white2k3mitsu's build !! (Orlando,fl)
OK well I probably shoulda joined TGC like a year ago when I got my second galant, i had a red 2000 es like 5 months before but i didnt know about TGC thn when i had that car comestically it was a piece of shit lol it had bondo on the rear right quarter panel, no driver carpet, dripped water by the light in the headliner when it rained (which didn't work), bad motor mounts, no left side view mirror, no rear view mirror, peeling paint and probably forgetting some things but I got it for 400 and it was my first car mechanically it was good though, I end up putting 10k hids, eBay intake and catback , and hallowed out the cat which made it sound like shit after 3000rpms but I ended up wrecking it and smashed the front doing 80 straight into someone's camry back bumper late for school schedule but surprisingly it ran no problems but one day I put oil in it and must not have tighten the top all the way because later in the day out of no where all of my electrical components started to fade and dim slowly one by one so whn i came to a stop it died and when i checked the engine the top was off oil was everywhere especially the alternator but I put oil in and nothing, I tried to jump and nothing an was just done with it so I junked it caused I needed a new car, ran threw three more cars in three months and (don't ask how lol) and got my fifth car which I currently have but didn't feel my galant was worthy of posting. It had a grey driver door I guess it was in a wreck and the same day I got it I locked the doors and was locked out lol didn't think they would leave a different lock in the door but sadly I didn't change it for like 8 months but it also had bad motor mounts, a cracked dash, broken wheel studs, dented driver side panel (still like that), bad left control arm, broken glove box lock, cup holder and center console pocket lol (idk what it's called) was burnt, driver seat was torn, bad rear shocks and other petty cosmetic issues but other then that it was mechanically fine I got it for 700 in July '15. First I didn't really do anything to it beside put some 18" falcons around Nov '15.
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Other then fixing the wheel studs and doing basic maintenance I really didn't do anything til tax time '16. in feb I went on ebay and bought some 10k HIDs
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cheap 2" drop springs (tbh I have tein now and its not even really a difference even though the tein are 1.5"), I also bought 4 oem new shocks ( which ive changed the front to kyb gr2s now and back still oem shocks)
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I also got a left control arm, radiator, 4 new motor mounts and a glove box lock which I have no pics of the progress of installing ( yea ive been slacking on documenting all my projects).
Went to the junkyard and got a 3g stb and installed it.
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I went on ebay and got drilled and slotted rotors all around which lead me to doing the drum to disc conversion. ive done it successfully bt my front breaks always lock if I press too hard, I followed the thread on here to the T except cutting and dremeling the backing plate for the e-brake line it wasn't needed, I even replaced the thing that attaches to the firewall where the break lines go thru and bled the whole system. but I must say when I compared the two they looked exactly the same and as I read the new one would be a little bigger (so I might not have the right one).
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While I was at the junkyard I found a muffler tip lol
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I also went on ebay and got all four corner camber kit but took off the front because it really wasn't needed and one bolt stripped from tightening too much.
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I went on ebay and got universal adjustable sway bar links .
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I went on ebay and bought a double din which I had to pay someone $90 to fiberglass my oem radio bezel and make it fit
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I went on ebay and bought fh group seat covers
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When I bought the car I had a horrible cracked dash which I ended up going to the junkyard pulling anothers off and fiberglassing the bottom and placed it in mine
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I had to go to the junkyard and pull a white driver door off and put it on mines since when I bought mine it was grey and I also spray painted my rims gold
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Then on black Friday I went to the junkyard all pulled everything off a 3g for a tranny swap and also a dohc off a '05 sonata I got it all for a crazy low $146
Tranny
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clutch, flywheel, pressure plate,
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slave/master cylinder, hard and soft lines, clutch reservoir, both foot pedals,
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shifter assembly and clutch lines
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And dohc
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I plan on putting the tranny in sometime very soon im just waiting on the help of a knowledgeable TGC member whos stays not far from me to help me with the wiring so I can knock that project out and start working on rebuilding my dohc. I plan on turboing the galant and installing coilovers around tax time :)
