Bass Man's got a HATCH!

[Bass Man]

Exterior isn't gonna be much. Clean and simple is miles above "one of a kind" IMHO. (BUT!! I like being unique...) :/

I got those Fat fives, and those will be the highlight of the exterior. Window tint will be one of the mods. I really want to smoke my lights, but I don't want to do it wrong and I hate buying things online. I took the torch to the side trim and it didn't work like I wanted it to, so I'll be at least painting the trim pieces. The rear bumper came to black in the little area I tried it, but it's got those FUNKY ASS stickers on there and I'll have to buy a graphics wheel to remove them.

I'd love to sport a 3geez sticker on the rear windows, but again, buying things online.

The paint is cracking, which I find really wierd. It's not flaking or anything, but if you look close enough, you can see it looks like dehydrated skin, so if it gets too bad, I'll probably have it repainted.

I think I'll drop it 1.5" if I can get away with just cutting a coil with my cut-off wheel. It's fine to cut coils if you do it right, I've heard.

[dacantu]

Exterior isn't gonna be much. Clean and simple is miles above "one of a kind" IMHO. (BUT!! I like being unique...) :/

I got those Fat fives, and those will be the highlight of the exterior. Window tint will be one of the mods. I really want to smoke my lights, but I don't want to do it wrong and I hate buying things online. I took the torch to the side trim and it didn't work like I wanted it to, so I'll be at least painting the trim pieces. The rear bumper came to black in the little area I tried it, but it's got those FUNKY ASS stickers on there and I'll have to buy a graphics wheel to remove them.

I'd love to sport a 3geez sticker on the rear windows, but again, buying things online.

The paint is cracking, which I find really wierd. It's not flaking or anything, but if you look close enough, you can see it looks like dehydrated skin, so if it gets too bad, I'll probably have it repainted.

I think I'll drop it 1.5" if I can get away with just cutting a coil with my cut-off wheel. It's fine to cut coils if you do it right, I've heard.

Yeah its okay to cut a coil but not with a cut off wheel. the idea is to not heat the springs at all. 3geez stickers are hot. so are the 3geez emblems that are being made. you should get your fat fives polished, it will make that much of a difference.

and well let me know if you really want me to pick up your interior for you. I have until Monday when I go back to school to do just about anything I want, so I have time to go pull some interior pieces for you.

oh and you dont have to legally attain the beer, just attain it. lmfao

[Rendon LX-i]

Cutting springs aint that hard as it seems mark it with a marker well first jack up the car and mark where you want it to be. The use a cut off wheel..(nothing wrong with using a cut off wheel BTW).....but cut only 3/4 of the way threw and then drop the jack and youll hear that spring pop. jack back up and take out the piece.....simple and affective. when i did my buddys 3g took me bout 1/2 hour. if i remember correctly i did 2 links up front and 1 1/2 on the rear.


Where the damn pics bass

[Bass Man]

lol Pics of what?? It looks like it did in the last pictures, but the wires on the passenger side are all done.

I got more money than I originally planned on having (unless unemployment stops paying me because I didn't attend their damn computer lab BS), so I might get a set of tires for my 15's sometime soon.

I got some work to do to it still.
Shift linkages are still in the sedan (I would LOVE to get rid of the play in my shifter, btw...)
Bolt the engine down and put all the hoses back.
Gonna run my A1 exhaust till I go to the exhaust shop to get my exhaust replaced. (Still debating on what to run; I'll probably study that tonight)
Put my new CV axle in the drivers side.
I'm gonna have to figure out how to get my full tank of fuel from the sedan into the hatch... Funny thing, I've never disabled a car on less than 3/4 tank of gas.
Put the dash and pedals from the Sedan in the hatch... I hope I can get the dash outta my sedan better than getting it out of the hatch... I didn't take the bolt in the middle of the collum out before taking the dash out, so the steering wheel was somewhat in the way.

[Bass Man]

Once I get the dash out, I'll figure out which wire on the fuel pump relay make the fuel pump run, then I'll just turn it on for half an hour till it's empty. heh.

[Rendon LX-i]

I have that same problem I dont know WTF it is. think moves around like crazy LOL

[Bass Man]

It's the pits, cuz I cut my shifter WAY down (or so I've heard. LOL), so I have a really hard time shifting to 3rd or 5th if I'm getting on it.

No joke, I move the TOP-most part of the shifter 3 inches from 1st to 2nd.

[Bass Man]

I think I'll just put a glasspack on the back with a 3-5" tip and maybe a resonator where the cat was.

