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Wright's 02 Stratus RT

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Updates through out the thread

2002 Dodge Stratus RT 5 spd.
Bought on January 30, 2009 with 81K miles on the clock

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The first 2 taken at Breaks Interstate Park in VA at the river access. Just me testing out my not so great but does the job DIGI cam.

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Edit - Cleaned up the engine bay and the inside yesterday. Wanted to post some clean pics up.

Dont mind the Dirty CAI pipe, and filter need to pick up some steel wool or something to polish it

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NEW PICS!

With the help of Pearl01stratcpe (Mostly him) we got the Prothane inserts in, done the "JDM" mod to my headlights, fised teh ugly Dodge emblem on the front, Stripped and re-painted whats left of my grilles, and painted so Misc. parts all around my car.

Brushed Aluminium window switches and door pulls caps painted storm gray
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Doing the motor mounts :)
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Stripped and Painted battery tray and tie down
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Mod's So Far
Debadged, Left RT emblems on doors
Injen SRI
Full Prothane Motor Mounts
Blacked out headlights w/ Retro-fit, CCFL white Halo's, and 4500K HID
Pioneer DEH-P4000UB Head unit
Megan Racing shift knob
eBay short throw shifter
LED interior light conversion
Ingalls torque damper
Megan Racing lowering springs
KYB GR-2's all the way around
Solid shifter base bushings
Nite-shade all rear lights
Quick lift hood struts



Future Plans

Exterior
RE-paint the car eventually
2.5G stratus side skirts


Engine/Exhaust
Powder coat valve covers, Intake manifold (upper and lower)
Powder coat MISC. Pieces thru-out engine bay
Diamante IM/TB Swap
Headers of some sort
Battery Re-locate to trunk
Re-locate Coolant tank
Borla Exhaust

Interior
Replace ALL bulbs with led bulbs
More to come....

Comments Welcome as always ;)
 
#4 ·
Thanks, and i already know this. Im not that big into aftermarket support anyway. Unless i do the 6G74 swap on the Status i would say thats about all the its going to get performance wise, and the other exterior "mods" will mostly be at home DIY mods to make it look better then stock.

<---- I'm biased but, Awesome car!! lol
You got good palns for it, looks pretty clean actually. Can I ask how much $$ and how many miles?

You should swap a 3.5 on this one too!
Yes yes, ;) Very good idea, ive already found another 6g74 i have my eye on. May be soon if i can afford it.
To answer your question about the mileage and price, it has 81K miles and i paid $4000 for it. Its in pretty decent condition other then needing a major detailing. Oh and i already have the polyurethane motor mounts on there way to my house :)
 
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<---- I'm biased but, Awesome car!! lol
You got good palns for it, looks pretty clean actually. Can I ask how much $$ and how many miles?

You should swap a 3.5 on this one too!
 
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I do the same :lol: Only bad thing is that my uncle lives 4 hours away form me
 
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LOL thats exactly what was thinking when i bought it. I told the guy that i bought it off of that it was ass ugly and it would be taken off ASAP and that was accomplished last night ;) The spoiler itself would look great on another car, but on this car it is hideous.
 
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i disagree with the spoiler comment. this is outtafokus' stratus from 2gstratus. i have always liked his car. the spoiler he has accents the car very well in my opinion. this is the only spoiler that ive seen to date that looks good on a stratus.

congrats on the new car.
 
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Because Dodge paired up with Mitsubishi and made it. Dont know why but i like it. I actually like it alot better when it comes to creature comforts, its weird that Dodge done alot of things with this car that Mitsubishi didnt with the Eclipse.
But i still love the body style of the Eclipse, way more then the Stratus. The Stratus just doesnt have as much potential as the Eclipse does when it comes to modifying the outside of the car.
 
#36 ·
Looks good. It was nice to meet you down in Pigeon Forge the other night. I promise we will make a meet down there soon!
 
#41 · (Edited)
Well i'm low on money and didn't have the money to spend $200.00 on tinted windows. So i rounded up so window tint and supplys to try to do it myself, and i spent $25.00 so far all together. I started this with absolutely NO experience at all, had never even touched a roll of un-used window tint. Took me about 2 hours, and i still didn't do the Back window or sunroof, i think i'm going to take it some where and have the back on professionally because it just looks way to hard and i don't want to waste tint.
I think i did pretty good for my first time, but i've already decided that later on im going to redo a couple of the windows do to first timer imperfections. There are some flaws in it, but what's do you expect? Everyone has to learn some time. The Eclipse is next on my list to try it on, i think im going to actually attempt the back window on it where it is a hatch.


So here is the pics, there all not just of the windows haha. And yes the car is dirty but its been raining alot and ive not have the chance to clean it well lately. Sorry for the crappy pics, but i need a new camera because my Minolta is a little out dated :D

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And yes, the hazed headlights will be fixed permanently soon!
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