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should change those lights back to stock asap ... i like your back yard must be nice having that much open space.

Yea, I plan on doing that soon. It's so hard to find stock tail lights without paying an arm and a leg And the yard is only half an acre or so 8)

Take your car to an autobody supply shop they can mix up a can to match your faded paint quite well

I didn't know you could do that, but maybe that will be an option.

 

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Still working on the bondo, I just finished the 7th layer (I'm didn't use enough most of the times). I might do one more layer to fill in all the tiny holes. Pics to come

 

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Still working on sanding, but hopefully I'll be done tomorrow. Sorry for the crappy pics, they were taken with my phone since I still need a new camera. Any tips for spray painting the hood? I was planning on just spraying a couple layers of primer and then the actual paint, wetsanding in between coats. I've never tried wet sanding though so that should be a learning experience. Here's some pics of the bondo

This is the third coat of bondo (sanded)

More sanding!

More bondo!

This is the drivers side, just about done

 

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I just got some primer and paint for the hood, should be my project tomorrow if everything goes well.

 

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Remove subs immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gay!!

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Remove subs immediately!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gay!!

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Oh. Sorry dude, I didn't read this part.....
The previous owner removed all of his competition audio stuff, in case anyone was wondering. I don't have many pics of the car when I first got it, but that video does a good enough job.

That back hatch was being beat to death w/the subs.

It's ok, and yea those competition speakers he had were crazy.

I think I would have put the $40 you spent on the metal hood, and put the time and money into re-clearing the CF one and painting it if you wanted.
That seems like it would have been easier, it looks like that's all it needed.

I'll try to get more pics, but it's worse than it looks

 

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I painted the hood yesterday, still needs a couple more coats but it isn't that bad. For primer I just used the entire can that's posted above. I did 3 coats with the actual paint, but the hood still needs more. Due to wet sanding the paint is really thin in some parts. You can see the outline of where the bondo is as well, but it came out very nice other than that. Hopefully with more coats that will become less visible. I just got 2 more cans of paint today, so sometime in the near future it'll get finished. Unfortunately I can't use the garage anymore to paint the hood so I'm just gonna have to paint it in my back yard. Here's some pics.

Garage

Paint Booth

Used this to clean the hood before the first coat of primer

That hood didn't even look dirty!

My happy face

Hello paint

Tiger Stripes

I love having spray paint on my face

What the hood currently looks like after it had the night to dry. I thought that if I wet sanded it really lightly that would finish it off, but it turned out to make the hood look horrible. Now there's a bunch of lines in it from the sand paper (600 grit). I'll probably just use up the two cans I just got without wet sanding. If anyone has any tips that would be great.

Here it is in the sunlight, I sprayed it down with the hose so you can see all the imperfections.

It looked fine before I wet sanded it this morning, so hopefully it'll look that good after I use up the two cans I just got. I guess I can't expect it to be perfect since it's just spray paint. Here's a pic of the carbon fiber hood, I'm not sure what's going on here to be honest but it doesn't look like I could repair it

 

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Finished painting the hood last night, I had to do it after it got dark since the high was like 100

The paint left a lot of residue on the plastic I was using, mommy wasn't very happy about that

I'll probably put the hood on tonight. More pics to come

 

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Today while I was at work, this kid

and another one of my friends decided to pick up my rex and make it take up two parking spots :x

But anyways, tonight I got the new hood on. Had to wait till it was dark since it was around 100 degrees again today. Didn't get any pics of the new hood on (because it got too dark), but I did snap some pics with the old hood off

 

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dang, got all into this project, ended to soon, hope to see some more work soon! :bounce:

Here you go my friend

Here's some pics of the new hood

Here it is on the car, I know there's finger print marks but that's because I didn't wash it off good since it was painted

Oh yea, I guess I have to let you guys in on the secret that it's a chalkboard hood. Below I was using the chalk to cover the entire hood (as stated on the spray paint can) to prep the hood before I actually start drawing on it.

