white ej1, not done yet!

[wdwalker]

its a turbo II muffler w/ tip. got it from pep boys, its louder than stock but not butt-ass loud or ricer-sounding. it has a slightly deeper, much more mellow sound. goin to a cat-back w/ bigger piping soon. prob. one of my next mods, after i get tein springs and tokico or kyb shocks.

 

[racerx661]

good start.....lower the biatch

 

[RiceburnerRyan]

that GSR cluster looks hella clean in your car... you DIY ?

 

[Hatch_Of_Doom]

I like the GSR dash. Fits real clean, I mean, i bet up close minor little weird things, but looks DAMN clean, no open gaps or anything.

Do the connectors fit right together or have to f**k with wiring?

I'm getting an EX/Si cluster and most likely painting needles, different bulbs.

 

[wdwalker]

course i did it myself, its the only way. ive never let anyone else do any work to my car since i've gotten it. (okay so maybe for SOME stuff, like mounting tires and bleeding brakes and s**t). i had to cut it a lil on the top to fit it behind the dash, mounting holes were almost perfect, i just had to dremel one of them a lil left of the original hole. wiring for them was an absolute b***h, it took me days to find a right diagram and really never ended up finding one. it was the fuel gauge wire that confused me the most, it took days to get it in the right spot. as for connectors, my connectors from the 95 civic ended up being too big, so i went to a junkyard and got all the connectors from an ek, they work perfect. cost me $5. from there i just had to cut the ends off my wires and splice the ek's wire pins to my wires, then hook them up in the right spot. it was really frustrating to do, but i don't regret doing it myself at all. mine's one of the only ones i've seen with this cluster, and a lot of other civic guys notice and ask me about it.

 

[wdwalker]

yeah i'm working on those minor little weird things (which are on both sides below the fuel and temp gauges, just a tiny little gap). i'm gonna use some plastic garden separator stuff (same stuff some people do diy lips with), and try to close those gaps from behind the dash. i'll let y'all know how that goes.

 

[wdwalker]

bumping it again, added interior pics and stuff to one of my earlier posts.

 

[Mr.Luder]

it ur car an auto? cause i see an auto gauge cluster in one picture and i c a manual gsr gauge cluster in the other

 

[wdwalker]

does this answer your question?

the first cluster i got was the manual gsr cluster, paid $85 for it, then the tach died on it. after that i got an integra ls cluster (look at the redline) for $35 that was missing cosmetic stuff i already had on the gsr gauges. the ls cluster is an auto cluster, i'm just gonna get some reverse glow gauges to change that. i kinda like the ls more for my application because mine has almost the exact same redline.

 

[wdwalker]

u guys think i should go turbo or lower it first? i think i'm gonna turbo it b4 i lower, just b/c making it fast would probably make up the respect lost by having it too high off the ground. (wow real life tuning is kinda like kudos points in pgr)

 

[civicracing98]

do whatever u feel is necessary, what kind of 15''s are those, they look like house speakers

 

[wdwalker]

realistic mach one's. they're home stereo equipment, the front woofers from a 4-way cabinet. its radioshack stuff from the 80's, back when they made really quality products. the cab i took it out of was made entirely of oak, i used the same dimensions as the original airspace making my box.

 

[civicracing98]

cool, do they knock? my friend has some old skool JL's for the house and those things rump

 

[wdwalker]

my dad told me he knows some people and can get ahold of a decimeter. i'd be interested in seeing just how loud these things can get. they're extremely clean and punchy, but they have a lil trouble doing fast runs (but they're 15's, so that can be expected).

 

[civicracing98]

do they catch lows well? or do they only knock hard on highs like pretty much any household speaker?

 

[wdwalker]

they hit the best right around 30-40hz. no they don't knock on highs, i've got the high pass/low pass filters on the amp and head unit set at 80khz. these are actual subwoofers designed to be used as subwoofers (the cabinet it came in had its own cross-over wired up to the speaker), not midrange or pa speakers or anything.

 

[civicracing98]

i know there not midrange, the midranges were prolly in the same box those woofers were in, the cones jus look thin and dont look like they would catch high or low beats well. just somethin to supply u with some bass im guessin

 

[wdwalker]

u'r right, they work awesome for my application and i think it'd be ridiculous to waste any more of my money on audio stuff right now, when i desperately need to turbo and lower. i can't justify paying a couple hundred of dollars more on something slightly better than what i have now, when i'm not even an audio guy. i just put it together because i could and it was free.

 

[PBzAllan]

yummm c8's

 

[Spencey]

course i did it myself, its the only way. ive never let anyone else do any work to my car since i've gotten it. (okay so maybe for SOME stuff, like mounting tires and bleeding brakes and s**t). i had to cut it a lil on the top to fit it behind the dash, mounting holes were almost perfect, i just had to dremel one of them a lil left of the original hole. wiring for them was an absolute b***h, it took me days to find a right diagram and really never ended up finding one. it was the fuel gauge wire that confused me the most, it took days to get it in the right spot. as for connectors, my connectors from the 95 civic ended up being too big, so i went to a junkyard and got all the connectors from an ek, they work perfect. cost me $5. from there i just had to cut the ends off my wires and splice the ek's wire pins to my wires, then hook them up in the right spot. it was really frustrating to do, but i don't regret doing it myself at all. mine's one of the only ones i've seen with this cluster, and a lot of other civic guys notice and ask me about it.

my friend from back home did that in his CRX and he assured me it was a bastard an a half. He wanted to sell it to me at first before he decided to do it to his own car, but I didn't want to mess with it, looks too damn good though.