OG Wagon

Car looks great! Love the new visors. Love how you pushed through all of the hate early on in the thread and kept doing your thing. Your persistence really paid off!

opc

only thing that would really set the look off is not stanced, but maybe 25-35mm wheel spacer in the back, 15-25mm in the front and some more camber

hlsilver

Love the build man. Visors look pretty good for stick-on.

usdmJON

hahaha thank you! It was a fun way to start off the progress thread. Sure there will be more to come once the wheels become more aggressive and the styling heads in a VIP direction. This wont be for some time though.


Plans are to rebuild the wheels. Once I do they will fill the wheel wells a lot more and should come to the same end but with just some wider wheels/lower offset instead of spacers.

Sadly. These Work Wheels are a dual bolt pattern. The extra holes actually changed how work made the spaces in the back of the hub for the OEM lugs to hide in. So on corner I need to run a minimum of 25mm spacers to clear the lugs. That or grind one of them down 5mm. Not down for that though.

Next year. Completely rebuilding the wheels. Going with 19in step lip conversions. Dream specs are around 19x9.5 +20ish.


Thank you. I agree. I had HIC visors on my integra and was happy with their quality. Waited 2 years for visors to finally get developed for this car. Was happy to see it was HIC and happy to see I got the same quality as before.

Up close they are a TAD tacky. But still 100% better than nothing.



One new pic... rest from the last page.

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Loganej8

Clean car Jon, nice to see something different

usdmJON

Thank you! I am really enjoying this car and the fact that the only other modded ones I have seen have been on-line and even then only 3 or 4 Id consider actually modded... mine being one of the less modded of those.

Next is exhaust, new lighting all around, and a couple interior pieces then saving to rebuild the wheels.



One very small update. Met a guy whom is developing his own line of LEDs. Says after years of using ebay and other LEDs he has finally tested a very large portion of them and learned what to use and what not to use for premium LED lighting.

I went with a $20 reverse LED he suggested and holy crap it blew me away.
$20, 12 year warranty, and they are BRIGHT.

This is during mid-day in my garage. Left is the philips, right you cant even see. The right are the old ebay LEDs.

Next will be the 30w brake lights he developed. Calls them AFspec. The pictures he has shown me are incredible. He also has made his own fogs and drl/high beam applications which I will be looking into once he make them in amber but he wants to first sell a bunch of the white ones.

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hungrygreen_gsr

Those are super bright.
The car is still looking great bro. Have decided on whether or not you will buy it out once the lease is up? Not sure if you posted that already. sorry if I missed it.

usdmJON

No worries. Plans as of now are to buy it out. I like the power the new ilx makes and the the new headlights but just today i found out those headlights are in the new accord. Dont care as much about them knowing they'll soon be on most new acuras and hondas.

As for power id rather keep my car than trade for more are start the payments thing over. I always had the mentality build what youve got so i dont need the quickest car to build something that will make me happy.

Bags, more low, wider wheels, finish up the bolt ons and a tune then ill be happy.

And once a shop like ktuner makes their tuners support fi and larger injectors for my car ill go that route.

usdmJON

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Bought the car out. No more lease. Now 100,000 mile warranty. Very happy. Looking into pick up the OEM sides and aeroflow skirt extensions next. Then bags.

Loganej8

congrats on owning! Excited to see what happens next.

usdmJON

Ive been hearing a lot of negative about aeroflow. Namely that that sheet metal is very easily bent and then looks bad.

I may just save right now and get the whole air ride under way. Then once I see how it looks aired out I can figure out if I want to do anything with the sides.

supaman

Any update on this?

usdmJON

Sure.



Not sure exactly where I left off. Not done much lately. New lighting to replace the **** ebay LEDs I had bought in the first year. Got 25mm spacers at all four corners so it is sitting much more how Id like. Attended Spocom. Was actually surprised to see a few people stop to check out my ILX among all the much nicer and in depth builds that were there. Definitely made me want to take a spear home one day though so I now have a goal.

Some shots from Spocom Anaheim. I rolled in with another ILX but he was parked diagonally from me so not shots of the ILXs together.








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Tested 2 LED options made by a friend that sells LEDs as AFspec. Great guy and really knows his ****. I have taken suggestions from him for all my lighting now and I have been blown away with the results of each set.


Left OE. Right are AFspec 280 LEDs.


OEM BRAKES


AFspec 280s


Left are alt lower powered LEDs from AFspec that he'd typically suggest as an upgrade to OE. Right are the 280s that he described as "lighting up the world". They are so bright. My cop neighbor bought a set from him after he saw the results. hahaha

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Brice.Hayden

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I liked the Works better.

usdmJON

Well they arent gone but I do agree. They are sitting in my garage right now. Theyll be sent out soon to be rebuilt.

I just didnt want to sit on stockies while the works got redone and these weds are in my top 5 as well they went for a steal of a price imo so i couldn't resist.

usdmJON

Tossing around what I want to tackle next.

Future projects:
1. Bags
2. Interior (dash mat, rear pads, custom tray, curtains, etc)
3. Body Cosmetics (side & rear kit plus skirt extensions)
4. Bolt-Ons (header, mid-pip, axle-back)

Probably in that order but we'll see. Sloooooowly saving for bags. About half way there. Not in any real hurry as the coilovers aren't that old.

ssmrico

looks good I need some of those Phillips h8 bulbs for my fogs on my Infiniti lol

usdmJON

They are awesome. I still love looking to my right and seeing a foot or so of yellow since the fogs are wide beam and cover a wider area than the OE headlights.

ssmrico

lol nice I try to find them and no luck on the page working, u got a good link?