Paint! Tint and Intake Manifold Swap: 3/8/06 |
Reconstruction Over! |
The 90 is gone, the Jeep is gone and now at this point in time I only own
3 cars as opposed to the 4 I usually had. I have my baby and I have my
1970 Ranchero GT.....and...I recently acquired a Gen 3 SHO
from the place I call work. Its a green 97 with 95k miles. Im the
second owner of it and it came with the original window sticker. It was
owned by an older guy since 96 when he bought it from Meginnis Ford in Lincoln
NE. Its immaculate! I detailed it all myself and I spent 6 hours
claying the outside and applying three different kinds of wax to it. Ive
never seen water bead up so well on any car Ive worked on. I am actually
going to sell it, just because my urge for another Wrangler is just insane, but
I have a website set up with pictures of it just because.
The Mean Green Gen3
As for my 1995 SHO....I will let the pictures do some of the talking....
I had a local bodyshop piece my front end back together for an ungodly amount of money....I was later informed that one of the guys at work would have done it for free, but thats besides the point. This was in spring of 2005 if I remember correctly, just months before I moved out of the fine establishment I called home and wrecked my Wrangler. Atleast the SHO had a good summer and fall. Below are a couple of pictures from the painting day. Apparently Ford has 15 variances for the type of paint I have on my car, which makes it nearly impossible to correctly match the paint color, without doing a bunch of blending into the rest of the car. We finally settled on the closest color after a few spray outs and a couple different attempts to paint.
AND HERE SHE IS....PAINTED! Oh and
I got the windows tinted as well...15% all around.
I decided to swap intakes on my 90 and 95. The 90's intake was
in much better shape than the one I had on my 95, which really wasn't all that
surprising considering that my new engine was from a junkyard somewhere in
Michigan. I took the one off of the 90, took it all apart, cleaned it up
at work in the parts washer and installed a whole new set of gaskets. I
was going to do some dremel work but I needed the 95 to be running so I just
left it stock.
The 95's is on the left and the new one from the 90 is on the right.
You can see some scuffs on the 95's intake...it wasn't very nice looking.
This is the result of about 45 minutes out in the cold... though im
glad I know how to take off the intake, it is really a hassle that I don't like
doing, oh well.
Here is the finished thing...looks much nicer I think. Someday
I will have this all powdercoated. Green on the inside, Gunmetal or Black
on the outside on the intake. I also might do the valve covers in black as
well...I guess it depends on price.