the story.
My
grandpa bought this car from a doctor who hardly ever drove it. In fact he
babied the car the entire time he had it. My grandpa then drove it all
over the country pretty much. He travelled with my grandma to visit
relatives in Texas and he used it for work as well. I always loved this
car, i remember the first time i drove it i was amazed. Then i graduated
college and i was still driving my dad's (sorta mine) Jeep Cherokee. I knew i needed my own car and i love jeeps, but i just thought maybe i need a car.
So I asked my grandparents if i could buy it from them and they
agreed.
The day i got the car the exhaust broke on me. The thing
was loud!! My b-pipe broke in half at the curve. It might have lasted, but
im sure a long time ago what was holding it in place under the car, broke.
And all the vibration jared it loose finally causing it to snap. Now i
needed to drive the car home 3 hours. It was a sunday, so the only thing
my dad and i could think of was to wrap it in exhaust tape and clamp a tin can
around it for the time being. So my first thing needed was an exhuast system. This was just before i found maxima.org. When i found this site, i was so excited. I found a
group deal on my exhuast system and i got it really cheap. I bought the
same muffler they were offereing off of ebay for 80 bucks cheaper than warpspeed
and it was new in the box. Now i had a nice loud sounding exhuast, but now
what.
So i tried to find an fstb somewhere, and this guy was selling his on
ebay and i got it used (no scratches)
Now it sounds loud, but it
seemed a bit too loud. Yep,
you guessed it I had an exhuast leak....the manifold studs on the VG engine are
prone to break due to high heat temperatures. I had 4 total broken
studs. Now that that is fixed im feeling more power and not embarrased to
drive around with a clickity sounding car.
I couldnt stand not having
good music in the car, the bose amps seemed to want to have a mind of their
own. They never worked real good anymore, but when they did, they were
awesome. So i put in some Polk speakers 4x6's in the front with speaker
pods from a non-bose maxima. And i just put some 6x9's in the
back. My headunit is an AIWA mp3/cd player. Its nice, but i really want bass, so that will come soon, nothing too crazy.
Then i just drove the thing alot after
that, and i was an idiot and got in an accident, a girl and i were both turning
left onto a main road across from each other. She went and i didnt
know it, and i tried my hardest to not hit her, but I couldnt stop the 3300 lb
4DSC. Next my car was in another accident and swiped a tree. It
should all be fixed here soon(late January).
The next things i have in
mind for the car are some new springs/struts. Im planning on going with
Intrax springs for a 1.7inch drop and Tokico struts. Then i plan on
getting some Rims, can't decide what yet, but i would love to put some G35 coupe
rims on. I plan on finishing up my E-36 headlight conversion by flush mounting them. Im
gonna get a midpipe for my intake to help it breathe and then it will be time to
paint it pitch black. Farther on down the road i want to get a whole
stillen body kit and some blehmco suspension products.
Thanks for visiting.