finally a few CLEAR!! pictures

[lostforawhile]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-008-2A.jpg
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http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-012-4A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-014-5A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-016-6A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-018-7A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-022-9A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-026-11A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-028-12A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-030-13A.jpg

[mkymonkey]

holy shit! your interior is blue and beige? i thought it was black and beige! wow i guess the pics you used to post werent really true to reality huh? lol. i say we start a petition to buying you a digital camera with more than 256 colors. lol jk

everything looks cool, but kinda messy! you need to clean up your hatch man! :D

[snoopyloopy]

looks nice. and i like what you did to the valve cover. it's insprirational.

[MessyHonda]

looks aright but you need to clean it and take care of it...yeaht eh valve cover looks cool...i want to paint mine too but i would have to take it out and i need my car almost everyday. i need to find a good weekend to do it..that kind of paint did you use?

[lostforawhile]

well the paint looks really bad because i'm in the middle of finishing the body work right now,it'll be painted soon,it's a daily driver so i try to keep it clean but it gets messy,I need to get some saddle soap and clean my seats again. as far as the valve cover you can paint one in an afternoon,I had to pull it to replace the seal for the 20th time so I repainted it again. I just used ordinarry semigloss black on the valve cover,been on there for a long time before,and i did the oil cap with that purple anodize paint.

[Cheeseburger]

sweet looking pics tim

[buds302]

i will loan you a valve cover and you send me yours and ill powdercoat it for a nominal fee....then when you get it back you send me the loaner back...

[superaccord]

loving the work done. Just makes me wanna go take pictures of my Room...

[gfrg88]

loving the interior tim, keep up the good work :rockon:

[Deadhead]

woah.... blue and tan.... not my fav, but not too bad either.

looks awesome, i want to do a black valve cover of sorts now lol.

[lostforawhile]

i will loan you a valve cover and you send me yours and ill powdercoat it for a nominal fee....then when you get it back you send me the loaner back...I appreciate it but i've got a spare around here somewhere,I have a powdercoating place withing walking distance of where I work,they have done a lot of the aluminum pieces on the inside for me,like the black piece the altimeter is mounted in. also a bunch of switch bezels and stuff. they also did a great job on that trim piece that goes over the rear window on the hatch,they are impossible to find so i spent a long time taking out stone dings and then they powdercoated it for me. I'm fixing to move shortly and when I can get my shop back up i'm thinking of getting one of those powdercoating systems from eastwood. I already have a spare kitchen oven for curing the parts. it's pretty easy to do. as far as the valve cover it's been painted for a long time,I just freshened up the paint a bit. that purple anodize paint is available at autozone,advance,and walmart. i've had some of those parts painted for years with it,has held up great.

[SQ is the SQUAD]

leather. i gotta clean some mold off my grey sei leather so i can put it in my coupe. its been in my basement for a while

[lostforawhile]

Oh a couple of people were wondering why there were wires hanging down,Normally there is a plug there,I put the original dome light in the hatch cover,I had to cut the plug out because I've had to keep removing the big plastic piece in the hatch,thats also why it looks so messy, I had to repair that entire left corner of the car. it's done now,so i can clean it back up. I still need to make the fiberglass piece for that side,passenger side is almost done,and the tv monitor is installed. all i need to do for that side is upholster the fiberglass piece and install it.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-014-5A.jpg

[lostforawhile]

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3167570-R1-014-5A.jpg

[speedpenguin]

That looks awesome.
You, sir, have inspired me to restore the dented and rusting body of my hatch myself. Maybe.
How difficult would it be without a shop? Is it even remotely concievable to attempt this in my backyard, or should I just take it somewhere to have it done?

