Since I am the other Tiburon of the group, I figured I will make this thread as my continuing workings on my car.
First up are two photos taken by the photographer at this past weeks Best Buy meet in Moorestown:
These will be my base pics for the exterior to compare what the car will look like when I'm all done in spring with the work I want to get done to the car before the shows kick off again for '09.
As for the projects I currently have in the works at the moment:
1. I just bought a pair of used (look new to me) stock rear tail lights. I'm getting them tinted like Tom's, but with a slight twist to them (I can't completely copy off of him
) Also will be trying out some new 20-led tower lights for the parking/brake lights on the tails to see if they are brighter then regular incadesent lights. My hope is that the three coats of tint will look just as good as Tom's, but at the same time with the 20-led towers will be brighter so even while they're tinted they will be as bright as if completely stock when the lights are activated.
2. I also just ordered the same BROS gauges that Tom has, except in blue instead of red. Again I can't completely copy from him and thankfully he has a red color scheme to his car while I have a blue scheme to mine. Also I'm getting sick of the reverse glow gauge faces I have now and it's time for a change.
3. I just got a deal from another rdtiburon.com member for a "used" but never used pholenic spacer for my intake. This will most likely take 2 hours to install one of these weekends. The whole kit from the manufacturer also comes with a throttle body spacer but he actually used that on his previous tiburon and forgot to take it off. No matter since I already have the coolant lines to the TB disconnected so having a spacer there is a moot point.
4. As for the stereo, I recently got a dual double din dvd receiver. I already have the radio installed, and sounds tons better then the single din JVC exad radio that came with the car when I bought it. What I still have to do though is modify the dash surround so I can reinstall it as the surround was only meant to fit a single din. Our tiburons did have a factory option for a double din radio, but even if I had the surround from that option, it would still have to be modified a little as Hyundai decided to use a propeitary size for double din radios. No biggie. An hour or two with a dremel and a repaint of the surround will fix that problem.
5. The last mod for right now is to finish up all the blue led's in the interior of the car. Actually I really haven't got that far with them as of yet due to working way too many hours lately. I bought a spare pair of drivers/passengers window switches for $15 off of another rdtiburon.com member and have done the blue led swap to them already but they are still sitting on my table in the apt. I will install tem when I get around to pulling the door panels off. While I have them off I want to put led's around each door speaker and the storage compartment on each door so I'll kill two birds with one led. haha. At the same time I will also be putting blue led's around the back 6x9's and also around the grille for the 10" sub I have in the trunk so it has continuity throughout the car. Last would be to pull the dash apart to do the mod in #3 and at the same time change all of the leds/blulbs in the dash from factory green to blue.
Come spring time I will most likely be getting some stuff on the car powder coated to add to the exterior. That's it for now.
