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Spirit-RE 05-21-11 11:36 PM

Got a 626 lip installed on it tonight. Ripped off the garden edging it had on it for a lip:lol:

waldog 05-22-11 08:34 AM


Originally Posted by nate91242 (Post 10632829)
Got a 626 lip installed on it tonight. Ripped off the garden edging it had on it for a lip:lol:

Nice. That was the only thing that wasn't blending in. Well, the shiny screws anyways. :lol:

Spirit-RE 05-22-11 05:10 PM

Looks much more classy now.

http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...1242/001-9.jpg

And a pic with my lead mechanic.

http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...242/002-20.jpg

DJ_Merle 05-22-11 06:01 PM

nice! Lip looks perfect!

Spirit-RE 06-13-11 08:20 PM

^thanks!

Hit it with some paint reconditioner stuff and waxed it...

http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...242/002-22.jpg
http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...242/001-20.jpg

just startn 06-13-11 09:52 PM

glad the lip worked out for you

Primos003 06-13-11 10:45 PM

Do you get any trouble from cops in Wis. for not having a front license plate, or did you take it off for the pic? I would love to be able to run w/o the front plate.

Spirit-RE 06-17-11 10:01 PM


Originally Posted by just startn (Post 10664888)
glad the lip worked out for you

Yup, thanks again man.



Originally Posted by Primos003 (Post 10664965)
Do you get any trouble from cops in Wis. for not having a front license plate, or did you take it off for the pic? I would love to be able to run w/o the front plate.

Well when I had the convertible, I ran an entire year without a front plate with no problems or harsh looks from cops...


But have not drove this car much yet through any towns, just local backroads(its not registered yet). But its loud, where when you stand beside it idling you can feel it in your chest... So I'll be putting a front plate on for sure.

Cops here are dicks that have nothing to do, I got chased down last week in my daily for pulling second gear on an empty backroad. Doesn't help that they hate hondas, so that thing is getting a quiet exhaust put on it, it sucks having to watch for cops every day in a car that is daily driven.

driftfcbuckey 07-02-11 12:02 PM

evercoat is good stuff. i grabbed a gallon of that stuff for like $20. super good deal if you plan on smashing your car up and you only want it to look good for a year at a time.

build looks good dude! i did the same stuff when i first got mine.

srsly though, spray those purple wheels black atleast (or gunmetal grey) on your daily haha investing $15 to fix get rid of that color is acceptable! lol

Spirit-RE 07-02-11 11:06 PM


Originally Posted by red92vr4buckey (Post 10689307)
evercoat is good stuff. i grabbed a gallon of that stuff for like $20. super good deal if you plan on smashing your car up and you only want it to look good for a year at a time.

build looks good dude! i did the same stuff when i first got mine.

srsly though, spray those purple wheels black atleast (or gunmetal grey) on your daily haha investing $15 to fix get rid of that color is acceptable! lol

Haha that purple shit was gone a couple days after that pic.


Thanks dude. Yeah painting the car is on the priority list right next to going stand alone. But will wait until I'm done with school, land a job, and get settled in a bit before I go dumping more cash into this.

Spirit-RE 07-03-11 09:02 PM

Well being this is at the top, I'll update a bit...

Put insurance on it today, and took its first long drive. As paranoid as I was(brought with me pretty much every tool I have and a gallon of water for a fire extinguisher-just in case lol), but it ran excellent. Quite certain I toasted the wideband 02 sensor though....


Have it set at 9psi, as I don't want to push anything hard at this point and break shit. Pulls great.

But damn that Corksport exhaust is loud, did a pull under an overpass, shits deafening. If anyones running that exhaust on a n/a, you have balls lol.



But finished all the odds and ends up on the car, got the engine bay looking pretty decent, etc, etc...

I'll clean the engine bay up some and try and take some good pics.

_Mac_ 07-03-11 11:27 PM

Fc is looking good man. Good to hear she runs pretty well too.