[lostforawhile]

It depends on what you need to do,taking the night class in autobody really helped a lot,have you considered doing something like this? it's a great skill and a chance to work on your car. all schools are different so you need to talk to someone there. it's always a bigger project then you think it will be,my car was relativly rust free,and dent free until I started taking it apart. thats when you find the suprises. yes you could do it in your back yard if you want to,I have a tiny garage where i've done a lot of it. I also work in an aircraft plant with a machine shop,thats where I make a lot of custom stuff. but i've also done a lot of it in the yard and in my living room. I have an understanding wife who is in school with me also, she doesn't complain (too much) when I bake parts in the oven or wet sand in the bathtub. it's all about how much time you want to dedicate to the project. so far this one has seven years in it,and the final paint isn't even on yet. right now we have car parts completly filling one of our back rooms,and parts all over the living room. i'm fixing to hunt down some links on some of the work as we were doing it.
heres the first one,still searching for more
http://www.3geez.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50654
[url]

[wprocomp]

gahhhhh tim too much clutter you need to start hiding stuff,and whats up with the dog and that old phone? you do alot of good work bro but the interior needs some armor all love and good job on the better pics =)

[speedpenguin]

It depends on what you need to do,taking the night class in autobody really helped a lot,have you considered doing something like this? it's a great skill and a chance to work on your car. all schools are different so you need to talk to someone there. it's always a bigger project then you think it will be,my car was relativly rust free,and dent free until I started taking it apart. thats when you find the suprises. yes you could do it in your back yard if you want to,I have a tiny garage where i've done a lot of it. I also work in an aircraft plant with a machine shop,thats where I make a lot of custom stuff. but i've also done a lot of it in the yard and in my living room. I have an understanding wife who is in school with me also, she doesn't complain (too much) when I bake parts in the oven or wet sand in the bathtub. it's all about how much time you want to dedicate to the project. so far this one has seven years in it,and the final paint isn't even on yet. right now we have car parts completly filling one of our back rooms,and parts all over the living room. i'm fixing to hunt down some links on some of the work as we were doing it.
heres the first one,still searching for more
http://www.3geez.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50654
[url]
I'd love to take a night class, but it would just depend on how many nights. I can't give up evening Kendo training, and I have comic book work to do at nights as well. I guess doing a lot of research and experimentation is the way to go. I have some severely wrinkled body panels that probably need to be replaced, so I guess that's where I should start. A full de-rust wouldn't hurt either. It'd be nice to have this car running for a long time, so I guess I should look for rust now before any permanent damage is done. What I find attractive about this project is the fact that while it takes a lot of time, it doesn't take so much money, or am I totally off on that?

[lostforawhile]

It's going to still cost money for hard replacment parts,such as engine and suspension parts,the more stuff you can fabricate yourself,and the more work you are able to do,the less it will cost you, I figure after seven years of work and after making all my own custom parts,doing my own engine work,interior work,my own body work etc. if I hadn't been able to do it myself,I never could have afforded it. E.G if you went to someone and told them,design me a CAI system for a car that has no aftermarket parts made for it,make it out of aircraft aluminum,fabricate it,tig weld it,install a hood scoop for it,paint it,etc. you are talking big big money. but if you can do it yourself,you don't have to pay that money out of pocket. thats just one part,I have hundreds of them,some small some big. i've spent sometimes weeks staring at some small part until i figured out just how to make it the way I want it,then It kind of disappears into the overall design,and a lot of people may not even notice it. for an example,some of the underhood brackets i've made for vaccume lines and stuff,they are painted flat black and blend in like oem,but the same amount of time has gone into them. chances are no one will ever noitice them. it really depends on how much time you want to put into the project,and how much you want to spend

[Vanilla Sky]

tim, i'd like to see your car in person some time. we def need to do a meet soon. i think i promised that the next one would be like orlando, but there are a few member that couldn't attend. i'm thinking another jax meet. i'll set it up as a junkyard meet. i'm sure you'd be happy since one of the junkyard here has at least one hatch every time i make it up there.

[lostforawhile]

Cool! as soon as I can get these ball joints and wheel bearings in,I want to do a bit of traveling,it's just a money issue at the moment,I'm going to try to order the ball joints soon from summit,and I'm going to try to talk my boss into letting me order the wheel beatrings on the nappa account. not to try to go off topic,but has anyone found an aftermarket source for the brake dust shields? need to put them in at the same time as the hubs go in.

[Vanilla Sky]

not aftermarket, no. i have some, though. i have both the DX and the LXi shields. the junkyard has lots of them as well.

