life of my 97 neon

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Post by 2drSRT4 » Wed Aug 17, 2011 11:44 pm

Both ways work fine...
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Post by Ianguilly » Thu Aug 18, 2011 9:30 am

This is a really nice one, i've used it personally and it has good results:

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp ... up_ID=3280

harbor freight sells these too, for way cheaper, but you have to be careful because they can burn through. I'd advise you not to drill holes....then you have to weld.
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jamieely wrote: There are 2 kinds of people here, those with coupes, and then the other guys. If srt4s were coupes I would have one.

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Post by 08kgraves » Thu Aug 18, 2011 1:36 pm

yeah..... harbor freight has one still for $100, which i dont have that kind of money lol.

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Post by 2drSRT4 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 1:54 am

Harbor freight has a stud gun for 100 bucks? Hmmm... And both ways work fine and have worked fine for years. You don't "need" to weld, you can use body filler. How do you think they did it in the 80s?
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Post by 08kgraves » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:49 am

and why do you think so many of those jobs rusted back out? you should only use body filler to fill small dents just to even it back out. never to fix rust or to fill a hole in. it wont last that way.

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Post by Ianguilly » Fri Aug 19, 2011 9:32 am

No don't just fill holes with bondo thats an awful idea. If the right weld and corrosion protection is put on the fix should be fine. If you just don't throw bondo over a hole or be read on the first cold day for it to want to crack out of place.
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jamieely wrote: There are 2 kinds of people here, those with coupes, and then the other guys. If srt4s were coupes I would have one.

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Post by 2drSRT4 » Fri Aug 19, 2011 5:12 pm

It's been done for years, and I've seen paint jobs last years like that.
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Post by Ianguilly » Sat Aug 20, 2011 12:01 am

Your car. Your way.
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Post by 08kgraves » Sat Aug 20, 2011 1:36 am

So my roommate got a new intake for his cavalier he just got last weekend. And his old piping is pretty flexible so UK gonna mess around with it and the cone filter to see if I can make something work on my neon

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Post by 08kgraves » Sat Aug 20, 2011 4:22 am

oh you guys will like this. i forgot about this pic lol. and with it on the roof we drove into a huge snow storm. the two hour drive turned into 5 hours lol

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Post by metal_gear_jon » Sat Aug 20, 2011 7:55 pm

LOl @ those rotors, seen that a few times, metal to metal for how long?

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Post by 08kgraves » Sun Aug 21, 2011 12:50 am

Well by the time it made any noise 200 miles or so. But before that who knows lol

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Post by 08kgraves » Fri Aug 26, 2011 1:46 pm

ok here some pics of working on shaving the body line in my door. now to be done properly i should have welded in metal then smoothed with bondo but i just didnt really care to be honest lol. so here ya go

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and i dont know why the program showed this much drop but here a 4 door dropped 6" on 20" rims with 40 series tires and tinted out windows

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Post by 08kgraves » Fri Aug 26, 2011 11:06 pm

finally switched the gauge clusters today. the new one has about 9,000 miles less on it though. oh well lol

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Post by Ianguilly » Sat Aug 27, 2011 11:00 am

Hmmm thats a lot of bondo.
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-Neon #6 95 NYG sport coupe SOHC MTX, 1 0f only 527
jamieely wrote: There are 2 kinds of people here, those with coupes, and then the other guys. If srt4s were coupes I would have one.

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