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Few years back I bought a white 93 PGT and started working on it.
This car got saved from a junkyard, the owner bought it from another guy who let it sit for 10 years, and he realized he was in over his head on the issues with the car so I scooped it up for a cool stack and drove it home, only overheated twice and ran from the cops once
What was supposed to be a simple two day job turned into a two week triage and resurrection. It needed SO MUCH WORK I almost named it Karen. I did the timing belt, water pump, cleared ALL 9 CEL codes holy crap. It got a new alternator, AC compressor, pretty much anything you would do on a car that was never replaced after 150k miles. I had to rewire the audio and fix all of the issues with the previous owners trying to half-ass stuff. All the speakers were blown so I spent the money for an Alpine system. It was supposed to stay relatively stock and end up a restoration project, but then I was like screw that I wanna go fast, after doing the Dragon for the first time so without further ado, I present to you the PANDA EXPRESS, the day I bought it. It looks a lot nicer in pictures than it actually is. The reality is I have seen examples in the junkyard that looked better.
Muffler? What muffler?
Timing belt and water pump
AFTERMATH. Also did the AC compressor, lines, wiring, alternator, coolant flush, tons of leaking lines and a whole bunch of small stuff under the hood.
Dad and I cleaning the dirt off, this is the last white car I ever own
Some decent /p/hotos cleaned up. Nikon Df ftw
This was actually a little later after a lot more work but I included it here in the /p/ section
IT BEGINS. Greddy SP2 exhaust and Hotshot headers, ported KLG4 manifold from a 2000 626
This car got saved from a junkyard, the owner bought it from another guy who let it sit for 10 years, and he realized he was in over his head on the issues with the car so I scooped it up for a cool stack and drove it home, only overheated twice and ran from the cops once
What was supposed to be a simple two day job turned into a two week triage and resurrection. It needed SO MUCH WORK I almost named it Karen. I did the timing belt, water pump, cleared ALL 9 CEL codes holy crap. It got a new alternator, AC compressor, pretty much anything you would do on a car that was never replaced after 150k miles. I had to rewire the audio and fix all of the issues with the previous owners trying to half-ass stuff. All the speakers were blown so I spent the money for an Alpine system. It was supposed to stay relatively stock and end up a restoration project, but then I was like screw that I wanna go fast, after doing the Dragon for the first time so without further ado, I present to you the PANDA EXPRESS, the day I bought it. It looks a lot nicer in pictures than it actually is. The reality is I have seen examples in the junkyard that looked better.
Muffler? What muffler?
Timing belt and water pump
AFTERMATH. Also did the AC compressor, lines, wiring, alternator, coolant flush, tons of leaking lines and a whole bunch of small stuff under the hood.
Dad and I cleaning the dirt off, this is the last white car I ever own
Some decent /p/hotos cleaned up. Nikon Df ftw
This was actually a little later after a lot more work but I included it here in the /p/ section
IT BEGINS. Greddy SP2 exhaust and Hotshot headers, ported KLG4 manifold from a 2000 626
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