fixed the mess of a send unit mount.

 

[Mister1161]

Are those headlights from a 93?

 

[jeverts]

I honestly don't know. The guy I bought the car off put them on.

 

[minneSNOWta]

Looks like the housings were painted black. You can tell it's not '93 lights because the lenses have fluting. Still looks cool though. Nice progress on the car. Kind of scared to see my sending unit area now.

 

[jeverts]

I was told they were "JDM". The lenses feel like glass. Did the US cars have plastic lenses?

 

[CutlassJim]

Those look like modified US headlights. Every "JDM" headlight I've had my hands on is all plastic and weighs 1/5 of what a US headlight does. All my 91/92 headlights are glass.

 

[boosted_85]

my jdm ones are all glass and fell just as heavy like the stock usdm ones.

 

[CutlassJim]

I've only sen two sets in person so maybe they were an older style? They were definitely all plastic and didn't' weigh much because I considered getting a set to shave 10 lbs off the nose of the car but I didn't want to deal with RHD beam pattern.

 

[jeverts]

Motor is just about together. Will hopefully be in the car soon.

 

[Chad989of2000]

Coming along nicely, looks good.