Bagged and Boosted Em1. NEVER ENDING PROJECT.

[Joshmsartin]

Which brings you guys up to date. This is where i'm at now. Motor is in. Almost wired up. I have been slacking pretty hard. The color looks alot darker at night.



FINALLY Got all the windows back in. Starting to look like a car. Reppin Stance works as well.

I have a few more things to finish up then the car is headed back to the body shop. They have my hood. mirrors. and some random trim parts. Also need to wet sand and buff. I will have better quality pictures this weekend for sure. And hopefully an aired out picture. THE FITMENT IS ON POINT

[Joshmsartin]

Started working on the wiring. What a mess ....

The vehicle is 2000 so it is OBD2B. I had to convert to OBD1 so it could be tuned easier.



Innovative motor mounts arrived.



Once again a friend came through and Hooked me up on a legit turbo set up.

-Love Fab Manifold.
-Garrett GT30 Turbo
-Tail 38mm Waste gate
-Greddy BOV

Mocked up.



Its going to be a couple of months until it is turbo. Since all of my original shit was stolen I pretty much had to buy all of the major stuff twice. Which was hard on my wallet... For now im going to break the motor in naturally aspirated. Then boost will come next. I just really want to get this bitch back on the road....

Anyways. I went all through the motor. Replaced anything that I thought it would need. Went ahead and Put a new head gasket on it. New water pump. Timing belt. All new seals. Milled the head ect. Didn't really need any of it. The engine only has around 40k on it.

[Joshmsartin]

Ended up going with a 165-50-15 Tire For the front and 1954515 tire for the rear.



Keep in mind there wasn't an engine or trans or hood on the vehicle. I should be setting right on top of the rim once its done. I also shorted the lower forks 1" to drop the car without loosing any shock travel and I will still have enough clearance for axles



Removed all the front suspension. Replaced all the ball joints and bushings that were bad. New Rotors. New Pads. New Calipers and Lines. Also Had the suspension painted and calipers painted to match.

Bed lined the fender wells as well for a better look. Looks 10x cleaner to me.



Then I dropped the sub frame. Rebuilt the rack / Install new inner and outer tie rods / Looped the power steering.

Painted the sub frame to match

[Joshmsartin]

Got the Car Back From Paint. I love the color. Its a lot lighter then the original blue. A lot of Pearl as well. It constantly changes depending on how u look at it ect. Kinda Crazy.



Trunk Emblem Shaved. No wing. No dents.





This is a good example. My exposure on my camera was a bit off but this is almost how bright the car is in direct sunlight. (im dropping the subframe to get painted or powder coated. All bolts that were not removed for paint will be replaced with polished hardware

Headlights were also cleaned up quite a bit (degreased the plastics / wet sanded and clear coated)

[Joshmsartin]

Will the front have similar/ matching camber? Or is it meant to be completely different?

Other than that looking very good! Keep up the good work.

The steelies have such weak offset I have to be careful that they don't touch the bags. Thats why the car looks all out of wack haha. Once all the wheels are fitted it looks much better. Trust me. Either way the ccw's are staggered so there will be more camber in the rear for sure.

Damn I love me a nice EM1 Subbed for this

Also sucks about getting all of your stuff stolen.

Thanks man. I appreciate it.

[SnazzyQ]

Damn I love me a nice EM1 Subbed for this

Also sucks about getting all of your stuff stolen.

[FunfGang]

Will the front have similar/ matching camber? Or is it meant to be completely different?

Other than that looking very good! Keep up the good work.

[Joshmsartin]

In Primer



Adding Depth to the body lines

[Joshmsartin]

Meanwhile I was creepin in on the painters







Mock Up of the Intercooler



LOOKING KINDA ROUGH lol

[Joshmsartin]

I was still stuck in a bitch mood because all of my shit got stolen. Got a call from the body shop saying my car would be done in two weeks. I had no wheels or engine. Luckily friends came through, and I lucked up on a motor. Also Scooped these up for a pretty good dead.

CCW LM5 15x9 and 15x10



Painter at work hooked me up painting a lot of stuff for me. Here is the valve cover and tranny



While the carpet was out i figured it would be best to clean it up

[Joshmsartin]

Thanks everyone. I found a couple more pix of the tear down. Most of which are better quality.

Heres the interior before tear down for paint.



Tore the dash out to run the brake lines tuck the fuse box and tuck the engine harness.



Here is a mock up of how the headlight harness is ran.



Shaving Holes in the bay

[SD202]

prolly some meth heads. fucking people are shitty. Glad you're not giving up! cant wait to see where it goes!

[RedHeadMetalHead]

Holy god, I don't even know what I'd do if that happened to me. I like to say I'd go on a manhunt, but in reality, I'd probably cry for days.

Good luck on the build man.

[Spectra Phantom]

Shit man. At least now you'll come twice as hard.

[Tuck&Poke]

DAMN, that sucks.