my project gst

i bought my 96 gst about eleven months ago.. and project is an understatement. i only thought it had a blown engine and no tranny. little did i know, it had NOTHING else either.
i bought it for 400 dollars, because i love eclipses and i wanted to learn about them, their engines, and everything else. i thought i''d put maybe 2000 at most into it and everything would be good, paint job included. aaaand here i am 8k later.
my gst JUST got finished with paint today, and needs a few more things before she runs. but, here are some before and after pictures of the paint job/engine, and ill post more when shes totally done.






(original bumper to the car, when i bought it there wasnt even a bumper)












right after the rebuilt got put in


after she got painted today :)! ''dark grey pearl'', seen on 3rd gens


hahah as a reminder, they left this yellow




and meeee in love with my car :)

looks realy good,very nice work.what color are you going to make the interior?any engine mod plans?

awesome, keep up the good work....she''ll be back to 100% in no time

well the interior will be painted a really dark grey with accents of my exterior paint throughout it. but as for now, no engine mods. i dont really have the funds :(

wow looks good. kinda sucks about the yellow in the gas cap but i guess now you''ll always remember how horrible it looked before you worked your magic on it lol

haha yeah, every time i get gas it''ll make me laugh. the kid i bought it from was a compleeete idiot.

nother 2G rescue!!

Wow it looks soooo much better then I first saw this thing.  Keep it up. 

Oooohhh, I like the paint. Interior looks like my car now...no seats whoo hooo.

What you can do, is mask off the exterior, and simply get a rattle can and spray it black or something. Just to prevent the yellow from shining through.
 
Actually there are engine mods, the parts I tracked down werent alll stock lol. There is a HKS BIG T28 that banks for about 1200 new (got for 150 with a chipped exhaust wheel). There is a dejontool hard upper intercooler pipe too.

haha damn my bad i thought he was talking internals

Oooh :)
 
You gotta paint those calipers black too! lol

8k?what did you spend that on paint?body?engine?tranny?trans.case? what else?,its coming out nice though

Thats probably an ugly number....

well money that went into getting the car RUNNING has been $7,046 so far.. i have bought other things, nothing real necessary for the car, and its about 8000 now.
rebuilt engine was 1000
had to buy my interior/bumper/tail lights/mirrors/panels/console, all of that stuff was about 500
tranny was 760
clutch/exhaustmanifold/turbo/bov/smic&piping/axels added up to just about 1000
and ive given 3200 to the guys fixing my **** up, paint was 900 and other parts have taken up most of that budget as well. trust me, just about everything on that car was NOT reusable. well, if i wanted it to be done right the first time.