Heh if you did the cover better hope your airbags never go off, otherwise you'll have a piece of carbon fiber blown at you. The cover right now will split for the bag to come out. If you take out the airbag they do make carbon fiber airbag delete trays which you could make yourself.

 

Well I was looking for something cheap to do while I wait for my resin to come to finish the carbon fiber. I will be doing the carbon fiber console lid over, and the door inserts will be done by this weekend. The resin is coming Wednesday.

So I found a diy on ht for making hood dampers. I like the look but I didn't want to spend $100+ on Tien's. So what I did was using the rear window struts off an eg hatch, I made my own brackets, and made my own hood dampers. I have to finished the driver side, it was 11 when I finished the passenger. I just have to do some modifying the the driver side brackets and it is done.

Just having the passenger side done it looks good. Just the passenger side strut holds the hood up by itself. It holds it up at the higher position where you'd put the prop. My friends and I call it the JDM hood height. I have no fitment issues, closes fine, just took some tweaking.

I made the brackets out of a bed frame we had sitting around. Lots of dremeling and grinding. I miss not having access to my schools machine shop, would've gone much quicker. In total I spent like $22. $20 for the struts off some guy and $2 for the nuts for them. Project kept me busy for a day and will look sweet so why not. I'll put up some pics.

Like I said, the carbon fiber will continue its process when the resin comes Wed. I fixed my door panel and got the inserts ready to go. Wednesday I'm picking up another y8 harness for my car. I am going to extend all the wires on this one in preperation for the bay shave/tuck. It'll save a few days of soldering then. The guy will sell me the harness for $70, and he says it is clean, can't remember if he cut anything off, he said if anythings cut it is the vtec plug. I'll just cut one at the junk yard. I may also pick up an intake mani off the same guy. Sand it smooth and polish the outside nice and shiny.

Long paragraphs I wrote, sorry. Congrats if you made it all the way through. Here are a few pics of the dampers. They will be completely done on Wednesday. I work all day tomorrow so nothing will be done!

The bed frame, strong metal and FREE! If I was still in school I could get any metal for free but not anymore:

The bracket on the hood:

Bracket underneath the fender:

The end product on one side:



Ended the day with:
1 burnt finger
1 gouge in a finger from the grinder
1 slice in the same gouged finger from the metal
1 shin bruised as f*** from walking in to my front tow hook many times

 

Pretty good idea dude, +1 for you! =D

 

Well the harness buy fell through. He texted me today and said he depinned/cut off more plugs than he remembered. So I'll just be extending the harness when I pull the engine and everything, oh well. I need to find some stuff to do to keep me busy next week. My parents are leaving for 10 days for Colorado which means I get the garage for those 10 days and the truck to drive if I need to go somewhere.

 

hmmmm party?

 

Scott is a true gear head...his parents are gonna be gone for 10 days and he's plannin on spending some time with his car instead of throwing a mega party He's a prime example for us all lmao

 

Well the pics are kinda sh!tty cause I took them at night but here are the dampers done. They are AWESOME, they will hold my hood at the first lower pro height, and if you give it a lil nudge they will pull it all the way up. They support it perfectly, very cool thing to do if you are bored. Cost me a whole $22 for the struts and nuts.

I also lowered my car a lil more. Had to even all the wheels out too, driver side wasn't sitting too even. The front GC's are almost all the way down, odd. There's like 1/2" left, rear have over an inch left.




Also I'm in progress of carbon fibering the interior stuff. Should be done this weekend.





Just ordered a new B&M short shifter. $55 shipped not bad, it is a dual bend. I also ordered black ES linkage bushings too.

 

The hood struts look pretty damn nice. Definitely fit the DIY spirit. For the short shifter, what's the difference between dual and single bend?

 

Its a shorter distance to shift w/ a dual bend

 

No, whether it is a straight shifter, single bend, or dual, they all have the shorter distance of shifting. And some even sit at stock height and still lower the distance, it is what is with the geometry and stuff on the bottom half. But the bend is just a matter of where the **** is. In a dual it brings the **** closer to you. All Integras have dual. All civics have single bend. It is really just a matter of feel.