hb420 - HOLY ****!!!! I would be heated as ****. They don't need to take the wheels off, if it's on a lift to do a alignment.They should pay for the damages.

 

Hahaha

 

They are trying to tell me that they were prone to break because they were old... they also tried telling me a spring was missing from my centercap but at the same time they were calling my wheels konig wheels. tuesday the owner is suppose to call me and if he tries to bull **** me i will take them to small claims court.

 

lol the mudflaps on my old car were scraped more than half way off haha

 

My mudflaps have an inch cut off of them and they are still close to the ground lol

 

Yeah, but EK mud guards are shorter than DA's already lol

 

and DA chassis hang hella lower than EK chassis, my piping was almost touching the floor driving around

 

Which act did u get?

 

Great thread.

Though I must say.. My current project is far more bought than built. Not by choice though.

I got the car stock, I planned the build myself, did my own research and selected the specific parts I wanted and what type of motorsports I wanted to build the car for.

But I do contract work for a living. So usually 8 months of the year I work 90+ hours a week. One contract was a year long... Meaning I worked 14 hours a day for a year straight with no days off. My car spent that whole year at the mechanics getting worked on.

I do as much as I am comfortable doing myself.

I installed all my stereo gear, did some electrical work, installed the leather interior, changed the bumpers and panels myself after a colision before, some suspension work like sway bars, strut bars, lca's and end links, installing cf hood and trunk, done some of my own repairs like replacing the coolant hoses, the list goes on. But it's all little stuff.

I still cut myself, sweated my bag off under the car, and even shed a tear once when I ****ed something up.

Anyway, props to you guys that can do everything yourself. I'm far from that at this point, but I aspire to get there one day.

 

Here's one of my DIY's from a long time ago that I did for ***** and giggles:






I busted my front lip for the third time last night. It was so cold last night that the plastic must have been very brittle, cause the lip just barley touched the ground.

I took some pics this morning of the damage.


Here is the way the car looks right now.





Now here is the peices that broke off the car last night.






There's no point in putting a new front lip on while it's the middle of winter, so I'm just gonna fix it.




Stage 1

Secure the remainder of the lip with two zip ties linked together, then drive around for a couple weeks like that.

LOL












Stage 2

ABS lips only tho:

Go to home depot or canadian tire pick up a bottle of pure ACETONE (should be with the paint thinners), grab some paint brushes too, bring all the broken pieces inside and let them warm up, start off by painting the acetone onto the broken edges of the small pieces first, fit them together and hold em together as long as u can while brushing on more acetone on either side, the acetone basically melts into the ABS plastic and causes the broken pieces to melt into each other, therefore when it drys back up, u should have one solid piece again, continue doing this with all pieces and you melt on more pieces of ABS plastic onto the backs of the cracks.

BE PATIENT and do this as nicely as you can. It should work fairly well, keep in mind tho that acetone will eat through paint.

3 pieces into one!

In the last pic you can see where some of the ABS is actually melted onto my thumb.











I tried CD and DVD cases with no luck, they didn't bond to eachother at all when I used Acetone.

But 3.5" floppy discs work

Now I'm going outside to take the lip off my car! I'll have'er all done today!





Final result









All done!

Ha, 48 hours ago this lip was in 7 pieces.

Now she's all patched up and freshly painted.

If I can fix this ABS lip, any ABS lip can be repaired. Total cost for Acetone and Paintbrush $10, plus about 5 hours labour.

I know it's pretty ghetto, but I also wanted to see if it could be done.





The lip lasted 6 or 8 months until I broke it again... I bought a new one that time.

 

damn man, i'd have flipped **** on them! good luck with that whole deal. and no, they are not supposed to take the wheels off for an alignment

sprung 6 puck

 

I used to balance all the tires for my customers with an alignment just to ensure there was no vibration.

Only other reason id say they had your wheels off is they needed to heat your tie rod and didn't wanna chance dammaging your rim

 

Sand it down a bit now, and throw some lightweight body filler over it then get some primer, color match and duplicolor acrylic clear and then wet sand and buff it. It will look almost like nothing happened.

 

Ya that would have been the best way.

But ive got another ABS lip since, which has some zip ties in it as we speak, lol. When I crack it a second time I'm gonna go with a polyurethane one. See how tough they are.

 

Nice EL man

 

Thanks

Mod list here:

http://www.nine-o-fiverides.com/phpB...hp?f=41&t=2694

 

idiots, they did this to me once when I had the stock hubcaps on the accord, dumbass took off three fake plastic lug nuts on the cap, with an impact wrench

 

sorry i've been gone for a min but this is what i've been up to..i turned this
into this and this is some pic for everybody.
this is my buddy showing us his IQ.oh ya i did this too



got to keep my wife happy....i also did a little under the hood of the lude.. it went from this

to this

 

"OH VTEC!" you should draw in "****" so it says "OH ****! VTEC!"

 

^^^ your funny

 

i also put together an 2door 90 model teg but i didn't take any pic

 

what do you guys think about my gay *** purple paint scheme

 

here is a pic i missed

 

Hi, im from panama city in central america, I introduce you my project B18ls-vtec boosted on an EM1

this is the shell when i bought it



and this is it right now.

 

^^^^ very nice... i love the color