cant wait for someone to make copies of the vertex front and sides

 

This is my first post on this forum, or any forum for that matter, so I thought I shouldn't start by making a new thread. I'll start by giving some information I suppose. I'm in high school and just bought my first car: a 2005 black coupe 6MT. It has 140k miles. I bought it at $8000 from a fairly reputable used car dealer. About 3 days after the purchase there was a rattling sound from the front of the car and the oil light flickered on and off. I took it to my local autoshop where they told me it was the timing chain. Fearing I had been scammed somehow, I went back to the dealer and asked them to look at it. They topped off the oil and the sound was much less noticeable. Still skeptic, I asked my dad and he took the car to his friend who's a general auto mechanic. Apparently there was a loose hose of some sort? and the mechanic did an oil change... Car sounds fine now except for a slight rattle on startup. Outside of engine: tear in dash that I looked into on here and didn't find much resolution to besides an expensive replacement, white speckles on the hood which I assume is natural deterioration of paint on a 10 year old car with 140k miles, and the seat problem everyone has. I've had the car for less than a month. I plastidipped the grille black(left the emblem) and was thinking about a black out. The windows have 5% vlt I'm pretty sure. I'm not sure what the best way to make the wheels black or if I should buy new ones since the current are a lil beat up. Also haven't decided what to make the license plate... That's about all I can think of right now. I'd like to hear everyone's thought on problems I may have with a car at this mileage and what kind of mods I should do--Aesthetic mods for the most part unless there's a simple change I can make that'll make a huge difference.
Thanks
-Sean

 

I hear plastidipping the windshield is pretty popular these days. All the chicks dig it too.

 

Should I do the inside or the outside first? Also should I stick with the black plastidip? I think red would probably contrast really well...

 

Sounds like u might want to wait and see what you're really dealing with before u start modding.

 

Welcome to the forum.

First, before you do any mods, I recommend making sure the car is in good running condition. Fix/repair anything that is wrong with the car before you even think about doing anything else. Plastidipping and all that don't add much value to me IMHO; a good running well-maintained car is a better investment than little mods here and there.

I spent a good $2k+ for maintenance when I got my 05 coupe 6MT/Nav on new tires, oil change, brake/clutch fluid flush, etc. and general inspection from the dealer to make sure the car was in good running order.

Good luck and drive safe man.

 

anybody know where I can find the name of the grill with the emblem but without all those bumps inside.

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2817/9...de30639a_b.jpg

vs

https://g35driver.com/forums/attachm...ill-grill2.jpg


or is it just an ionic emblemless grill with a rear emblem glued to it?

 

I Just noticed there was a bump less grille.

 

My turn

To make an oil catch can that eliminates oil consumption, you have to recirculate the collected oil back into the engine right? If not the oil just builds up to be emptied?

 

no the current setup is oil being recirculated. the catch can setup the oil blowback is stored in the can so it wont get recirculated. over a period of time u empty the can

 

Well does it need to be recirculated back into the engine( not through the intake) in order to not throw away the oil? Is it even a good idea to keep blow by oil? O.o

I'm more so worried about the oil hurting the fuel mixture.

 

ugh no u don't reuse it man. damn how conservative u trying to be?

 

Just dump it in with your old oil to be recycled.

 

Well I'm just trying to figure how does it help with consumption.

 

it kinda doesn't. at least I don't think it does. and if it does its minimal