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A newbie's first 2002.

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Tackling the interior

So the car's interior wasn't bugging me much until I had spilled my soda after going to an IN n OUT drive through. So I decided to update the interior a bit. After removing the center console that came with the car. The PO had done a very novice job of puting the gauges and stereo together. I removed the old alpine tape stereo which was semi-permanently screwed under the dash. Here is what it previously looked like, which was not very appealing to me. And also a very bad use of space. after

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ClarenceTE72

Body Rejuvenation

As I'm going through the car and fixing it here and there, I started with the paint. It's in pretty good shape for a car painted in the 90's. I noticed that it was never wetsanded so I took the time and hired someone to help me wetsand the car and here are the results! Before During After, I was very pleased with the results. Around this time, I also restored a set of CSi wheels I had acquired. I took the bolts off, had the centers painted satin silver and I hand polished the lips (whi

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ClarenceTE72

Intro

Hello 2002 Community, My name is Clarence Trinidad. I'm new to the 2002 community but I've been an automotive/motorsports enthusiast since I was a 2 years old ( I have old photos for proof, ahah). I do come from the japanese side of automotive motorsports. I competed in a pro-am series of topdrift about 2 years ago here in California. As much as I loved racing and competing. Growing up is inevitable. Qualifying well was very satisfying but lack of funding/sponsorships and a crew can tak

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Engine Cleanup

Here pictures of the engine, as you can see, the car was painted inside out except the engine bay. I wanted to clean it up a bit so I decided to pressure wash then pastidip the engine for now to clean it up (until I have enough to re-do the paint in a couple of years). My Booster failed recently so I had that rebuilt and also gave the car a slight tune up with Iridium spark plugs and IE wires and a new cap and rotor and electronic ignition by hotspark. The Weber 45s still run rich, even after I

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ClarenceTE72

5 Speed Shifter Rebuild , New wheels & suspension

I've been driving the car as much as I can since I got it. I took it for some spirited driving and was surprised at how well the car handles. The previous owner had mentioned that he would like the car to go to someone that will enjoy driving it and as we discussed. I was looking for a car that I could enjoy driving. So after a couple of hundred miles of driving the car, I decided to go a more street/track version of the car in order to be able to enjoy as much as possible. So I have since sold

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ClarenceTE72

Budget Brake System Flush

Last week, I worked on the car after work as much as I can as I waited for the rest of the parts that came trickling in. I was signed up for Open track at Streets of Willow on Sunday so I was eager to finish hoping there would be little to no setbacks. One setback I encountered was that I was actually running the brake system with DOT 5 silicone fluid. So I wanted to switch back to DOT 4 or 5.1 for better brake pedal feel. This is somewhat a general quick write-up in case someone accidentally

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Front Suspension PT.2..Finally done!

I finally finished the front suspension as the parts came trickling in last week. I was scrambling to finish everything by saturday as I attempted to make an appointment with ken blasko for front alignment and a quick tune. Swift springs Came! Here is the rest of the parts, new calipers, porterfield brake pads I assembled it first without the rotor to build the new hardlines from the calipers to the bracket on the strut. cleaned the hubs for new bearings New bearings and race

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More Engine Refreshing!

It's been sometime since I posted and a good amount of work has been done to the car since. I started with the carbs. I wanted to get the car prepared to be properly tuned so started by adjusting the valve clearance and then rebuilding the carbs since I don't really know it's history. Thanks to Le Tran (02 garagewerks) for helping me with advice on how to go about it the best way. There was some build up inside so I soaked the carbs to get all of the gunk build up out. Removed all the jets and

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