I'll call this thread Extreme Makeover- Thirdgen edition. It's corny, but you get the idea.
Whether it's engine bays, interiors, or entire cars... show off what you've accomplished on your projects! Mine is still in progress, like most cars are, but I have some results that I'm proud of already. Try to get the same angles in the before and after pics... it really shows how much has changed when they're compared to eachother. Both of my before pics are exactly how the car looked when I purchased it.

First is my engine bay:
Before:


After:



Interior (dash):
Before:


After(not really, but getting there):


Now let's see yours

 

In just over a year and a half, Tyra has gone from this:

to this:

New bumpers front and rear, frame straightening, new radiator and core support, new header panel, new grille, new rocker/bumper emblems, new parklamp/turnsignal lights and original IROC wheels.

Interior has gone from this:

to this:

Fourthgen ebony leather from a 2000 SS, black carpet, black door panels, recovered center console and replaced missing trim pieces among other things.

And shes nowhere close to being done. I just spent about $1000 on new suspension stuff, and I'll have another $1000-$1500 into her before April gets here.

 

mine was pretty dramatic...and only took about 4 months to do

brought it home in late may like this:


and now it looks like this:


engine bay when i brought her home:


with the 305 right before i painted the car, still was in progress but you get the idea...a 360 sbc will be residing there in about 1 1/2 months:

 

Here's the outside when i bought it




And now




The engine dont have any pics of it originally when it was tpi but it was plain nothing special. Heres when i went to the stealth ram.





And here is what it looks like now except i now have a double pumper instead of the street avenger.



Here is what the interior used to look like



An what it looks like now

 

New steering wheel and a big block are in the near future also a cowl hood.

 

Slowly, but surely

Before -



After -



...I think it also helps that my photo skills have gotten better

 

All I can say is WOW!!!! Some real amazing stuff in here allready.

Lets see what I can do.

stock engine then:



not so stockis engine now (acctually a month ago, it is better now, I will edit later with newer pics)



random do over, but i had the pics so what the hell



and just before the 12 bolt went in



In the next few months the car will get painted and I will post total car before and after pics.

 

good work guys.

 

from this in May of 2003





Note, car was an Automatic



and about $3000 later to this,





Note, it is now a 5 speed

 

What I started with-



Swapping in charcoal interior and power window/lock doors-



Almost done-



Finished Product-

 

Here's what i started with






And here's the near finished result

 

before

 

afters

 

If this thread lasts that long I will show the finished product.
This is how I bought my 91 RS Convertible.

 

last

 

as it sits now, I am going all out resto.

 

Before - grey cloth int, 305 TBI, 13 year old suspension, bone stock (still had the original tires)

 

After - 4th gen pewter leather (new interior througout), 350 TBI heavily modded, all new suspension and w-stripping, built tranny

 

Way to keep the thirdgen alive and looking good. Great job to all of you!

 

I love seeing all of these...its not to often you see the before results of the cars on here - good work everyone

 

interior before:


after:

 

I could show you the before from1986 and the current.... but it hasn't changed much lol

 

The before in 1986

 

The after (current):

 

boy, i bet the SP's loved seeing you roll the the base gate!

 

BEFORE:


AFTER:


BEFORE:


AFTER:

 

wow, great work everyone! This thread is becoming a who's who of thirdgen.org. I think so far Mikez-28 and Camaroguy18 have the most dramatic turn-arounds. And AaronirocZ had the best looking f-body to start with. Tunedport335, you know I love your ride... some day we'll get a photoshoot with both of our cars when mine is done. Gunnyhighway, 18inchboyds and zephyr all kept it simple and classy to turn nice stock looking thirdgens into works of art and I have to give credit to my fellow platinum bird owner 82firebird... amazing work, you really have every aspect of your car matching so well.

Sorry if I missed anyone, they all look great and it's nice to see a plain old thirdgens made to look amazing. Keep em coming!

 

Iwent from this.

To this in 9 months

 

After the wreck at the track with a out of control supra.







Body work almost done





Finished Product

 

 

wackytower - I wanna hear details on what happened?! The outcome with that blue and the raII hood is killer

 

I bought my Firebird sight-unseen. This was what it looked like on day one. All the purple trim was painted black before I even test drove it:





The V6 (right before we pulled it out):




After the 383 swap & with some fine 90's wheels, this is what the car looked like for years:




Here is the engine currently:




And the exterior:

 

before......well the first day i got it


interior

engine


and the never ending projet has it is now

interior cleaned......now she assembled

engine...nothing special a good bloc with poor head(4bolt 010 casting bloc with 882 head)


still lots of works to do but its drivable, but when i look at it , its MY car and I built it from almost nothing

there's some nice projet keep them coming

Seb

 

 

Here's mine not crashed just getting old and needed refreshing. Yes I know you either hate it or love it.

 

love it

 

yes, but we need more pics of it

 

About half track the supra that was in the next lane lost control and came over into my lane sideways. I seen him out of the corner of of my eye and started braking hard and moving to the right(I was in the right lane). I was just about stopped and he hit me in the right front which cause my left rear to hit the guard rail then the left front hit the guard rail. I took the car to body shop I know for an estimate to fix (6 g's)then took the car home and parked in the garage and put the cover on.

I was soooo depessed that I didnt even look at the car for like 5 months until I came home from work and found my best freind ripping the car apart(he was also was my neighbor at the time). He wanted to see how bad it was with the sheet metal off. We decided that it was all cosmetic damage so 6 months later and alot of cash I didnt have it was all fixed and better than it was. It came pretty good for a guy who drives a truck(me) and a guy who lays carpet for a living.

The guy who hit me said he was going to help with $ to fix but I never seen a dime. I didnt use insurance because it happened at the track and most compainies wont cover you at the track.

It was the first run ever with slicks and I was a 1/2 second faster than I ever was at half track and I was hard on the brakes. IF I ever go back to the track the guy in the next lane will have at least a half track head start.


Thanks for the kind words about my car I take alot of pride in it.

 

Didnt the guy with the Supra snap his front lower control arm which made him vere over?

BTW I'll give you a half track start since your gonna need it

 

before

 

look at my site....if not one of the most dramatic transformations....

 

my bad i i ment to put this as the b4 pic i dont kno how to pic several pics on one posting

 

and here how it is AFTER

 

Old and dirty TBI 305




LT1 that I just finished swapping over this week. The ugly chrome strap holding the ECU down will be painted soon.

 

A bad picture of my car when I bought it. It was completly stock at 127,000 miles. It even had the stock plugs and wires.

 

Now

 

I like that....ALOT.... nice car man

 

this os how i bought it....paint was neglected and wasn't driven for months,....just in and out of the garage with a for sale sign on it






so of course i dove into it like madman and started on the paint right away...after alot of hard work of getting it cleaned up...i was ended with this:




then last july some *** backed into the front of the car and did this work



so instead of just putting her back to stock 84 looks...i wanted to make my own look...so this is the look as it sits right now:

 

Wow, a lot of you guys came a long way. Here is a before and after of my engine bay. I put tons of hours into. I went as far as cleaning hard to reach places with a tooth brush.


Before (Cleaned up a little from when I purchased it):



After:

 

wow, this thread just freakin rocks! I can't wait till I pick up my next third.. hopefully soon!! Anyone want to buy a '94 birdie??