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Smokey

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Anyone who's talked to me about cars for more than 10 minutes has probably heard the story about how I've always wanted a FD and would own one someday. Well, that day has come!

 

My camera was dead so I couldn't get any new pictures of it, so I took some from the FS ad. The car is a 93 touring with the R1 lip, wing, and seats.

 

This car will be a nice day/weekend/track(the ones with turns) car. It is built very close to how I would have done myself. Stock ports, still stock turbos, still sequential, PFC, SMIC, full exhaust, no A/C, no P/S, and pretty light all around (2820 full of fuel). It also has a nice brake upgrade, and GC coilovers with Advance Design shocks. I would have preferred a no-roof car, but I suppose we all have to compromise somewhere. Hopefully I can make the R1 seats in it work out, if not i'm sure they'll bring decent money cause they're clean.

 

I'm not the biggest fan of the hood, but it's a necessary evil on these cars so it'll stay. At least it's painted. The exterior condition is not quite up to spec in my opinion, but for a FD it's in good shape and it'll clean up nicely. And yes, I'll paint the front lip back to black. Anyway, on to the pics.

 

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z56/kutschca/FD1.jpg

 

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z56/kutschca/FDside.jpg

 

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z56/kutschca/FDUnderhood.jpg

 

http://i193.photobucket.com/albums/z56/kutschca/FDinterior.jpg

 

edit: Mods, sorry if this needs to be moved to pics & vids you can do so.

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But, why paint the front lip back to black? i think it looks good color matched.

 

 

it looks passable in the pictures, but when you see it up close it doesn't match very well, so it'll be painted black when I get around to it, and then probably replaced with a new one (they come black) sometime after that because it's getting beat up as well.

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I wouldn't sell the M3 to have gotten the FD. They're just two different cars with two different purposes. I'm also glad that I didn't try to find a really nice FD and have it as a nice street car, because it's just not what the car was meant for.

 

For now, the M3 will still be a track car as well. Mostly for schools and what not, and the FD will probably only see Fundays this year. (such a shame to have 2 track cars huh?). I'm hoping with time that the wife will take the reigns behind the M3 at the track.

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