thanks guys

ej1, now that you mention it, it kind of does look like the BYS bumper... the vents to the sides of the air dam are a little too wide though.

and mybrokenblinker, I really want an h22... but I also love having a slammed car, and with the way the h22 sits in the engine bay, I'd be buying new axles every other year lol (and an h2b is kind of expensive). Not to mention the whole ground clearance thing. Also, from the swap walkthroughs I've read, with an h22 (going into a car that was born an automatic anyway), you have to bend part of the frame out of the way like half an inch to even get the h22 to fit in the bay... I don't have a lift to throw the car on, so that part of the swap (lowering the engine and seeing how much/where I still have to bend the frame) would literally take all day.

 

Okay, yesterday the guy that was buying the kit from me showed up, and me and my friend threw the kit on his car, along with his new 18's. Honestly, seeing how the kit looked on the car, I was sad to see it go. But I got a perfectly good set of stock bumpers/sides, along with an added bonus: an oem front lip on his bumper. So I'll be transferring the lip to my bumper most likely tomorrow. Also, I decided to scrap the shaved sides idea, since with the nice new paint I'll have, I don't even want to risk them cracking or anything. Also, black oem side mouldings will break up the mass of solid blue and go well with my blue & black/carbon theme. And this means I won't be getting a carbon front lip... besides, the oem one will be way more durable than carbon fiber anyway.

Anyway, here's some pictures of the guy's car (personally, I like it):






And if anybody's wondering, on the last picture, my friend hung out the window to get the shot lol

So I'll probably be ordering new tires for my 17's so I can throw them on soon, as well as buying a twin-loop muffler and some other odds 'n' ends for the project. Also, I'm going to have the wheel stud and brake rotors replaced at a shop in the next month or so. I'd do it myself, but I hate working on the brakes... the bolts never want to cooperate with me lol.

 

wow....read your thread...looking good. i like the shaved moldings, look good in my opinion.

 

looks good for a body kit you done good work

 

thanks guys

anyway, I didn't have work today (too much rain to work outside), so I figured I'd get a little work on my car done. I finished at 7:45, so it was too dark for good pics... I'll get some good pics tomorrow if it isn't too rainy.

Anyway, here's some teaser pics:


Finishing off the rust work


Shaving the front license plate holes


License plate holes shaved


And here's a little project I'm going to start on the side: fiberglassing my shattered old mugen style front lip. I'm also thinking about making some one-off fiberglass mugen style rear valences. I'm sure most of you have seen pics of them on EKs... I love how they look, but mugen never made them for egs as far as I know, and even if they did, they'd be impossible to find and expensive as h**l.

Anyway, here's what the lip looks like now (in 7 pieces, and I'm missing once of them)

 

wow you must love doing bodywork. Everything looks real good

 

Yeah, I enjoy it a little

there's just something relaxing about doing body work.... I'm not sure what it is.


So anyway, here's the pics from today (I won't have side mouldings until after the new paint job):





Anyway, so here's my plan with the body: since I have two sets of bumpers, I figure I might as well have some fun with them. Obviously, one of my front bumpers will have the oem lip. Once the mugen lip is repaired, it'll go on the other bumper. One of my rear bumpers will have my type-r lip, and the other will have those mugen-style valences I'm going to be custom-fabbing. Everything (well, not the oem lip and side skirts) will be color-matched to the car (metallic blue), so if I want to change the look of the front/rear of my car, all I have to do is loosen 7 screws. And if anyone's wondering, yes, I plan on having two or three different valve covers so I can change the look of my engine bay in 5 minutes

 

muhahaha.... I'm double posting[sm=idontcare.gif]

anyway, I started fiberglassing the front lip... I was originally going to just patch up the lip where it cracked and/or broke.. then I decided screw that... I'm going to make this thing borderline indestructable... I'm coating the whole thing (front and back) in two layers of fiberglass... anyway, here's the pics:




I still have a few places to patch up (I need to make a new mounting flange on the stage-right side and there's a few chunks completely missing that need fiberglassed over), but this is only the first layer.

 

well i think it will still be able to break lets face it that thing will hang down and if it hits something like a curb.... the force put onto it by a..... what 2Klb car (no idea how much a civic weighs.) its gonna bust!

wish ya luck tho..... i would have started the body work on my 94 BUT i dont want to do any sanding or what not in this cold weather and i dont have a cheap heater for my garage.LOL

 

sweet looking lip man! on your car and the one you're fiberglassing.