"Ok, where to start! My wife Claudia and I bought our 2004
Pontiac Vibe base in January of 2004. It had like 4 miles on it.
It was a satellite mono, with the power group package and Moon and
Tunes package. Originally it was bought (I traded in my 2002 Chevrolet
S-10 Xtreme ;() to be a family grocery-getter as we had a baby boy,
Donovan Elijah, due in 7mos.
Anyways, my first mod was a 4-piece billet grill that I got from
Mr. Grill on Ebay. I got the rear cargo carpet and cover from my
dealer. I got my windows tinted in Tijuana, Mexico. I got a Progress
rear sway bar on Ebay and sold it to another genvibe.com member
after I got the Hotchkis kit. Next came a set of Eibach Pro-kit
springs and a Flowmaster resonator-back exhaust. Got the dragon
yin-yang seat covers, dragon window vinyl, dragon window deflectors,
dragon yin-yang steering wheel cover, and dragon yin-yang license
plate frame from Wal-mart! Got the dragon pedal covers from Autozone.
Got a billet antenna on Ebay which I promptly broke off in a drive-thru
car wash now leaving me with horrible radio reception.
I got XM radio in the form of a XM Commander, which was later replaced
by an Alpine CDA-9833 head unit with built in XM. My stereo system
currently consists of the Alpine CDA-9833 head unit, a JL 300.4
amplifier for the doors, 6.5” Polk Momo’s in the front
doors, PowerBass tweeters, JL Audio 6.5” in the rear doors,
a Phoenix Gold Tantrum amplifier for the sub, and a JL Audio 10”
W7 in a custom box. I originally had a Scosche line converter with
the PG amp and sub hooked up to the stock stereo!
Next I got my rims, 19” Axis Spiders, from a member here on
genvibe.com, Ballrub, who actually brought them all the way from
Los Angeles (Whittier) down here to San Diego in his sweet Vibe
GT to deliver them and still gave me an awesome price ($650 rims
and tires!).
Let’s see, at some point I got all of my vinyl decals from
Ryan at Grafxwerks.com, including the blinker covers. I got a couple
of "sponsorships” from carsponsorships.com and sportcompactpro.com.
I will not recommend these to anyone, but I have them nonetheless.
I got a side-vinyl kit (which I still haven’t installed) from
decalkits.com through the carsponsorships.com deal.
I switched strut assemblies with someone here on base for his ST
lowering springs, which I later sold to Sam (Arcsvibe) after I got
my Hotchkis set-up. I got my Injen cold air intake from Mantaray
Motorsports Racing (mmrusa.com) here in San Marcos CA. I found my
Hotchkis set-up (front and rear sway bars, springs, and strut tower
bar with camber plates) on Craigslist.com from a guy who’s
roommate had bought them for his Matrix but then sold his Trix,
moved out, and left the stuff there still new in the boxes and plastic
($350 for everything!)! Installed the springs, rear sway bar, and
strut tower bar at a local Matrixowners meet here in San Diego.
I still have the front sway bar waiting to be installed.
I think next would be the Psychovibe body kit (front bumper, rear
bumper, side skirts, roof caps, and fenders) that I got through
the group buy on genvibe.com through Aerogear (which I also still
have not installed). Had Andre (drayday55) paint some parts of it
to include the roof caps that are installed, the fenders, and the
side skirts. I cracked the front bumper after installing it and
the rear for fitment, which needs to be repaired before paint and
install.
Next came the supercharger which I managed to pull on Ebay for
$1300 and Andre also installed that for me. I got a water injection
kit (yet to be installed!), supercharger engine cover cut-out template,
and a G-Tech Pro SS from Brian (bluecrush) for an awesome price.
I got Hella horns(also yet to be installed) from Mike (ragingfish).
I got a B&M auto tranny cooler from ebay (yet another thing
waiting to be installed).
Ooh, I got JP headers from Ultraviolet here on GVC for a great
price (still waiting to be installed!).
Damn, I hope that’s it, and that leads me to my latest installation
which was also done by Andre and my brother-in-law Andres, a full
air-bag suspension kit that I got from a semi-local Matrix owner
via Craigslist for $500! Still having some troubles with it, but
it is fully functional and running (already got pulled over on base
for raising the rear end while I was driving, oops, warning!).
Hoping to get all my stuff laying around installed and get a carbon
fiber hood. Nitrous is in the plans, as well as a neon kit. Want
to get chipped, paint, vertical doors, midpipe, and who knows what
else! I also just joined a local car club called Team CalistreetR
San Diego CA the other day. Apparently I have the best car in the
club now and we are partially sponsored by ARD Performance!"
