Rough Life

[Bones]

My poor LXi has had a rough life so far ... hopefully, it'll get better soon.

It's been hit on the front driver corner and was professionally repaired (poorly):Owned: .

When I got her, she was missing screws and bolts, and the front corner light was held in by the wiring. The hood, fender, bumper, and headlights are still poorly aligned, and the whole car was "touched up", but they didn't tape stuff off well, so it's got overspray all over the place. I'm workin' on it all whenever I get the time, money, and parts together in one spot.

At the moment, everything works except the top half of the rear defrost, her interior has no rips, tears, or stains, and nothing leaks.

Completed Engine / Exhaust Mods:
deleted the stock "exhaust resonator"
Fuel Injectors + Seals Replaced

Planned Engine / Exhaust Mods:
Cold Air Intake
EGay "racing cat" (purchased but not yet installed)
EGay ground wire kit (purchased but not yet installed)
Headers + 2.25" Exhaust Piping to the rear bumper

Completed Suspension / Brake Mods:
Front Drive Axels Replaced
2 Fubared LXi Wheels Replaced
Missing Center Cap Replaced

Planned Suspension / Brake Mods
16" or 17" Wheels and Tires
Tokico or Selex Dampers
Neuspeed Springs
SEi Rear Disks
Bigger Disk Mods
Front Pinch Fork Mod (purchased but not yet installed)
'Lude Upper Control Arm Mod (purchased but not yet installed)
Upper Front / Rear Strut Bars + Lower Rear Tie Bars

Completed Exterior Mods:
Smoked Front Corners
Smoked Front "Eyebrows"
Smoked Grill Ends
Blacked Out Grill Chrome
Black Spoiler Wing
Window Vent Shades
Busted Tail Lights Replaced
Rear Mud Flaps (she just had the fronts when purchased :nuts: )

Planned Exterior Mods:
Integra Front Lip (purchased but not yet installed)
Shaved Top Antenna (gonna relocate to the rear)
Reblacked Bumper and Side Molding
Stripped and Reblacked Window Trim
Fog Lights (purchased but not yet installed)
Fix Minor Body Cancer
Paintjob (Black, Midnight Blue, or Competition Orange)

Completed Interior Mods:
Integra Headrests
Lighted Foglight Switch
Window Tint (5% on the back half and the top, 20% on the front doors)
Leaky / Shredded Door Weather Stripping Replaced
JVC Cd Player with remote (came with the car:thumbup: )

Planned Interior Mods:
Center Console Armrest
SEi Cupholder
In Trunk Wooden Decking (to level the floor with the folded down rear seat)
Billet Tranny Shifter (purchased but not yet installed)
Anti-Sound Matting for the entire interior and trunk (I miss my Lincoln Towncar, but not the crappy gas mileage)

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Dashboard.jpg

Check out da mileage and eat yer heart out!

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/XXX_Rear_Cropped.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/XXX_Pax_Rear_Cropped.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/XXX_Front_Cropped.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/XXX_Driver_Front_Cropped.jpg

[russiankid]

Looks great. According to the reading, you cleaned it up. Nice work!

[Pico]

:thumbup:
got any interior or engine bay pics

[1ajs]

nice 3gee looks like a beast :rockon:

good luck with the project

[Bones]

:thumbup:
got any interior or engine bay pics

Not yet, but Ill get some soon.


Looks great. According to the reading, you cleaned it up. Nice work!

Thanks! It's tough to do with a wife, 2 kids, 3 dogs, and a full time job. Everyone always needs something done right away, or somebody needs cash, or something, so it's slow going.

[russiankid]

Not yet, but Ill get some soon.
Thanks! It's tough to do with a wife, 2 kids, 3 dogs, and a full time job. Everyone always needs something done right away, or somebody needs cash, or something, so it's slow going.
It's better to do it slowly then rush things:welcome:

[Bones]

nice 3gee looks like a beast :rockon:

good luck with the project

He he Thanks. She's not so much a beast as such. She's more like a well tamed hound.

She's reliable and steady, decent looking to the people that appreciate this breed, and she's still got a little growl in her soul when I wanna get down.

[Bones]

It's better to do it slowly then rush things:welcome:

Definately!

[MessyHonda]

looking nice. looks like you going to have a nice car after you are finished.

[Bones]

Pix of the interior and Engine for y'all. What ya think?

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Full_Engine.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Engine_Drivers.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Engine_Pax.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Pax_Back_Door.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Pax_Front_Door.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Drivers_Front_Door.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Drivers_Back_Door.jpg

[Cheeseburger]

looks pimp yO!

[Bones]

looks pimp yO!

Thanks , I'm workin' on it.

[Cheeseburger]

that thing doesn't look like its had a rough ride. i see no crows feet maing :squint:

[MessyHonda]

looks clean...

[Toneloc5145]

lookin good.....i had to do a double take on that rear view pic you posted in your first post. i thought it was my car for a second.

[1ajs]

no rust :) :) :) :)

[Bones]

that thing doesn't look like its had a rough ride. i see no crows feet maing :squint:

I got it just over a year ago. I've had some time to iron out a few of those "wrinkles". :tongue:

Steam cleaned the interior, and engine bay, and replaced a couple of the fubar'ed wheels, etc, etc, ...

[Civic Accord Honda]

looks hawt

[Foxy3GLXI]

Nice car. But I just got my car to click over to 102500 miles

[KrazyKlown]

My front end was poorly put back together also. I mean, why? Its not that hard to do it right.....Looks nice and has a lot of life left.

