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By necropaulis
#240015 After being a domestic guy for practically my entire driving life, and hating on the Honda's, I broke down and got one. I was out of a car and this one was offered up, so I took it. When I got it, the interior sported type-s' entire lineup :lol:, when I looked to the back, I found this Image drivers side
Image passenger side :roll: the one bolt is actually crammed into the glass. It also came with one of theses swapped into it Image y8 powered by an SSR chipped P28, sweetsauce steel mesh air filter, and an unknown header. Sounds good until you look at the harness Image I guess their dog helped out on this one. Go 'round back, in the trunk was a small rodent's nest, 12v live wire going to nothing, but the included RF amp that had one of the speaker drivers blown, but was properly grounded. And of course the obligatory Image as he claimed, it was carbon fiber (fits up to 4 fingers!! :roll:), but most of the carbon covered fibers had blown out.
So I got it home, cleaned 'er up and dericed it as far as I could and now it looks like this: Image
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The grapefruit shooter (welded on properly, no clamps) is still on there till I get paid and can do a proper exhaust. This car ownes the blur between rice and nice....
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By TNFBandit
#240045 what plans do you have for it?
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By necropaulis
#240074 basically to fix up the outside, repaint, low pressure boost. I don't know if I'm gonna go super or turbo, though. I've got a Megasquirt sitting in my garage that ran a neon I used to have, but I might go with something else for something different. I'm looking to have a DD that can double duty on track days.
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By Ecc0
#240111 Welcome to the power of dreams I know you won't be disappointed.

Looks like a good find let us know how you get on
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By TrailerTrash
#240188 Welcome from another PA fellow :thumb:

I love the color and the bra is a nice touch im jealous lol
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By jayEGR
#240215 nice ej1 so fucking stock i remeber when i first go mine looking like that but with out the steelies :lol: nice hopefully you stay with the import crowd :thumb:
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By necropaulis
#240306 thanks for the replies. The "muffler" was ripped off today, and was replaced by a thrush turbo (so much nicer-read quieter- sounding) and I got my LC-1 in the mail, so that got fitted. As for the bra, I do like it with that color, but it's to cover up the beatness of the hood. Now that I can actually can hear the car, I need to do a valve adjustment. I also need a radiator and a dizzy seal, it looks like I'm going shopping.
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By necropaulis
#240755 As requested, here's how we sit now
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and for my next trick (while repairing on the side):
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By necropaulis
#244830 So I had a code 21(and weak ass performance),traced the wires, and so' nuff these guys didn't even wire up the vtec-they had the wires running into the cabin; with 3 different wires,no less-, so I get to do that, and for those that buy hack jobs, check this out:
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that's painter's tape... on the butterfly. :shock: I don't know why they needed tape on the butterfly. Notice how well the metal filter does :thumbdown: that done been gone. The filter was slid over more than half of the filter that covered a hole that was made when they busted the shock tower brace off...
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By d-mon
#245165 nice pickup!
its the little things.
i wish i could find an ej2 with a straight body.
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By 603 jdm
#245560 you have the stock exhaust other then the thrush on there? when i picked my civic up bout 2 weeks ago i found out i got 2 1/4 catback on it and now i go a thrsh turbo on it sounds pretty nice i think. goot find with the painters tape i cant believe the way some people "fix" their cars. wanna trade motors?? haha i cant wait to fford a vtec swap for my ej2 i got the lil d15b7 for now. good work tho keep it up :thumb:
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By necropaulis
#245963 yeah. No name 4-2-1 header, stock to the axle to the thrush that replaced this: Image Notice the future CF wine chiller in the corner. The car sounded the same even with that muffler cut off. Now it has a nice, almost subie burble. Fresh radiator going in tomorrow.