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O just bought the car and got it today so i have dont nothing on it...it has a small bra on the front of the hood because the hood has lots of scratches and little chips.

good lookin!

let the misery start

nice shiny black, must be the camera or the fact you took those with a lack of sun in the sky looks great btw, can't wait to see what you have planned for it....(no rice please)

EDIT: is that an SRX in the driveway of a suburban home? Hrm, lol now I'll bet you already have a list of things you wanna do to this car? Hehe.

trust me...no rice

eyelids, new lights/bulbs, CAI, Exhaust upgrade (not sure what yet), and wheels and tires eventually

You said it had a few scratches here and there but it looks real good

How many miles on your first car?

Also, consider lowering it, 17's or 18's, and a mirko

If you can pull off clear corners that would be good, but with the exhaust you basically could do it cheap (i noticed you saved up all summer) or spend some decent money on a trubendz or magnaflow set up. You maybe want to try to do the easy stuff first, i.e. optimize TB, get the Y-pipe optimized, change the plugs, clean the UIM/LIM, put some 5w20 synthetic in there, and load er up with 91 octane. Also replace your resonator with 4inch round pipe from magnaflow and drop in your K&N intake and you're set. All of the easy stuff should be a little bit more, but well worth it, plus you really get to know your car that way. Do that and then save up for the expensive mods.

EDIT: A mirko would be nice, very nice to be precise.

Originally posted by Berkel:
You said it had a few scratches here and there but it looks real good

How many miles on your first car?

Also, consider lowering it, 17's or 18's, and a mirko

it only has 76K miles but the 3rd gear grinds (bad syncro)

and no to lowering...i have to go up and down a big curb in my driveway every day and it would kill my car if it was too low...but YES to 18's...possibly superleggeras or konig Trouble (have to see them on the car) or just a black rim with a chrome lip...

Wow, it looks so.... STOCK. Get to work. Good find, treat it right and you'll always have the CEG support.

thanks...and trust me, i have all my mods planned already...lol

but i dont have my financing planned yet...haha

Its going to look like a freaking 4 by 4 with 18's and no lowering.

If you saw the [censored] ive driven over/ up to with 4" of front ground clearance you'd see the light of day.

Trust me, when I first got my CSVT I said id never lower it....

well we will see what happenes...

i will keep you all informed!

Gorgeous car! Like the others have said keep it clean,and do the cheap and easy mods first.Then take it from there and put your taste into the car!Good luck and happy Modding!

Good looking SVT, nice find.

Where in Wixom are you located? I'm in nearby West Bloomfield/Commerce.

If you're not into lowering it, that's cool.

BUT.

You can still get into your driveway lowered, you just have to back in. If you go in forwards, your front bumper'll scrape on the way out. We have all those big concave curbs around here, I hate them, but backing in poses no trouble at all.

nice find, i just got mine this oast winter. your gunna have a blast

Originally posted by BigBEN:

and no to lowering...i have to go up and down a big curb in my driveway every day and it would kill my car if it was too low...

If you'e worried about scraping, it's not as big a problem as you might think.

They are cheap

I sit about 4" off the ground and with the ramps can clear an 8" curb, just take it at an angle and go nice and slow. Or get some ramps and take it straight on. As for areas in your city you may scrape on, one you find them and avoid them once, they tend to never be a problem again.

Just saying if you'd like to lower the car, do it. It's not a big hassle like you're thinking

Nice clean car....have fun modding it!

Originally posted by Honkeytonk Monkey:

Originally posted by BigBEN:

and no to lowering...i have to go up and down a big curb in my driveway every day and it would kill my car if it was too low...

If you'e worried about scraping, it's not as big a problem as you might think.

They are cheap

I sit about 4" off the ground and with the ramps can clear an 8" curb, just take it at an angle and go nice and slow. Or get some ramps and take it straight on. As for areas in your city you may scrape on, one you find them and avoid them once, they tend to never be a problem again.

Just saying if you'd like to lower the car, do it. It's not a big hassle like you're thinking

Cool. Where do you get them?

Eibach + Mirko = ~3"-4" ground clearance. There hasn't been a driveway I couldn't make it up yet.

Just pull up to the incline like you're parallel parked on it. Then turn your wheel in the direction of the curb so the treads are facing the curb. Slowly creep forward and let that front tire climb up, pulling you up the curb.

Same goes for reverse. You just have to crank the wheel before you get to the end of the driveway, so you are leaving the driveway at the same angle as you approached it.

Mark

Im off of charms and wixom road...once u get off the experss way turn towards the ford plant and follow that road for a whole then u will see charms and i am down that road.

that might be a problem here in new england cause of snow, the town will not allow such things that may come in the way of the plow trucks cause honestly they will plow right over it and wreck it..

i was thinking the same thing

it is a neat idea none the less but it wont work here unfortunatly

It'll work fine here in Texas! So I ask again, where do you get these?

Car looks great! Very nice looking ride. keep us posted on what you do.

i just would keep the wheels and tires how they are and now lower the car and be fine in my neighborhood...

how would 17's look not lowered?

Judging by the side moldings the car is a 99, not a 98.5.

So what school do you go to that you are a Sigma Chi?

The car looks great in the pics and its nice to see some originals still around

Check out the FAQ's so you don't waste any money on mods that don't really work, you can thank us for that later

Originally posted by BigBEN:
i just would keep the wheels and tires how they are and now lower the car and be fine in my neighborhood...

how would 17's look not lowered?

Here is a pic of 1FASTDADS car. It's on 17s with 215/45/17 tires and STOCK suspension.

Aaron

WOW...that looks great with the 17's...thats what i will probably do

...and as going being in sigma chi...i am a junior in highschool and the buy who i bought it from yesterday went to western MI and was in sigma chi.

YES, im positive the car is a 98.5, the car was built on 5/13/1998

The car looks even better with the mirko on it

. The best thing about it is it doesn't look like a 4x4 and with the mirko there is barely any scraping.

Aaron

ive seen it with them on and off...and as of now...i like it off, ill have to see one in person to decide...

You can see it at the EOSB. The mirko makes such a difference to the front of the car, it looks naked with out it.

Aaron

i like the mirko but to me, it looks weird with i, as to u it looks weird with out it!

Good point lol.

Aaron

u never kno...i might get hooked if i see a car like mine which looks GREAT with it...

Originally posted by WorldTour:
Judging by the side moldings the car is a 99, not a 98.5.

It could very well be a 98.5. Mine is and had those same moldings as well.

They only used the different moldings for E0's.

Originally posted by Berkel:
They only used the different moldings for E0's.

Not true...
Mark Wilson's 98.5 SVTC You can clearly see the Mystique/E0 moldings on it.

It would have to be a very late build 98.5 to even have the possibility of getting the flat moldings.

Edit: This car would be a real late build, since Job one on the '99's was 6/17/98

I have #5959 of 6535

Originally posted by BigBEN:

Originally posted by Berkel:
You said it had a few scratches here and there but it looks real good

How many miles on your first car?

Also, consider lowering it, 17's or 18's, and a mirko

it only has 76K miles but the 3rd gear grinds (bad syncro)

and no to lowering...i have to go up and down a big curb in my driveway every day and it would kill my car if it was too low...but YES to 18's...possibly superleggeras or konig Trouble (have to see them on the car) or just a black rim with a chrome lip...

Lower it dude, 18's too large, go subtle, 17's are what you want, here's mine....