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#1 ·
Lets see some pics!
and im not just talking about your stock Cateras.
ive seen enough of those.

i wanna see anything and everything custom that you guys have done.
grills, lights, body work, interior, av, exhaust, engine...you get the idea.

ill post up all my stuff a little later on tonight when i get home from work.
 
#14 ·
wow i made it to the famous elvin portfolio. i'm honored. its been about six months since i bought the grill, but i got it on ebay uk. just do a search in ebay uk for omega grill and make sure you order the post facelift, which is what they call the 2000-01 catera. i believe the vendor i bought it from was europro. they were great, i believe with shipping from germany it was $130.00 the crest i bought separate on ebay us for about $10.00. i love the look, gets rid of the lumina, corsica look.
thanks, for noticing, robert;)
elvin your bent valve will be in the mail this week. haha:D
 
#13 ·
The first car is a prefacelift model Omega with what looks like a Steinmetz grille. The bumper is a Irmscher but it's for the facelift model. The owner must have trimmed the bottom of the grille to make it fit.

The second car has the normal Omega HID headlights but the hood has been extended over the lenses. I've seen some prelift models with the hood extended like this one with some covering the grille. Below are other headlight treatments.

http://www.pbase.com/elvin315/image/72882687
http://www.pbase.com/elvin315/image/75019363
http://www.pbase.com/elvin315/image/75019357

This hood covers the w2hole nine yards.
http://www.pbase.com/elvin315/image/75033704

Elvin

 
#24 ·
well just in case you guys forgot what a stock cat looks like....

I've just had mine for 1 month, so I'm not going to do anything major to it until winter is over.

all I've done to it is put on a front spoiler from home depot.. hehe thanks CateraMV6, and put on 5,000 km

first picture in some small town in idaho..
 

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#27 ·
yeah.. that's one of the many things on my list I want to do. but tinting the front windows are illegal here in calgary so I'll prolly just be doing that back.. and very lightly in the front.

and I just got a quote for $1500 to repaint and mod my hood to give it that mean look... $1500 seems steep... you guys know how much I should be spending on something like that?
 
#30 ·
HID fog lights (6000k), tinted licence plate cover, and I painted the front grill black.

Steinmetz rims, 18x8.5 with continental 235/40ZR18 front and 18x10 with 265/35ZR18 rear

Stock, white led's, and on the bottom orange bulbs from my old Trans AM


Next year: Eibach lowering springs, Bilstein/Steinmets shocks, omega v8 12” rear brakes, corvette front calipers and omega v8 13” rotors. Maybe some wider stickier tires. Maybe a speedway swaybar.
 
#31 ·
Love the car. I wish mine was black. I like the mods though I'm not looking to duplicate them all. I am interested in a couple of them though.

  • Someday I'll get around to the HID Fogs. My question is, do they get hot enough to melt the lenses or reflectors? Can the lights be aimed?
  • What is a speedway swaybar and where did you find it? (I know what a swaybar is, it's the speedway reference I ask about.) The stock swaybars are:

    Stabilizer Bar Diameter (in./mm)
    Front___1.02 / 26
    Rear_____.59 / 15

    How much thicker are the ones you plan?
Elvin

PS: I used to have a tinted plate cover too. It got me a ticket for obscuring a license plate.

 
#32 ·
Thanks,
-No issues with the fog lights, had them for almost a year now. Yes there is an allen adjustment screw and the fog lights can be adjusted up and down. This is on 00-01 I’m not sure about 97-99
this picture is just fog lights you can see that there is a cut off and you wont be blinding all oncoming traffic. In the housing there is a metal baffle in front of the bulb, that needs to stay just bend it forward to clear the larger HID bulb.

-Speedway is the name of the company, it's a universal racing swaybar available in many different thicknesses and lengths. I have not yet decided what thickness I want to go with nor have I done any measuring to ensure it'll fit. Taking a quick look, it looks like I’ll be able to make it work in the front. http://www.1speedway.com/Swaybars.htm

The tint on the covers isn't very dark I’ve been pulled over numerous times and they never said anything about it. If they did I’d say it's a dirty clear cover.
 
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