-- January 14th, 2007 --
Well, this is pretty much my off season. Too rainy and cold to be working on my car, and that time of the year when finances are strained. So now that it's a new year and going to be getting warm soon I wanted to drop an update for you.
Not alot has been done to Angelina (my car). I did add in my Koyo aluminum radiator right before it got really cold. I also got two electric fans with it, but don't have a fan relay yet to operate them...so mounted it alone for now. The Koyo has worked beautifully from the day I dropped it in. No overheating or problems of any kind. I do wish I would have gotten black radiator hoses though. So if anyone wants to trade your black for my red...let me know.
Also, I have come to realize the bad sides of the welded diff and what can happen with bald tires (partially due to diff.) + rain. It all happened on christmas eve when I was coming home from my moms hit a few puddles and started to hydroplane. Wasn't too bad until I hit one on the highway. My car went into a spin and luckily I was able to save most of the damage and only get this nice little dent in the rear.
They look like slicks...haha, I know...my own fault. I really ain't too bent out of shape about it though (no pun intended). I am thinking this will either push me into buying another shell and just transfering everything over, or reinforcing and fixing this one...then going widebody. I still need to get a professionals opinion on it. I will once it warms up.
These two pics show the damage on the opposite side. I guess I tapped the wall hard enough to crumpled in both of these locations. One is very small (one by the tail), the other is larger and behind the door obviously. This is what makes me wanna just buy a shell and tranfer all of it to the new body.
And that's about all I have for you at the moment. I do have a few parts still waiting to be installed and will either do that once it warms up, or once I get another shell and start the swap. Have to figure that out first. I am trying to sell alot of my other parts for more parts for this...so hopefully that will happen soon. For now, I will just leave you with one last current and DIRTY pic of my engine bay. I just realized I also have my new HKS hotpipe and BOV on there too...so yeah, I added those...haha, forgot about em though.
