My real RHD eg6 build
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Well I worked on my car yesterday and monday and finished the fenders and are ready for paint, as well as the side skirts. I scuffed the inside of the door I got and blocked and reprimed the top of it. I plan on having one of the top 5% of cars at a show. That is about the percentage of cars that to me are actually nice, even at big meets. But soon I'll pick up an order from Honda and ICB motorsport so more goodies in future posts.
^^^Thanks. I'm going for a more timeless build, not some stupid stanced out piece of s**t, or some rice bucket, "JDM" is kind of what it is by default, but maybe it's a little track inspired mixed with some Japanese flair.
Haha well whatever it is, I like it. I think that's what I'm going for with my ride too.
Classic Honda build. Good luck
Well I now know how much my paint is. I knew how much it was but most people don't understand how much good products cost. For the 3 quarts of Chromabase and 3 quarts of base maker and the all over 7779 chromaclear and activator and a barrrel of scuff pads is 1k. Good parts aren't cheap, and cheap parts aren't good.
The color is habanero red pearl. It comes on 8th gen si's.
psh, just paint for the outside. I've probably got about another $1500-2k in just materials.
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Thanks for that example.
I went to pull a part in Birmingham and picked up a few things I really only got one thing for the RHD. I bought a 97 harness to sell since it was $7.47. Uncut so now I have 2 extra ek harnesses. I also bought a hub and axle for the gsr car, a bumper/absorber for the rhd, some driver side power window switches since the one in the 97 is bad, a tail light and a bracket for $120 for it all. I love that place lol.
I found a bumper for the rhd like stated, but since the jdm cars don't come with front or rear bumpers I took it upon myself to put them on it. That way if it does get hit even in a little fender bender then it won't crush everything around it. I'll have to clean it up, and paint it, but it beats the crap out of buying one from honda for $150 cost. Can't beat it for $13. But the rhd's frame rails in the rear are boxed in with a little plate that I'll have to cut out. I may have to cut the bolt holes out too, but I'm fine with that. Maybe if I'd had it sooner the rear bumper wouldn't have gotten so messed up when my grandfather ran into it. Oh well here is the bumper.
I went to pull a part in Birmingham and picked up a few things I really only got one thing for the RHD. I bought a 97 harness to sell since it was $7.47. Uncut so now I have 2 extra ek harnesses. I also bought a hub and axle for the gsr car, a bumper/absorber for the rhd, some driver side power window switches since the one in the 97 is bad, a tail light and a bracket for $120 for it all. I love that place lol.
I found a bumper for the rhd like stated, but since the jdm cars don't come with front or rear bumpers I took it upon myself to put them on it. That way if it does get hit even in a little fender bender then it won't crush everything around it. I'll have to clean it up, and paint it, but it beats the crap out of buying one from honda for $150 cost. Can't beat it for $13. But the rhd's frame rails in the rear are boxed in with a little plate that I'll have to cut out. I may have to cut the bolt holes out too, but I'm fine with that. Maybe if I'd had it sooner the rear bumper wouldn't have gotten so messed up when my grandfather ran into it. Oh well here is the bumper.
Well I sand blasted the rust spots off of the bumper and refinished it with the dupont semi gloss paint. Here are a couple of quick pics I took.
^^^It takes all the rust out of the pits. But be careful if you use it on sheet metal. The heat could distort the metal. But on parts it's great.
If ur sandblasting sheetmetal u can u walnut shells and it wont get super hit and distort on u!