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This is my first build thread so be gentle or atleast use a bit more lube!
This build has a theme "champagne taste on a beer budget" , it was a moto that my folks use to always say to me when i'd tell them what i wanted to purchase but never had the money.
Really not much has changed since then, still a broke ass but i find a way to make the best of what i can afford.
Another hindrance (but not an excuse) is my lack of a garage (instead a car pad woot woot) and short Canadian summers lol but perseverance can overcome all obstacles set before us.
So this is where i started ( few years back haha). I bought it off my friend who had owned this car since high school, i turned a lot of wrenches on this car before i ever owned it. swapped motor and converted from auto to manual. then when the ticker hit 419000km i bought it to get me to college and back.
Way too stock for my liking but the mugen sticker must add 10hp!
First set of wheels (oem honda wheels made by Enkei)
An old wise man once told me that "wheel gap is like pussy, the more gap the worse it is" , so that being said next on the block was some coilovers.
Before
After
This was my daily driver (winter included) so this was the max i could lower it before not being able to get out my alley when it snowed.
after a nice car wash. Loved my HIDs even though stock housings but then this happened........
f***ing highway rock chucking bastards
Not normally my taste but cheaper then OEM lenses where these projector headlights with angle eye halos didnt work so they were alittle less lame.... i guess. They had glass lenses which sold me on them (can you say retro fitted lenses on stock housings?)
About 9 months ago i started to collect parts to turn my daily driver into something more fun. So this is where the "champagne tastes and beer budget build" start to materialize.
First thing i did was a motor swap, although i loved my stock ZC vtec it was time to move into my first proper B-series. with many months of hunting i found a steal of a deal on a jdm b16a, the old owner had electrical problems which was later narrowed down to a bad dizzy and an incompatible jdm ECU
old motor
New B16A , i much prefer my accord intake tube and air box modified (poor mans arc airbox haha) over the old injen knock off cold air intake.
Next was my favoritist shifter ever!
before (can you spot the teenage ninja turtle? it was my lucky charm haha)
after! and after again (when i broke my first beer tap)
more to come!
This build has a theme "champagne taste on a beer budget" , it was a moto that my folks use to always say to me when i'd tell them what i wanted to purchase but never had the money.
Really not much has changed since then, still a broke ass but i find a way to make the best of what i can afford.
Another hindrance (but not an excuse) is my lack of a garage (instead a car pad woot woot) and short Canadian summers lol but perseverance can overcome all obstacles set before us.
So this is where i started ( few years back haha). I bought it off my friend who had owned this car since high school, i turned a lot of wrenches on this car before i ever owned it. swapped motor and converted from auto to manual. then when the ticker hit 419000km i bought it to get me to college and back.
Way too stock for my liking but the mugen sticker must add 10hp!
First set of wheels (oem honda wheels made by Enkei)
An old wise man once told me that "wheel gap is like pussy, the more gap the worse it is" , so that being said next on the block was some coilovers.
Before
After
This was my daily driver (winter included) so this was the max i could lower it before not being able to get out my alley when it snowed.
after a nice car wash. Loved my HIDs even though stock housings but then this happened........
f***ing highway rock chucking bastards
Not normally my taste but cheaper then OEM lenses where these projector headlights with angle eye halos didnt work so they were alittle less lame.... i guess. They had glass lenses which sold me on them (can you say retro fitted lenses on stock housings?)
About 9 months ago i started to collect parts to turn my daily driver into something more fun. So this is where the "champagne tastes and beer budget build" start to materialize.
First thing i did was a motor swap, although i loved my stock ZC vtec it was time to move into my first proper B-series. with many months of hunting i found a steal of a deal on a jdm b16a, the old owner had electrical problems which was later narrowed down to a bad dizzy and an incompatible jdm ECU
old motor
New B16A , i much prefer my accord intake tube and air box modified (poor mans arc airbox haha) over the old injen knock off cold air intake.
Next was my favoritist shifter ever!
before (can you spot the teenage ninja turtle? it was my lucky charm haha)
after! and after again (when i broke my first beer tap)
more to come!
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