So guys I sold my 03 blaze red neon and bought an 03 SRT and forgot to post up a progress log. Long story short I had known about the car for years and had seen it a bunch of times. I was out for a cruise with some friends and ended up meeting some car guys who were friends with the owner of the SRT and told me he wanted to sell. The deal was too good for me to pass up and I took ownership in April 2010
Here are some pics of the car with the previous owner. He had a Stage 2 kit with a Maxxfab Side exit:
Here is a video with the car and the previous owner with all the old mods:
First mod I did was taking the mint Vipers out of my old neon swapping them into the SRT because the stock Vipers were torn up.
When I bought the car the previous owner put it entirely back to stock, no stage 2 or maxxfab SEE, but he did leave the TiAL blow off valve
I ended up going with a K&N drop in filter because I decided not to get a CAI, which I ended up buying anyway so my Modern Performance catch can would fit
Notice the ebay black housing lights, I ended up putting the blaze red back to stock completely and put the aftermarket parts on the SRT:
Next was a set of front and rear DC braces
Next to come was a modern performance powdercoated valve cover…
Before I bought the car I took it to Innovative Tuning and got a boost leak test, leak down test, etc. and there were a ton of boost leaks. The main one was coming from the BOV because it was an ebay flange with shitty couplers and a badly siliconed temp sensor. So after research I got the best hardpipe on the market, AGP and went to work. I got it powedercoated locally for $12.
The main reason for the leak was because the previous owner had no o-ring between the flange and the BOV so I corrected the problem when installing it on the AGP hardpipe
When I took off the front fascia I noticed the stock intercooler was all bent to shit and there was a local dude who had a replacement for cheap so here are some pics of the install. I also did up the fuel injector cover
So the car has had the infamous P0440 CEL since I bought it and I have done hours of searching and looking over the car to see what the problem is. The P0440 is a small EVAP system leak most often times caused by a bad NVLD/Purge Solenoid or a crack in the lines somewhere. I went to the stealership to by a new NVLD for $50 but it still didnt fix the code. Here are some install pics
I took the car to another buddy of mine to get the 3M Di-Noc Carbon Fiber Vinyl put on the bumper
The previous owner got keyed on the hood and did a shitty fix and there were a ton of rock chips that were rusting and bubbling so I sent out the hood and the eyelids to my buddy to get a repaint for $150. I also had him paint the fangs on the inside of the scoop
This was my loner hood off of his SRT
So money wise this was a good trade, but it was still a bad decision. I bought an AEM UEGO for $70 and traded it for over $200 dollars in new audio equipment. While it was a good trade for the money, I should have kept the UEGO…oh well
So I ended up with these FLI speakers from England that are pretty damn nice. When doing the install I figured out why the sound in the SRT was crap, the previous failed to mention there were no front door speakers…
I had to go to the junkyard and pull the speaker buckets out of an SXT because the SRT didn’t even have them. So I drilled the holes properly in the buckets and mounted up the speakers
Here is the finished pics of my 3rd brake light LED. It works great, but I forgot to take night pictures
