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Old Oct 18, 2015 | 08:04 PM
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Love the name! Interior is looking suuuper clean...I'm a bit jealous of the leather.
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Old Nov 1, 2015 | 02:04 PM
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Thanks man, I'm loving the seats. Just put in a new console lid to match them and get rid of the impossible to keep clean tan one. Also got my homebrew switch panel bout ready to go in. Soon as I get a dry weekend the rear seats, switch panel, and new amps and mount are going in.





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Old Nov 4, 2015 | 05:37 PM
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Finally got around to stripping and cleaning my spare throttle body. Gonna bead blast and hopefully bore it tomorrow at work.





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Old Nov 4, 2015 | 06:04 PM
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Nice project you have going on here. The interior is coming along nicely. I use MSCdirect also. I still hate their website.
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Old Nov 5, 2015 | 06:10 AM
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Nice project you have going on here. The interior is coming along nicely. I use MSCdirect also. I still hate their website.

Thanks man! Ditto on the MSC website, you can't search for anything. You have to start out in a category and work your way down to the item you need. We have a rep. that comes by the shop every couple of weeks and hooks us up with deals and promo items. Customer service is the main reason I do business with them.
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Old Nov 5, 2015 | 06:41 AM
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I dig the flat green on all your trim.
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Old Nov 5, 2015 | 05:27 PM
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Originally Posted by chipmaker
And here they are. Spikenutz! Guess it's the minitrucker in me. I couldn't resist adding some completely useless flash. Still debating on polishing them or painting em satin black.
I always wanted to machine center caps like that for my rims. Lol maybe find some spiky lug nuts
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Old Nov 6, 2015 | 02:26 PM
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Originally Posted by Lowrange2
I dig the flat green on all your trim.

Thanks, It was like that when I bought it. I didn't like it at first so I painted my factory bumper black. It just didn't look right so I decided to keep it throughout my build. I'm the same way about the chrome grille. I typically don't care for chrome but for some reason I like the chrome with black bezels.


Originally Posted by XJwonders
I always wanted to machine center caps like that for my rims. Lol maybe find some spiky lug nuts
Haha, centers would be cool. I thought about some of the spiked lug nut covers like big rigs use, but have never came across a set small enough for the heep. Probably better that I didn't , I'd just knock them off and get pissy cause I was missing one.
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Old Nov 9, 2015 | 06:13 PM
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Proudly representing my daughters Ag. class.


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Old Nov 10, 2015 | 04:05 PM
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Bored and blasted.


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Old Nov 11, 2015 | 05:09 PM
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Painted, assembled, and ready to go.




Also finished my switch panel. Hope to attack the audio this weekend.


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Old Nov 11, 2015 | 05:35 PM
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Great attention to detail and excellent workmanship. I decided to mount WRX seats in my XJ. I found a nice set and they are going to fit with some effort. I drive a ZJ as a DD and really love those leather seats. Very cool.
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Old Nov 12, 2015 | 05:54 AM
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Originally Posted by ftwelder
Great attention to detail and excellent workmanship. I decided to mount WRX seats in my XJ. I found a nice set and they are going to fit with some effort. I drive a ZJ as a DD and really love those leather seats. Very cool.
Thanks for the kind words. Good call on the WRX seats. I was originally looking for something sporty with big side bolsters. My driver side seat developed the lean and I happened to stumble across the WJ seats while looking for a stock XJ replacement. The deal was just too good to pass up, besides the rear headrest will be a good safety feature for my big headed kidddos. Be sure to hook us up with some pics of the WRX seats, that's gonna be sweet!
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Old Nov 12, 2015 | 04:29 PM
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Got the TB installed. Can't tell much of an HP increase, but she definitely idles way smoother possibly be cause the IAC and such are clean. I intentionally didn't radius the edges of the IAC port to see if it would whistle. It has a slight whistle about it, I like it. I can pretend I have a turbo!


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Old Nov 14, 2015 | 08:33 AM
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On my way out to tackle the rear seat and audio install. WOOT!!!!!!!!
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