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By ej2rey
- Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:42 am #104710 Aight so I went with the blox. Just ordered them. Since my extended lugs are blox and they were also 5 bucks or more cheaper than the skunk2 or arp and have not heard bad things bout them. They were also free shipping off of ebay. So hey why not.

Should be like a week or so for them to get here. Can't wait for them to get here and get this started.
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By ej2rey
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:35 am #105571 Got some decals yesterday...
Save the SOHC baby!

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Still waiting on the extended studs. Should be here sometime this week.
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By ej2rey
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 12:49 am #106024 Aight so I got my extended studs yesterday. :D

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Now all I have to do is find the time to do it. I'll probably go over to my brothers shop next weekend and have it done there since he has a lift. Make my life much easier.

Aso today I picked my coupe up, took off the hood headlights, pretty much preped it to prime. I wanted to do everything all in one day with the gun and compressor but I want to go to the tricity meet here in cali so I don't have time to do all that. So just bought some rattle can primer and primed away. Only did the fenders unfortunately cus I had to pick up my step daughter but tomorrow I'll be finishing up the rest, hood and doors since am getting a new driver side door.

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I think it came out real good for being rattle can. Nice and even.

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By Greasedmonkey
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 3:48 am #106055 Looks good indeed!!
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By ej2rey
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 4:41 pm #106133
hatchin06 wrote:looks good :thumb:


Greasedmonkey wrote:Looks good indeed!!


Civic_HatchSI wrote:looking super :thumb:


Thanx guys. Am starting to like just the primer look. I'll probably just end up priming the whole car and wait till I can get my car painted how I want. My plans were to color match the front end but ehhh, I guess I'll just primer it.

Today I will be finishing the hood, doors and if I don't have enough money to buy the jdm moldings from passwrod then I'll just paint them. I have a can of trim paint so I'll just use that if anything.

I'll post more pics up later when am done.
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By Grat
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:21 pm #106162 paint looks good man. get those studs on so u can rock the spacers :thumb:
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By ej2rey
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 8:23 pm #106172
Grat wrote:paint looks good man. get those studs on so u can rock the spacers :thumb:


Thanx bro. I can't wait to slap the studs and spacer on. But ama make my life easy and wait till next weekend so I can do it at my brothers shop. They have a lift and torch. :D
Cus am guessing I will have to torch the the old studs out since they're pressed in right?
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By Grat
- Fri Mar 27, 2009 11:59 pm #106198 you can just pound them out with a hammer. at least thats what i did lol
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By ej2rey
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 4:09 pm #106281
Grat wrote:you can just pound them out with a hammer. at least thats what i did lol

Lol am pretty sure am still gonna have to end up doing that even with the torch.
One question tho g-rat. Did you have to press the front the bearing out of the knuckle to be able to take out a the studs? Because I was thinking all I have to do is take out the whole knuckle assembly and just remove all the brake parts and I should be able to take the studs out. But my brother was telling me he thinks we'll have to press out the bearing.
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By ej2rey
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 5:32 pm #106295 Aight so I fished spraying yesterday. I did the 2 doors, hood and sprayed the moldings with trim paint as well as the wipers.
Unfortunately no autozone in a ten mile redias had anymore black primer so I ended up doing the doors and hood flat back.
The doors came out real good. The hood is another story lol. It got dark and cold, bad weather for painting so it didn't go aswell. Not too bad but not how I wanted it.

I'll post more pics later after the meet.

Doors...
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Morning shot after dropping myself off at work and my girl taking her away...
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By Grat
- Sat Mar 28, 2009 11:20 pm #106355 i ended up pressing out the front wheel bearing to put the stud in. i needed to change my wheel bearings anyways. u can do it without having to take the wheel bearing out....but u have to notch out some of your hub to make the stud fit
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By ej2rey
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:47 pm #106464
Grat wrote:i ended up pressing out the front wheel bearing to put the stud in. i needed to change my wheel bearings anyways. u can do it without having to take the wheel bearing out....but u have to notch out some of your hub to make the stud fit

Damn! Fuck I don't wanna do any notches on the hub. I guess I'll just press them out. The shop right beside my brothers have a press so I'll just press them out there. I just didn't want to do the extra work lol. But fuck it. If I have to press then out I should might aswell get new bearings just to have new ones in. :D
Thanx again g-rat. :thumb:
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By ej2rey
- Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:09 pm #106467 Aight so I went yeasterday after work to the tricity meet and I got there too late. It was dead! Maybe 40 to 45 cars tops when I got to the last photoshoot spot.

Anyways I took some pics. Not the greatest since I still don't have a good camera and still use my fone. So they are shitty.
Also while I as taking pics of my coupe yesterday I noticed somthing that got me a lil worried. In the first pic am going to post you'll see what worries me lol. I know I have 15x7 wheels and thought thet offset was +45 or so I remember reading. So as some of you know I got 12mm spacers(not installed yet). I knew I was gonna have to lift my car a bit but I still wanted to tuck. I'll let the pic do the rest of the explaining. Tell me what you all think.

By the way. I liked how the painting came out even tho it was with rattle can and ot with the gun and compressor like I wanted to do it. Now am just gonna finish the back end of the coupe and flat clear coat it.

Look at the tire and fender. They couldn't get any closer and that's without spacers lol. Seems like ama have to ride 4x4 or camber that bitch a lot :thumbdown: .lol
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Real ferio next to me. I found out yesterday the ferio headliner is cloth and the same style as the seats. I thought it was tight. I wish mine was cloth lol
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