Mayor West
Goblin Guru
As of 12/17/2020 I am 100% legal: tagged, titled, and registered!
Hey everyone, lurked for a few years before finally getting to a place to make this happen.
After a bit of a headache with bidding through ABB, I won my auction today. It's a 09 SS with 129k miles. It's located just an hour south of me so I was able to see it in person this past Friday at Copart. It has a fairly decent interior, seats are just dusty, no stains or damage/rips. The wheels aren't in too bad of shape, only very minor scuffing inf any at all. The tires are damaged, but who reuses those anyway. The damage looks to be the rear left bumper. There is no front bumper but there's also no damage to anything other than the upper corner of the front passenger quarter panel, which is bent a little. The intercooler is slightly bent but it didn't look to be punctured. I saw no signs of a screwed up engine from my limited visibility into the viewing of the car.
It's marked as runs/drives but I was unable to see this in person on my trip. I did verify the LSD trunk code so that's cool, it also has the LCD display instead of the physical gauge, not sure how I feel about that though. The only modifications I can see are a K&N Typhoon intake and a stock-ish muffler-removed exhaust. The frame doesn't look to have been hit and I'm hoping to recoup some of my auction costs reselling a bunch of stuff. Auctions on eBay don't get my hopes very high, though. Maybe you guys could help me know what's best to resell (I plan on reusing seats/wheels for the time being to keep the wife happy on blowing money) The brakes look faded in terms of color but i'm sure they'll clean up well to resell.
I look forward to the disassembly and eventual ordering of the kit!
I'm located in SC (just south of Charlotte, NC) if anyone nearby wants to meet up and talk shop.
Let me know what you think of the donor! Final bid was $2,550, which ended up to be $858 in fees and an additional $300 for shipping ($3,708 all in to my door). I don't feel too happy about it being that high, especially after realizing I outbid myself by trying to raise my bid. ABB didn't answer the phone this morning or respond to my emails when trying to get support - not super happy about that.
I feel like 3700 all-in is a lot more than what others are paying but as I've seen, there's slim pickins for SS/TC donors, especially ones within a short driving distance to check out in person.
Still uncertain on what frame to get, I'm 6' 210lbs and am torn between the extended and normal frame lengths, as well as whether or not to get the track cage or not. I do think I'm settled on the normal doors vs easy entry.
Here's my timeline:
Hey everyone, lurked for a few years before finally getting to a place to make this happen.
After a bit of a headache with bidding through ABB, I won my auction today. It's a 09 SS with 129k miles. It's located just an hour south of me so I was able to see it in person this past Friday at Copart. It has a fairly decent interior, seats are just dusty, no stains or damage/rips. The wheels aren't in too bad of shape, only very minor scuffing inf any at all. The tires are damaged, but who reuses those anyway. The damage looks to be the rear left bumper. There is no front bumper but there's also no damage to anything other than the upper corner of the front passenger quarter panel, which is bent a little. The intercooler is slightly bent but it didn't look to be punctured. I saw no signs of a screwed up engine from my limited visibility into the viewing of the car.
It's marked as runs/drives but I was unable to see this in person on my trip. I did verify the LSD trunk code so that's cool, it also has the LCD display instead of the physical gauge, not sure how I feel about that though. The only modifications I can see are a K&N Typhoon intake and a stock-ish muffler-removed exhaust. The frame doesn't look to have been hit and I'm hoping to recoup some of my auction costs reselling a bunch of stuff. Auctions on eBay don't get my hopes very high, though. Maybe you guys could help me know what's best to resell (I plan on reusing seats/wheels for the time being to keep the wife happy on blowing money) The brakes look faded in terms of color but i'm sure they'll clean up well to resell.
I look forward to the disassembly and eventual ordering of the kit!
I'm located in SC (just south of Charlotte, NC) if anyone nearby wants to meet up and talk shop.
Let me know what you think of the donor! Final bid was $2,550, which ended up to be $858 in fees and an additional $300 for shipping ($3,708 all in to my door). I don't feel too happy about it being that high, especially after realizing I outbid myself by trying to raise my bid. ABB didn't answer the phone this morning or respond to my emails when trying to get support - not super happy about that.
I feel like 3700 all-in is a lot more than what others are paying but as I've seen, there's slim pickins for SS/TC donors, especially ones within a short driving distance to check out in person.
Still uncertain on what frame to get, I'm 6' 210lbs and am torn between the extended and normal frame lengths, as well as whether or not to get the track cage or not. I do think I'm settled on the normal doors vs easy entry.
Here's my timeline:
- Oct 10, 2017 Joined DF forums
- Jun 24, 2019 Bought Donor
- Jun 29, 2019 Received Donor
- Feb 13, 2020 Ordered Kit
- May 09, 2020 Received Kit
- Jun 01, 2020 Powder Coated
- Jun 05, 2020 Began Assembly
- Sep 15, 2020 First Crank
- Fixed Clutch Pedal Sensor wiring gremlin
- Oct 04, 2020 First Start & Idle
- Nov 01, 2020 Maiden neighborhood voyage!
- Nov 19, 2020 Insured
- Dec 10, 2020 Titled
- Dec 17, 2020 Registered/Tagged 100% Legal!
- May 07, 2021 Ripped R/F wheel off
- Oct 06, 2021 Received 2nd frame
- Dec 17, 2022 Sold Kit #191
- It took me about 1 year and 8 months to pull the trigger on deciding to start the project.
- It took almost 5 months to order my kit after purchasing my donor.
- It took just over 12 weeks from kit order to delivery.
- It took 3.5 months to get first to my first crank.
- Stage 2 was already done and I had a roller, but clutch pedal wiring gremlin plagued my donor from the start so I never got to crank it.
- It took me 222 days from kit receipt to make it tagged/registered/insured
- Working on it about 2-3 hours a week with the occasional full day spent on weekends.
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