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98' Ford Escort Zx2 - Beginning of a Rebuild


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The steps will be

1. get the car running right

2. get car to pass inspection

3. strip ugly-ass interior and swap for some charcoal interior

4. swap over performance goodies

5. build system

something along those lines

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Fuck. Yes. :twirl:

Lane AKA HeroKight

'96 Jeep Cherokee Classic 4x4

R.I.P. Molliboo

$200 for new tires, on a jeep!? Is she stealing them or building them with a heat gun and rubber bands?

You hear that????


That's a category 5 shit storm coming

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I'm not dead, I'm just fixing stupid shit.

I've been having serious car problems lately (it IS a ford :P)

Long story short, this car needed a trans swap because torque converter was shit and after atf change the car would stall on half throttle :/ I took the good automatic out of my project car (which I planned on doing anyway for a 5-speed swap) and I had the help of a good friend to remove both transmissions and put the good one into my daily. We also replaced cv shafts, motor mounts, and transmission torque mounts.... needless today, the car runs SO much better after all that much needed work.... 180k miles and still going strong :)

On an audio note, one of my friends on SMD blew up their Jeep Grand Cherokee engine. He decided that he is just going to fix it and sell it for a more reliable and better mpg vehicle. I owed me money, so he gave me my sundown saz-1500d v2 amp and his Fi Q 15 :nuts::nuts::nuts: I have everything I need EXCEPT A BOX... seeing that my garage is currently taken up by a POS zx2 on jackstands, no interior, and no transmission, I don't see myself build a box HERE anytime soon :(

good news is that I have a friend who just blew up his zx2 transmission and he is going to scrap it. Before he scraps it, I am going to grab the charcoal interior from it to put into the project car... but not after sound deadening the living shit out of the interior :)

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my car in it's natural habitat

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transmission out

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The truck I was given to drive while my car was under the knife... I didn't just drop my car off and let him do the work. I was very involved in this too. I want to learn how to fix my own car :)

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Also installed an auto dimming mirror with compass :) did not come as an option for the zx2

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Here is the sub I will be running next to my old one (rebuilt for my girlfriend)

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