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Hows it going guys? I wana start off by saying this build will not be slammed and "stanced" mike my last 2 build cars. I understand this is a "stanced" themed site but im more posting here because ive posted my builds here before. And I love the feed back, and the attitude of the whole site!
Heres a little about myself....
My name is Cody, im 21 years old, I live in Virginia with my girlfriend and Dashound. I got my first car when i was 15 (which was a del sol) and sold it about a year ago. (i have the hafe ass build threr on this site).
Moving on.....the major "specs" of the car
- Good body no rust bairly any dents (vouge silver met.)
- Smallist decent engine honda made (no vtec)
- The whole car is 100% stock except the aftermarket headlights
- I am the second owner (elder folks had it)
If you have any comment or conserns limi know, I love feedback.
WELL HERE WE GO! Yep the car has high milage, but im the second owner and thats the way I like it. the car is mecanicly sound and have found no issues at all.
Heres the engen bay after i powerwashed it, and scrubed brefily.......you shoulda seen it before....
i have an idea if what holor im gana be powdercoating the valve cover, i just dont know when ill have the time or money.....so in the meantime.....
Im gana stick with a crude polished cover for now till i get it powder coated.
Such ugly old bolts....
Replaced the old bumper bolts, radatior stay bolt and ac shroud stay bolts with these. (once i have the cash ill be investing in some bolt boys V.3)
Changing the smallist thing in a non vtec single cam makes a huge differance. ARC majic intake i had laying around from past builds. its a very crude moc up, and looks kinda geto, but it works and once i have the time and money ill get it color matched and fitted the best way.
A nice lil back up shot of how the bay is coming together.
Havent really posted a body shot of the car yet, heres one in comparason to how the engin is now (a few hours ago).
Another angle of the bay, take a look at the Orange reflector...?...
no more orange, my first del sol ran these but lost there use after i changed my front in to the jdm front.
Now lets hed to the inside of this basicly mint 97' interior, its just a lil dirty..... Idk who ever keeps this shift knob but I **** it.....I had somthing layin around that actually happens to be my favorite shift knob to this day.....and ill get around to fixing that boot soon.
Yep, Yep.......my favorite knob is a Mugen formula shift knob! Love it, well ballanced and fits my had well.
my second day owning the sol, i got home from work and gave the car a well earned wash and claybar. the prople before me lived back up in the wooed so the car was kinda exposed to paint harmful things....looks at least 45% better id say.
Later in the day i pulled the car in to the garage and gave the hood and the dolphan nose a good waxing, looks like I was able to get a lil bet of shine back. I also installed a licence plate brackit i got from a jdm DC2 front. I **** displaying the front plate, it takes away from the nose. But i guess its better that a $95 dollar ticket....... I cant wait till I have time to wax the whole car and god for bid find some change so i can get my hub caps hydrodiped!!
YES, the car does have the OEM radio!! and weirdly enough wile i was at work a buddy gave me a old RCA/ipod hook up, saves me the $15 for some wrinkle black paint for the fender liners or somthing!
But my mission now it to make it look nice and discreet.....and (lol) yes that is a "jdm" road flare.
Please excule the messy armrest/cup holders I havent had a chance to detail the interior from the precious owner. On another note, i got this idea from a fellow "soler" works really well to keep things discreet.
Look at that, doesnt even look like anything is there...Sept that sweet mugen knob lol.
I wes getting late so i decided to just do some quick detail like things so the sol looks good on my way to work. shined up the tires and inner plastics of the wheel wells.
Wile applying tire shine i noticed that on 2 differant wheels that one wheel had a openended acoen nut and another wheel had a shorti oem bolt (Im suposed to have the long OEM sence i have caps).....and i just so happent i had long hubcap friendly Honda OEM wheel locks! (dont want anyone steeling my 13" rims)
Looky there all shined up and locked up.....I need to save up some cash to get these hydrodipped back to there prime...
Just as I was about to walk out of the garage for the night i looked at my side skirts.......i knew i had some back to black laying aroung somwhere......
Nice and black again....whent ahead and hit all the rubber moldings and seals......
