ok, so on my way to finally get my prelude up and running, i messed up again. its been sitting for months waiting for me to weld on a new front radiator support. i got all the new parts got it ready to go. i figured i would test drive it down my road to make sure it was ok to drive. since my old hood latch got busted up, i used zip ties to hold it down. long story short, zip ties dont work very well. the hood flew up and ruined the roof and windshield so i think i'm forced to give up on my lude. i guess i'll put the h22 into something else. let me know if anyone's got any cars for real cheap...

 

Damn that sucks man. How many zip ties did you use? How big were the zip ties?

 

ha 2 1/8 in ones i guess...they looked sturdy enough to me. i'm so mad

 

Should've used those real thick ones. I know the feeling, cause I did the same thing in my friends CRX a few years back, but we were using bunggie cords, and I guess it slipped off, and hte hood flew right open and busted the windshield throwing glass all on me. I was mad, but then I started laughing cause this car was such a piece of **** beater

 

haha mine's become a piece of **** lately. i could always do a targa top now haha

 

I attached my hood with nothing but zip ties once. No hinges or anything . Do you happen to have another motor you could drop in there and sell it for cheap?

 

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damn dude that sucks...ouch

so ur parting it out huh?

I could use a few things....I'll pm you.

 

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haha

 

haha thinking about doing that

 

wtf?!?! how fast did you go?! hahah.. if i knew my hood was held on by zip ties, i wouldnt leave my neighborhood

 

i dont like the convertable i think the targo would be better and did you get my pm about the headlights?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by prelude_h22vtec &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">ok, so on my way to finally get my prelude up and running, i messed up again. its been sitting for months waiting for me to weld on a new front radiator support. i got all the new parts got it ready to go. i figured i would test drive it down my road to make sure it was ok to drive. since my old hood latch got busted up, i used zip ties to hold it down. long story short, zip ties dont work very well. the hood flew up and ruined the roof and windshield so i think i'm forced to give up on my lude. i guess i'll put the h22 into something else. let me know if anyone's got any cars for real cheap...</TD></TR></TABLE>

Man, that happened to my friend's celica same thing he tied it with some type of cord and we were just running 40mph and it flew good thing it did not went to the windshield but it went to some trailer houses. that's sad..

by the way, that convertible looks funny. Is that USDM 4th gen?

 

I've always thought those convertible jobs looked awesome, I know a lot of people don't like them but I think they look great. Too bad I have no where near the bodywork skills to do something like that.

 

dude my hood flew off today, lmao. short story but i got a hood from a friend and the hinges wouldnt line up so i just latched it down well i popped it at a gas station thinking I could check my plugs but i forgot it was hooked up to the hinges so i dropped it and drove down the road and took a turn and my whole hood went about 15ft sliding down the road and ended up sitting under someones car waiting to take a turn.. it was embarassing lol.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by GraphiteMW &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">dude my hood flew off today, lmao. short story but i got a hood from a friend and the hinges wouldnt line up so i just latched it down well i popped it at a gas station thinking I could check my plugs but i forgot it was hooked up to the hinges so i dropped it and drove down the road and took a turn and my whole hood went about 15ft sliding down the road and ended up sitting under someones car waiting to take a turn.. it was embarassing lol.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Sometimes I wonder how more honda tech kids don't die each year. There are a number of things on your car that you need to take the utmost care with when working on, and the hood is definitely one of them. Don't ghetto rig that ****, it is not worth it, look what happened to the OP.

 

last time i ever do some **** like that...

 

i sure hope the lude gods dont slay me in my sleep
RIP lude






and for anyone wanting the headlights: