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painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ dash

Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:25 AM

As a "birthday" gift to the GT (it was built in June of 2002) I finally got rid of the spoiler, got the door handles painted and managed to get my hands on an '03+ dash pad for $25 thanks to blown air bags.

I have decided to leave the mirrors and door pillars black because I don't want to overdo the silver and I think the areas around the windows look better all black anyway (the windshield wiper arms and wiper blade housings are getting re-painted black tomorrow). The exterior of the car is done, aside from an 8" antenna (arriving next week), lowering (Tokico D-Specs and Tein 1.1" springs) and wheels (18" silver MR7s).

The interior of the car is also pretty much complete except for getting some custom billet rings made to go around the air vents and getting all the fabric re-wrapped in leather. It took me a little over a year to get my hands on an '03+ dash pad. I couldn't believe it when I saw it and the fact that the air bags were blown made it even better (and cheaper). Since I got rid of the spoiler and henceforth, the third brake light, I chose to keep with the stock look and move the third brake light inside to the rear deck to avoid trouble with the cops. I lucked out and found a Sunfire that had a factory spoiler-less trunk lid.

Please ignore the steering wheel cover and floor mats. I use them for daily driving to protect the steering wheel and carpet

The next thing on my to-do list is finishing the exhaust. Once the exhaust is done, the suspension will get done. Last but not least will be wheels and tires.

I will get more and better pictures up very soon. These were taken quickly in my driveway this morning to show a couple friends. I figured why not post them here and get some feedback from my peers.

Please feel free to check out my Car Domain page and don't forget to vote

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:29 AM

Micah (Shadowfire)

Nice work! Very clean. I love my 03 dash and shaved trunklid!

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ dash

Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:33 AM

Trail Rated Libby

Very nice, clean looking sunfire.

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ dash

Saturday, June 24, 2006 8:38 AM

Carrie B.

mahcmos wrote:Nice work! Very clean. I love my 03 dash and shaved trunklid!

Thanks a lot

. I love my '03+ dash pad and shaved trunk lid as well

Evil Cavalier wrote:Very nice, clean looking sunfire.

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ dash

Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:03 AM

The Jew

nice fire man

digging the clean look

RIP JESSE GERARD.....Youll always be in my thoughts and prayers...

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:06 AM

Hor

I always love seeing pics of your car.. I can't wait to see it lowered with rims. I still think window tint is a good idea.

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 9:13 AM

Carrie B.

03lssportblue wrote:nice fire man

digging the clean look

Thanks a lot. And by the way... I'm a girl

Hor wrote:I always love seeing pics of your car.. I can't wait to see it lowered with rims. I still think window tint is a good idea .

Awww... that's so sweet

. I'd love to see some pictures of your car. It looks so good in your sig. I can't wait to see my car lowered with wheels either

. I am going back and forth on tint. Part of me wants to get at least the rear and rear quarter windows tinted and part of me doesn't. Time will tell I guess.

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 10:40 AM

Hor

http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=46&i=230253&t=230253

There ya go.. Too much money put into this pile of junk lol

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 11:54 AM

young_Z95

could a 03 cavalier dash fit in a 95 ?

CHECK OUT MY DOMAIN!!

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2236703

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:07 PM

JdDesign (bummrz)

nice work man I love the cavalier rear deck lid I had that in when i first shaved my trunk but it didnt have enough room to put 4 speakers in it keep'r up

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:08 PM

alias1429 (now with boost)

i love it when you post pics of your car. its so good looking. its always rediculously clean and makes me cringe when i look at how dirty my car is. keep it up

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 12:16 PM

97cavie24ls(™)

paint the mirrors , and get the eibach prokit

id get the windows tinted first

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 1:39 PM

Carrie B.

Hor wrote:http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=46&i=230253&t=230253

There ya go.. Too much money put into this pile of junk lol

Thanks a lot, now I want air ride

! The 'fire looks amazing. I am definitely getting MR7s. Are yours chrome or silver and what size are they? I love the fact that you don't have a body kit. I hope you're not planning on putting one on either...

young Z_95 wrote:could a 03 cavalier dash fit in a 95 ?

I don't see why not?

