A boy and his 2.0: 'Bugging Me'

[kitchybangbang]

Originally Posted by Growler

you need one of two mods to your wheels..

Retro Steelies..with beauty rings




or Pickle caps with beauty rings

ooomg genius pickle jar top!

[AbuNigel]

ditched the tints this past week.

I'd kinda been wanting to go 'fishbowl' lately, as the dark tints were starting to feel a little immature, and a $136 ticket was just the convincing I needed!

[scarabY2k]

Originally Posted by AbuNigel

ditched the tints this past week.

I'd kinda been wanting to go 'fishbowl' lately, as the dark tints were starting to feel a little immature, and a $136 ticket was just the convincing I needed!

It's not the tint, but rather the degree of the tint; that's what'll get ya

Here in FL tint is a necessity. For me the past legal isn't my cup of tea- looks great, but not my cup of tea. Get yourself a legal grade tint, not pushing the legal limit, but a good legal percentage tint and you should be able to achieve a smooth look.

[JP]

you can get 50% tint and be okay, it's Very light i know but you wont have any problems i have 35% tint and that's light and im still pushing it as they hate tint in NY due to idiots not knowing how to act. check out Putnamwindowtint.com you'll see how it looks just click on automotive, they did Fifty's (G-unit) house up in Hartford Ct.

[AbuNigel]

Haven't posted anything in a while, but trust me I've been a busy bee!

So, lost the tints, eyelids, and added the roof rack and went a bit lower.

Also did the timing belt + water pump with the help of my vw golf buddy and put in an H&R 22mm front sway bar + vf swaybar endlinks!

long and painful timing belt/water pump install (first attempt we were a few teeth off so I crashed on my friend's couch and went back at it in the morning. Ditched the mark and match method for the top-dead-center method and got it on the money! Runs great now!

Then while it was still on stands I did the sway bar and endlinks...That took forever too. Glad I did it though; Holy axle clearance!!!

From this:


To this:


Then I took off the tints, then the eyelids and put on the roof rack:










Also when I did the timing belt, I took out the washer fluid resevoir. The nozzles made these pathetic dribbles at the bottom of the windshield and just angered me. I never really used them, but when I told my parents they seemed to this this was a very important function, idk! lol

I sure like the extra room in the engine bay though!

Still undecided on what to do about that ugly missing emblem.
I really don't like the emblem look, but I can't bring myself to pull the trigger on a hood bra (that doesn't have the emblem stitched on it.)

I want to shave it eventually. But just paint is expensive enough, that's not happening until I can do at least the shaving body work...

Also I had some kind of wire short to my driver side door speaker that was causing it not to work.

Had some good electric experience from this actually. I spliced new wire to the old wire right near the harness in the kick panel, ran it through the door and rewired the speaker. I also did a new wire extension for the passenger side speaker. I think they sound better now, the wire I used before seemed a little dinky in comparison to the stuff I got now, could just be my imagination though :P Sounds good though and my door panels are back on after several days of racecar-status!

[Rabbit]

Wow, you have been a busy bee!

[AbuNigel]

I'm away from my baby for a while since coming back to school, but over winter break I managed to get tires for my longbeaches and really like the new look!



Unfortunately since I don't have spacers yet I had to raise the front up some because I was rubbing coil a bit. It's good to have it not so low when my parents have to drive it anyway I guess :P

But with the silver wheels I really feel the need to revamp my light situation. I want white and red tails, to untint my 3rd brake light, and get clear front corners.
And finally get a front emblem >_<

Next to it is the GTI my friend just bought. Needs a lot of TLC but the PO took care of the engine mods so at least it's quick!

[scarabY2k]

I like the new look