Hey guys, I just found this forum, and thought I would post an intro here. I picked up a 89rs V6 with a T5 in december for $900, and have been making fixes and upgrades to it all the time.

Here's some pictures of how it used to look, and some of the things I did along the way.

first day I brought it home




restored a really warped up dash pad to acceptable levels


painted the wheels black with polished highlights

 

filled and sanded about 2000 hail damage dents


before and after... fog lights, black out sockets, and a quick repaint
[IMG]

polished the plenum, not installed yet


polished and clear coated the valve covers

 

4th gen seats, and a steering wheel from an 87 LT




polished the tensioner pully and the throttle body





I'll post more when I get the engine bay all shined up. The car runs great, and I'm loving every minute of it!

 

oh yeah, I forgot to post these... they are from a 3rd gen gathering we had in Arlington, Tx. we had about 15 3rd gens there!

 

came along ways nice 3rd gen.

 

nice RS. i bought mine for 900 also...now you gave me ideas for polishing up my engine.

 

here's some pics after I got it back together, spent three days tearing the top half of the engine aprt and putting it back together. They look nice, but if I had known how much work it was going to be tearing down the engine as far as it needed to be to get to those parts, I would have stopped with just the plenum.

The second picture doesn't do it justice.. it really looks better in person

before

After

 

looks good

 

great job

 

wow, that is quite a difference. not bad. how much did it cost to do it all?