My wife and I were discussing this, and she said that I was absolutely insane for wanting to keep my 91 Accord EX stock. After hitting a pothole that bent my rim I spent 3 months looking for a decent replacement.

Everything I found was about $125-150 plus shipping! When I finally found one at a junkyard for $30 I drove for 2 hours to pick it up. For some reason she thought that this was stupid and that I am "out of line with reality."

Was that really that bad? Or is this the right kind of support group for this kind of determination?

Have any of you done anything worse just to get/keep your car how you want it?

 

i drove 2 hours to NY just to pick up a rear black widow 2 bumper lol for 50$ and when i got back it just sat in my garage and i ended up selling it lol

 

installed a sunroof on a 98 coupe for $1300 (they installed a fully automatic sunroof)

 

I wrecked my car, then paid $1500 to fix and replace everything with a full Black Widow II Bodykit and then 2 years later when I realized I was rice and saw the light I paid $3000 to return everything to stock.

 

Bahahaha
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i did the same thing except i did all the body work lol when i first installed my kit and fully molded. lol and then i paid like 2k to get it it back to normal and Paint. lol check out my sig. link to car domain lol

 

i drove 6 hours to pickup a set of oem sideskirts for my 2001 coupe.. Now i cant wait for spring to install them!! damnit!!

 

i actually paid for one

i am split between hpde(fun and additive) and turbo(fun and additive also)


Modified by iam7head at 2:37 AM 1/25/2006

 

Accord -

Put money into it.

Civic -

I spent $2500 on a full turbo set up for my SOCH VTEC. Then was to get it installed for $500.

3 days before the scheduled install my timing belt broke. 4 days after that my water pump snapped in two.

The money for install went to fixing the motor. Never got it installed. Sold my EH. Then sold the turbo set up for $1500 a month later.

Still pissed to this day...

 

stupidest: Venom 400. 'nuff said.

 

i drove a total of 6 hours over 2 days to get mine.

i hate this POS

im selling it

 

I haven't sold it yet...

 

91 accord exr, 312'000km, still running great!

Well up to now the most time I spent on that car was swaping for an h23a3, took me and 3 of my friends 13 hours to swap and a few days to repair other stuff that kept breaking (exhaust line, water fluid leak, wiring trouble, etc...)

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by LewDawg &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My wife and I were discussing this, and she said that I was absolutely insane for wanting to keep my 91 Accord EX stock. After hitting a pothole that bent my rim I spent 3 months looking for a decent replacement.

Everything I found was about $125-150 plus shipping! When I finally found one at a junkyard for $30 I drove for 2 hours to pick it up. For some reason she thought that this was stupid and that I am "out of line with reality."

Was that really that bad? Or is this the right kind of support group for this kind of determination?

Have any of you done anything worse just to get/keep your car how you want it? </TD></TR></TABLE>

And well, as for your wife, if she dosn't like cars to start with she will never understand any amount of time you spend on it... You juste have to find the right balance between your car and your wife, but 2 hours is not that crazy.

 

my driver's side leather seat had the oh-so-common rips in it....on the door side bolster it was down to the foam. My uncle, who is a HUGE car guy, offered as a graduation/birthday present, he'd get the seat professionally repaired (the same guy that did the interiors on the corvettes he used to build back in the 80's). well, since he lives like 2 hours away, and the job would take a week or two, and i needed a drivers seat for that time, he hit up the junk yards....he actually found a cloth seat from a wagon w/ the same interior color....unfortuantley someone had died in that seat....there was still a bunch of blood stains and shards of glass all over it when i got it....i rolled with that thing for 3 weeks

cliffs: i seat in a blood and glass soaked drivers seat for 3 weeks so my stock leather seat could be fixed

 

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Oem bumpers front and back, oem sideskirts, new fenders, fixed a few door dings and such, and painted everything.

 

Installed an Ignition kill switch
Had a driver tailgating one night while out for drive w/wife (about 6' off my bumper)
Had wife watch out rear window
turned ign off
waited about 10 seconds
turned ignition back on
wife fell over laughing when 10' flame emitted from exhaust with loud report
Scared S*&^t out of tailgating driver
Tailgater backed WAY off

Haven't done it again since

Hey, you wanted crazy.....

P

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by P_Adams &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Installed an Ignition kill switch
Had a driver tailgating one night while out for drive w/wife (about 6' off my bumper)
Had wife watch out rear window
turned ign off
waited about 10 seconds
turned ignition back on
wife fell over laughing when 10' flame emitted from exhaust with loud report
Scared S*&^t out of tailgating driver
Tailgater backed WAY off

Haven't done it again since

Hey, you wanted crazy.....

P</TD></TR></TABLE>
that's great. i would so get arrested by california's finest for that though. but some people deserve it so much. muha ha ha. but that's great. beer for you sir!!

 

quote: "beer for you sir!!"

i second that motion.

that was some crazy *** funny ****. i would have loved to have been there just to see the expression on that tailgater.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by P_Adams &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Installed an Ignition kill switch
Had a driver tailgating one night while out for drive w/wife (about 6' off my bumper)
Had wife watch out rear window
turned ign off
waited about 10 seconds
turned ignition back on
wife fell over laughing when 10' flame emitted from exhaust with loud report
Scared S*&^t out of tailgating driver
Tailgater backed WAY off

P</TD></TR></TABLE>

Okay folks, I think we have a winner! That's great!! LMAO

 

but which would you rather do, drive 2 hours to get a part fixed/replaced/pick it up or drive 2 hours for a girl? (for those of us not married yet or not old enough to do so) I'd do both.

P - I wish you had that on tape, i would watch that over and over again just to see the look on that dude's face. Props to you.

 

I lament I didn't record it for posterity myself. Unfortunately it's one of those things that only present themselves once in a life time. Looking back, I consider myself quite lucky (once I stop laughing about it) that I didn't wait much longer to relight the ignition. Any more raw fuel in the exhaust would have taken out the muffler (at Least), and the pyrotechnics would have been far more spectacular.

I've satisfied myself with regaling my kids with stories of my miss-spent youth (who? P?) and other moments of outright hysterics. Just remember, it's the quiet ones you've got to look out for

P

 

~takes notes and plans install~

 

What cause the flame....? The kill switch? or did you install one of those flamethrower things

 

danm... 3 weeks??.... did you clean the seat or covered before seating on it?

The craziest thing I've done was driving a chevy cavalier with a blown head gasket and transmission problems to massachusets and came back.... ....the car only broke after I was back in florida.... lol
..anyway... crazy....?!.. ahhhh.... not driving an accord... now that's crazy!
Accords... I love 'em all!!!!!

Peaaaaaaaaaaaace....

 

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Simple logic, the kill switch is on the ignition. When turned off, no spark light up but gaz still continues to flow in the cylinders. Gaz comes out in the header unburned and ready to ignite. When you put the switch back on, one single explosion is enough to make the unburned gaz in the exhaust explode, and basicly scare the **** out of anyone behind

 

You want to know where the flame came from?
If you ever have a chance to fire off an engine without it's exhaust manifold attached, you'll be treated to one very surprising pyrotechnic display as flames shoot from the exhaust ports.
Because of timing events as pertains to the cam timing, Ignition occurs before the exhaust valve completely closes, thus you've got live flame coming from the engine.
The effect was caused by allowing raw fuel to pump directly thru the cylinder and out into the exhaust system by momentarily disabling the ignition. The raw fuel was ignited when, as the ignition was re-established; combustion recommenced - sending a flame into the exhaust system.
OK?

P