Hey everyone! Been on here for a while... so figured it might be time to post up something about this rice-bomb that's been on jack stands for one year and three months now. Brian knows a lot about this car.. so I'm sure he will chime in.

It started out as a "just get it functioning properly" to daily drive it, since the other talon went down. But as we all dug further into this car, the dream turned into a bad dream.. then an all out nightmare. It was called a "rice bomb" due to the fact that the previous owner completely destroyed this car. I honestly have no idea how the thing ran alright.. or didn't loose parts on the road. So we'll start with some "before" shots:




Poor car had almost every wire under the hood or in the car cut for some unknown reason. She also had various interior panels painted, as well as the engine bay and differental are a nice shade of baby powder blue. It *almost* matches the Kona Blue Pearl. Almost. Oh, let's not forget the plethora of eBay universal "performance" parts and headlights that belong to a 2gb Eclipse; that were wired into the o2 sensor. I kid you not.

Here's what the underside looked like... I painted the angry face on it.

Needless to say, the car was STRIPPED down... drivetrain pulled, suspension, crossmembers, driveshaft, rear dif, interior... everything. Then started the process of re-painting things, fixing stripped bolts, finding missing bolts, and installing the new parts.

The engine was sold from this car, but the one from my old white Talon was sent out to a machine shop, as well as the head.

Here's some during/after shots:











I'll fill in some details in a little bit. There's quite a bit.

I'd like to thank Brian5150 for his help on this car and for some parts, too!