sc300fivespd
04-14-2010, 11:09 PM
hey guys welcome to my car build thead that's always ongoing.
i have always been looking for a sc300 with a factory 5speed since i can remember. so one day on craigslist one popped up. clean title, and it said 4k obo i thought hot danm ill talk that guy down in price. so i hit him up and went to sf to look at it. i acted dumb and finally said, oh man its a manual? no one wants a manual luxury car. and the interior is bad and the body has alot of dents and dings, ill give you 3k. he said ok. so i said ok here is 700 bucks, smog it and ill pick it up. so the next day i wen tthere with the rest of the money and picked up the car. on the way home i saw alot of other sc's. i was pumped. when i bought the car it looked brown. the next day i washed it and my friend took these pics of my car.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/img3747dl8.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/img3745tu0.jpg
and after the wash was done i discovered this pretty blue color underneath the grime! yikes... the car used to be garnet pearl but at some point it was painted blue. this car is a jzz31 #076 off the assembly line. 3k3 garnet pearl was the original color with a tan interior.
next step was to get that old tan carpet cleaned up. disgusting man that owned the car did not take care of the poor baby. smelled like butt-hole and alot of stains all over the place...
i hit the local bargain store, big lots. i bought 4 cans of 409 carpet cleaner and a hand held brush. 10-15 bucks total if that...
here is the 409, you gotta make a funny face when you hold the cans or else it wont work.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/Photo7.jpg
what i did was to take the front seas out of the car first and vacuum the whole carpet as best as i could. then you take the cans of 409 and start covering the carpet. dont stop till its all covered. you have to let it soak for a while. then have some gloves handy with your brush as well. start brushing the carpet. keep a pattern going dont do circles. just back and forth..
after a while you should be getting to the end. scrub those nasty stains with the brush, i got out coffee stains, no oxi-clean here guys just some elbow grease.
once the scrubbing is done vacuum anything that's left over and you should have some sexy new looking carpet like this.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/Photo8.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/Photo9.jpg
then came some wheels and a temporary drop including custom 3 inch exhaust no resonators no nothing with hks hi-power.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/CIMG2468.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/DSC00849.jpg
enjoy!
June-2 2009
The swap was started at 8:30a, 8:32 to be precise that's when the first two pics were taken. By 11 basically, the old engine was out and the tranny was bolted up to the gte waiting for engine mounts. at exactly 1:03pm the engine was in with both the tranny and the engine bolted up. PS: car is on jackstands that's why its high off the ground, notice tires not touching the ground.... and yes my tires all have wires sticking out of them. its been over a year with these tires its their time to go...
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01165.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01166.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01167.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01168.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01169.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01170.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01171.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01172.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01173.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01174.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01175.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01176.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01177.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01178.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01179.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01180.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01181.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01182.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01183.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01184.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01185.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01186.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01187.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01188.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01189.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01190.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01191.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01194.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01195.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/4124490148_7a54d7bc15_b.jpg
97 tails
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/DSC01425.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/DSC01491.jpg
custom gauges i setup
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01164.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01163.jpg
goodies
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01993.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01995.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01996.jpg
i have always been looking for a sc300 with a factory 5speed since i can remember. so one day on craigslist one popped up. clean title, and it said 4k obo i thought hot danm ill talk that guy down in price. so i hit him up and went to sf to look at it. i acted dumb and finally said, oh man its a manual? no one wants a manual luxury car. and the interior is bad and the body has alot of dents and dings, ill give you 3k. he said ok. so i said ok here is 700 bucks, smog it and ill pick it up. so the next day i wen tthere with the rest of the money and picked up the car. on the way home i saw alot of other sc's. i was pumped. when i bought the car it looked brown. the next day i washed it and my friend took these pics of my car.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/img3747dl8.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/img3745tu0.jpg
and after the wash was done i discovered this pretty blue color underneath the grime! yikes... the car used to be garnet pearl but at some point it was painted blue. this car is a jzz31 #076 off the assembly line. 3k3 garnet pearl was the original color with a tan interior.
next step was to get that old tan carpet cleaned up. disgusting man that owned the car did not take care of the poor baby. smelled like butt-hole and alot of stains all over the place...
i hit the local bargain store, big lots. i bought 4 cans of 409 carpet cleaner and a hand held brush. 10-15 bucks total if that...
here is the 409, you gotta make a funny face when you hold the cans or else it wont work.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/Photo7.jpg
what i did was to take the front seas out of the car first and vacuum the whole carpet as best as i could. then you take the cans of 409 and start covering the carpet. dont stop till its all covered. you have to let it soak for a while. then have some gloves handy with your brush as well. start brushing the carpet. keep a pattern going dont do circles. just back and forth..
after a while you should be getting to the end. scrub those nasty stains with the brush, i got out coffee stains, no oxi-clean here guys just some elbow grease.
once the scrubbing is done vacuum anything that's left over and you should have some sexy new looking carpet like this.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/Photo8.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/Photo9.jpg
then came some wheels and a temporary drop including custom 3 inch exhaust no resonators no nothing with hks hi-power.
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/CIMG2468.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/DSC00849.jpg
enjoy!
June-2 2009
The swap was started at 8:30a, 8:32 to be precise that's when the first two pics were taken. By 11 basically, the old engine was out and the tranny was bolted up to the gte waiting for engine mounts. at exactly 1:03pm the engine was in with both the tranny and the engine bolted up. PS: car is on jackstands that's why its high off the ground, notice tires not touching the ground.... and yes my tires all have wires sticking out of them. its been over a year with these tires its their time to go...
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01165.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01166.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01167.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01168.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01169.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01170.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01171.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01172.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01173.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01174.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01175.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01176.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01177.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01178.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01179.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01180.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01181.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01182.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01183.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01184.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01185.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01186.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01187.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01188.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01189.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01190.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01191.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01194.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01195.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/4124490148_7a54d7bc15_b.jpg
97 tails
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/DSC01425.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/SC300/DSC01491.jpg
custom gauges i setup
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01164.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01163.jpg
goodies
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01993.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01995.jpg
http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i236/sanramondrift/Swap/DSC01996.jpg