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)

strut bar in the name of vanity

I've wanted a strut bar forever, dude. It looks cool. That's all. But nothing fits an s12, nothing within reach at least. I think an R31 bar fits. Anyway, I love the Cusco bars, except that if I were to order one, I wouldn't be able to realign the mounts since their mounting plates are made of aluminum(I can't weld that stuff). So I just got a cusco style bar with steel brackets off ebay for $60 shipped, not too shabby right?

The bar is supposed to fit BOTH s13 and s14, so there's a few slight problems. I already have to cut the mounts off the plates and realign them to fit the s12 anyway, so it won't be too bad.

Here's the bar, I probably shouldn't have put it on my bed for fear of china lead, haha


Looking alright so far


first, the bolts don't even fit as it should, they're too small


and ALL the holes are ovaled out for the s13/s14 universal fitment, I'll probably weld them shut and redrill them or just fill them in slightly