You don't ever want to make a ground wire longer than it needs to be in this case. Same thing with amplifiers.....
Interesting. Maybe my 95 accord was like that too, but I never noticed.
Today I ordered a pair of Outlaw II wheels for the rear. I had been debating what to do with the wheel setup, since a 7" wheel will have clearance issues in front - but today - I saw a 1970s Chevy Nova with the stock black wheels up front and hubcaps, with a pair of 15" wheels in the back with large tires. It looked like exactly what I wanted, so I will get the front 13x4.5 wheels painted gloss black, polish up my two favorite dog dish caps that I have, and get some chrome trim rings for them, then add the 14x7 wheels in the back with some 245/60 r14s on them. It should get me close to 10" of meat on the back, which is a lot better than the 5 I have now... Then I'll swap the front tires for some matching white lettered tires as well in the future.
Next comes the Weber 38/38 for my new intake
a sewing machine for vinyl, and a new aluminum radiator, and if money left over - new carpet.
More crankcase ventilation
Oil Cap breather + crankcase breather.
It looks like shit but I can fix up the lines later.
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[QUOTE=Serj22;43827185]Interesting. Maybe my 95 accord was like that too, but I never noticed.[/QUOTE]
I'm guessing that you had the 4 cylinder model. If that's the case it almost certainly had that ground, hell my V6 has the ground on the lower valve cover on the lower left bolt.
Did some research, and found that [b]IF[/b] I wanted to put an NSX engine of the same year in my car I'd need to get front mounted fans, make a short short upper hose elbow, machine a rear engine/transmission mount and move my cruise control actuator. Everything else would be plug and play and no, the NSX engine does not turn the other way, face the other way, have the axles the other way and DOES, in fact, bolt to the very transmission that is stock to the V6 Accord.
I also bought these:
[img]http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZFl-S5oVL._SY300_.jpg[/img]
And 2 of these (led amber):
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Got my Amazon gift certificate in and the rest of my money, so I ordered:
2x Outlaw II aluminum wheels
Weber 38/38 DGES carb with kit to adapt to a 4.2 (carter equipped)
Brother Denim rated sewing machine
Distributor recurving parts, and new nylon gear
Cup holders to make a new center console
Kickdown cable Lokar system
2 row Aluminum radiator
and soon will be the carpet, new dash pad, etc...
Tomorrow I'm going to the fabric store for all my burlap and foam, and get all the vinyl.
I want to give a thumbs up to FIAT for not making the IACV replaceable on the 1.2 8v engines. I had to clean it with a thoothbrush...
Well the head gasket on my 94 ZJ took a shit yesterday. With 263,000 miles on her I suppose it was time. I really don't want to do anymore work on it so I'm looking into just getting a 2013 Wrangler Unlimited.
Continuing work on the GF's car. Head just finished from machine shop. Now the task of pulling the block from the bay to clean the mating surface. Re-sealing everything like the oil pan and front + rear main seals. Update the timing chain system then paint the engine hot pink for her. Pretty much just a 90K maintenance interval (even though 250K already lol). The bottom end seems to be healthy so trying not to spend too much money.
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[QUOTE=sHiBaN;43837631]
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There's a lot of water passages on that head. Looks clean. Hot-tank, resurface, and paint? Or are those new valves too?
I paid $270 for mine to be redone, although my head is larger, from a dude named Beavis. Literally. I'm never going to anyone else for machining again. He's the one.
Also, Hot pink will look killer. Put a couple gloss white and black pinstripes across the valve cover too for good measure.
I got all my fabric today for the full interior. So far I've spent about $90 on vinyl. They had some silvery carbon fiber style stuff I just couldn't pass on. I want to use it to seperate the black and white vinyl, but essentially the pattern of the seat will be white, black centers, and these cool grey twill cf pattern stripes up the side of the black portion.
Imagine this is the seatback:
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Also, white vinyl is expensive, so hopefully i don't need more.
[QUOTE=Serj22;43838381]There's a lot of water passages on that head. Looks clean. Hot-tank, resurface, and paint? Or are those new valves too?
I paid $270 for mine to be redone, although my head is larger, from a dude named Beavis. Literally. I'm never going to anyone else for machining again. He's the one.
Also, Hot pink will look killer. Put a couple gloss white and black pinstripes across the valve cover too for good measure.
I got all my fabric today for the full interior. So far I've spent about $90 on vinyl. They had some silvery carbon fiber style stuff I just couldn't pass on. I want to use it to seperate the black and white vinyl, but essentially the pattern of the seat will be white, black centers, and these cool grey twill cf pattern stripes up the side of the black portion.[/QUOTE]
They wanted $255 when she was quoted $100 for a basic do-over. It's pressure checked, resurfaced, bead blasted and hot tanked. They re-seated the valves and checked clearances as well as changed to new valve seals I supplied them with. They also perma-coiled broken threads and removed broken studs. I talked them down to $155 hopefully since I'm a frequent customer lol.
Very nice; I need to do vinyl coverings for my interior as well. Like a portion of the door panels and glove box need to be replaced. I might do suede though
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;43838520]They wanted $255 when she was quoted $100 for a basic do-over. It's pressure checked, resurfaced, bead blasted and hot tanked. They re-seated the valves and checked clearances as well as changed to new valve seals I supplied them with. They also perma-coiled broken threads and removed broken studs. I talked them down to $155 hopefully since I'm a frequent customer lol.
