1979 Accord Restomod

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Originally Posted by 81vintyminty

Cant wait to see the engine bay completed. If you werent on the other side of the world i would be sending my car your way for the paint and body work without hesitation, keep up the good work!:cheers:

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Haha thanks!

Kso I've got the bay painted. This is the best I could do with engine and everything else still intact. I don't think I get paid enough to remove everything keke but hey at least it looks 1000000x better than what it used to LOL

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Not perfect but then its a lot better than what it used to look like, besides I know a lot of so called shops did worse so..

And I'm still working on the engine harness >< Stupid fuck it was so messed up. Replaced a bunch of connectors because they either were too dirty or melted from the heat from the extra resistance from the dirt.

Couple of stuff back in, still waiting for the harness to be done.

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LOL you can see the area I missed. It was fun trying to cram a paint gun inside that space (N) But it won't noticeable once everything is back on so :p
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Great job with this car Haz, I really like the colour and I will have to come back to see the finished article!!

Keep it up with those skills.

X2
Very nice!

Thanks guys!

Look! It gets better!
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Tail LEDs done (Y)

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Lens on. The light pattern is nice and even irl (Y) Super bright too!
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Looks stock (Y)
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Parking lamp on
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Brake on (Y)
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They're both powered by the same LED array, just with different current flowing through them.

32 LEDs for tail/brake, 14 for turn signals and 10 for reverse per side. Should be plenty bright.

Sounds like lots of soldering but looks great. More power for brake lights sounds interesting.
Look like big leds.
New engine bay looks terriffic, looked pretty tragic before.

Awesome work!!

Those lights look great!

If you have the time/would be willing to write up what you need and instructions on how to do those lights id love to try my had at it. Im just not going to without some input from someone who knows exactly what they are doing.

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Originally Posted by Julian.Saturno

If you have the time/would be willing to write up what you need and instructions on how to do those lights id love to try my had at it. Im just not going to without some input from someone who knows exactly what they are doing.

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I'll do a write up when I do my tails but yeah here are some updates:

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Car is dirty, waiting for the right time to wash her up and do final buff then I can start assembling misc exterior bits and pieces. Not much left to be done but I wasn't in the best shape to work so it might take a while.

Not sure why my camera made the car look maroon but its brown/copper shade it basically changing color from the lighting.

Great to see the results of the effort. Stunning work.
Removing the side roof gutters really simplifies its shape nicely
The rubber windscreen seals look much more rubbery without their decorative trims!

Yeah I like the look without the silly gutters on. People were like NOES WATER GONNA LEAK!1!!!1 nope everythings fine hah!

Yeah looks rad. You gonna shave your gutters now?

Maybe if I ever want to get it repainted, but that would be in idk 10 years?

LED pics. Parking lamp:
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Brake
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And no, those aren't HIDs.

This is why:
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ewewewewewewewewwewewwwwwww!

Cluster too
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Looks pretty cool man! I hope the new owner appreciates all your hard work!

Beautiful!

Finally done (Y). 6 months worth of work, doing everything on my own. Just me haha

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What it used to look like, just in case.
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You di an awesome job considering what you had as a base car! I'm inspired by your work, really!

Fantastic work!

you have done a very well done job sir! she is beautiful!!!

OMG!!! The car is looking just AMAZING!!!
Congratulations Hazwan!!
Looking to this I'm think on let mine whithout the passenger mirror ... And I will need some help to do an similar job in mine, of course, a help through the internet LOL :D
And again Congratulations!

Truly beautiful work! Hard to believe it's the same car.

Wow Haz, just found this thread, great work x2!! Did i miss the part where you said where you got those fender flares?? I definitely would like a set.