[Civic Accord Honda]

matt told me a trick to get teh gas tank empty and it works perfectly lol
turn the key to the on pos, then take the white wire that plugs in to the starter and hold it to the positive battery post(algator cliped wire make life easier) and the fuel pump will run and you will cause no damage ive done this a bunch of times now when i need some petrol to clean something or when i was taking the full tank of premium petrol out of my 3g when i sold it LOL

[Bass Man]

Didn't do anything to the Hatch today or yesterday... I fixed my Sidekick yesterday and today I help my 80y/o wheeling buddy put a locker in the rear, limited slip in the front, and a new crossmember in his Sidekick. He's a really cool old man. Legendary around here, I've heard... Fearless just like me!

Tomorrow I'll probably pull the T-case out of his other Sidekick cuz the high range shift fork bent or something.

GOOD NEWS!!!!

My tow truck driver buddy picked up an 89 Prelude that had some halfway decent 15" wheels with some almost brand new Cooper Cobra P195/50 15's. Told him I'd give him $150 for the tires and he said sold! Saved myself about $150 on tires.

[Rendon LX-i]

damn you.....i need a rear disk convo...

[Bass Man]

He's probably crushed enough complete SE-i's to supply anyone who's wanted the conversion... He's gonna get 2 "Honda Accords" tomorrow, and he doesn't know what year they are, so they are probably 3g's or later, cuz not a lot of people would have their CB7 hauled away for free. I'm hoping for blue interior!!

[Bass Man]

I've been damn busy with stuff lately, but I'm working on it every chance I get.
I got the tires mounted on the 5's today, but the wheels don't look that good yet, so no pics. I'm gonna lower the car before I put the tires on, so no shots of that for a while... That will probably be tomorrow's project if I don't have anything else going on.

I got the engine bay about 80% done to this point.(100% means running and driving)
I just keep finding pieces that could look better blue, so I take some time to remove, prime, and paint them, so here is what it looks like right now.





The orange dipstick was looking really bad, so I thought for a second what I could do about it, then BAM! Shrink-wrap. The yellow wasn't quite long enough, so I put black down first, then covered it with the yellow. You like?


Thought this was a cool picture.

[Civic Accord Honda]

WINRAR! that looks very good sir!

[Bass Man]

Winrar!! HAHAHA!! That's funny right there.

Thanks, Blake.

[Rendon LX-i]

yes indeed.

[Bass Man]

I'm curious to see if my wiring will work the way I have it hooked up. I'll probably go to the parts house tomorrow and get some sealed cables, then I'll make some better grounds with my 0/1 wiring I have left over.

I'm trying to think of what I can do tonight... I might start cutting my springs.

[ShyBoyCA6]

shit someone jacked my valve cover lol good work on the engine bass man

[Bass Man]

That's been painted like that for a year, now.
Thanks, again!



From 7:40 to 9:15, I was lowering the right front... I got a snap-on spring compressor and the patience of a saint, but I was swearing like a saylor for about an hour straight...

I had the plan to cut the spring 2 coils from the bottom, so I marked it with my paint pen, then I jacked up the front and started cutting with my last cut-off wheel. I knew I should cut the first coil along with the one I intended, so I cut them both at the same time, then a couple seconds later, the spring broke and pinched my wheel and almost destroyed it.

The cut coils were still in the spring, but the coil was pushing down on them so it was hard to spin them enough to cut them in half.

I had to take the strut apart. Tried to do it still attached to the car... Couldn't get the strut up far enough to put the nut back on, so I took it out (took a couple minutes because I was trying to beat around this bush...) and tried my nice spring compressor on this spring, but it caught the dust cover...

I would have been done with it in an hour, but the spring rotated on me and I tried spinning it and the coil got crooked, so I had to redo it.

LOOOONG story summed up, I found a stealth way of raising the strut up 1" or so... Every little bit helps. It might bang in a couple decades, but I'm sure it will be fine. I'll get pictures of what I'm talking about tomorrow.



I got 1 Five on it and it looks good even without the fender. I think it dropped 1.5" just like I wanted, so YAY!

[Bass Man]

Got the front dropped. The drivers side took half as long, cuz I knew what I was doing. I got the front 5's on and I mocked the fender up and it looks increadible. Can't share any photo's till it's driving.

I started on the drivers side wiring. I got the wires exposed, so now I gotta grab the laptop and start hacking... Should be done with that wiring tonight.

[Hazwan]

Need pics

[Mellexx]

Need pics

What he said

[Bass Man]

What do you want pics of?
I think I'll get the dash and ECM out of the 5spd sedan and get this thing..... Running??

The drop is about the same as the hatch in Mellexx's sig, maybe a little taller.

[Mellexx]

The drop is about the same as the hatch in Mellexx's sig, maybe a little taller.

sex get some pics of anything

[Bass Man]

Just kidding.