And on that note it was time for me to go to bed! back with more soon!!
Ill leave you with this Picture of a few Mugen parts i have layin around.
Ok guys im back....today i detailed the inside, overall looks better and more enjoyable to drive when the interior is minty.
Remember my ipod hook up? I cleaned it up a lil.
I went ahead an pulled the seats out to get to the carpet and plastics better, but heres what i have to work with....
I do gata say this was a lil gross..............
Well....How bout that, what do you think?
got all the plastics clean and the carpets all nice an new looking.
Allmost forgot my mats, lol.
My minty 97' door pannles!
A shot of my formula mugen knob, after I fixed the shift boot and cleaned up some of the dirt and grime off the boot and knob.
Another shot showing how clean i got the Sol...on to some exterior issues/upgrades!!!!
Idk why but my sol was missing the gas cap "popper".....anyway, i was able to grab a clip from work.
One other thing on my to do lit was to remove the richmond honda sticker....
Better right?!?! (its retorical -_- )
Look how bad this aftermarket muffler is.......at least the previous owner got a new one...
cut about an inch and a hafe off.....yes I know the cut is slopy, its the best I could do with what I have. Becides ill be gettin a new exhaust at some point soon anyway.
The cut was pretty bad so i put a em1 exhaust tip over it.....looks kinda like an si exhaust now?? And theres my dog Calcifer!!
to end my night in the garage i thru on a old licence plate bracket i had.....it reduced a good bit of rattle from the plate too.
Im all about OEM/EDM/JDM, but i really liked this change.
BMW lighter
A bit of before shots.......
And after, moved some of the main harness around.
Gata rep my man (joey lee) from Stickydiljoe.com
Welcome to the other side of my garage!
the reason its on the lift, the dirty and abused fender wells
After a good power washing and paint
A full shot of the repainted front and rear wells. the back needed it the most.
Sence the car was in the air and I saw the wheels (steelies) were in need of a was and that they were black and silver I painted the face black.
the picture didnt do the well wells and steelies much justice, but it looked way better in person.
Heres a Small update....i like the way it looks and will be sending all the newly black things to get powder coated and hydrodyped gloss black. Also peep thoes legit spoon covers
Heres a little about myself....
My name is Cody, im 21 years old, I live in Virginia with my girlfriend and Dashound. I got my first car when i was 15 (which was a del sol) and sold it about a year ago. (i have the hafe ass build threr on this site).
Moving on.....the major "specs" of the car
- Good body no rust bairly any dents (vouge silver met.)
- Smallist decent engine honda made (no vtec)
- The whole car is 100% stock except the aftermarket headlights
- I am the second owner (elder folks had it)
If you have any comment or conserns limi know, I love feedback.
WELL HERE WE GO! Yep the car has high milage, but im the second owner and thats the way I like it. the car is mecanicly sound and have found no issues at all.
Heres the engen bay after i powerwashed it, and scrubed brefily.......you shoulda seen it before....
i have an idea if what holor im gana be powdercoating the valve cover, i just dont know when ill have the time or money.....so in the meantime.....
Im gana stick with a crude polished cover for now till i get it powder coated.
Such ugly old bolts....
Replaced the old bumper bolts, radatior stay bolt and ac shroud stay bolts with these. (once i have the cash ill be investing in some bolt boys V.3)
Changing the smallist thing in a non vtec single cam makes a huge differance. ARC majic intake i had laying around from past builds. its a very crude moc up, and looks kinda geto, but it works and once i have the time and money ill get it color matched and fitted the best way.
A nice lil back up shot of how the bay is coming together.
Havent really posted a body shot of the car yet, heres one in comparason to how the engin is now (a few hours ago).
Another angle of the bay, take a look at the Orange reflector...?...
no more orange, my first del sol ran these but lost there use after i changed my front in to the jdm front.
Now lets hed to the inside of this basicly mint 97' interior, its just a lil dirty..... Idk who ever keeps this shift knob but I **** it.....I had somthing layin around that actually happens to be my favorite shift knob to this day.....and ill get around to fixing that boot soon.
