FD resurrection (LOTS OF PICS)
 

picked this up a few months ago from a friend. Car was smacked up pretty good, was spun into a concrete divider.
started off like this:

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then started progressing to this:
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and as of now it sits like this:
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Car is currently sporting:
freshly rebuilt motor, large street port (smokin joes)
550/1600 injectors, walbro pump, aeromotive fpr
Custom FMIC kit, greddy type RS BOv (bigger one)
Koyo Dual pass radiator
greddy 3.5" catback
custom GT3582R single turbo setup T4 1.06 a/r hotside, 3" v-band housing
Power FC w/fc dataloggit
AEM UEgo wideband controller
AEM tru boost
Tial 44mm wastegate (v-band) open dump
Trans crossmember brace, rear brace, 99 jdm rear cradle

Looking good, damn what a mess she was before...

Way to bring her back from the dead! Its always good to see FD's being saved, good job!

Looks good. Gotta love getting another back on the road. Looks like its getting close to being able to be enjoyed like its supposed to. Good luck with finishing up all the loose ends.

thanks, yeah she was beat up pretty bad, technically totalled at $12k in damages, cost me a lot less than that to rebuild myself with a friends help. Thankfully car was never reported as totalled and came up with a clean title. Can't wait to finish tuning this thing, hoping to break 400whp on 15psi.... hopefully.

it's actually driving and on the road for the last 3 weeks now, did some fuel tuning last night got it running 10psi at an 11.5afr and 10 degrees timing up top. so far so good.

Damn looks good. I would have went another route. Feed over fenders in the rear, new Feed front fenders, feed headlight cover, and feed front bumper. But what you did was probably a lot cheaper. Glad you saved her.

yeah very low budget for this build, I had just finished building my cobalt up to 550+whp and then promptly blew the $6500 motor I had built...... stupid cylinders and sleeves.

I dont think it was the cylinders or sleeves...They just knew they were goin into a cobalt and took a shit before they had to put up with that kinda punishment. Haha, just kidding.

lol car was an animal until I got boost greedy and went for 27psi. Upgraded everything but the sleeves, and it bit me in the ass (that's the black car in the back of the garage in pieces btw). hell I was taking out z06's and an 04 viper with that thing.
car had:
Pauter billet chomoly rods, diamond forged pistons, CNC's ported race head w/ dual coil 78lb valve springs, Ti retainers, +.5mm oversized stainless/iconel valves, 79lb/hr injectors, sheet metal intake, long runner turbo mani, Turbonetic's 60-1 CBB turbo. It was fun while it lasted. now that car is going back to semi stock with a full race suspension and brake package with a 75 shot of the juice.
but now I'm back to the two dorito's on a stick.

Nice save, Was reworking that rear quarter a pain in the ass? Have much trouble matching it to the other side?

Awesome build up dude.

Im glad to see you saved her.

Sorry about the cobalt though, shoulda built an SRT4 instead ;) lol jk

Boy do I hate srt 4's haha........ but as much as i hate them....they're strong.

1/4 panel was a bitch, plain and simple. Spent about a week on it since we wanted to keep it all metal and only use some finish plaster. Made a cardboard template of the driver side sine the passenger side was flattened. Worked out pretty good. need to tweak it just a little bit to be 100% perfect, but you can't really tell.

as for the SRT comment, I actually tried to buy one before the cobalt, but the dealerships were assholes, charging too much for a beat car, and wouldn't let me take the car out (I was 27 at the time).

Great restoration work! I'm especially impressed with the rear quarter panel work you've done. It's coming out looking factory.

thanks man, big thanks to you for supplying most of the parts lol.
Thankfully a friend of mine is an excellent body guy, he helped out in a huge way with that,

well just an update, had the car tuned by enzo. Conservative setup on 12psi on 93 octane, made 383whp and 310wtq. Hopefully start prepping it for paint in the next few weeks and make it look as good (if not better) as new.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4fHHUmGGjk

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and a pic and vid of the aformentioned cobalt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFI3KICvQKw

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good work on the fd, but plz no more driving it off road

It does look like he got it stuck in a mud hole don't it?

Delete the AST already ;)

awesome resurection man, as these cars get fewer and fewer it's great to see people bringing them back to life

Great job on bringing her back to life. We have to hook up one day I'm in Beacon, 8min from Newburgh.

definitely, I don't really know many people up here yet (just moved from queens). be nice to meet some other rx owners

My friends shop has some mud puddle around it lol, I wouldn't drive off road..

ASt delete coming soon, just ordered tires and a cf vented headlight cover for it.
it's been a lot of work so far, but it's almost ready to paint finally.
but it's a lot a fun romping on it on the highway lol. I84 is fun for pulls

delrin bushing, cf vented headlight cover, dual pump (044's) setup, and mickey's should be in next week. then hopefully out to atco before it closes..... I want one 10 sec pass out of this car before the snow.