life of my 97 neon

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Post by 08kgraves » Sat Aug 27, 2011 2:50 pm

yes yes it is. and i dont ever recomend doing it either. lol to be done properly i should have just welded in metal and then bondo to smooth..... oh well lol. i can tell you that the other 3 will not be done like this if ever at all though lol

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Post by 08kgraves » Fri Sep 09, 2011 4:51 pm

Update!


Ok I ordered in my k&n filter to do my 3.0 cold air intake.
Just need the tube now lol.

I ordered in a MSD ignition coil.

I bought new bouche plug wires.

I have my NGK plugs still pretty new from old engine.

I ordered new drums for rear brakes and on wed. That's getting put on as well as having front rotors turned. Then everything will be new or less than a year old.

And on thur. I'm getting my bad tie rod replaced and an allignment done.

Then before winter getting my other 2 tires replaced.

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Post by custom95neon » Sat Sep 10, 2011 12:16 pm

you can also weald a nail to it and pull it out then cut the nail off and use bondo to fill it in
95 plymouth sohc mtx sport sedan

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Post by 08kgraves » Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:32 am

MSD ignition coil, and bosch plug wires. this got rid of my high rpm studder to so you guys know

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Post by 2drSRT4 » Sun Sep 18, 2011 7:07 am

I would use mopar wires or granetelli wires. I tried a set of bosch ones once and they went out within a month. Fuck that.
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Post by DuztynDuGaz » Sun Sep 25, 2011 6:32 pm

i love the build man! the thing i love the most is the ROOF RACK i wantone so bad and with my luck, i cant find one :(

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Post by 08kgraves » Sun Apr 29, 2012 2:18 am

ok so its been awhile for this...................................... but i stopped with the shaving of the doors as it was just way to much work, and to ghetto to just fill it in with bondo................ good thing i did it on my spare door lol. but if you seen some of my other posts the car hasnt been running since around december ish. but im not going to go into all of that. its already in the engine section.

but basically after doing lots of looking i want to eventually make my neon a mean little car. this will involve a 2.4L swap with full ported and polished head from MP with Crower cams and the whole 9 yards. full bottom end build as well but this wont be for a while. my debate though is to venture into the boost world and have to deal with the tuning and everything or just go with a naturally aspirated build.

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Post by 08kgraves » Mon May 07, 2012 10:01 pm

so......... just did the 3.0 cai on my sohc neon. wherever i read it from was right about it pulling way harder after 3,000 rpm's! my question is this. i remember hearing something about if i dont run that hose from the stock tube and just put a little filter it starts leaking oil somewhere? can anyone verify my concern with this?

my brother helped me with it and he suggested adding a little bung to the metal pipe so that i wouldnt have that problem which is totally doable.

also my hood prop gets shoved way forward about 3" from where its supposed to clip in on the drivers side when shut. and the hood hits the intake tube. any fix for this or just something i have to deal with?

thanks for the help guys and ill post some pics in a bit once i upload them before i go to bed.

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Post by 08kgraves » Mon May 07, 2012 10:41 pm

ok heres the pics

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you can see her peeking through the hole where the air tube goes up to the battery

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you can see what i was talking about with the hood prop

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and here you can see how far off it lines up

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me and the christmas neon

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and my brother who helped me out cus he was bored......... and had a sawzall lol

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Post by 08kgraves » Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:52 am

here is how the custom 3.0 cai looks out of car

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removing the heavy side moldings in the doors which also makes it look more like an acr model

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stock airbox finally removed the rest of the way. plenty of room for a future turbo :cool:

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decided to polish my headlights cus they were pretty bad. but here is the unpolished version ( both look like this )

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and here is the polished version

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tinted tail lights ( bright on the bottom from the camera flash ) well worth the $14 a can for this stuff i must say

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tinted front turn signals/marker lights

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and losing light outside but tails installed

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Post by 08kgraves » Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:53 am

some daytime pics of the lights

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and as im sure some of you have noticed the side markers are not tinted. only because of the lack of daylight yesterday. there drying right now and then ill get some pics with them installed as well.

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Post by 08kgraves » Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:55 am

dont mind the horrible photo shopping skills i have, but this is kind of what it will look like. and the random grey spots in the winshield are supposed to be the passenger side windows tinted lol.

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Post by 08kgraves » Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:03 pm

heres the pic from track

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Post by 08kgraves » Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:16 pm

one of my track times in the "christmas tree"

Dial was 17.93

Ran a 17.938

.147 rt

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Post by 08kgraves » Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:17 pm

my two neons together

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