lol family home for the holidays looks like a Civic mini-meet

 

There was still water in my dizzy. Dizzy is dry now, everything works. There was water in my engine but not enough to hydrolock. Water is gone. Tires are properly inflated, oil is changed, and I now have a full spare set of shocks (traded some headlights awhile ago). It was fun to see the car up on a lift. I always like to inspect stuff for myself. It appears that I have a minor oil leak at my crank seal.

(I got to see the redneck method of pulling springs off a shock without compressors. Just FYI, Honda springs will throw a shock about 30 feet when you just pull the nut off.)

I got my stock intake back from the attic and its almost ready to reinstall. I'm sick of my SRI. It's a completely useless add-on. Its just for show. There's no point to it unless I do exhaust, a nice port and polish, and get a port matched header with the rest of the exhaust. Besides, all of my couplers are beginning to disintegrate from the heat.

 

I must have done something wrong when I did this with my suspension from my 98 Civic. They only went about 12 feet

 

lol you fools. dont do that! yall gonna knock yourselves out with a heavy spring!

 

I do it like that but I do it while it's still on the car so that nothing goes flying anywhere


Then to reinstall you set the new spring on the shock and then use a jack to jack up the LCA so that the spring compresses... then tighten the nut from the inside of the trunk.

 

that actually seems like an alright method to use. but since the compressors are free to rent at auto zone, i'll just stick with the compressors

 

She started right up despite the worn out battery and the cold. But I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. Too much ice, too many hills. Got a police escort to work. (Perk of working for the police.)

...

(but they made me ride in the back.)

 

i love the taillgihts

 

^Thanks.

Here's my fix for the lip: an aluminum scrap and copious amounts of epoxy. Great cell phone pic, I know.


It's a bit cool for effective painting but I went ahead and did an awful job of repainting with the little paint I have left from this whole project. It's far from perfect but from a distance it gets the idea across.



At this point I just want the thing back on the car instead of hanging from the wall in my room. Paint is a luxury. And wow, I just noticed you can't see the coat hangers in the pic. It's not nailed to the post or anything...

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Oh man it looks tacky as hell. Ooooohh man, its great.

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Restored!


While I was fixing that, I found some bad news. I need a new tire on the passenger front.




That's not really safe. Ugh.

 

you did a good job fixing that lip, I can't even tell it was ever f'd up

and yea, get that tire replaced pronto.