The end of an erra?

[PhydeauX]

Well I guess it ended for me a long time ago, but now it's officially over. My 2g has been sent to the junkyard. It'd been sitting in the driveway for 2 years now collecting rust, completely neglected. The last time I'd worked on it I replaced a cracked radiator hose, filled it with straight water to get it going, and kinda forgot about it. Sitting like that for 2 years did a number on the engine, it wouldn't even turn over. The body had rusted into such bad shape (well it already was in bad shape, but it got a lot worse) that it wasn't worth trying to salvage the engine. There isn't going to be a part out so don't ask. The driveway needed to be sealed and I didn't have much time to strip the car down. Things like the teg trans and rear disks are off in a junkyard somewhere, returned from whence they came. The teg trans was having a problem with 3rd anyway and the disks were seized up. As for the suspension, I would have liked to have sold the whiteline swaybars, but I didn't have time to pull them and it wasn't worth the trouble (the fuel tank has to come out to remove the brackets for the rear bar). The hack job coilovers are gone too, they didn't work that well anyway. I did keep the carbs and manifold, since they were worth more then the car, but I am keeping them for a possible future project. The same goes for the cam, msd, and other goodies so don't bother asking about them.

You old schoolers probably noticed that I hadn't been around much anymore, and you new guys probably have no idea who I am. I really hadn't been active for some time before 2geez came into existence, but I when I was offered the moderator position I tried to come back. 2geez was something that I had wanted for a long time. I'd tried a few times to get the mods to add a 2g board to try to consolidate the 2g information that was spread through out 3geez but it never happened. When it finally came it was late for me. I'd gone back to school to get my bachelors and consequently had no free time. My 2g was in sad shape, rusting and neglected. The only thing keeping it from the crusher was it's sentimental value, a piece of an earlier part of my life that I didn't want to let go. Right now I'm still working on said degree and still have no free time. I'm also trying to finish my nova, a project I've been working on for almost 8 years now, which the 2g was originally just a diversion of to vent my frustrations with efi. I hate to leave the community. I've been here for a long time, all the way back to the automotive forums days. But we've grown apart, and without really realizing it I've moved on. So I've come here to say my formal goodbye. I'll still lurk from time to time, my activities will probably be about the same as they have been for the last year or so. I'm glad to see the way the 2g community has grown. When I started out the 2g community practically didn't exist, just a few misfits enduring flames and searching for kindred souls on various honda boards. 3geez accepted us into their community, and even gave us our own. I hope 2geez will continue to grow and everybody will continue to take their 2g further and I hope the contributions I made will continue to be useful.

farewell,

andy

[Ichiban]

Aw, that really sucks. I was hoping you'd stick around to see my car progress, and I'd admired all the work you had done to yours. In the absence of lowering springs for my car, I've begun to come up with ideas for a coilover kit. I also appreciated your input on the A20 swap I've yet to complete.

Anyways, farewell and good luck.

[2ndGenGuy]

Yeah man, sad to see you go. I wondered myself where you have been. Don't feel bad about leaving though, because you've left behind something that is pretty cool. Without your posts and others, I and many others wouldn't have found this site. You were a huge part in bringing the 1g and 2g Accord community to this site. Without your information, I'm pretty confident that my Accord would have become another old Honda sitting in the wrecking yard waiting for it's eminent death.

I think we all appreciate your help that you've given us, I know I do. You helped me a ton with my Weber swap, and also got me excited about the A20 swap, which I also have yet to complete. And your input about the Prelude rear discs was totally awesome. I think the few of us who are planning on keeping our 2nd gens for a while will continue to help others out as well, and will hopefully get more people excited about these cars.

Hope to see you at least check back in every now and then and see what's new.

If you ever get a chance, or if you even can, you should dig up any of your old photos that you can find of your car and post them in here. I've still yet to see anything more of your car than the pic in your sig. Maybe one or two engine pics, but I think ever since I joined your pics have been broken.

Well, take care. Good luck with you degree, and maybe when you're finished and have a good job, you can buy another 2g and build it up again! See ya later.

[Civic Accord Honda]

=(

[SZfiftyfour]

Yea that sucks dude. I haven't been here very long but you helped me out. Just wanted to say thanks for that. And to everyone else thats helped me.
Hope you find another 2g one day.

[lostforawhile]

just because you don't have your three g anymore,doesn't mean you have to leave. we are still here, you still have valuable knowledge to share with the rest of us. post when you can is all.

[89T]

just because you don't have your three g anymore,doesn't mean you have to leave. we are still here, you still have valuable knowledge to share with the rest of us. post when you can is all.

2g lost 2g.
that just about brought a tear to my eye.

i was flamed too, when i first posted here back in 04. i feel your pain.
course then i posted pic's. then flame no more.
funny how that goes.

i remeber alot of what you have said and what you have done and to you i tip my hat.

i bid you gracious farewell my friend, come see us every now and then.

[1ajs]

thats sad still memories and knowlig base that you helped build still so its not all in vain good luck with your nova project and yer degree

don't forget to come by and say hi once and a while and share progress on yer baby thats hopefuly finished

[A20A1]

Yeah stay on board or come back often...

I have no 3G or 2g but I still work on my 3G projects, and offer some assistance. I'm an admin.. I should be slapped sometimes for my absenteeism lately, but no way I'll be on here as much as I was in the good old days lol just too much things going on.

[Ichiban]

I should nominate John as a replacement, the 2geez crowd needs direction, and someone with the autobody, interior and engine knowledge (as well as computer) as his would be a great asset as a moderator on this site. How does one make it so?

[SZfiftyfour]

I should nominate John as a replacement, the 2geez crowd needs direction, and someone with the autobody, interior and engine knowledge (as well as computer) as his would be a great asset as a moderator on this site. How does one make it so?

I second that motion.

[2oodoor]

A20A1 ....there you are

All of you pioneers of Accord performance and troubleshooting on this forum, are to be commended. I would name all of you but I may miss one or two. I still go back in archives and read some great threads, so just know you all are still always here in some form. Thanks for sharing the information, some of this stuff I would have never found in a book , nor would I have been able to hear it from a tech without moving in with them

[loko84hb]

i third that motion

[maximus1736]

Damn. Im sorry to see you go. Iv seen you on 2geez and you always helping us noobs out. Thanks.