My car's build thread

[maxsideburn]

Figured I'd go ahead and start a thread where I can post the progress of my car in pictures from the day I got it to the day I'm done with it (lol, like any of our cars are ever "done"). Well here goes, I just picked her up yesterday.
::Next to my Supra turbo::

::The Accord, Supra, and Fiero::

::The rear end::

::The interior, I've never been a big fan of anything other than black or dark grey::

::The engine bay, pretty clean actually. And the fuel injectors look brand new::

::A shot of the other side::

Also you can see my other cars by following these links:
My '86 Pontiac Fiero SE
My '84 Honda Prelude

[Cheeseburger]

cool!!! i bet its nice to have all that room for parking. i don't have that luxury...

[maxsideburn]

heh, well I have to get one of them out of here soon, they don't like me having so many cars, lol.

You guys think I got a decent deal? I traded my 95 Ford Aspire (5spd, 183K miles, A/C worked) and $500 for this Accord. I did it simply because I've been kicking myself in the butt for a year after selling my '84 Prelude. I really missed having a Honda. Sadly enough it's almost as fun to drive as the Supra and Fiero.

[86lxinva]

damn looks just like mine!..i think you got a good deal how does it run and all? the only thing i see is the hood and the headlight part but the rest of the car looks really good!

[sporkHSP]

you traded an Aspire for it,which means that you were driving an Aspire...
of course it was worth it.

[Bglad420]

Good work on getting rid of the Aspire....Good luck w/ the accord

[maxsideburn]

oh the accord runs great

[86lxinva]

as longs as it runs great you got a really good deal!

[maxsideburn]

Today I ripped out all kinds of uneccessary stuff and cobbled together a CAI. I used a short ram intake from a 98 Mirage, and a CAI from a 92 Civic. It runs down below the battery, took a lot of trying to get it to fit, and it barely fits. It sounds incredible though, makes the whole car like 5x louder by itself.

[fraza]

thats nice man, great deal you got,
that cai is sweet, maybe i should do the same

[Cheeseburger]

looking good bro!!!

[maxsideburn]

I installed some fresh plugs today, changed the fuel filter (the old one was horrible!), and found out that one of my plug wires was intermitently losing connection. Along with my new CAI the car runs great! I took her out for a spin a few minutes ago, and I must say that even though I'm used to driving a V6 Fiero and a Supra turbo, this little Accord is still pretty quick. It's no monster, but it's definately not slow. I really like the way it feels to drive, hehe. I can't wait to get more done to it.

I'm thinking about suspension stuff next, what do you guys recommend coilovers or drop springs? Keep in mind that I'd be getting either off of eBay, so as far as the cheap ones go, what's better? Also what struts are recommended for nice tight handling?

[maxsideburn]

I aquired a few new things today. I got a Bomz Racing "double decker" wing and a set of blue underbody neons. Neither are going on the car at the moment, because I think it looks super tacky when you have a big racing wing or underbody neons on a car that has stock wheels, stock paintjob, and no lip-kit or ground effects.

If you're going to say something about "rice", please don't even bother typing it all out, you're wasting your time. I have a Supra turbo and Fiero SE for fast, classic sports cars, I got the Accord so I'd have a little "sport compact" import tuner. So it's kinda the point

[maxsideburn]

Painted my valve cover the other day, here are the pics. Bright Red

[gfrg88]

i think you need to sand the lines of the valve cover to get it to bare metal and it will look 10x better and nice job on the intake

[maxsideburn]

was planning on sanding

[HondaBoy]

that intake pipe isnt hitting the brake lines is it? that'd be bad. lookin better for sure.

[maxsideburn]

The intake is pushing up against what I would assume is the little metal "hub" thing with all of the little metal "brake lines?" going into it, but they're metal and it's not putting enough pressure to hurt anything.

[maxsideburn]

Here's some pics I took today. I just installed my new MSD Blaster 2 coil, I must say that it idles so much smoother now. I also noticed a very small power increase (probably along the lines of 1HP or so). I know that normally you don't get any noticeable gains from just an upgraded coil, but I do also have a cold air intake so its possible. It's also possible that my stock system was just getting messed up. Either way I really recommend the MSD coils.


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And yes I know the wing looks rediculous, that's the point, lol. It's going to go when I get a better spoiler.

[Cheeseburger]

good progress bro!!! whats next on the list

[mkymonkey]

wow youre right! the wind does look rediculous. i hope you at least paint it a dif color.

[Selfmindead]

I think you should paint the wheels red to match the wing hehe

[maxsideburn]

lol.......IF the wing stays it will be flat black. Next on the list is some drop springs and new struts.

[maxsideburn]

I was changing my oil today and figured I'd take a couple of pics of where my intake is run to. Here's one from the top:



and one from the bottom:

[Beaver]

Nice CAI, where did you get your blaster? I'm thinking about getting one and some new wires. Also, is your skid plate gone?