About almost a month and a half ago I wrecked my R because some fat lady cut me off from an intersection when I was going straight (with right of way), you can refer to post here for the accident pictures: https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=2066369. With the finalization of 100% being not my fault in the accident, my insurance issued me a check for the repair. What I had in mind was that I can't really trust any of the insurance referred body shop if I was going to go back to a JDM Front End. Therefore, I pursued one of my close friend who knew alot about body/machanics/jdm.

To make the story short, after we finally got the hood off, we found out that my car had very bad frame damage on both front side of the chassis, total lost front end, including all A/C lines were ripped in pieces, and the whole P/S assembly was a goner. She was for sure a total, but my insurance inspector was very generous and kept my car's clean title, and considered her to be only damaged but repairable


Thanks to R-Crew in South San Francisco, I picked up a clean HID JDM front for a good price with multiple hoods, fenders, grill, radiator supports, headlights, and bumpers to choose from.


To be lucky enough, my friend's uncle worked at Acura as a frame specialist and also a body shop owner, I had my frame pulled almost 99.9% back to OEM shape. After painting the frontend at the body shop, we move my R back to my friend's house to put everything together.

If you read my accident post before, what caused this catastrophic damage to my R was because the small reinforcement bar that comes with the JDM Front End ; therefore, thanks to DC4Kid's pointers , I was able to put in a USDM reinforcement bar on to the JDM Front




Then we had a little break before buffing out the car



We had a little trouble with the clearance to fit the waterbottle in for the windshield wiper due to the size of the oem hid ballast, if anyone knows how to custom it in anyway, please pm me


on my way bringing my baby home:


Finally brought her home to have her cleaned up a little. SIMPLE GREEN FTW


Rewarded my self with some goodies:



sorry for the crappy phone pictures, I will take some good shots of the car when I have the rims in. Thanks for everyone who supported me when I had my accident, greatly appreicated it. A lot of people said the drive would be way different because I had frame damage, but the car feels better than ever, plus..I didnt put the A/C back in

big thanks to G-Blocc





Modified by erasa510 at 10:29 PM 10/1/2007

 

dude good job on bring that r back! wow i must say looks great, plus the extra goodies on the side are nice . maybe one day ill do a itr restore!

 

good job man! looks beautiful. good choice with the HIDs

 

looks good

 

Glad you were able to get heR fixed and keep the clean title.

 

for a job well done

CaR looks as good as new

 

Very glad to see that you were fortunate enough to be able to return the car to near mint condition! Nice choice on parts! Those are my dream wheels

 

awesome fixes!!!

 

Sick man, those Regas will look sick on that CW...

 

Very nice! Love the front end.

 

Bringing her back from the dead, just in time for Halloween! All kidding aside, it took allot of work to bring this one back.

 

You have to get the JDM water bottle as the top piece can flex. Plus that'll get you more JDM points at the shows

 

That one has come a long way back.

 

seen it at school today looks better than before

 

thanks everyone

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thought so, thanks!

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saw urs today too, slammmmed *drool*


Modified by erasa510 at 10:44 PM 10/1/2007

 

nice!

 

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thought so, thanks!

saw urs today too, slammmmed *drool*


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neg. still considered a "monster truck" to many

 

wow that was a quick fix! you should have gotten a k20

 

good **** nicc

 

congrats man looks great

 

The JDM windshield wiper fluid bottle will correct your problem. The opening of the bottle sits flush with the hole under the driver side hid ballast. Just remember to keep the top somewhat off. I find mine somewhat hard to get to.

Here is a pic for ref. Hard to see but I tried

 

Congrats man, that's pretty impressive to bring that back to life after all that damage and make it look that good, love the new parts too

 

very nice man! Front end was ROUGH! glad to see you brought it back to life! post a vid sometime soon.

 

nice work

 

i have the wiper bottle for the hid front. you have to use the bottle that came specific to the hid front. lmk if youre interested. pwjdm wants 90 plus shipping, ill take 45 shipped