i plan on having fun with it and hoping it will look a fair bit sharper than the day it rolled off the line, and with the microtech and itbs it should go a fair bit harder than that day as well.
am still trying to track down a front lip for it so i can make it look just right
picked up the paint today!
started work on getting the bonnet nice and straight. fuck i hate big flat panels.
bloody hard to get looking straight. going to blow some primer on it in the weekend and give it a sand to see how good my eye is.
mint, how much was the paint?
$567 including.
4 liters colour. desert silver mist in the resene santano colour book
4 liters clear
4 liters primer
2 liters degreaser
20 liters thinners
4 rolls masking tape
oooo so it's getting repsrayed a differnt color to stock? does 4 litres cover all the bits like engine bay, under side of bonnet, door jams, and so on?
nah, its staying its standard, or as close to standard as the paint guy could match it .
thats just the name in the resene santano book
i gave him the fuel filler cap and he went through the colour book and matched it as close as he could.
its so close that you'd be hard pressed to pick the diff.
minor update
dropped off the radically shortened remains of the honda intake manifold off at the engineers to have the runners milled flat today.
with any luck i should have it back tomorrow or thursday which means i might be able to have the flange welded on before the weekendso should have a nice set of 4x 45mm throttle bodies on the motor by next weekend!!!!!
ftw
1988 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe 123k miles.
good to hear, all this on a stock engine?!
yes , all this for a stock engine.
i could get some big cams etc but the front suspension would miss out on new shocks and a caliper overhaul.
and it would be nice to see just what can be squeezed out of a standard motor.
was hoping to pick the manifold up today but it wasnt finished at lunchtime , so hopefully tomorrow.
spent lunch break cleaning up the quads and the toyota manifold.
is all nice and shiney now
lets see whos motor makes more power yours or mine :P
mine of course
is that a gauntlet being throw down there boys?
i dont even know what that means haha
is that a challenge?
got the milled manifold back today and dropped it off to have the toyota flange welded on
sholud have it back tomorrow
YAY!!
should have it bolted up for pics on saturday, just to show off of course
Last edited by Hauntd ca3; 09-02-2010 at 01:15 AM.
looking forward to seeing that (Y)
so am i eh
a mate in canada told me how to make trumpets for them, so i think that may be one of the next projects
is nice having a lathe and a press at work to do such things
got the manifold back from being welded today.
spent my spare time at work tidying up the ports with the die grinder.
have it sitting in place at the mo, and to tell the truth i just want to sit in the garage and look at my handy work its just so sexy!
and since i just feel like being an arsehole, i'm not going to post a pic til tomorrow.
and i cant find my camera so i couldnt if i wanted.
it is THE SEX tho
meaannnnn pics ftw..
hope you all find these exciting
looks miiinntttttt now make it run
yeeee boi thats flash as
have to get it milled again since it warped when being welded, a bit more porting and that will be finished.
then have to make a throttle cable, make a fuel line, block off some coolant lines,get a new pcv valve, since i broke the old one taking the manifold off,make 2 / 1 adaptor for the brake booster vac hose, get some toyota injector and tps plugs, have the microtech reconfigured,wire the microtech in and have it tuned, all while finishing the body work and painting it.
so hopefully be running in less than a year.
thats mint good work for a car that was nearly de-reg
speaking of which, i think i prob owe ltsa a couple months of reg now.
think its suspension lapsed in june or july
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