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Thought I'd introduce myself and my car. I'm a beginner car enthusiast just getting into the auto industry. I live in Canada (sorry, eh?), I work as a parts advisor at a Volvo dealership and I drive a 2003 Lancer OZ.
Now to the car.
The car is in good shape other than a couple scratches on the bumpers and a small oil leak (I believe it's coming from the cam seal, or something under the timing cover). The previous owner put in a K&N Typhoon intake, replaced all the factory speakers with Alpines (don't know the specs), and put in an aftermarket Kenwood deck.
Since purchasing I've got it caught up on it's maintenance, purchased but have not yet installed two 10" enclosed subs and an Alpine amp, and got new summer and winter rubber. The first thing I'm doing this spring is front suspension as I'm getting some clunks from the front end.
I only have the picture I took when I purchased it, but I'm going to take some more when I clean it up again this week.
How much are you looking at selling them for? I am from Canada so if it isn't a scream of a deal it would probably cost a lot after shipping and exchange rate lol
I'm in Canada so its KM its at 164k (about 101k miles). I plan to do very little in terms of performance upgrades as it's my daily driver. Here's my list so far:
Mechanical
- Rebuild top half of engine to fix a small oil leak (maybe paint the valve cover).
- Replace suspension components with stock parts (for now to relieve a clunk).
- Eventually replace ^ with Tein Coilovers.
Aesthetics
- Fix multiple scratches on rear bumper/hood, and repair some surface rust starting on the driver rear fender.
- ^ Actually if you look closely in the pic, you can see the spec of surface rust just in front of the tire.
- Purple Emblems and decals (OZ Racing as well as a "TowelWEB" Decal (home business))
- Purple wheels - plasti-dip?
- Purple accented interior (Dash Panel, Gear Shift Surround, Window Switchpack surround, etc.)
- Purple Backlighting? (If I could that would be sweet)
That's all I can really think of for now. If you can't tell by my plans, it's not going to be a race car by any means. Just something to get me from A-B, advertise my business a bit, and hopefully look cool while I do it.
Last edited by KingTowel; Mar 25, 2015 at 11:05 AM.
I'm in Canada so its KM its at 164k (about 101k miles). I plan to do very little in terms of performance upgrades as it's my daily driver. Here's my list so far:
Mechanical
- Rebuild top half of engine to fix a small oil leak (maybe paint the valve cover).
- Replace suspension components with stock parts (for now to relieve a clunk).
- Eventually replace ^ with Tein Coilovers.
Aesthetics
- Fix multiple scratches on rear bumper/hood, and repair some surface rust starting on the driver rear fender.
- ^ Actually if you look closely in the pic, you can see the spec of surface rust just in front of the tire.
- Purple Emblems and decals (OZ Racing as well as a "TowelWEB" Decal (home business))
- Purple wheels - plasti-dip?
- Purple accented interior (Dash Panel, Gear Shift Surround, Window Switchpack surround, etc.)
- Purple Backlighting? (If I could that would be sweet)
That's all I can really think of for now. If you can't tell by my plans, it's not going to be a race car by any means. Just something to get me from A-B, advertise my business a bit, and hopefully look cool while I do it.
I'm with you man, I drive my car daily also. It's all good. List looks good though. Looking forward to your updates.
Took some pictures of my car but they came out grainy as eff. So you're going to have to wait a little longer for some good shots.
However I found myself a little surprise!
I ended up taking off my timing cover to confirm that it is in fact my cam seal leaking (which it is). While I was cleaning in and around the engine bay I decided to take a look at my spark plugs and found this:
So this weekend I get to pull the valve cover off and replace them tube seals, and try to get to the cam seal as well. It's a good thing I'm right around Tbelt mileage! This will officially be the first time I open up an engine. So wish me luck!
Yeah actually, my hunch on the oil leak was either cam seal or head gasket and I'm very relieved its only the cam seal. The spark plug seals are on the way there anyway so that's no biggie either.
I've done a lot of research on valve cover removal and cam seal replacement so I'm pretty confident and I won't be alone. Excited to get my hands dirty for the first time with this thing this weekend!
Update:
Did the cam seal and spark plug seals this weekend, and cleaned up the valve cover. It fired up nice (first engine job, woo!). Now to drive it for a week and re-evaluate. Hopefully my oil will cease to **** out of my engine. LOL
Totally forgot to get a timing belt, and realized I didn't really want to **** with the tensioner anyway. I'm right at timing belt mileage though, so I think I may just get a tech to do it. Unless you guys think it's relatively easy?
Last edited by KingTowel; May 4, 2015 at 08:24 AM.
Mar 20, 2015, 08:40 AM
