Also painted the bumper moldings black to match the generic rubber moldings I got for the sides.
I prefer shaved look but the sides look too empty and weird without the rubber moldings especially near the wheel arches.
I'm actually 50-50 with the new look now. Oh well worst case I'll just color match them. Hey I paint cars for a living lol
I've often wondered if a painted black stripe instead of the rubber side molding would look ok on our cars. I might give it a try, worst that could happen is I have to put the rubber back on. You have a great looking car by the way
looks good man
You never cease to surprise, Mr. Hazwan. Nice work. Again.
Dr_Snooz
"I like to take hammers, and just break stuff, just break stuff." - Beavis
1989 Honda Accord LX-i Coupe, 240k miles, MT swap, rear disc swap
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having no side moulding is all good until someone parks close to you and opens their door onto your nice paint (N)
Stahp. I want this car too much to even game
Originally Posted by CAH
So the black trims just doesn't work for me. My front bumper has some scuffs and chips anyway so it's respray time!
Also shaved the plate holes with plastic welding while I'm at it
Ready for primer
Base coat
Cleared
Also took the opportunity to spray my 3g Accord power folding mirrors while I'm at it.. They sorta fit but required a lot of trimming. Only 2 of the 3 bolt holes lines up but they're pretty sturdy so I'm not worried about it.
Whats needed to make them fit. Also reshaped the bottom curve to match the lude's door better
Primered
Painted
I'm pleased at how well they look like now. So much better than the factory oversized non folding crap .
Bad thing is, the folding mechanism doesn't work as the gears are stripped. How do you even strip metal gears really?? But I don't really care as the mirrors are free. And I'm keeping my eye on a pair of working mirrors so I can swap the internals into mine. The car was pre-wired for the mirrors when I did the paintjob before anyway so its all ready to go!
Some glamour PICS
Looks soooo much better now!
Looking great still!
Not too surprised you painted the black rub-strips again. Black does look a little old fashioned & ordinary compared to body colour.
I like the lower number plate mounting as well, exposing your smoothed bumper.
wow I'm glad I'm in front of a computer instead of my phone. the pics are amazing. I will have to send you my car piece by piece so you can work your magic.
1989 Honda Accord LX-i
B18c1 swap since 7/2011
175whp and 132tq
Redzone tuned
i come in this thread to see the pics. the ones on facebook are compressed and do not do the car any justice. I need people to shout this man a trip to NZ so he can paint my car!
MOAR PICS!
1986 Honda Prelude by hazwan_photography, on Flickr
1986 Honda Prelude by hazwan_photography, on Flickr
1986 Honda Prelude by hazwan_photography, on Flickr
1986 Honda Prelude by hazwan_photography, on Flickr
1986 Honda Prelude by hazwan_photography, on Flickr
That'd be me lol
1986 Honda Prelude by hazwan_photography, on Flickr
So clean i really like you build man
indeed. chip-ins?
Oh man. If I was in NZ I'd chip in just to bring him over.
Holy smokes Haz! This car has gone through a serious transformation, excellent work as always. The colour is awesome too, keep up the great work!
Haven't posted in a while but I've added a couple of cool (cheap, or nearly free) stuff to the car recently
Added this LED under my side mirrors. They are hooked to my dome light which would come on when I disarmed the alarm enabling me to see things around the door area. They're normally found on newer cars.
I think the LEDs are too big. Gonna figure out how to make them sit flush or at least doesn't protrude out as much.
But DAMN they are BRIGHT!
Also hooked my dome light to a dome light delay/fade circuit I made so instead of turning the lights off instantly when the doors are closed, they stay on and fade after a few seconds. Again, normally found on newer cars.
Sorry for the shitty pics and vids. They are taken with my phone.
Got rid of the silly green air filter which doesn't even match with anything LOL
I do have a plan for the stupid single carb. Just wait
Last edited by Hazwan; 10-21-2016 at 06:00 AM.
That cool
flash as
So nice and clean!
Haven't posted an update in years (well maybe months but hey!!)
I've posted another thread about my bike carbs conversion (here) and its been running good. Went on ~800km trip and apart of my radiator fan motor decided to die in a rush hour traffic causing my temp goes up near the red line and freaking me out, everything works fine. Oh and my fuel pump decided to make a constant clicking noise like its starving for fuel when its not. The stock carb pump is supposed to click but not this loud! So theres 2 things that I replaced grrr.
Averaging around 25mpg highway on the trip (which is horrible if you ask me) but power wise OMG!! I can now step on the throttle while doing 110kph in 5th and it would goes up to 160 in no time without downshifting. Not that quick if you ask me but the old single carb was painfully slow sooo.
I did have a vid of me driving through a tunnel going WOT and the sound is just phenomenal!!
Met with some local lude guys with B16 2g and H22 swapped 3g and I can actually keep up with them. Not saying that I'm OMG-VTAKS-FAST but considering I'm lacking an extra cam and 4 additional valves with no fancy vtec stuff and how I spent like 1/8 of what they spent on their engine swap yeah I am quick enough LOL
I didn't get many pics from the meet for some reason but here's one stolen from someone else
Borrowed a wideband from a buddy of mine and my idle and WOT is spot on at 14.5:1 ish during idle and about 12:1 on WOT BUT my cruising AFR is HORRIBLE at 12:1 or sometimes even less at 11:1. Thats what been raping my fuel economy since I spent most of the time on cruise. I honestly expect to get at least 28mpg highway. Don't even ask what I get on town!! I did some further adjustments on the carb needle and only managed to get around 13.8-14:1 on cruise which isn't too bad but I expect high 14's. Apparently the carbs that I have are known for wearing its emulsion tubes prematurely and doesn't meter the fuel properly anymore especially on cruising range. Which sucks balls!! I have yet to see how far the full tank of petrol gets me but
I'm not expecting too much of an improvement than before.
Anyway carbs aside, I've made few changes/additions to the car. Made a cloth insert for my door panel as the vinyl is peeling/wrinkling and looking ugly af. Mint door panels are so hard to come by - they all do the same so
Yeah I've got that aftermarket steering wheel back on. Kinda like it at first but then I've decided that the 3g wheel felt way better so its back on again LOL
I've got this electronic navigation/EQ console that I hacked to fit my 7" tablet
I had the stock single DIN console that I hacked the ashtray out to fit the tablet.
The new console was blue so I had to paint it to match the rest of the interior. The color is weird being green-ish dark grey which is a bitch to match so I just made my own color and color matched the whole under dash part lol
My seats are torn though
Can't decide if I should just get the stock ones recovered or find other factory seats to fit which
gonna cost the same but then the fabric won't match. Or get some aftermarket shit ($$$$) dunno yet.
Then I was getting so sick of my crooked shifter so something needed to be done about it!
Before. It's in neutral.. not 4th
During
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