[lostforawhile]

I need the ones for the lxi since these spindles came from one,how much would you want for a couple? I thought about the yard,but they are usually trapped by the hub when it's pressed in. getting the bearings out of these hubs was a SOB I almost broke a hydraulic press getting them to bust loose. I've got a post on that nightmare somewhere on here. also at the yards here they take the wheels off the cars and drop them on the brakes,which tears up the dust shields good. going to order some arp studs too, as difficult as it is to change a stud,best to spring for good ones.

[Vanilla Sky]

at that one yars, they're a lot more careful with thier cars. they expect people to want parts from under them, so they don't drop them before they have them on wheels and in the air.

[lostforawhile]

it's not the yard that does it,it's people of a certain ethnic persuasion,who sneak across the border,they pull parts,then instead of putting the wheels back on,they yank the jack out and drop the car. I think there is one three gee left there with a single wheel on it still. or they go to pull a part and leave the hood up in the rain,or scatter parts al over the yard pulling one part. saw a nissan today where the transmission wouldn't come out to get the drive shaft,they were beating the transmission to pieces with a sledgehamer so they could get the driveshaft out. oh sad day,they were crushing cars,saw thw remains of an sei,all i could read was the tag on the back. never had seen it before then. :rant: I would have bought the entire car.

[Vanilla Sky]

eh, a yard here is crushing one soon, or already has. we pulled everything worth saving with the exception of the glass which we couldn't get to before it was piled on top of and shattered. too bad the seats were garbage.

[gfrg88]

:werd: where i live theres tons of accords at the jy.....

[lostforawhile]

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http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/3164160-R1-030-13A.jpgBUMP! am loading more right now

[lostforawhile]

OK here are a few more
you'll have to pardon the headliner and the sunvisors,working on them soon.
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-056-26A.jpg
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-054-25A.jpg
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http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-022-9A.jpg

[speedpenguin]

Wow, I can't even tell what all of that stuff is! :rockon:
You have a lot of gauges... I'm done.

[lostforawhile]

stopwatch/clock,altimeter
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-046-21A.jpg
oil pressure warning light,oil pressure,voltage
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-054-25A.jpg
tach,fuel pressure,blanked out gauge pod for air/fuel ratio
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-052-24A.jpg
xm radio,fan override switch and switch for the oil cooler blower
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-026-11A.jpg

[speedpenguin]

Shit, why not just swap the cockpit from a plane into there? :P

[lostforawhile]

Shit, why not just swap the cockpit from a plane into there? :Pworking on it,but those control wheels are hard to work with on the interstate. a lot of car desiners have incorporated aircraft designs into their cars,Harley Earl,enzo ferrari,the list goes on. for example,the switches on my center console: fuel boost pump-does what it says,navigation light-for a secret project i'm working on now,aircraft master battery/alternator switch-controls audio system functions
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-028-12A.jpg
fuel remaining in tank when indicator reads zero cannot be used safely in flight thats so dummy here doesn't run out of gas
http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b205/moultriemanicmechanic/6669890-R1-048-22A.jpg

[speedpenguin]

Are you building a straight up race car or what? Here I thought you were putting together a daily driver.

[lostforawhile]

It is a daily driver,I just spend a lot of time daily driving it. I like to keep an eye on my engine,I hate idiot lights,they are useless. I also drive at a prettty high rate of speed most of the time,so it makes more sense to set up my car like a race car vs a standard car. everything in my car is set up to scan in a certain way,thats why i have the extra tach I just don't like the factory one at all. I have a lot of problems with fuel pumps in this car,thats the reason for the fuel pressure gauge. the booster pump is because I have problems getting fuel pressure in cold weather,every car should have an oil pressure gauge and a voltmeter, the clock is just a clock,the stopwatch just came with it. thats out of a 280z cluster by the way. the switches for the cooling system are because it gets really hot! here in the summer I run the fan all the time sitting in traffic. the oil cooler switch is already wired,I'm going to be putting the cooler in soon hopefully,before it gets up in the 90s and 100s. the altimeter is a joke because I work in an airplane factory,it does work though.

