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Old Oct 29, 2009 | 07:00 PM
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I know I'm kind of late for starting this project but i have many plans still ahead but I'm still in high school and jobless(for the moment). This is my first build so don't bash anything to hard! but give any kind of feedback!
I picked this up last May for a deal and began working on it
Bought it with:
Ls swap, rear disk brakes,rsr exhaust,Si lip and sunflowers(sold them for a bro discount and steelies cause I had no money to my name!)


Replaced rear brake pads and a shitty crankshaft pulley and pulled out the ac compressor.
I found out I was missing the seal thing underneath the console so I put a rubber seal on that seals up the shift linkage that comes up into the cabin and now I'm never sweaty to work


Then painted the front and back bumper, side moldings, and mudflaps with trim paint.they needed it bad and I newspaperd my whole car just to be safe




^I only managed to get 3 of the bolts on each of them but they stay down good


I had a bad coolant and vacuum leak on the backside of the Intake Manifold
Also I had an air leak in between my brake booster and master cylinder
My friend who works at BMW let me use the lift and we both :
cleaned the IACV
replaced the two hoses that go to the IACV
Put a new IM gasket in it
rethreaded some wheel studs
Tried to put a 92 non-abs integra brake booster but did't fit( I guess they messed up) so I just took the rubber gasket/seal things and put it in my old one and it fixed the leak.
then bled all the brakes and called it a night




cashed a few checks and bought some powder coated meshes with brand new Dunlops for 300

Then the worst happend... a headlight bulb popped out while driving and I had a small fire
replaced the air filter
and I was bummed so i took it to my friend and he fixed all the wiring that got burned so its good as new!
my hood was a little black so i painted it vv


Also put in:
spark plugs
new wind sheild wipers
spark plug wires
passwordJdm type R shift boot
some ball shift ****
Si armrest/console
Jdm corner and blinker lights
New speakers
Its on skunk 2 coilovers and tokicko blues

painted my valve cover baby blue and traded my meshes after like 1 1/2 months(i loved them though) for newly powder coated gold slips with brand new 205 Khumos


Any feedback is welcome

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Old Oct 29, 2009 | 07:07 PM
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Nice deal on the wheels
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Old Oct 29, 2009 | 07:42 PM
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Nice deal on the wheels
Thank you sir^
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Old Oct 29, 2009 | 11:32 PM
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diggin the wheels dude. fresh
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 12:33 AM
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damn dude nice ride. good job keepin it clean! i know it's hard to do that in high school, but good job!
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 03:56 AM
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thank you guys and yeah two summer jobs helped! and I bought it with a few things done because buying some of those parts new would have killed me

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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 10:25 AM
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looks good
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 11:00 AM
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Damn, nice job man, car looks good.
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 11:38 AM
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The car looks great! looks like mine but clean. Haha. I'm starting an LS swap into my hatch really soon. What do you think about it? Does it pull hard enough to have some fun with?
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 11:49 AM
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looks simple and clean for a dd
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by EFlove91
The car looks great! looks like mine but clean. Haha. I'm starting an LS swap into my hatch really soon. What do you think about it? Does it pull hard enough to have some fun with?
If you get some add ons put on it you'll have fun with it just get some mounts and exhaust and you'll be zooming
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 07:38 PM
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and thanks everybody ill have another update coming
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 08:09 PM
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wow thats tight my ls is still in my guradge havnt come up with enuff money to drop her in but im in the prosses of putting my dohc zc back in and im in high school doing it outa our shop sucks with this economy have had lots of problems with my crx keep up the good work...
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 08:39 PM
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looking good
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 08:59 PM
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i'll keep an eye on this build
goodluck with the project dude

great work so far
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 09:28 PM
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good job. im currently in the same situation as you, except im not getting as much done as you!
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by r b k a
good job. im currently in the same situation as you, except im not getting as much done as you!
Keep up the good work bro.
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Old Oct 30, 2009 | 09:58 PM
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Car looks clean, i like the clear bumper lights though.
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 07:25 AM
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Originally Posted by r b k a
good job. im currently in the same situation as you, except im not getting as much done as you!
Thanks everybody. ^ And I've had to slow things down alot because of being unemployed.
Also is there anyway to make my car run less rich? I've been getting poor gas mileage because of it
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 07:36 AM
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Originally Posted by NotoriousCRV
Thanks everybody. ^ And I've had to slow things down alot because of being unemployed.
Also is there anyway to make my car run less rich? I've been getting poor gas mileage because of it
o2 sensor?
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 08:20 AM
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wheels are dank man
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 08:53 AM
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o2 sensor?
should I just replace the current one I have now? could it just be faulty or something
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 08:54 AM
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wheels are dank man
Thanks you never really see slips on ef's
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 08:57 AM
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hell yeah that color just pops out. pretty dope
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Old Oct 31, 2009 | 09:00 AM
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The body looks pretty clean.
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