Spirit-RE 07-04-11 03:07 PM

^Thanks man, looking at the progress on your car is driving me crazy on wanting to make my car look good lol.


Cleaned it up today, spent a bit of time cleaning the engine bay up, but its hot and bugs were bad, so I kind of cut it short.

Anyhow, engine pics:

http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...242/001-21.jpg
http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...1242/011-1.jpg
http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...1242/008-5.jpg
http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...1242/007-6.jpg
http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...1242/006-9.jpg

sharingan 19 07-04-11 03:13 PM

I love how decided to move various electronic components around, subtle, interesting and fun, kind of like a rotary "where's waldo"

Spirit-RE 07-04-11 03:28 PM


Originally Posted by sharingan 19 (Post 10691494)
I love how decided to move various electronic components around, subtle, interesting and fun, kind of like a rotary "where's waldo"

haha yeah my goal was to keep the fenders clean of everything. There is no good way of relocating the main fuse box, no mater where it would go its just a mess of wires. Some day I'm going to figure something out with that, I do not want to cut and lengthen the wires though.

On the passenger side I just put the relays and fuel pump resistor under the coolant reservoir up front, it was easy to do and looks 10x better imo.

The injector resistor box was kind of random though lol.

DBookatay 07-07-11 01:29 PM


Originally Posted by nate91242 (Post 10691514)
haha yeah my goal was to keep the fenders clean of everything. There is no good way of relocating the main fuse box, no mater where it would go its just a mess of wires. Some day I'm going to figure something out with that, I do not want to cut and lengthen the wires though.

My idea:

http://www.illism.com/Vert/100_0759.jpg

I did have to lengthen a few wires though, not that bad. Once I loom the wires it wont look bad.

Spirit-RE 07-07-11 08:31 PM


Originally Posted by DBookatay (Post 10695880)
My idea:

I did have to lengthen a few wires though, not that bad. Once I loom the wires it wont look bad.

Cool. Any issues after lengthening them?? I do not like cutting and splicing into old stock wiring all that much considering that its old and corroded.

red_ricer 07-07-11 09:27 PM

If you get the extra time.....

http://www.norotors.com/index.php?topic=2874.0

Spirit-RE 07-17-11 03:29 PM

^Great info, thanks a lot:icon_tup:

washed up both cars, so snapped a few pics with the new daily.

http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...242/003-16.jpg
http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...242/004-14.jpg

Len-Len 07-18-11 08:20 AM

Damn two black zenki's. Both cars are looking great! What happened to the civic?

Spirit-RE 07-18-11 01:08 PM


Originally Posted by lh6601 (Post 10709549)
Damn two black zenki's. Both cars are looking great! What happened to the civic?


Thanks man. Traded the civic for the 240. and the 240 is getting better fuel mileage and has AC

bullsheet 07-19-11 02:49 PM

mb battles?

badboi24u 07-19-11 07:28 PM

Nice build Nate...Bring it to some jdmc meets. Black fc's will for sure take over!!!!!

Spirit-RE 07-20-11 01:06 AM


Originally Posted by bullsheet (Post 10711584)
mb battles?

Yeah.



Originally Posted by badboi24u (Post 10711932)
Nice build Nate...Bring it to some jdmc meets. Black fc's will for sure take over!!!!!

Thanks, I plan on making it to one of their meets yet this year. For sure bringing it to the EvolvChicago meet in august.

Spirit-RE 07-30-11 12:06 AM

Something crazy awesome came from japan this week!

http://i882.photobucket.com/albums/a...242/001-22.jpg

Been looking for this scoop for a long time, and I received word that one was available at the absolute worse possible time for me financially. So it was kind of one of those deals where I cut back on food and gas and whatnot to be able to save up enough to buy this. Definitely worth it lol.

Got to give great props to CWestFD3S on getting this for me, and being patient with me on the whole deal.


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