sonikaccord : 1992 Accord EX

[sonikaccord]

Project: Nina

I guess I should finally make this now that I'm out of school and blah, blah...

I have had tons of projects that I never finish because I move on to something else. I have grown out of that somewhat

I'll upload random project pics as the thread grows.
I'm focusing on tightening up my suspension this year. The car has given me thousands of miles of awesome, reliable, stock performance. Now it's time to treat her to what she deserves.

Current status as of 10/14/2013

Wet sanded, waiting on compound, polish, wax....even though the paint is trash.
This was a shits and giggles, spontaneous type of thing. It's also good practice. Slightly polished my tails too.

















Engine
Autozone short ram
H23 plenum
Double stacked spacers
70mm TB


Interior
Stock
Dirty
Skunk2 weight knob

Exterior
Legend coupe lip
Sunroof visor
All clears
Vigor Spoiler

Suspension/Brakes
5 lug swap
08 Accord wheels
Acura RL Calipers
350z Rotors
Prothane total kit
Moog Balljoints

ICE
"Constantly revised"
None as of now

Future Plans
LED tail conversion-planning
Front and rear sidemarkers-have
Vigor Hedalights-have
Paint or wrap-planning
Bodywork-planning
Koni sp3s w/ GC sleeves- GC sleeves ordered
Enkei RPF1s gold-saving money
Progress rear bar- saving money
ESP bars and mounts- ordered

[Stoner51]

Nice work. I wetsanded mine this summer. Looked like shit before I polished it. Then Bam. It looked great.



steve

[sonikaccord]

Thanks.

It's crazy how much oxidized paint comes off in the process. I think I started at too low of a grit than I had to. 400 to 2000.

[sonikaccord]

More pics:

[Stoner51]

Did that ball joint press work on all those bushings?

I had to cut the metal ring then hammer it out with a chisel.

steve

[sonikaccord]

It worked on all of them except the rear upper arm bushing. I kept bending and distorting it. So I got some more from the jy and cut those out.

[blackenwkn]

Looking good man I really need to do all my bushings how much did you pay for the kit?

[mugencivic4dr]

nice, idk how i feel about the vigor headlights. i guess after you do the swap i can give my unneeded opinion about it.

on another note, I WANT YOU CLEAR TAIL LIGHTS!

[sonikaccord]

Looking good man I really need to do all my bushings how much did you pay for the kit?

I believe I paid around 200 for the kit.

nice, idk how i feel about the vigor headlights. i guess after you do the swap i can give my unneeded opinion about it.

on another note, I WANT YOU CLEAR TAIL LIGHTS!

Thanks, I like the aggressiveness of the vigor headlights off the car. Wherm's conversion looked pretty clean, except I'll have a stock bumper and a custom grill made. That's the image I have in my head.
There is a pair of all clears fs right now...I think unless someone grabbed them already.

[Stoner51]

Wherm did a One piece vigor or legend headlight swap years ago. It looked like a lot of bodywork.
I would get a JY hood and practice. Or maybe you are a body man now.

It looked pretty involved. I don't think quite as involved as his bb6 dash swap though

steve

[SPLCB7]

Sweet I finally get to follow your car! I like how the all clears look on your car seen a set a few days ago on a black car it didn't look very good your fit your car well....

[sonikaccord]

Wherm did a One piece vigor or legend headlight swap years ago. It looked like a lot of bodywork.
I would get a JY hood and practice. Or maybe you are a body man now.

It looked pretty involved. I don't think quite as involved as his bb6 dash swap though

steve

I'm nowhere near a body man, through years of several f'ups I have learned to take my time doing things.

Sweet I finally get to follow your car! I like how the all clears look on your car seen a set a few days ago on a black car it didn't look very good your fit your car well....

Yessir, I think you'll enjoy the ICE plans...

[sonikaccord]

Some ideas thrown around...

[Stoner51]

DAMN.

Thats the only word I could think of. I could prob learn some stuff from this build.

steve

[sonikaccord]

Update: I got my GC coilovers in the mail, and I have to go pick my esp mounts from the PO, the rest of my ESP bars should be here soon. I should post a video of how much body roll the stock suspension has...