Damn putting in work on this thing! glad she will be nice and clean for tonight

 

I would of waxed it but I had to remove tree sap from my stepdads car and then it was night. I'll bring the lube haha lmao jk

 

Tree sap.... . I hate trees

Keep me posted party guy!

 

Brakes went in yesterday. Now I just have to break them in and get it aligned and corner weighed today. I'll post pictures later.

 

Where's the pics mang!

 

Haha my bad. Been chillin all day. I'll post em now, give me a few minutes

 

This Wednesday me and SHG_EasyE tackled the brakes. He did most of the work though ahha. The old brakes were really shot. All sides had lots of grooves from the caliper not applying even pressure. The rear pads were terrible and the fronts actually had a lot of meat left. That would be because the rears were seized quite good whereas the fronts were seized too but the inner sides of the rotors were almost untouched! The front calipers were barely working. There was rust build up on the inner side of the rotors haha.

Turns out the new front right caliper had a stripped bleeder screw and it wouldn't tighten so it kept leaking. Then Evan had to tap it and re thread it. We ended up using the bleeder screw from the old caliper bc it was a tiny bit bigger and we were able to bleed the brakes and be on our way.

Car stops pretty good now, at first the brakes only worked with the pedal down almost all the way but now its broken in a bit and it feels good. I can easily lock the tires if I want to. These pads have a lifetime warranty too which is nice.

Also threw in a new lug in the right rear, no longer 3 luggin it :-)

Big thanks to Evan on this one, really coming through! Thanks for the new lug nuts all around doggie!

The alignment and corner weight is going to be done tomorrow



Before:



After:





Oh and I got new wheels



haha yeah right jk, just test fitted those. I wish they were mine!

Finally just a shot of the car as of today

 

I like that fresh caliper peeking through in the last pic

 

man! you really needed those brakes. what are those two dimples on the front rotors for?

 

Looking good.

 

Same!
Yeah I did, baddd. Those dimples are wear indicators. When the rotor surface is even with the bottom of the hole, it's time to get new rotors. Cool isn't it?
Looking even better now that it's tucking tire! EasyE and I got the alignment done after we dropped It a bit. It got corner weighed so I've got a cross weight of 49% which means the car is very neutral. I didn't want the car to sit too uneven. The fronts had a lot of toe in but now they're straight. Pictures later! Thanks

 

good ****

 

This is where the alignment started yet, unfortunately I forgot to take a pic after it was done. The car weighs about 2,325 with a full tank and fluids.







Tucking tire in the front hell yeah!



And in the back too!









I took this today, looks pretty good IMO.

 

looks good homie!

 

Well you know me!

The front left looks a bit high but thats because its corner weighed so with me inside it levels out.

 

Pictures from yesterday

 

so did you string align it?

 

Yup string alignment and corner weight.

 

That last shot is money, I think SI wheels are one of the best wheels for EG hatchs. Car is prutty!

 

lookin really good! good job gettin with shg he will keep your **** legit

 

Yeah it is, I like the wheels too, they just need a refinishing. Appreciate the support fellas

I'm on a good combo here, lets not stop!

Thought I'd tackle my valve cover, the paint was chipping and it just wasn't clean enough.

Bolts out.



Head is in really good shape, only thing I noticed is that one of the threads were broken off, I'm pretty sure it was because it was tightened a bit too hard and it cracked it. Reason I know this is because after I put back the valve cover I managed to do the same to the other thread So now its 2 broken threads. Its not a huge deal but still shitty. Look to the right and you can see it. The second one isnt picture because it happened after I put it back.



This is what I started with.





Crappy green primer coming off.



Wetsand is a must.




This is where I stopped at, it got late, I'll finish it this week.



Also removed my front license plate, I can get away with not having one hopefully.

 

Your ride makes me want to get an RSX, so on point its like

SHG guys know their stuff for sure.

 

alway the same ! Nicer than ever :D

you can go lower ? :p

 

Good stuff. Yeah the no front license plate is iffy. Especially where I live. They have checkpoints for that crap here.

 

haha mann i wish i had an EG no payments ftw!