# \*\* Before and After Thread\*\*
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811
**Category:** SON240sx Automotive
**Created:** [August 1, 2009, 1:01pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811 "2009-08-01T13:01:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 4
### Author:  [@AhmadG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/AhmadG)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/61 "2009-09-29T00:23:28Z")
^Now that’s a mature response. 😛
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### Author:  [@Hacknik](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Hacknik)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2009, 1:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/62 "2009-09-29T01:43:43Z")
+1 Chris, working on a car with no cash is hard.
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### Author:  [@Polar\_s13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Polar_s13)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2009, 3:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/63 "2009-09-29T03:41:29Z")
Not done yet but 2/3:
Before(2007):
After(previous):
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### Author:  [@kyle\_2\_sexy38](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/kyle_2_sexy38)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2009, 11:54am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/64 "2009-09-29T11:54:15Z")
got the (DD)
same thing about to start for the silvia (toy)
the color and rust is going
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### Author:  [@Gatecrasher3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gatecrasher3)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 12:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/65 "2009-10-01T12:52:53Z")
\*\*considering whacking to this thread
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### Author:  [@Gatecrasher3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gatecrasher3)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 12:53pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/66 "2009-10-01T12:53:41Z")
Here I will add my car:
Before:
Stock
After:
Stock
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### Author:  [@Trutrax](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Trutrax)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/67 "2009-10-01T15:56:10Z")
Before:
[](http://kimag.es/)
After:
[](http://kimag.es/)
[](http://kimag.es/)
Next up is rims and suspension.
Also I’ve gotta take some after of my interior since I’ve transformed it from brown to black/ leather
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### Author:  [@NewfoundlandDude](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/NewfoundlandDude)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 3:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/68 "2009-10-01T15:58:19Z")
> [@Matte Black whatever thread (formerly the matte black elise thread)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/matte-black-whatever-thread-formerly-the-matte-black-elise-thread/24170/43):
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> Next up is rims and suspension.
Nice…this is needed though.
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### Author:  [@Specialedition](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Specialedition)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/69 "2009-10-01T16:10:32Z")
> [@X-box live gamertag thread\*\*edited with list\*\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/x-box-live-gamertag-thread-edited-with-list/22265/684):
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> I don’t take it as hate at all. To each their own, like many people you don’t know the story behind this car and what it’s taken to get it to this point. I love my car, does other peoples opinions matter to me? Fuck no. You’re happy what you’re driving I’m happy what I’m driving, end of story. Personally I don’t care how my car looks I just care about performance and that’s what I’m getting torwards slowly, cosmetics aren’t my focus, end of story, if my car is fast as fuck, handles on rails and looks shitty I’m even more happy then if it looks “baller” (slammed to shit, rimmed up, 80 mil widebody, etc) but can’t back up the image as they’re riding a stock KA with a fart cannon and a crappy tire intake that wants to stall going up a hill. Thanks for the constructive criticism though, and an image change will come with time.
>
> Edit: Just to clear things up, Im still in High School, no credit cards/no debt and have social life outside cars and finally Im building this car out of my own pocket, no help from mommy and daddy like most kids my age.
mad respect for this guy. Well said. Im glad you decided to take responsibility in your car and build it with your own money! By the way car looks better the way it is now. Pig nose is:greddy2:
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### Author:  [@Dolph\_KYAS13](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dolph_KYAS13)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/70 "2009-10-01T17:28:18Z")
> [@Matte Black whatever thread (formerly the matte black elise thread)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/matte-black-whatever-thread-formerly-the-matte-black-elise-thread/24170/44):
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> Pig nose is:greddy2:
You better bite your tongue
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### Author:  [@Stiky](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Stiky)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 7:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/71 "2009-10-01T19:58:24Z")
> [@Matte Black whatever thread (formerly the matte black elise thread)](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/matte-black-whatever-thread-formerly-the-matte-black-elise-thread/24170/44):
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> mad respect for this guy. Well said. Im glad you decided to take responsibility in your car and build it with your own money! By the way car looks better the way it is now. Pig nose is:greddy2:
Thanks man. Yeah it’s hard as hell :lol: Just dished over $3000 into my motor swap haha, no money for anything else right now, and hours got cut by half. Paints the last of my worries same with body work, shit if I had overs and a sil front, I’d just spray bomb my car flat black and call it a day. :lol:
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### Author:  [@S13counterpart](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/S13counterpart)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/72 "2009-10-01T21:24:50Z")
^actually I was talking about the rims.
wasn’t hating. just think it looks better with the stock rims. the discoloured bumper pretty much goes unnoticed. As mine is discoloured to! lol
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### Author:  [@Stiky](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Stiky)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2009, 9:46pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/73 "2009-10-01T21:46:02Z")
Oh dude… rims LMAO… theyre chrome underneath, I’m just too lazy to take steel wool to them and polish them again… they’re the cheapest 0 offset rims I could find, and are an inch wider than the OEM rims. I bought them cuz tires are dirt cheap for me with them (I use stock 240sx size, which I get for roughly $60-70 a corner, and they look good). The car would look better lower, yes I know.
This is how the rims are supposed to look, and this car is exactly what I want, aside from the colour and the fact I want brick headlights and lower than this one, so seeing this car made me kind of NEED these rims if you know what I mean.
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### Author:  [@jugahdor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jugahdor)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 9:13am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/74 "2009-10-06T09:13:00Z")
berfore
after
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### Author:  [@Chad\_Dugan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Chad_Dugan)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2009, 9:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/75 "2009-10-06T21:35:16Z")
lol ? what happened here ^^^ you just rattle canned everything ?
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### Author:  [@jugahdor](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jugahdor)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 6:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/76 "2009-10-07T06:27:17Z")
lol no my gf bought me a spray gun kit, and lets just say its a learning process 😛
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### Author:  [@Chad\_Dugan](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Chad_Dugan)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/77 "2009-10-07T13:34:00Z")
> [@R32 Skyline winter build-up](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/r32-skyline-winter-build-up/24030/32):
>
> lol no my gf bought me a spray gun kit, and lets just say its a learning process 😛
hahaha awesome! i was considering flat grey or a light grey almost white, ive seen it done properly in the US - but i dont know if it would fly here
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### Author:  [@87s15lt1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/87s15lt1)
#### Post date: [October 7, 2009, 2:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/78 "2009-10-07T14:03:16Z")
Sorry for the shitty after pictures takin via cell phone.
Before - Week before I bought it in April of '08. Completely stock 100% original, now the 3rd owner.
[ATTACH]1962[/ATTACH]
After - 2 months ago.
In case you have not noticed, I’m not very good at posting pictures and such lol. I tried
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### Author:  [@system](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/79 "2009-10-26T16:40:45Z")
Before:
After
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### Author:  [@Sonic180sx](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Sonic180sx)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2009, 6:16pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/before-and-after-thread/126811/80 "2009-10-26T18:16:36Z")
Bought the car back in 2000. Started reconstructive surgery in 2004.
Before pics…Fall 2004
After pics…car was back on the road 2006. Project completed in 2007
For those who might be wondering if I still have the car, or why I’m not posting much these days. I have stored the car to revise a few things. Mainly turbo, suspension and a few other details. I’ll try to get some pics up this weekend of how the car looks to-date, as many people here must be tired of these old pics. Hopefully next summer she will be back on the road.
Tony
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