04-20-2008, 08:19 PM
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Now a Ford Traitor.
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What To Do For My Alero?
Well Im Getting An 2000 Alero With (Currently 34,874 Miles, Grandfather Drives It
But Once A Week) In About 4 Months, Wondering What I Should Do (Besides A New Paint Job Frostbite 545 Or Whatever inspired Me To Do A Dark Ass Blue New Paint Job To Mine Too (Partly Because My Grandfather Has Hit The Garage Too Many Times And He Has Missed A LOT With The Key For The Door (Hates The Remote) And It Just Is Sunbeaten And Faded. So I Was Wondering What Else I Could Do For The Car To Make It A Head Turner (And Any Other Color Suggestions) And A Nice Ass Car (Budget Is Like $995 A Month)
I Dont Really Want To Race, Mom Would Kill Me And Take My Car(Trust Me She Wants That Car Too) Would Like To Cruise And Just Be A Head Turner But With The Power To Stomp And (Yes I Kinda Do Wanna Race At The Track)Crush My Opponents.
Also Any Good Radar Detectors That Work Out There?
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04-20-2008, 08:23 PM
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Gone
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depends on what you want to do, show or go?
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04-20-2008, 08:33 PM
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im suprised noone else has said it yet...clear ur corners.
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04-20-2008, 08:41 PM
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Start by giving your "shift" button a break.
then after, clear your corners. take the emblems out on the trunk, tint windows, glow gauge, muffler, drop springs. These are the first things that would come to my mind.
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Originally Posted by Alerosaint
the #6 bolt torque..its impossible to get...unless I use telekenesis
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04-20-2008, 08:49 PM
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One Problem? Arent The Gauges Always That Puke Green Color With White Halogen Lights Behind It?
Sorry, Tinted??
Last edited by Nate's Alero : 04-20-2008 at 09:55 PM.
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04-20-2008, 10:18 PM
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It takes time, you're not going to build the car up that fast like in the GT games 
Took me 8 years to build up mine, and it's still not done. There will always be that one more thing to do
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04-20-2008, 10:48 PM
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you can buy gauge overlays on ebay for about 15$.. and Window tint is the stuff that makes your windows darker..
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Lonnie: How would she feel if I took the booty one of the ladies has offered up.. What am I going to say... It's not my fault some gifts are better then others.
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04-20-2008, 10:53 PM
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^or you could get the rea nice ones from Speedhut for around 100, if you dont want the normal white face look.
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04-20-2008, 11:05 PM
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or you can get the real nice ones off eBay for $30 shipped, and have them reverse glow super sexy like
Old, crappy, picture, camera phone. I'm at 181,000 miles now. |
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04-20-2008, 11:08 PM
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Aleromod part owner
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So we are posting up dash pic now.
OK (This pic is about 5 years old, but it's still the same now)
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1985 Olds Delta 88 307 SBO 17.96 @ 76.99
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04-20-2008, 11:12 PM
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thats the speedhut gauge, aint it Redog? How you make those needles red?
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2 door 2000 Black GX With a stick: M45 eaton supercharger - Quad4's 57mm Throttle body - Custom WAI - KYB GR-2 struts - CM Lowering springs - Front and rear strut tower brace - R1 concept zinc plated drilled/slotted rotors with semi-metallic pads - short shifter.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alerosaint
the #6 bolt torque..its impossible to get...unless I use telekenesis
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04-20-2008, 11:14 PM
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blue led bulbs and custom made red glow needles. stock blace gauges , SS trim
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build it to break it, if it breaks it was not built well enuff !
 = OFF ALL NARCOTICS ADDICTION FREE PAIN MANAGEMENT FTMFW  ."million of years ago the continents were connected...." THATS FUNNY  THE EARTH IS ONLY ABOUT 6000 YEARS OLD AND THEY STILL ARE CONNECTED JACK*@# !!! click here www.chronicpainanonymous.org
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04-20-2008, 11:16 PM
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Quote:
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thats the speedhut gauge, aint it Redog? How you make those needles red?
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I beleive reddogg got these
www.autoaccessoriesstore.com
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build it to break it, if it breaks it was not built well enuff !
= OFF ALL NARCOTICS ADDICTION FREE PAIN MANAGEMENT FTMFW ."million of years ago the continents were connected...." THATS FUNNY THE EARTH IS ONLY ABOUT 6000 YEARS OLD AND THEY STILL ARE CONNECTED JACK*@# !!! click here www.chronicpainanonymous.org
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04-20-2008, 11:36 PM
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Aleromod part owner
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You that's them
I didn't think they still made them 
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2000 Olds Alero 3400 SFI 14.53 @ 94.93
1985 Olds Delta 88 307 SBO 17.96 @ 76.99
2007 Volvo V50 T5 6M 15.782 @ 89.12
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04-21-2008, 07:35 AM
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Speedhut 
For a pretty good price they can pretty much do any color, EL-glo or Reverse Glo, and they can put your own logo or design on them. |
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04-21-2008, 08:25 AM
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How Hard To Install?
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04-21-2008, 08:40 AM
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pretty basic. depends on your skill level. (w/ no exp even basic stuff seems tedious)
me and yalero have taken it to the next level and done our own custom led gauges. I started just by backlighting mine and he figured out how to do the needles. It WILL save you alot of money, but, it takes alot of time and skill w/ a soldering gun/leds.
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