BuMmRz (Stealthfire) wrote:nice work man I love the cavalier rear deck lid I had that in when i first shaved my trunk but it didnt have enough room to put 4 speakers in it keep'r up

Thanks a lot, but I AM A GIRL DAMN IT

. I'll be keeping my rear deck just the way it is as I won't be adding a fancy stereo system with a ton of speakers.

alias1429 (now with boost) wrote:i love it when you post pics of your car. its so good looking. its always rediculously clean and makes me cringe when i look at how dirty my car is. keep it up

Awww... thanks

! Cleanliness is what I strive for. When I went around to local body shops to get quotes, the owner of the first shop I went to just could not get over the fact that the car is four years old. If you keep up on the cleaning it makes it a lot easier. I'm sure your car isn't as dirty as you think

97cavie24ls wrote:paint the mirrors , and get the eibach prokit

id get the windows tinted first

The mirrors are staying black and I am getting the Tein High.Tech 1.1" springs because I was lowered 1.5" on Goldlines before and I scraped too much.

I am still going back and forth on tinting the windows. Part of me wants to do the rear quarter windows and the rear window 20% and leave the front windows alone. The other part of me wants to leave all the windows un-tinted to avoid any sort of possible trouble with the local law enforcement. Time will tell I guess. If I do get the windows tinted, it won't be for a while as I need to get the exhaust quieted down and finished and then get it lowered.

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:51 PM

sndsgood

looks good without the wing, will be great once u get the drop and wheels. if i dont go with a custom dash i think im going to look for an 03 as well.

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Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 2:54 PM

-dougall-

im not gonna lie to u..... i dont envy that car...

hahahhaha looks awsome man!!!!! love the trunk!

15.1@90.34mph

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 6:13 PM

SiLvEr StRiPeY 04

Those Tokico's should be reel fun...enjoy!

ECOTEC now with Maximum Bolt-Ons!!

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Saturday, June 24, 2006 7:05 PM

Carrie B.

sndsgood wrote:looks good without the wing, will be great once u get the drop and wheels. if i dont go with a custom dash i think im going to look for an 03 as well.

Thanks a lot

! I am so anxious to at least get it lowered, I'm not as worried about the wheels, but it definitely won't look really good until it's lowered. I absolutely love the '03+ dash. It's so sporty looking. It really adds a lot to the interior.

-dougall- wrote:im not gonna lie to u..... i dont envy that car...

hahahhaha looks awsome man!!!!! love the trunk!

Ha! I was just about to say "for Christ sake, it's a nickname

!" Thanks a lot

SiLvEr StRiPeY 04 wrote:Those Tokico's should be reel fun...enjoy!

Do you have the Tokicos? How do they ride, etc.?

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 6:33 AM

Hor

J TO ENVY wrote:
Hor wrote:http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=46&i=230253&t=230253

There ya go.. Too much money put into this pile of junk lol

Thanks a lot, now I want air ride ! The 'fire looks amazing. I am definitely getting MR7s. Are yours chrome or silver and what size are they? I love the fact that you don't have a body kit. I hope you're not planning on putting one on either...

Yeah everytime I saw pics of a fire with air ride on it, it made me want to finish mine even faster. My MR7's are silver and they're 17's. They look alot bigger when tucked. I don't plan on putting a body kit on here anymore, after seeing how low it sits already, I don't want to mess anything up. Plus, it doesnt look bad without a kit. Silver Mr7's would look mint on your car.. *hint hint*..

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 8:22 AM

Carrie B.

Hor wrote:Yeah everytime I saw pics of a fire with air ride on it, it made me want to finish mine even faster. My MR7's are silver and they're 17's. They look alot bigger when tucked. I don't plan on putting a body kit on here anymore, after seeing how low it sits already, I don't want to mess anything up. Plus, it doesnt look bad without a kit. Silver Mr7's would look mint on your car.. *hint hint*..

Yeah, I would love to have air ride, but for me it wouldn't really be worth it because I don't go to that many shows or anything. It would definitely be cool to have, but I think I'll be better off lowering it with springs.

