amej8's is-this-even-considered-a-build thread?

[Billy.]

it will probably change color for a while. my SS turbo manifold started silver, then bronzed, now it has some purplish hue around the tighter bends and its mostly goldish color. you can kinda tell in the sig pic. i really like the colorations now. its like it matured like a beautiful butterfly

 

[JohnS.]

it will probably change color for a while. my SS turbo manifold started silver, then bronzed, now it has some purplish hue around the tighter bends and its mostly goldish color. you can kinda tell in the sig pic. i really like the colorations now. its like it matured like a beautiful butterfly

Haha

 

[97GreenEX]

Dude you're so asian. lol. Nice parts though.

 

[JohnS.]

Thanks .

I got my OEM D-Bracket bolts from Honda today . Also picked up 2 more LCA bolts to make it 6. I'm gonna hit up the LCA with more PB blaster and try to get the sway bar on tonight. Pics will be up if I succeed.

edit - well the guy at Honda failed to mention that the OEM Si sway bar has 2 plates / brackets that go behind the subframe for the D-Bracket bolts. Go figure... He needs a picture to tell him which part I want. Even then he couldn't figure out the plate / bracket on the picture was for the bolts for the D-Bracket to mount up . Back to Honda tomorrow to place an order for those brackets....

Suspension all going in Sunday (hopefully. At least that's whats planned).

 

[mylovehx]

sweet some progress! lookin good

 

[JohnS.]

Thanks. Updates I guess since I'm bored...

- Ordered brackets that go behind the D-Brackets for the OEM Si sway bar. Should have them by Saturday night
- Still waiting on a few other Honda parts to be shipped to the local dealership as well
- Springs didn't come today as according to the tracking # so hopefully tomorrow with my mugen lip!

Thinking about ordering more stuff but I know I shouldn't . Too far in debt lol. Gotta pay off the cc a bit before I spend.

 

[Szady]

You tell that f**k stick whats up when you went back to the dealership?

 

[JohnS.]

You tell that f**k stick whats up when you went back to the dealership?

I stood on the right side of the counter and waited for the "kid" (he looks like his in his mid twenty's). The old guy works on the left side. f**k that f**k stick. Right when I walked up, the dude went, "hey can I help you?" and I thought, "Thank God. Not the old retard" .

 

[Evan.]

Should've gone through a parts guy that actually knows what he's doing..

Here i'm known by the mexicans as "habla b16"

 

[JohnS.]

Should've gone through a parts guy that actually knows what he's doing..

Here i'm known by the mexicans as "habla b16"

Haha don't worry man. I haven't forgotten. Wish you mentioned something 2 weeks ago when I had the idea of replacing all of the hardware. I probably would've saved over 50% of what I've spent now. I'm about at the $300 mark just for OEM hardware in the past few weeks.

 

[Evan.]

Yuck. Just to rub it in again, with that $300, you could have an ASR setup.

 

[JohnS.]

Yuck. Just to rub it in again, with that $300, you could have an ASR setup.

Bagh you suck. I'm tired and cranky too from working 11 hours so it makes it even worse .

But all of it wasn't JUST for hardware for the rear end. Remember.. I needed new studs / nuts for the header, new bolt / spring / nut for the cat / header, new nuts for the shock tower mounts. But yeah, that's pretty damn close to the ASR brace + CTR sway setup. PW:JDM quotes $380 + S/H for it.

Which reminds me... Can you use the OEM Si endlinks for the JDM CTR sway bar? If so, at least I got OEM hardware as far as endlinks go for when / if I do upgrade .

 

[Evan.]

Yep sure can.

 

[JohnS.]

Just what I wanted to hear . Thanks again Ev.

Gotta call my dad and see if he took "a package". I don't know why... But everytime I get a package and it gets delivered before he leaves, he f**king takes it with him to work. He works 2nd shift too so he gets back at around 12:30-1am. I don't understand why. Is it that hard to get out of the car, unlock the house door, and set it inside?

/rage. I worked 11 hours. I'm beat and cranky as all hell.

 

[Evan.]

Ragin Asian!

 

[JohnS.]

Holy hell I didn't even notice I broke 5k posts. I was hoping to celebrate that with a thread too. Damnit

 

[Billy.]

happy 5,000th

 

[JohnS.]

Haha

Thanks Mugen .

 

[JohnS.]

Mugen style front lip came in today . But they shipped it all bent so I gotta let it sit outside in the sun and hopefully it'll go back to normal :.

I have no clue where my springs are. The delivery date went away on the tracking # and it doesn't even show an estimated delivery date. Weird though because someone has been at my house lately all day to be able to sign for it. And the lip came today... Don't understand why they wouldn't bring the springs with them if someone had to sign for it. I'll have to call them tomorrow if I don't see it tomorrow either.

 

[Jbuck2KCivic]

Yikes, is that how all the lips ship? Where did you order the springs from? Looks good so far.