[88Accord-DX]

Yeah, I think every car should at least have a oil pressure gauge. That is a good plan with a oil cooler too. Did you get a new digital camera Tim? What ever you doing looks better on the pic quality.

[speedpenguin]

It is a daily driver,I just spend a lot of time daily driving it. I like to keep an eye on my engine,I hate idiot lights,they are useless. I also drive at a prettty high rate of speed most of the time,so it makes more sense to set up my car like a race car vs a standard car. everything in my car is set up to scan in a certain way,thats why i have the extra tach I just don't like the factory one at all. I have a lot of problems with fuel pumps in this car,thats the reason for the fuel pressure gauge. the booster pump is because I have problems getting fuel pressure in cold weather,every car should have an oil pressure gauge and a voltmeter, the clock is just a clock,the stopwatch just came with it. thats out of a 280z cluster by the way. the switches for the cooling system are because it gets really hot! here in the summer I run the fan all the time sitting in traffic. the oil cooler switch is already wired,I'm going to be putting the cooler in soon hopefully,before it gets up in the 90s and 100s. the altimeter is a joke because I work in an airplane factory,it does work though.
Well... Umm... Sweet! :thumbup: I definitely like what you're doing to it either way.

[Whistler225]

*chuckles* I like the fuel warning....

I've been wanting to ask you a question about bodywork. I haven't dealt with plastic bumpers like this before, and someone before me either spilled something that hardened, or did a really bad patch job on both my bumpers.

I took sone 40 grit to one corner where there were visible "lines" (looked more like someone had fried a red egg on it), and it helped....followed with 600 and shot it with bumper coat.

I'm planning on pulling both bumpers and trying to fix them up. No cracks, just cosmetic crap. Any tips for smoothing out ugly patch work to prep for recoating?

You can kind of see what I'm talking about if you look at the fron drivers side corner in my gallery.

[lostforawhile]

Yeah, I think every car should at least have a oil pressure gauge. That is a good plan with a oil cooler too. Did you get a new digital camera Tim? What ever you doing looks better on the pic quality.all these pics are 35mm the digital died.you really need a volt meter too,as long as you have field current and the alternator is spinning,the light won't come on. even if it's not charging. if you have a volt meter and you see the voltage drop and stay at 12volts,you have time to shed some extra electrical load before you are stranded with a shut down ignition computer and fuel pump. without a meter by the time things start shutting down it might be too late. the oil cooler is going to be a major project,i need to relocate the battery to the hatch,I need a sealed box since there is no trunk,like the morosso box,it's just a matter of money is all. I don't want to put a cooler in front because in even a minor accident you'll end up with an oil fire. i'm going to pull air in with a fan and put the cooler in the engine compartment towards the firewall away from the sides near the fenders. ok back to the topic :)

[lostforawhile]

*chuckles* I like the fuel warning....
I've been wanting to ask you a question about bodywork. I haven't dealt with plastic bumpers like this before, and someone before me either spilled something that hardened, or did a really bad patch job on both my bumpers.
I took sone 40 grit to one corner where there were visible "lines" (looked more like someone had fried a red egg on it), and it helped....followed with 600 and shot it with bumper coat.
I'm planning on pulling both bumpers and trying to fix them up. No cracks, just cosmetic crap. Any tips for smoothing out ugly patch work to prep for recoating?
You can kind of see what I'm talking about if you look at the fron drivers side corner in my gallery.heres a link to when my wife and I were doing the front bumper http://www.3geez.com/forum/showthread.php?t=47771&highlight=progress+on+the+front+bumper you need to determine what they patched the from bumper with,first of all,if it's something like bondo,it needs to come out,by sanding. I used the Nappa flexible bumper repair kit,it's a 50/50 mix flexible epoxy for flexible parts repair,I also primed it with their tec-niques flexible parts primer,it seems to work really well so far. I went through this with the rear bumper,since it was the only hatch bumper I could find,I had to remove someones terrible patch and paint job. I can't even remember how long to took to sand off layer after layer of flaking paint.

