I bought this car for $1000 last summer. Body was in pretty good shape, and the interior was kinda trashed. I had a lot of parts from a '95 V6 that I had wrecked my senior year in high school, so I wanted to using parts from that one to fix this one up. On the outside, all we had to do was pop out one small dent and replace the front and rear bumpers (which survived the '95 rollover). I replaced the entire interior, except for the dash and console:













the '96, the wrecked '95, and my mom's '00 in the back:


It wasn't running on all cylinders, so we bought it figuring we could swap a different engine into it. Pics of the engine removal fiasco:













my dad was pretty happy that we finally got it out lol


When we got the engine out, we discovered why it wasn't running right: one of the belts wore through two of the spark plug wires. So we replaced the plugs and wires, put the engine back in, and I'm gonna be driving it (hopefully) this summer. I just bought a rebuilt 4L60E automatic transmission from a guy in Kansas, and today I bought these Pacesetter ceramic longtube headers from a guy in Utah today for $285 shipped:







More to come!

 

nice car, very clean..any big plans for it in the future?

 

mostly bolt-ons. The main priority is to get it on the road. I'll be home for 3 weeks before I move back to MI for the summer, so hopefully that will give us plenty of time to put the new trans in and get everything hooked back up. Headers will be next, followed by either cat-back or true dual exhaust (I haven't made up my mind which yet). Tint, wheels, and suspension will all hopefully get done this summer. Possibly a tune as well.

 

^5.

Good luck with it.

how did you remove the rear plastic panels inside the car? Special tool or do they just snap off? I need to take the headliner out of one to get repaired but I don't want to break or crack the plastic pieces. Haven't figured out where to start trying to get it loose yet.

 

dang i wish i had a doner car. My mom said no

 

well I kinda already had the donor car. It was sitting around for a year after I wrecked it before I started gutting it. I had been working on pulling parts for a couple weeks when we came across this thing.

 

you pulled the motor out the top? yeah you made your job like 10x harder. drop it out the bottom and put it in from the bottom...you can thank me later

 

yeah, we don't have access to a good enough lift or anything, plus the motor's already back in, so it's too late lol

First you need to pop out the clotheshanger (sp?) hook. there's a little slot under the center square (you'll see what I'm talking about). put a flathead screwdriver in there and gently pry outward. when the square is pulled out a bit, get behind it on the top and bottom and pull. it will come right out. All that hold the piece in place are that and two or three square plastic pieces that attach similarly to velcro (again, you'll see what I mean). You'll have to take the bucket seats out, but those are held in by one bolt. When the hook's out, just pull around the outer edges, and the whole thing will pop off. Just be careful and don't pull to hard at one point at a time.

 

go with true duals!!!

 

Yesterday my transmission and headers both shipped from Kansas and Utah, respectively. I hope to have them by the end of this week or the beginning of next week.