I did a search on this and to my surprise i didnt come up with much.

I want to know what home made things you have on your car and how you made it. Every thing from performance to cosmetics.

The reason i ask this is because I'm a poor guy, but i want to get the most out of my civic.




[Modified by 90_Civic_Hatch, 2:43 AM 10/12/2002]

 

I built a home-made cold air intake. It's a POS. I spent $120 on the beast because I ordered wrong parts. Also, the K&N filter cost me like 60 bucks shipped?

- I didn't notice a difference at all in performance.

I'm gonna end up buying an AEM model anytime soon though...

 

i made the following:

Home depot lip
JDM front license plate holder coming off the front toe hook.. ( it's mounted on the driver side of the bumper)
3 ball shift **** (drilled out pool ball... yes, it really is a pool ball)

hmmm.... i dunno what else..

 

i painted inside the housing of my clear corners orange,and left the outside clear....and i build half red/half clear tails out of my former ricer clears

 

Hahahahaha got any pictures?

 

I have a homemade B16a... j/k.
making my own hatch cover, and rear speaker mounts (for 8" 3-ways).
everything else is aftermarket.
you could just buy a cheapo air intake off ebay for like $25, thats a start.

 

4" elbow bolted in place of stock resonator box, requires some trimming of the sheet metal in front of the wheelwell, where the stock resonator goes through.

stock crx si airbox, arm trimmed down a few inches, bottom front section cut off to offer more air flow to the stock filter, via the 90 degree home depot elbow.

integra ls intake arm, trimmed at the throttle body side about 1" (1 section of the ribbing) this is much bigger than the stock crx arm that was currently choking my B16.

cut and rewelded integra ls shift linkage

cut and rewelded stock shifter. about 3 inches shorter, with a standard 4 speed ****. 4 speed **** OOOWWWNNNNSSSS!!!! little ball shape, looks stylish.

 

i built some body suport bars inside the car like strut bars but going from on side to the other, to prevent body support, but u need a welder and know how to use it i made the bar that goes on the top part of the back seat belt bolts up, they make them for eg but not for ef so i made it i dont have pics yet but came out bechin

 

you guys all have some good ideas here.

I was planning on doing the strut bars also. I have a welder and know how to use it pretty well. what did you use exaclty on yours? I'm thinking a pipe and 1/8 sheet metel in a L shape Kinda look like this on the drivers side 7-------

thats was the easiest way i can explain it.

 

i just went to home depot or local metal shop and got 1/8 inch or 1/4 inch metal plate cut it with plasma cutter and for the bar i use 1' tubing 120 wall that the thickness of rollcages and i wanted mine strong, like a bull!

 

Homemade ground strap. My brother braided some copper wires together. Put two eyelets at each end, soldered, heatshrunk sleeving onto the soldered joints. Looks weird but should provided good path for current flow. Current carrying capacity depends on the cross sectional area of the wire(s)....I think...

 

Not really true home made, but I'm almost complete on my junkyard turbo set up. The piping will be actually home made, and the IC was custom made from Bezerker.

 

i made a homemade hyper blinker.. it was kinda cool because i put a potentiometer in place of one of the resistors and i could adjust the speed from so fast it's constantly on to really slooooooow.

but it finally either burned out my flasher relay or the potentiometer and it doesn't work.. so i just bought a replacement and never modified it

 

ok.. pics were requested, so pics will be posted:




yes, it is quite a handfull... so is the car on an autocross course.. hahahaa


[Modified by Rexman, 3:28 AM 10/13/2002]

 

haha that ish is tight rexman...you autox? where do you autox around VA? i'm in woodbridge, but usually around FC and fairfax...let me know where the autox events are so i can check 'em out...only homemade thing i have is a filter heat sheild...going to be an icebox as soon as i can get to homedepot...HOMEMADE stuff owns!!

 

i have a homemade front crossmember, i made my motor mounts, i made my shiftlinkage, i made several short-shifters, i made my lower rear tie bar, my battery location, and my old cold air intake all welded.

 

I made my own cluster Vtec light , made my own dash vents, and made my own JDM "Vison" corners.

 

Chrome moly beam rear axle, alloy bonnet, leaf spring rear suspension, RCI seat mounts, CAI, fuel cell, exhaust system, lexan hatch (yet to finish), door trims, motor mounts, modified Miata rims, bumper mounts.....

 

made my motor mounts, made my E6K wiring harness, made all my turbo piping and mounts, made my shift linkage. lots more, just cant think of it.

 

toilet seat covers

 

dang guys most of the **** sounds hella tight but where are the pics at...im picturing it but i dont see it ....

 

I haven't built anything performance wise, but I do have a custom box in my trunk for a single 12. It's flush with the floor

 

Made my own all orange corner lenses. And I also made the lenses on my side markers orange. And pretty soon I'll have a custom home made cat-back exhaust, except I won't have the cat.

 

Stock shifter made into a short shifter, corner lights painted orange(doing that right now) and I think thats about it. I also painted the 's black

Anyone have pics of the "Home Depot lip"?? I wanna see what this looks like....


[Modified by mr. skelly, 11:44 AM 10/27/2002]

 

haha, this is a post for guys with alot of time on there hands, jk, i wont lie about my once derived Wigwam sock intake, jk