Kia Forte Koup from Florida

[244Brick]

Woot! Glad to see you about to join the elite!

[Madhatter]

thanks man what were you driving? usually try to go out to all of the 3fx meets

I just drive a little shitty blue e21. haha

[Kkoup]

Hey man, sorry about hanging up on you yesterday. My phone died and didn't save your number so just let me know when you're ready to get rolling on stuff.

its all good man, im gonna be sending you the struts soon as they are in

Woot! Glad to see you about to join the elite!

MONICCAAAA

I just drive a little shitty blue e21. haha

haha i see maybe ill see you around at one of the meets then

[1979toysupra]

You make me wanna buy a Kia Forte so bad man... lol! I drive a Lexus IS300 btw... lol

[Kkoup]

You make me wanna buy a Kia Forte so bad man... lol! I drive a Lexus IS300 btw... lol

they are unique cars and only take a little bit of work to make them really shine haha

[Kkoup]

Little update,I ordered my airride and itll be here on wednesday then ill be sending my struts off to be done at Wildmans shop. CANT WAITTTT

andddddd a little pic i took a few days ago

[aLaFleur]

Excellent! Been itching to play with some air ride stuff lately.

[_AnGeL_]

Oh you think you're cool now? :p

Looking forward to seeing this on air.

[Kkoup]

Excellent! Been itching to play with some air ride stuff lately.

Ill give you a call when i get them in wednesday to send off too you!

Oh you think you're cool now? :p

Looking forward to seeing this on air.

can i haz scene pointz yet? hahah kidding but i cant wait for them to be on and to do a sweet trunk setup

[greywarden]

Saw you driving down Knightboxx a couple months ago... did a quadruple-take haha.

I work at the Advance down @ Tanglewood+Blanding

[phenom]

This is so beast.. Wow. Subbed for air

[Suburuuh]

I would buy one now, that a great looking ride! Last set of wheels do appeal best.

[RedHeadMetalHead]

Hey, another Jacksonville dweller! I've seen this car many times at the 3FX meets and the Home Depot/Staples/Best Buy meets. Wicked clean. Can't wait to see it on air.

[RedHeadMetalHead]

I saw you cruising up 295 Northbound this afternoon around 4. That car is insane while moving in person.

[Kkoup]

UPDATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Been a long time since an update, so i got my airride in a few months ago, Decided to go with v2 for my management and went dual 400cc compressors with 3/8 lines



and i sent my airstruts off to Wildmans shop so he could weld the brackets in place, got them back a week before SOWO and Ashton did a great job on them.



I was going to originally throw them in that week when i got them and ride up to SOWO but we ended up crunching time to finishing my fiances mk4 for sowo, doing airride and wrapping it and all so i didnt have time but her car was looking awesome atleast for SOWO so that was more important then a kia going up there



So while i was up in SOWO i kept seeing all these awesome trunk setups with hardlines and all and i just had to do it, so when i got back i ended up buying two 4 gallon Seamless air tanks in raw finish, and i was orignally gonna do a steampunkinsh trunk setup but changed my mind and decided to do a clean anticish look, So i went and bought pine wood boards and beat the shit out of them, lit them on fire, nailed them, sanded them and stained them and ended up with this



After that i went and got my brass fittings and copper lines, and i had my friend Chris who owns Malihini customs come and do my trunk setup and so far hes doing an awesome job, right now its halfway done, with the floor we lifted the floor up from the trunk a few inches so we could nail boards down for a more antic/patina look, we made the middle of the trunk completely removable so i could get to my compressors and management. So when the piece is in you cant see at all that the floor can lift up.



After that came the hardlines, this is only halfway done, still have more hardlines to do and still have to do the copper lines transition through the floor with brass fittings so it doesnt look tacky, after he finishes all the lines im going to polish all of the lines and brass fittings and clear coat them



Getting prettttty dang excited now, so hopefully its done by this week and we can put the airride in by next weekend and be ready to go