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I will miss you, original formula spetsnaz flavor.


Tires good to go! the 205/50 falken ziex 512's on the xr4's and 195/50 kumho ecsta asts on the mk3's

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The car progress is pretty slow, as always. Finals are coming up and this semester is almost over! Wish me luck BROS! So, summer time heat, car progress, fun, love, happiness, drunkenness, are all coming very soon.

This weekend, I finished the strut bar and welded in some lower radiator mounts to the s14 tension rod brackets. I made them out of 3/4 washers and some extra metal (since I got those sweet radiator bushings from Justin THANKS DUDE)

And I ended up painting the brackets pink WITH some copper sparkles, you can super see the difference in the sunlight and it's really, really cool.



Bronzey sparkles




Looks cool!


This one's for you RUIZ!


lower rad mounts




mad cat



And then Yuta and Matt9000 came over, brought four lokos, got me drunk, and commandeered the camera.

It rubs the lotion on its skin

thanks for hooking it up again Justin! It was pretty funny to see the name on the box (forum username)


new bottom radiator mounts, weird seeing these so nice! haha


strut bar, the bar BARELY fits in between the inner bolts of the strut towers


brackets cut off and the oval holes are filled in




work station (floor, haha)






more oval hole filling comparo


I wore a pretty serious face mask when I sanded off the paint. chinese lead paint destroys families


all ovals filled in




new hardware that fits


tacked in, you can see the sockets on top of the bolts to protect the threads from splatter


compared to the pics of it new, you can see how much I've pushed the brackets in and bent them accordingly. the nuts on the innermost bolt is super barely able to come off, so it worked out




I think Matt9000 talked me into ZEBRA print brackets, maybe probably.


When he came over, he brought four loko and budweiser. And my drunken ass decided to do the hood mod since they were there and I ended up cutting one of the hood brackets a bit too far but it worked out! Hahha, probably shouldn't operate angle grinders when under the influence.

Joshua style






Ants and eggs (I was so hammered by this time)