New digs...after 2 hours at the DMV. HOONIGT. Waited 10 weeks for these! Yeah, I'm a hoonigan at heart!

 

Dig it!!

 

Thanks!

 

great plates

 

Washed and waxed. Even did the inside of the wheels!

The white Escape is mine too. And it did NOT get washed today haha. We took it shooting last weekend up in the outskirts of Wheatland, off a dirt road. Going offroading again this weekend so dirty she will remain.

 

Looks sharp!

 

that's a lot of Blue Oval at that house, thanks for supporting my employer! What's WeiWei driving now?

 

Haha he's just riding his bike now, and they got a TDI Jetta for a family car. He said a new money pit is coming eventually! When did you move to Florida???

 

i came here because I wanted to know more about your car. I always liked the appearance of the New Edge cars, but never really considered owning one. But wow, how your car looks like seriously like 90% of what I'd do w/ a new edge (other than the hood and wheel color).

I love your car. You post in the 10-14 area so much but have no awesome sig to say what you have. I LOVE YOUR CAR.

 

Haha thanks Danielle!

I'm trying to get rid of the hood actually! I want to trade it for a Mach 1 hood and shaker. It came on the car. The wheels were on my old V6 too, but the car came with True Forged Chicanes. Unfortunately the previous owner curbed them, after he had the lips painted to match the Redfire paint I'm in the process of sanding the lips down to hand polish them. I was kinda over the polished lip/black center wheel look, but when I started the process I started to fall in love with them again. We'll see. It's going to be a slow project with the baby.

Here's most of the mods off the top of my head, with the car starting life as a 2003 GT Premium with an automatic transmission:

Exterior:
- Steeda Race hood
- Mach 1 C-pillars and glass
- 99-01 Cobra tailights (I wired the brake lights so all 3 light up instead of just the outboard two)
- 99-01 Cobra front bumper and fogs
- 03-04 Cobra rear bumper, COBRA filled and shaved
- 03-04 Cobra side skirts and folding mirrors
- 01 Bullitt sidescoop deletes
- 03 Cobra 10th Anniversary wheels, powdercoated gloss black

Drivetrain:
- 03 Cobra T56
- MGW
- 03 Cobra IRS swap
- FRPP 3.73s and Torsen diff
- MM full IRS grip box, minus the strut tower braces (includes coilovers front and rear, tubular k-member, tubular A-arms, full length SFCs, CC plates)
- MM oil filter relocation kit
- MM offset steering rack bushings
- MM quick ration steering rack

Interior:
- 04 Cobra dark charcoal seats (driver's side is trashed though) - I'm selling these this week and putting one Sparco race seat in that I'm borrowing from my cousin
- Mach 1 gauge cluster and trim bezel
- Custom fiberglass A-pillars with Vifa XT-25 tweeters (I built these for my previous V6, swapped them over)
- The car did have a custom stereo, but it was crappy: I was in the process of redoing it when I found out the previous owner cut the factory wiring harness instead of spending $20 for a aftermarket harness, so now the factory power wire doesn't work. I stopped working on it after that, so there's nothing in it now
- The system will consist of an iPad mini - Audison bit ten D - Audison LRx5.1k - Vifa tweets and Mpyre mids, single 8" TC Sounds TC1000 sub in a T-line enclosure, whenever I get around to it
- The seats will be Sparcos up front, stock cloth in back with a MM 4-point roll/harness bar and Sparco harnesses
- Planning for Sparco quick release steering wheel and pedals too

Engine:
- JLT intake
- Bassani stainless catted X-pipe
- SLP LMII catback with Bassani mufflers welded in
- Amazon tune
- I'm planning either to build up the 2v, swap a 4.6 4v or Coyote in, whatever I come across for a good price and can keep street legal in CA

Various mods:
- DDM 55w BI-xenon HIDs
- Lamin-x amber tint on the fogs, yellow Nokya bulbs
- HOONIGT plate, play on words for my affinity of Hoonigan products


Thanks so much for the compliments! It has a long mod list, but still has a long way to go for me to be happy about it. The car has like 110k miles and it shows. I want to tear it down to the shell and do a full restoration, shave the sidescoops completely, possibly shave the door handles, full repaint, Mach 1 hood, shave the spoiler holes, shave all emblems except for the grille pony etc. Like I said, it has a long way to go!

 

it's cooler than my '13, that's for sure.

 

No way lol I'll trade you!

 

Huh, I don't think I'd ever known the full extent of your mods. Awesome

Another one of my favorite NE

 

Agreed!! Definitely some great mods!

 

Thank you sir haha. I always wanted a Bullitt though. I like how the mods are subtle. I've been thinking about going full Mach 1 on it, turning it into a Redfire Mach 1 replica. Keeping my Cobra bumpers, but doing the Shaker hood, stripes and deep dish 18" Mach style wheels (maybe black chrome).

 

i find that the Mach 1 and Bullitt styles can be combined with some pretty good results

Redfire + Mach graphics/hood + clean lines of cobra bodies and bullitt spolier/scoop deletes make for a pretty slick total package

 

I eventually need to get a Steeda hood.

 

I'm going to do Bullitt side skirts if I can't get ahold of the 99 35th ones, which I've wanted for years. Also, I'm planning on deleting the side scoops completely. I've always wanted to do that too, and have only seen it done once. It looked most excellent!

 

A redfire mach 1 would be really cool to see.

 

hah, followed you on IG!