Yep, Yep.......my favorite knob is a Mugen formula shift knob! Love it, well ballanced and fits my had well.
my second day owning the sol, i got home from work and gave the car a well earned wash and claybar. the prople before me lived back up in the wooed so the car was kinda exposed to paint harmful things....looks at least 45% better id say.
Later in the day i pulled the car in to the garage and gave the hood and the dolphan nose a good waxing, looks like I was able to get a lil bet of shine back. I also installed a licence plate brackit i got from a jdm DC2 front. I **** displaying the front plate, it takes away from the nose. But i guess its better that a $95 dollar ticket....... I cant wait till I have time to wax the whole car and god for bid find some change so i can get my hub caps hydrodiped!!
YES, the car does have the OEM radio!! and weirdly enough wile i was at work a buddy gave me a old RCA/ipod hook up, saves me the $15 for some wrinkle black paint for the fender liners or somthing!
But my mission now it to make it look nice and discreet.....and (lol) yes that is a "jdm" road flare.
Please excule the messy armrest/cup holders I havent had a chance to detail the interior from the precious owner. On another note, i got this idea from a fellow "soler" works really well to keep things discreet.
Look at that, doesnt even look like anything is there...Sept that sweet mugen knob lol.
I wes getting late so i decided to just do some quick detail like things so the sol looks good on my way to work. shined up the tires and inner plastics of the wheel wells.
Wile applying tire shine i noticed that on 2 differant wheels that one wheel had a openended acoen nut and another wheel had a shorti oem bolt (Im suposed to have the long OEM sence i have caps).....and i just so happent i had long hubcap friendly Honda OEM wheel locks! (dont want anyone steeling my 13" rims)
Looky there all shined up and locked up.....I need to save up some cash to get these hydrodipped back to there prime...
Just as I was about to walk out of the garage for the night i looked at my side skirts.......i knew i had some back to black laying aroung somwhere......
Nice and black again....whent ahead and hit all the rubber moldings and seals......
And on that note it was time for me to go to bed! back with more soon!!
Ill leave you with this Picture of a few Mugen parts i have layin around.
Ok guys im back....today i detailed the inside, overall looks better and more enjoyable to drive when the interior is minty.
Remember my ipod hook up? I cleaned it up a lil.
I went ahead an pulled the seats out to get to the carpet and plastics better, but heres what i have to work with....
I do gata say this was a lil gross..............
Well....How bout that, what do you think?
got all the plastics clean and the carpets all nice an new looking.
Allmost forgot my mats, lol.
My minty 97' door pannles!
A shot of my formula mugen knob, after I fixed the shift boot and cleaned up some of the dirt and grime off the boot and knob.
Another shot showing how clean i got the Sol...on to some exterior issues/upgrades!!!!
Idk why but my sol was missing the gas cap "popper".....anyway, i was able to grab a clip from work.
One other thing on my to do lit was to remove the richmond honda sticker....
Better right?!?! (its retorical -_- )
Look how bad this aftermarket muffler is.......at least the previous owner got a new one...
cut about an inch and a hafe off.....yes I know the cut is slopy, its the best I could do with what I have. Becides ill be gettin a new exhaust at some point soon anyway.
The cut was pretty bad so i put a em1 exhaust tip over it.....looks kinda like an si exhaust now?? And theres my dog Calcifer!!
to end my night in the garage i thru on a old licence plate bracket i had.....it reduced a good bit of rattle from the plate too.
Im all about OEM/EDM/JDM, but i really liked this change.
BMW lighter
A bit of before shots.......
And after, moved some of the main harness around.
Gata rep my man (joey lee) from Stickydiljoe.com
Welcome to the other side of my garage!
the reason its on the lift, the dirty and abused fender wells
After a good power washing and paint
A full shot of the repainted front and rear wells. the back needed it the most.
Sence the car was in the air and I saw the wheels (steelies) were in need of a was and that they were black and silver I painted the face black.
the picture didnt do the well wells and steelies much justice, but it looked way better in person.
Heres a Small update....i like the way it looks and will be sending all the newly black things to get powder coated and hydrodyped gloss black. Also peep thoes legit spoon covers
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