**not my car
what if i cut that piece in the middle out? how do you think it will look? im thinking of cutting it out. do you think it will effect teh stiffness of the bumper?

 

i like it on, i dont think it will look that great off. Id get sick of it.

 

it will make the bumper slightly more flexable, not really anything to worry about though.

I had to cut out to fit my cooler into place... sorry, not sure how it would look otherwise.

 

so should i try it?

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lol would you miss it that much?

hmm sumtimes i look at it and i wunder twkdc5 do you have any pix or yours? is your body stock?

 

look through the picture topic, you'll find some pictures of people's cars with intercoolers. You'll get an idea of what it looks like without the bar.

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a quick photoshop of my car, brightness upped so you could see more detail of the bumper.

I don't like it.



sure makes it hard to mount my fog lights!

 

u did that with photoshop? crazyness welll thats awasome kniob i gues it doesnt look to good after all yoru right. maybe if i had sumthing to show off inside of it but i guess it stays.... wow its like magic.... hey i like your corners did you paint them ive been wanting to do that also. amber corners but i dunno if i should buy sum or paint mine

 

Hey I know the owner of that pic of the Accord. I don't know if he'd like it. He might but i don't know.

 

hahah i was using his car as an example it was the first pick with an ok shot of the front grill

 

yeah stock bodied 5th gen all around... I have a pic if you want to see.

 

hey thats my caR!

i like it in, i cut out two pieces of it today tho to install oem fogs..

 

how it looks now

 

dam thats sooo nice!! did you paint yoru grill the same color as your car kinda like the diy grill?

 

ya i painted it, but its not really like a diy grill cus i didnt hack it to hell, but i did spray it so its a "painted grill"

 

i think it would look very nice with a lip such as mugen or WW

 

I would leave the grill unless you're going to fill it with a FMIC .

edit: cd8 your car is ******* sex....it might become my next project car (97 2dr accord and boost on the f22b1...... ). Sorry to thread jack but cd8 what motor setup are you running; h22 or f22b1 or boost or... TIA

 

 

i dont suggest you do it unless you have an IC in there. it only stresses the obvious if you do so

 

Don't have 96/97, but I had to cut the dogshit out of mine to fit the 3.5" thick i/c. Probably could have done a better job if I wanted to, but yes, mine has lost a lot of it's "stiffness", but then again, the 94/95's don't have the bottom support anyway if I remember correctly.

 

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I had to hack up my bumper pretty good to fit that IC in there too. My engine has stock internals right now planning on building a block on the side, so I can be cool like you :-)

OT: do you have a custom DP? My turbo is internally gated and the DP was a BITCH to make because of how close it sits to the alternator.

 

Yeah, I made it out of half a 2.5" donut and some other 2.5" bends. It's very close as you can see in the pic. I'm going to build another one as soon as I get my new welder wired up. I still have my A/C compressor, but not enough room for the pipes, so have to fix that - summer in florida is coming up fast! I'm probably going to do a vband next time since it's a bitch to get to the bolt under the inside bend.

 

h22 built by me

 

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did you de-chrome your grill or did you just paint over it? did youfill in the egdes too?

 

here's a pic of mine with the intercooler in


here's a pic before i was turbo

 

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more pics of your car dude!

 

dont wanna get too off topic but here' some links of pics your requested.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1109750

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1110222