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Offline Dirkdaddy

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Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« on: March 25, 2010, 11:31:56 AM »
Hello

I'm male 47 and this is my mid-life crisis project car.  I'm building a Sky RL out of two wrecks, the keeper was a NA 2.4 auto, the donor 2.0 auto.  Have some spare parts including engine and trans, rear end, although I want to get car sorted out before selling things I may need later!   :idk:

Certified crazy, I have a garage full of parts and no engine in my car yet!   :drool:  Project is listed on Sky forum under "chop cut rebuild".  Active on Sky forum and less so on Sol forum, found this site from a friend in FL.  See some familiar names like SnapOnBob, etc. 

Can't wait to get car running.   :drive:

Scott


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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #1 on: March 25, 2010, 11:34:47 AM »
Welcome to the dark side  :devil: good luck with the project  :thumbs:
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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #2 on: March 25, 2010, 11:38:32 AM »
Looking forward to updates as things progress. Welcome to the forum, no shortage of certifiable car guys and gals here.
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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2010, 12:48:58 PM »
Scott,

Welcome.  I believe I bought your spare sub enclosure.  How is the project coming along?  Got any updated pics?

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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2010, 03:26:12 PM »
Welcome to the forum!
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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2010, 05:24:34 PM »
Something like this....but there's more than I care to post....









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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2010, 05:51:41 PM »
What is the color name or chip number from the House of Kolors?  I like that alot.

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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2010, 07:32:40 PM »
it's bluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuue
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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2010, 09:59:53 PM »




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Yea, I took almost everything I could off the donor car!



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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2010, 10:04:23 PM »
About how far do you think you are you from completion?
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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2010, 10:15:22 PM »
Blue Skys.. nothin but Blue Skys is what I see..

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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2010, 11:48:54 PM »


Is that the donor engine on the left side with the green paint?

GJ
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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #12 on: March 26, 2010, 01:23:56 AM »
Completion date?  LOL, my projects never go as planned.  Right now wife has me finishing the bookcases in the background that I won't say how long I've been working on them, but have them ready for poly now finally. 

I'm hoping by mid May.  Its not just installing the engine/trans, the BCM/ECM/Wire harness and steering wheel assembly have to be changed to keep the computers happy and give me the stability control from the RL which I want as I have seen too many of these wrecked and wife will drive car some.  I have all the stuff, but figuring it out may take a while.  I can install the engine trans driveshaft in a day.   Also body shop tells me I need to have it back to them for final sanding and buffing as the paint now is not to where it will be eventually.  I don't have the HOKolor specs right now, and you will want to see the car in the light before passing judgment, but its pretty sharp.  More purple than I expected but cool.  Wife did not want a dark color and we both were negative on black.  Almost went with the HOK Sunrise color, that was neat looking but wife was cool on idea, and I liked the blue. 

The mower is always ready to go in Houston, I'm late on my 2010 cutting already, but its low on my priority list.

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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #13 on: May 09, 2010, 11:02:24 AM »
I recently installed the turbo engine in the base sky...not exactly earth shattering but progress for my project!  I have a lot of details on saturn sky forum.

Scott






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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #14 on: May 09, 2010, 12:00:21 PM »
Sweet, thanks for the update.  Hope you can get her running soon. 

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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #15 on: May 09, 2010, 01:28:29 PM »
Man, that blue is insane, I'm sure I'm not the only one loving that color.
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Re: Sky project car owner Pearland TX
« Reply #16 on: May 10, 2010, 02:21:55 AM »
Man, that blue is insane, I'm sure I'm not the only one loving that color.
THANKS man.  I was doing a "color change" as they say so I had a pretty wide open shot at anything, but wife wanted a yellow or blue, and the yellows were neat but this blue is very unique.  Its a House Of Kolor Kandy, which is a two color application and you get a lot of depth out of it.  Used on show cars a lot.  It hasn't been finished by the body shop yet actually, but we discussed and figured I'd be better to get the engine installed and stuff before they do the finish body buffing and stuff.