The G-Man : 1993 Accord LX

[chessboxer]

awesome install man, good to see someone doing things right, and really good to see more bordeaux red love.

[The G-Man]

Over the past few months it has occurred to me that I am going to be in dire need to replace pretty much the entire front suspension components soon (except the springs/struts). All other stuff, besides springs/struts, are original as far as I know and have taken a beating over the past 14 years. I could easily do all this stuff a bit at a time, but it would be much easier to do at once since pretty much everything requires the axle nut to be broken, and as everyone knows that is a bitch and I would like to minimize that as much as possible.
Therefore I plan on replacing the:
*Front suspension bushings with polyurethane ones
*Lower and upper ball joints
*Brake rotors (not completely necessary yet but I think they are getting warped)
*Wheel bearings
*Brake calipers (I have a set that I am going to rebuild)
*Brake pads
*Tie rod ends
*Brake lines with stainless steel braided

On that note, I have a list of stuff I am looking into and would like some feedback on what I have picked so far.

Rotors & Pads: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/90-97...mZ190077903943 $130 shipped

Upper and lower ball joints:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/90-97...mZ190077903943
$105 shipped

Stainless steel brake lines:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Stain...QQcmdZViewItem
$84 shipped

Polyurethane bushings:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Energ...temZ8029045814
$95.05 shipped

Brake caliper rebuild kit:
http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductD...pe=223&ptset=A
$19.25 with 7% local tax

Tie rod ends:
http://www.partsamerica.com/ProductD...ype=82&ptset=A
$38.48x2=$76.96x.07+$76.96=$82.35 with tax

Wheel bearings:
http://www.hondaautomotiveparts.com/auto/jsp/mws/prddisplay.jsp?inputstate=5&catcgry1=Accord&catcgr y2=1993&catcgry3=4DR%20LX&catcgry4=KA5MT&catcgry5= FRONT%20BRAKE%20(AKEBONO)&vinsrch=null
$105.10 shipped

Overall I am looking at:
$620.75 in parts, plus about a week or so of downtime and work on the suspension. Damn, that is a lot but I feel it would be doing it right and set up for another 14 years of beating.
What do you guys think? This is a lot, I probably won't have the fundage until April or so, but I may need to speed that up somehow due to ball joints getting pretty bad.
If I omit the brake rotors and lines that makes it $406.75. I still need to rebuild these calipers because one of my current calipers has a fucked up bleeder screw. The rotors and the lines can wait until summer I guess.

[SN2BH22CB7]

Yo...diggin the CB7!! and when are you gonna get that fender painted??

oh yeah..those yellow fogs you had on before..I have those same ones on BOTH of the Cb7s I have...LOL

shines up signs at night!

[kouzie]

i gotta said......thats one hell of a ride....

[93accord-se]

man i love your car

[chessboxer]

when will you be in lexington again broseph? I leave at the beginning of July, so if its before then, we can hopefully meet up. Nice plans for the future btw and those planned parts seem good to me.

[GunRunner]

update y0 pixures!!!

[The G-Man]

In due time there will be updated pictures with a TON of new stuff installed. I just have to install it now.

Don't expect anything before July 15th though.

[90Cb7sleeper]

OOOOOO i cant wait!!!

[GunRunner]

Don't expect anything before July 15th though.

haha..i know exactly what you mean

[GunRunner]

Quote:
Originally Posted by 90cb7sleeper
mines not very big but its bigger than my girlfiend's dad's. lol

haha...

[The G-Man]

OMG, long time no update! Big changes coming soon. Mod list is updated.

Now the purpose of this post is to show the progress on my wheels. I recently found out they are in fact Konig Rated R wheels. They were originally white. I am currently stripping the paint to redo them in gold. Depending on how good I can get them stripped I might leave the lip polished, but don't count on it.

After a lot of Aircraft remover and plastic scraper:








And the one I worked on tonight. This time I used the aircraft remover to soften the paint, and a wire paint stripping wheel on a drill to get the paint off.

[90Cb7sleeper]

damn that last one looked pretty good... makes me kinda wished i would have kept them now... not.... lol

[GunRunner]

damn that last one looked pretty good.

yes it does....

[GunRunner]

congrats Gary on the 200k as of 8-26-07