My car, while it is currently a daily driver, has to undergo some dramatic changes. The driver's door needs to be aligned and the whole car needs to be painted. Some cosmetic fixes are most needed. I got the car a few weeks ago. (Valentine's Day to be exact.)My buddy Nick and I (mostly Nick because I'm new to all of this)did the obvious new car fixers. Gave her a tune up. New spark plugs and spark plug wires, ignition coil, struts, shocks, K&N filter, wipers, floor mats. Gave her a complete scrub down. Took out the seats and everything we could remove. It was absolutely disgusting. I could not believe someone could let their car get so dirty. The girl I bought it from didn't even bother to vacuum the thing. Oh well, that's over. It's clean now, and it'll be great when everything is finished. This is currently the only picture I have of my Talon. It was posted on Autotrader.com

The car had 74,100 miles on it exactly. The picture shows the car before it was damaged. How it was damaged? Unbeknownst to the girl. The front bumper has paint chips, the driver's door panel is missing about 4 clips, and the door is out of alignment. This caused some paint chipping where the door and the front panel meet. It's an eyesore, but can and will be fixed. I'm getting pretty shoddy gas mileage right now. About 17 miles to the gallon. I usually get worse mileage in the winter anyway so I'm hoping when it warms up the mileage will go up too. It's better after the tune-up but not where it should be. I've rambled enough. I promise to present this site better and use proper vocabulary and automotive terms once I have everything up and running and as my HTML knowledge returns. But for now I'm just going to write like an uninformed female. Please forgive.

Ok, it's been awhile so I thought I'd put up some pictures of my car. So far I've done very little mods.
K&N air filter
Hacked air box
Modified MAS
Dejon Tool intake
2.5" catback w/ 2.5" test pipe

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3/14/03


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