A New look & New fuel filter

So I bought some clear yellow vinyl on ebay for like $7 shipped. I Really like the look. I'm considering placing it on the fog lights as well. I finally got around to changing the fuel filter, The original filter looked like it had been on the car for all 200k miles!!!! While I was at it, I also had to replace some of the fuel hoses. In order for the tank not to drain all its fuel on me, I had to clamp them shut while swapping filters... They were so dry that they cracked, and I had to run to Autzone to get a foot of new hose for under $2.

Junkyard Volvo front lip

A few weeks ago, i was lucky enough to find a lip of of a 90's volvo. When omunted on an e30 upside down, it looks pretty damn good. I cut off al off the extra tabs, and by drilling a dozen holes, and using the same mounting hardware as the volvo, I was able to mount it with great results. Nice! A shot of the car as is today. I have the adjustable coilover sleeves in the front at their lowest setting with 450lb springs. The rears currently have some ebay springs. I have bilstein HDs all the way around. THis setup cost me less than $200.

New Exhaust!

So I woke up early Friday morning, and wen to my local u-pull-it. I was looking for 1 thing. 2.5" exhaust tubing. I got lucky and found an Econoline van with a full exhaust just the right diameter. I got it for $8. The pic below already has a 2' piece of straight section cut off(those bends might come in handy in the future.) My first problem was the connection between my new muffler and the stock piping, i needed to mate 2.5" junkyard tubing to the stock 2.25" pipe. This is what i did. I cut V's into the 2.5" tubing, and with my body hammer I shrunk the diameter. After welding. ANd here you see the piece installed. In this pic you see my new muffler. It's a high dollar, lightweight stainless steel race muffler that i was lucky enough to acquire for free. It looks good, barely poking out of the rear, and boy is it loud as all Hell!

Coolant Leak!

Unfortunately on my way to work last week, i started to notice the coolant temperatures going up. When I got to work, there was a small puddle of coolant under the car. I did my thing, and at 5, I topped off the coolant before heading home. Temps were over half way, but I was able to keep it out of the red by turning the car off at the stop lights. Once i got home I looked under the hood, and there was coolant on the block below the intake manifold. My guess was that the mess of hoses under there were probably leaking somewhere, so i ripped into it. I found the leak, and repaired it. While I was in there I ended up removing the throttle body heating plate, and all the extra hoses at the same time.