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Got her all painted finally, it's shinier now cause I clear coated it after these pics, but you get the basic color idea. It's gonna get chrome door handles and the chrome grille cause I'm lazy and didn't want to sand or paint those tiny, intricate parts. Probably gonna put it back together soon (tomorrow if the clear dries in time). It'll stay debadged entirely, and if you look, I actually filled in the front ram horn badge so it's smooth. 1st Gen Lx had the indention where it sat. I've had to do a lot to this body wise so this has taken a long time overall. Glad to finally share my work.

 

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Here's a couple pictures of the body work I had to do before painting. I got rid of a lot of rust in the rear wheel arches which required cutting and re welding new sheet metal and then a lot of fiberglass work, due to my crappy cutting. Also learned to Tig weld here lol.

 

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Did you do all that in your garage?? Nice!

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Yep, all in the 1.5 car garage...
Let me tell you what a pain that was...so cramped

 

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Looks amazing.. please don't ruin by going with chrome.. you made it this far do it justice

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It's only the stock grille and door handles, nothing more

 

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Walked out of the house this morning and saw the car in the daylight for the first time.
Finally finished it up and pulled it out of the garage last night
If only I had some new wheels to finish it off

 

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Yikes, I'm not a fan of the black stripes at all lol. was thinking about the basic double stripes down the hood/roof/trunk but I'm gonna wait awhile and think about it

 

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new rubber on the 06 ....

I'm needing some new ones too, what are those?

 

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Don't worry I put cheapies on mine usually... Was looking for something better maybe
Don't have a reason to go over 100 around here anyway

 

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you will like these .... work as well as tires at twice the price. .... jmo

What model lionharts exactly
I assume you have no clearance issues the 255s all around?

 

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Took her for an alignment, forgot to take a pic and post the 9th. First one after the front suspension replacement and all the work. Got compliments from everyone in the dealer service bay.

Apparently something is "wrong or out of spec" with the RR and was uncorrectable but apparently not a big deal either, according to the service manager there.

 

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"reconditioned" my valve body over the past few days. Car hadn't been shifting well and limping without a code...weird but in stead of throwing a (whole) bunch of money at it, I replaced the high milage (132k on the trans) conductor plate and took the shift plate apart and cleaned it all up. Couldn't tell if it was a lot of air or water in the plate, when I took off the shift valve covers it looked funny.

Watched a video on how to put it back together to be sure along with the manual and put it back in... Gotta wait till tomorrow to drown it in new Mopar ATF cause Amazon is slow then we'll test it out

 

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Scanned my codes, retrieved a c2204 dynamic sensor code. Cool. Take console apart, start looking around, find this.

Well, the sensor is there. But there is a group of 4 wires I identical to the sensor wires that are cut off. Any idea what's going on there?

I'm going to replace the sensor, but I'm curious as to what connector was cut off in that location. Never known mopar to cut wires like that, they usually just leave the unused connectors hanging around.

Lmk what you guys think... and yes, this is the first time I've pulled the console and will clean that disgusting mess.

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Yeah no that's not right, I have that exact same wiring setup. Mine isn't cut, so someone else was under there doing something for some reason

I'd repair the harness and see what happens

I imagine they cut it so they didn't have to take off the whole armrest area instead of unplugging, wonder why they did that

 

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Added in the OEM underhood lighting last night. I imagine it'll Work pretty good in a pinch out of the garage

 

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Finally put the plastic wheel well liners back on after being lazy about it. Gotta find my bigger plastic push pins to make it fit much nicer, but at least they're back in...

 

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Still a nice ass car...Lexus are nice, even for a Toyota...

 

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love these headlights, also put a flat black grille

check out my rotors, yes i need to change them lol

Are those the RGB ones? Either way i like those a lot as well, I think it makes the car look more like a 2nd gen

 

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Got in everything for my exhaust swap finally today. Exhaust tips came from @BM_SRT , pipes are from trubendz, resos are vibrant 1790s and I tried an Amazon brand muffler... Worst case with that I can use them for my truck instead.

 

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Awesome, glad you got them. I'm interested to see how you will fit them in the bumper.

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Yeah, I'll probably have to cut out or let them stick out...

 

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Started fabbing up the new exhaust today, first time doing my own exhaust, or anything with exhaust really...but I am a perfectionist so im sure it'll come out just fine

 

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Forgot to post yesterday, but tore up the engine bay to pull off the OEM headers for shorties.

Was a ****load easier than trying to drill out the broken studs that mated the cat pipes that were rust welded in...