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Old Apr 14, 2009 | 10:24 AM
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^^^^^^^ loooks liek someone needs a sig change.... lol. more than one gold civic on HCF now itinerant.
 
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 12:45 PM
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Haha, done. Glad we have another titanium metallic civic in the mix.
 
Old Apr 14, 2009 | 12:48 PM
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Originally Posted by MaximusFunk
the paper lettering is a crafty idea, looks cool. I like the tail lights too, big improvement from stock. sucks about the clear coat gash though. i bet if you used some high grit wet sand paper and ordered some color matched paint/clearcoat, you could do it yourself for much less. I just painted my spoiler, and got color matched paint from http://www.automotivetouchup.com/spray_paint.asp

The match was perfect, and cheapest i could find online. shipping is slow though. mine was yr525m-4, there is another yr525m with diff number at end, not sure what yours is.

Looks pretty sweet so far, good luck, I know how it is on a college budget.
heh, my progress thread has been going on for awhile. The clear coat got fixed awhile back. That site is great. I did a lot of my color matching with paint from them. My paint is just YR-525M, no number after. You could paint all of your black trim with one or two cans. I'll be doing the same soon.
 
Old Apr 15, 2009 | 05:16 PM
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God, I need to start looking at these projects more often lol... the car looks amazing with the 17's, Brad... and the headlights turned out great
 
Old Apr 16, 2009 | 12:56 PM
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Old Apr 16, 2009 | 04:07 PM
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Alright. I've ordered another $100 in paint supplies. 3 cans of YR-525M, 2 cans of clear, and 1 can of adhesion promoter. If I need more, Autozone is just down the street. I still have about 1/8th of a can of YR-525M and a half a can of clear from the other painting adventure. This should give me enough to complete the exterior paint!
 
Old Apr 16, 2009 | 04:13 PM
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change your sig! I wanna see those lights on the car

ninja edit: well, on your car in the sig....
 
Old Apr 19, 2009 | 07:04 PM
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Well guys, the car now sends out a puff of blue smoke every time I start the car. (Well, after it sits for 8 hours or so.) So... damn. An engine might have just been bumped higher on the list than I thought.
 
Old Apr 20, 2009 | 06:23 PM
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Fog lights are back up! There were 2 problems.

1: the wire coming off the plug on the fuse box had come off the plug.
2: the fuse on the power wire from the fuse box had melted. Looks like it might have even boiled from heat. The fuse itself was still good. Well, good in the sense that it hadn't blown. But it was deformed and trash. I'll monitor the new one to see what happens.
 
Old Apr 21, 2009 | 12:05 PM
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I like how you painted your fog lights to match the car, where did you get the paint from again?

I just got a set and was contemplating painting them black but maybe a color match red will look nice.
 



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