I'm glad to hear you're not putting a body kit on it. I love the way it looks now. I feel the same way about body kits. I wouldn't want to spend all that money on the kit itself and paint and then hit a bump or something and ruin it all. That's why I'm staying stock as well.

I have always loved MR7s. For a while I was looking at some 5 spoke wheels, but after finding out they wouldn't fit properly I decided I would just stick with some 18" silver MR7s.

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 8:50 AM

Darkstars

my favorate thing about it is how stock it looks, most people would have no idea anythigns has been done to it

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:09 AM

Double A-Ron(dirty J)

very clean!!! the way to be!! looks great cant wait to see the J on 18's

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/819414

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 9:21 AM

Stephen (manta z)

I'm glad u ditched the spoiler.. Js just look hot without em.. esp sunfires. but as much as MR7s get old, i think in 18" they will really set off ur fire. I would like to see u lower it more tho like on sprints or sportlines

but i read u scrapped with goldlines so that sucks.. hell with my bomex front i havent scrapped anything yet.. not lowered but dont have much clearance.. bout 6".. but i guess roads matter, when i move to my new house its like a 5" curb i gotta drive over so i think ill have problems when i slam it.. so thats why i got a new body kit sitting in the shed

btw, for Tint.. i would tint all windows.. ur windows would match and flow alot better with leaving ur mirrors and pillars black.. and would make it even cleaner

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 11:25 AM

Carrie B.

Darkstars wrote:my favorate thing about it is how stock it looks, most people would have no idea anythigns has been done to it

That's exactly what I'm going for. I took it to a local cruise night a couple weeks ago and this younger couple came over to look at it and didn't even realize it was a Sunfire until they saw the indentation in the rear bumper

. Now that's an accomplishment

Double A-Ron(dirty J) wrote:very clean!!! the way to be!! looks great cant wait to see the J on 18's

Thanks a lot. I really appreciate it. I can't wait to see it on 18s either

Manta Z (The Primered One) wrote:I'm glad u ditched the spoiler.. Js just look hot without em.. esp sunfires. but as much as MR7s get old, i think in 18" they will really set off ur fire. I would like to see u lower it more tho like on sprints or sportlines but i read u scrapped with goldlines so that sucks.. hell with my bomex front i havent scrapped anything yet.. not lowered but dont have much clearance.. bout 6".. but i guess roads matter, when i move to my new house its like a 5" curb i gotta drive over so i think ill have problems when i slam it.. so thats why i got a new body kit sitting in the shed

btw, for Tint.. i would tint all windows.. ur windows would match and flow alot better with leaving ur mirrors and pillars black.. and would make it even cleaner

I am so happy to finally be rid of that damn spoiler. I hated that thing from the minute I saw the car on the lot.

I have always loved MR7s and I think they look so good in 18s. I would like to lower it more than 1.1," but with 18s I figure it will look lower because the bigger wheels will fill up the wheel wells more. When I had the Goldlines I had to be really careful where I drove because I would scrape pretty easily which is why I want to keep it a little higher this time around. I don't want to have to worry quite as much about whether or not I can make it in someone's driveway, etc.

As far as tint goes, I would like to get all five windows tinted 20%, but I am worried about having trouble with the local cops. I have had enough trouble with them over stupid $hit like no front license plate, "loud" exhaust and license plate lights that aren't bright enough. The last thing I want to do is pay $100-$200 to get the windows tinted and then have the cops be pulling me over all the time and giving me tickets and then eventually having to take the tint off. Basically I am still undecided on the whole tint thing. I know it would look really good to have the whole top part of the car black, but to me it's not worth getting pulled over all the time so we'll see what I end up doing.

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:10 PM

Laffs00GT

J TO ENVY wrote:
That's exactly what I'm going for. I took it to a local cruise night a couple weeks ago and this younger couple came over to look at it and didn't even realize it was a Sunfire until they saw the indentation in the rear bumper . Now that's an accomplishment .

For some reason most sunfire owners seem to like to get "It doesn't look like a sunfire" comments lol. I know I do. I like the changes, drop n rims will be killer, I want an 03 dash damn you lol.

Re: painted door handles, shaved spoiler & '03+ da

Sunday, June 25, 2006 5:25 PM

STREAKER1369

looking good as always

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