It's been a while since either of us updated this.
There has been quite a bit done to the car since the last update.
My dad bought new tires sometime mid-October because they were on closeout, and he got them mounted on my knock-off mesh wheels. We got the engine bay all back together, and it wouldn't start. We figured out that the injectors weren't getting power, and then we kinda gave up for a little bit. While the car was sitting, I did some little things here and there, and mostly just did some cleaning (my favorite). The car ended up going to Vol-Tech in Portland, and they replaced the main fuel filter, the main computer, and a couple other smaller things, which got it running. The car came back and sat for a couple weeks (bad weather mostly), and we just recently started getting too it.
We've had a whole bunch of brand new, and lightly used suspension parts lying around since the first car, and we finally got them installed in the car last night.
All new ball joints, tie rod ends, upper strut mounts, brake rotors, brake pads, and stainless braided brake lines. Used but basically brand new bilstein b4 struts, IPD springs, IPD swaybar and poly swaybar bushings.
It sounded like my dad was gonna start the rear suspension today, or at least do the brake lines so we can bleed the brakes and get it back in the driveway.
New tires mounted:
The "small things" I did when the car was inoperable:
Driver's tail light (it made a much larger difference in appearance then expected):
Driver's head light (the "new" one is installed in the car):
And finally, the front suspension:
That's all for now, hopefully as we get more of the bigger things done, I'll be able to update this more often.
To get anything to happen in our area a neighbor would have to call in a complaint. I made sure every neighbor knows this is temporary, then show them by working fast to strip it. In every, way except how many cars I own, we're pretty awesome neighbors so no one complains too much when I do something like this.