[Whistler225]

Thans Lost :-) the bumpers are my project for this coming weekend.

[lostforawhile]

I really need to post some updates

[lostforawhile]

update on how the engine is coming http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd158/lostforawhile/S4028730.jpg

[b20a86lude]

pretty nice

[lostforawhile]

pretty nice
let me know on some of that stuff you had ideas for on yours

[blazin3gen]

update on how the engine is coming http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd158/lostforawhile/S4028730.jpg

haha i could see a mechanic looking at your car sayin wtf? hhahaha.. looks clean tho

[Civic Accord Honda]

take it in to honda for a tune up! LOL! that would be so damn funny

looks good tho lost keep it up!

[Tdurr]

why is ur name Tim too? ugg lol.

and ur engine bay has like 500+ in those fancy fittings.

[lostforawhile]

why is ur name Tim too? ugg lol.

and ur engine bay has like 500+ in those fancy fittings.yep and it takes forever to get each one just right. lots of fabrication to adapt stuff over.

[Dr_Snooz]

Looking good Lost! Is it running yet?

[Rendon LX-i]

what he said^^^^

[Vanilla Sky]

I think it's overbuilt, but damn does it look killer. The workmanship is top-notch.

[lostforawhile]

Looking good Lost! Is it running yet?right now i can't afford to get the parts to overhaul these carbs, so i'll get it all mocked up then later on when i can afford it i'll pull the carbs off the manifold and finish them, just now getting back into this project, have had a lot of stuff going on that has taken all my time away to work on this car

[Dr_Snooz]

right now i can't afford to get the parts to overhaul these carbs, so i'll get it all mocked up then later on when i can afford it i'll pull the carbs off the manifold and finish them, just now getting back into this project, have had a lot of stuff going on that has taken all my time away to work on this car

I was about to suggest that maybe one of our other members has a carb kit they could sell you cheap, but then I remembered that you're building a small scale cold fusion reactor to run that car. ...or something. I assume you'll sell the plans to the Pentagon when you are finished, buy a small Caribbean island and live like royalty for the rest of your life. LOL

http://www.allemoticons.com/People/king.gif

[lostforawhile]

I was about to suggest that maybe one of our other members has a carb kit they could sell you cheap, but then I remembered that you're building a small scale cold fusion reactor to run that car. ...or something. I assume you'll sell the plans to the Pentagon when you are finished, buy a small Caribbean island and live like royalty for the rest of your life. LOL

http://www.allemoticons.com/People/king.gif
I doubt anyone on here has a rebuild kit for these, I'll rebuild them myself, but the parts are very expensive. I also need to get the throttle shafts changed over to the sealed ball bearing shafts. it's going together slowly. I already found the Z car float bowl tops to covert to z floats and needle valves, the main thing with these is they were never sold here, you can use a lot of z car parts but some of them have to be imported. z therapy out in cali is the major rebuilder of these.

[lostforawhile]

I put up 20 threads with 2 responses, i bump an old one and everyone comes out of the woodwork. :tongue: http://photobucket.com/newcarphotos

[lostforawhile]

I think it's overbuilt, but damn does it look killer. The workmanship is top-notch.
thanks,it looks complicated because i changed a lot of black rubber coolant hose to braided, takes a while to change stuff to threaded fittings. plus it has the oil cooler which i'm waiting to be able to buy the thermostat for it, hence the unfinished lines, lots of stuff to fit, it also has the catch can inline with the pcv valve, and i'm using the canister to keep fuel from going to waste by evaporation. once everything is fitted i'll finish the underhood wiring and finish putting in the alternator,everything fits but i need that civic four groove pulley i cant seem to locate, i may just remove the old alternator, looks like the idler assembly off of a civic like my 98 will fit in there for the water pump.

[lostforawhile]

i need to update this thread lol

[A18A]

i was about to complain cause the thread said "clear" pics, then i realized it's from 2006 lol

[ShyBoyCA6]

you need to get that car running is what you need lol its been 2 yrs tim since i joined actually haha

[lostforawhile]

will do, I've been in survival mode for the last few years and the car is probably my last priority although I never stopped working on it