Tony is really good at staying on top of his game if you know what i mean

 

wow tony, i think ur car is really going to start some ****.

its def. cool to see you buying/using/fitting parts most ppl dont know about or use.

****

 

Ive been following this thread for a while at work.

def have to say its going to be one of the cleanest eg's out there

 

Dam Tony I want to see this thing put together already, its giving me goosebumps.

 

By far my favorite EG EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cant wait to snap the pics of the people that swarm this

 

Definitely man, and especially for the price I got it for I had to ****** it up!

yes thank you for that big league facial.

yes there's a lot of crazy wierdos but i love them all. Thanks!

Thanks bro. It's like people always say, "it's never finished"

casey's mind is forever in the gutter.

what exactly do you mean? you damn freak

haha thanks trav! I dunno about how much stuff I'm gonna start, but I agree that I've used a few things here and there that you don't see that often. I just go with what I like and what I think works.

thanks man, means alot

trust me man, i want to see it back together more than any of us and want to drive it again so bad!

shut up pecker head. you know people swarm your car. we even got pics from the last ia meet to prove it!


Today I got the front upper control arms, knuckle assemblies, and coilovers on. Tomorrow morning I'm throwing the rear coilovers on and towing the car to the painter.

I've been going back and forth but I'd like to hear some opinions. Leave the door handles black, or color match them white? Part of me says to leave them black and keep everything just like an oem civic cx paint scheme came. Another part of me says white door handles will flow better and look less "cheap". Keep in mind side skirts and lower portion of rear bumper will be staying black. Also, Si and (i think?) Dx hatchbacks came with color matched door handles, although they did have black side moldings to break it up a bit.

 

paint matched

 

I hate black handles, makes the car look more 'base model'. If you don't have keyless entry, and you're constantly sticking a key near the handles, leave em' black!

 

your **** is f@ckin sick!!

 

Why aren't you running a boot with the FLP shifter? I did for mine and it came out nicely, I think.

 

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I've been going back and forth but I'd like to hear some opinions. Leave the door handles black, or color match them white? Part of me says to leave them black and keep everything just like an oem civic cx paint scheme came. Another part of me says white door handles will flow better and look less "cheap". Keep in mind side skirts and lower portion of rear bumper will be staying black. Also, Si and (i think?) Dx hatchbacks came with color matched door handles, although they did have black side moldings to break it up a bit.</TD></TR></TABLE>

I thought about it Tony and its hard to say what I would do.

Paint matching them probably would flow with the car better imo.

Most people I've seen paint them so you could leave them black just to be a little different and like you mentioned keep the car with some of the original exterior look.

Decisions, decisions.

 

I would do black handles, due to your always getting in and out due to this being a dd, and you want it to look like an oem CX. I still cant get over the fact your painting this. **** was mass clean already!!

 

personally i like when the door handles are left black along with side moldings. It makes it look like the owner cares more and wants to keep the oem aspect of the car. Painting everything to me just seems like the owner just dropped the car off and said paint everything which seems lazy. meh.

 

Ill give you my opinion later when i call you again baby

 

Not sure if this helps you Tony, but when my CX was painted they sprayed the handles too. I was going to paint them black, I think it looks a lot better with the CXs. I'm buying a seperate set of handles and painting them black though, so if I get bored with the look I can just swap the handles back to color matched.

Robbie and I were looking at a bunch of EG pictures and we both came to the conclusion that almost all of them look better with the handles painted black ASSUMING you don't have moldings. Which we dont.

Personally i'd leave them black, or do what i'm doing and have bobby paint a set, then pick up another set and landau black em.

 

Also, i get the same feeling seeing painted door handles as i do fully painted front bumpers with no black grill parts etc.

 

id say leave it like the stock Cx came.

either or its still gonna look good.

 

Thanks for the input so far guys. Keep in mind the car will also have black front lip and carbon fiber mirrors.

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It was clean but there's no comparison between fresh paint and 16 year old paint. Plus my bay looked better after the respray than the rest of the car

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I like the look and it's a little different so I did it.

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I have keyless entry, but even if I didn't I'm super careful so scratching it shouldn't be an issue.

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I thought about it Tony and its hard to say what I would do.

Paint matching them probably would flow with the car better imo.

Most people I've seen paint them so you could leave them black just to be a little different and like you mentioned keep the car with some of the original exterior look.

Decisions, decisions.</TD></TR></TABLE>

yeah man its been driving me crazy..

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Yeah but anyone who knows me or Hondas will know I didn't just drop it off because the grills, bumpers, etc are all painted to precise oem spec. Also, it's not like it looks like a cheapo paintjob because certain trims of the same civic came with painted handles from the factory.

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either or its still gonna look good.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Thanks for your input

Keep the suggestions coming...

 

Yup....leave it stock black. It'll look better for what you seem to be going for

 

fine tony dont even quote my ****

 

It was just my 2 cents. Im sure it will look sexy as hell either way.

 

hmm, either one would look good imo.

basically you can't go wrong here!

just make sure it's done so i can see it at IA

 

Paint match the door handles.

 

Do whatever Jorge says to do! Hes smart.

 

I agree. I also like paint matched it will look more like tony's wet paint bonanza!