Yeah i was prolly just gonna hit up ebay for a look-a-like grille haha most stuff i get wont be like legit jdm or whatever mostly oem or knock off not even gonna lie.

So got a quote on all the a/c work today...gonna be like fricken $78 bucks is that prety average or should i look somewhere else?

 

for a full charge thats a good price. up here i think midas quoted me like 150bucks for a full vac and charge last year with my old 96civic i had.

 

Really? Okay then i feel a little better about that price, after everything it'll be a total of about $80. So I'm just gonna get that scheduled for Thursday.

Also, Ive asked Lewis before on how to replace an alternator but could someone post it on here again so that i could maybe check mine out and see if i could find the ***** enough to replace it myself haha

 

Vac and charge is sooo easy to do. You can rent the vacuum from an Autozone, at least here. HVAC is pretty simple on our cars.

 

Im not gonna try to do it myself tho...dont wanna f@ck that up

 

so got the a/c fixed this afternoon yay! just got the alternator left to fix yay! im pumped! i wanna get a drop so bad yall dont even kno haha i hate looking at my hatch and seeing how tall it is anyway just venting haha f-ing college haha

 

So set up a photobucket so got pics now!

Center cap pics:









Debadging pics:







So yah there yall go Dont have pics of the painted badging process cause didnt have the camera for that im sorry...ill try to get pics of the whole car on Monday enjoy

 

And ever since seing Scott's car with the new front bumper and all i think the mugen style lip has grown on me...im thinkin i might wanna get that one instead of the replica type r one like i was originally thinkin before.

if i got the mugen style id make the front of my hatch look like this:

 

So idk what i was thinking the other way when i said i thought i could do the alternator swap myself BULL **** idk who i was kidding i was gonna do it today after school since i didnt have any homework and i found a used one for like $100 (the guy said it worked really well before he swapped the motor into his daughters car) anyway so i took to the old alternator in the car and couldnt figure out how the f@ck to get the daym thing off? What Lewi had told me to do on his project thread made no sense once i looked at it closely...could any of yall help me?

 

with my old 99. it was kinda a PITA. i cannt remember exactly how i did it.... the first time i poped the lower balljoint loose and pulled the axle shaft out from the tranny, and then removed the oil filter and droped the alternator out that way. i dont remember if i pulled the axle or not the second time. and its still a tight fit either way. ive heard some people say they pull it out from the top BUT IM CALLING BS since i tried and there was really no way it would have came out that way!