Very nice; I need to do vinyl coverings for my interior as well. Like a portion of the door panels and glove box need to be replaced. I might do suede though[/QUOTE]
This is going to be full on upholstery. Ripping the seats down to the bare springs - got new burlap for the springs ready for foam and using the old seats as a pattern. If you have some patterns for suede I can make stuff on the cheap for it.
[QUOTE=Serj22;43838742]This is going to be full on upholstery. Ripping the seats down to the bare springs - got new burlap for the springs ready for foam and using the old seats as a pattern. If you have some patterns for suede I can make stuff on the cheap for it.[/QUOTE]
GF is industry designer, she makes her own stuff. She made my shifter boot :3
[QUOTE=Serj22;43838742]This is going to be full on upholstery. Ripping the seats down to the bare springs - got new burlap for the springs ready for foam and using the old seats as a pattern. If you have some patterns for suede I can make stuff on the cheap for it.[/QUOTE]
I want to do this to my Beetle too and I made a quick photoshop design idea for my seats in the future:
[t]http://puu.sh/6M7xG[/t]
[QUOTE=Ldesu;43839053]I want to do this to my Beetle too and I made a quick photoshop design idea for my seats in the future:
[t]http://puu.sh/6M7xG[/t][/QUOTE]
They sell white vinyl like that on ebay. It's about $10 a yard, and one yard will probably do both seats. It's already pleated and ready to go like in your drawing.
[t]http://imageshack.com/a/img268/988/f9cs.jpg[/t]
been working on the civic
[QUOTE=Dylan_94;43843697][t]http://imageshack.com/a/img268/988/f9cs.jpg[/t]
been working on the civic[/QUOTE]
That d17 <3
So fresh, so clean :)
Ah I wish I had a garage to work in, I live in the middle of the city. No room but parking spots to work on my car. Renting a place isn't an option either as they cost a fuckload....
[QUOTE=DPKiller;43811736]So today I went and picked up my 1963 VW Beetle.
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1031910/VW%20Beetle/IMAG0471.jpg[/t]
I will enjoy the parts I get off her, or will make it into a lets go crash into shit buggy.
Best [b]50$[/b] ever spent.[/QUOTE]
Holy shit, for that price I'd either turn it into a drag beetle, or a Dune beetle. Shit looks fun as hell.
No dunes around here, I'd probably throw a turbo subie engine in there and take it to the strip
I'd probably scrap it for profit.
[QUOTE=TheCube;43851302]I'd probably scrap it for profit.[/QUOTE]
that's boring
[QUOTE=TheCube;43851302]I'd probably scrap it for profit.[/QUOTE]
That thing is rusty as shit. Junkyards don't buy rust with wheels
[QUOTE=iRex;43850882]Holy shit, for that price I'd either turn it into a drag beetle, or a Dune beetle. Shit looks fun as hell.[/QUOTE]
What are "dunes" all we have around here are trees, swaps, and mud.
IF ANYTHING she will become a circle track car, for racing along with the 2 other major VW people in this part of texas.
[QUOTE=TheCube;43851302]I'd probably scrap it for profit.[/QUOTE]
Also on my "what to resort to" list. BUT I have to chop of the frame into pieces. (Cutting torch huehuehuehue)
[QUOTE=iRex;43851922]That thing is rusty as shit. Junkyards don't buy rust with wheels[/QUOTE]
Correction good sir. They don't buy cars that you don't have a title to nor a notorized bill of sale. SOOOO
you have to chop it up for short iron. (Cutting torch huehuehuehue)
It's all straight lines and road courses around here, I wish there was a dirt track oval nearby. I have to go all the way to Southern Speedway all the way over in Florida for my preferred racing type
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Didn't clean and prep properly. But it's a 240SX that will be rat/post-apoc, Mad Max theme in the future. Bleh. Beats the white paint it had before
rat look on imports is terrible
Was really unhappy with how I couldn't see shit with my stock bulbs, so I went to Advance Auto. (Eventually I want to get projectors or proper HID's but that's muuucccchhhhh later, so this'l hold me over for now.)
And there was a grounding problem with the driver side headlight and it was dim. The passenger side foglight needed to be mounted correctly because the mount was broken and the bulb inside needed to be replaced.
I can see to [I]forever [/I]now.
Before:
[IMG]http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3810/12426296015_4673fc0d7c_c.jpg[/IMG]
After (Apologies for the shit picture, i'll take a better one tomorrow.):
[IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7301/12426360433_e59a43f6b0_c.jpg[/IMG]
I'm kinda enjoying changing this car to how I like it one step at a time - it's not good for my wallet though.
Even though this car is like an unwanted stepchild that I forcibly adopted after my other beloved kid died.
Recently upgraded my bumpers and lights, also with a new paint job
Before:
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[IMG]http://gyazo.com/73b584df3991b67ed222553e854fdda7.png[/IMG]
After:
[IMG]http://gyazo.com/e92b463ef258f0b26a77bafc61aed6ee.png[/IMG]
[IMG]http://gyazo.com/cf9c4c56dd12498b008e5cd770db1938.png[/IMG]
Also did the interior trim myself (the wood was cracked everywhere)
[IMG]http://gyazo.com/8cd07f691c9c175d400f14f13f7afb64.png[/IMG]
Why does your radio say Nissan
for your before pics, did your badges get stolen or something? people keep stealing the badges on my aunt's BMW M6. she bought it brand new in 2010 and has had to replace the badges 6 times since then
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