[Bones]

Latest update ...

Got my billet shifter handle installed (had to hand carve an oak button for the top out of an old old broom handle).

Got my teg lip installed.

Also got a set of 14" beemer bottle cap wheels with old skool honda center caps. They look just different enough to be noticable, but aint nobody gonna steal my car just to get my wheels! ;)

Updated pics coming soon. I got some during the lip install.

[blazin3gen]

hey are those integ head rests? i had those! nice ride!

[sinisterfuzzy]

Planned Suspension / Brake Mods
16" or 17" Wheels and Tires

16's ftw!

[ZackieDarko]

man thats clean

[mushroom_toy]

In the first pic....you have toothpaste in your car. :)

[buttaz1]

yo i
ran out tooth paste can you drive down a give me some ?
and sweet as whip homie

[buttaz1]

god dammit mush room you beat me to it now its ganna loook like im a copy cater

[mushroom_toy]

god dammit mush room you beat me to it now its ganna loook like im a copy cater
LMAO!!! :)

[Crazybird]

super nice but one thing i hate about these cars are u need to put a tip on ur muffler or it just looks like shit.... neways get a tip and ull be set... unless ur getting new exhaust...

and if u are then sry cause im to lazy to read the post, just wanted to see the pics

[Bones]

Thanks y'all!

Yes it was a tube of toothpaste in the pics. It's in use at the moment though. hehehe

I forgot to mention the ricey chrome muffler I put on for a temp fix when the stocker rusted through. I'll have to get pics for y'all.

[Bones]

Easy teg lip install

Step one - remove the headlight trim and the front side marker lights.

Step two - pull out the fog light hole covers, and use a phillips head screwdriver to remove the front turn signals from below.

Step three - remove the two bolts under the car (marked as arrow 1)

Step four - remove 2 bolts from each side behind where the turn sgnals were mounted (marked as arrow 2)

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Removal.jpg

Step five - gently pull the bumper forward and off the car.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/BumperOff1.jpg

Step six - bolt the new lip into place.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/LipMounting1.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/LipMounting2.jpg

Step seven - reassemble in the reverse order that eveything was taken apart.

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/BumperOn1.jpg

http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/BumperOn2.jpg

[Bones]

I gotta get new bumper mounts next. The one on the driver side is sagging bad. That was the best I could do to get it lined up when I was reinstalling everything.

It dont help that the front is tweaked from an accident from before I got the car.

[Pico]

why did you take the headlight trim off?

[Bones]

It's easier to get the front side markers off with the headlight trim outa the way.

[Bones]

New pics! I've already removed the purple fog lights though. They just didn't look right.

Gotta get some drop on one day.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Front_Pax.jpg

Got them Beemer wheels for $40 for the set!
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Front_Drv.jpg

My wife says the new muffler must be a tank cannon stickin' out from under the car because she thinks it sounds like an old army tank when I start it up! ;-)
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Back_Pax.jpg

I gotta get them rusted spots fixed properly, and soon!
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Back_Drv.jpg

I love my new arm and head rests in there.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Center_Console.jpg

Too bright for a clear pic of the new shifter, but y'all get the idea.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/Billet_Shifter.jpg

[jschatte]

the wheels look good, i just think the spoiler looks outta place. What is it off of?

[Bones]

It's an aftermarket spoiler I got off a junkyard Sunbird for $15 if I recall correctly.

I've never been able to find a junked accord with a wing, or I'd have that instead. It's the closest I've been able to find to a sorta stock looking wing so far.

I did find a 2g SEi with a trunk mounted luggage rack once though. The back edge was raised a bit and kinda curved to a spoiler sorta shape, but aint no way I was gonna mount a luggage rack to my car, no matter what it resembled!

[MessyHonda]

yeah thoes bmw wheel look good...i saw them on a junked car.......just needs a lil drop

[Pico]

what year BMW are they off of?

[Bones]

what year BMW are they off of?

'84 - '91 BMW 318i / 325e / 325i
14" x 6" rim with 4 x 100mm bolt pattern

[Bones]

I installed silicone vacuum tubing and grounded the engine all over the place this past weekend. It's got a 2 guage cable for the main ground to the battery and a blue 4 guage Ebay kit for the rest of the engine. I didn't do the vacuum box on the passenger side with the silicone though. Too much stuff in there to mess with for now.

The new ground wires and fresh vacuum hoses make quite a difference in the engine bay appearance, and driving feel. Acceleration feels more responsive, the idle is smoother, and the cruise control no longer wanders up and down plus or minus 5 mph when it's set.

Now I need to get or build a cold air intake.

Here's pics from 3 views.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/NewGrounds1.jpg

View 2
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/NewGrounds2.jpg

View 3
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/NewGrounds3.jpg

[Bones]

Bump

Posted the pics of the new silicone vacuum tubing and the new ground wires above.

I've also found a genuine Honda sunroof visor recently as well. It cost me a whoppin' $5 at the local bone yard!
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/BeforeDrop1.jpg

My new muffler is a bit low. I'm gonna have to get that fixed before the drop is installed.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/BeforeDrop2.jpg

The front doesn't sag at the moment, even with the busted spring on this front corner.
http://i130.photobucket.com/albums/p248/666Bones666/BeforeDrop3.jpg

[Bones]

I want that wing off Toneloc5145's trunk!

Gotta find out where to get one of them suckers. That car is an inspiration!