You guys like my white hood?!?! That bondo isn't noticeable at all.. :x

Here's a pic of after I washed the hood off with a hose. You can't tell from the pics, but the chalk left a TON of scratches in the hood. I had the chalk on it's side and just covered the whole thing, just like the spray paint can told me to do. The scratches look deep, so I don't think they're gonna be coming out.

To make things worse, there's a really tiny spot where the chalkboard paint chipped off. Maybe half the size of a dime, but it still sucks. If I was ever going to do this again, I would definitely use the roll on chalkboard paint. But with all of that to the side, I think the hood looks awesome. It sure does turn heads :mrgreen:

Even though I have way too much time put into the hood, I still love it. Wouldn't say that I'd do it again if I had the chance, but the chalkboard hood is pretty awesome.

 

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I guess nobody likes the chalkboard hood :blabla: Well anyways, today I was on the way to the movies and some guy pulls up next to me on a bike and turns it off (at a red light). He says he knew the guy that owned the car prior to me, and asked how much I paid for it. He said he wants a crx really bad, doesn't matter if it's running or not. I told him to look on craigslist, although I don't think he knew what that was. He told me where he lived and said to let him know if I ever wanted to get rid of it. Kinda random :lol:

Tomorrow I'm going to my first autocross, should be interesting. I'll be in the SMF class, wish me luck :biggrin:

 

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Random pic that I liked

Putting my girlfriend to work. Hey, I needed someone to help me put the 17's on :lol:

The hood at the autocross. I had chalk sitting on the hood but I guess no one felt like writing on it :rolleyes1:

Some pics of other cars

These custom cars were pretty neat

And the fastest car at the autocross was..

The guy who owned it said that it had a stock d15, and that it weighed 1525 lbs. I don't see how that's possible, but that's what he said. He was kind of a jerk to be honest. I saw another crx at the autocross, so I went up and asked him if he was on crxcommunity. After an awkward 5 seconds of silence he says "no". I was starting to feel the crx hate

Going through the novice walk

Here's a youtube vid of the autocross, I got 4 runs in. I think the timing on the first run was way off though.

I had a blast at the autocross. The guys working the corner I was at were really nice and gave me a lot of good advice. The only problem I really had was keeping the tires from sliding. I could only give it so much gas before I would just be all over the place. I almost lost it a couple times. Let me know what you guys think. The fastest time the d15 crx ran was a 44.xxx I believe.

 

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I almost forgot that I can't take credit for the video, my friend Dustin recorded it and did all the editing and such. Thanks bro

 

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Sooo today I get off work and saw some McDonalds cups laying behind my car. I go to look at it and some idiots poured coke all over the back of my car. Yay :rolleyes1:

 

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Like the chalkboard idea,I would have it that way until i painted the car lol
Good job on your car though,looking foward to what else your going to do b

Thanks bro Here's a pic of the hood from today

I have a funny story about earlier today :lol: So I took my friend for a ride in my car this morning, and we turned into a development to turn around. So I see about 30 kids (ages around 8-10) walking down the road to go to a church bible camp. *Note I was driving normal the entire time, and when i saw all the kids I especially slowed down to maybe 10mph or so*. So I get to the stop sign, and one of the kids says "That's a slow car!" to one of his friends I assume. My friend yells back "It's a fast car!" and then I started feathering the gas just to mess around. Then another kid yells "Showoff!" to me as I drive away.

I thought it was pretty funny. The chalk on the hood made a mess since it rained the previous night, maybe that made my car 'slow', who knows. Good stuff 8)

 

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I guess nobody likes the chalkboard hood :blabla: Well anyways, today I was on the way to the movies and some guy pulls up next to me on a bike and turns it off (at a red light). He says he knew the guy that owned the car prior to me, and asked how much I paid for it. He said he wants a crx really bad, doesn't matter if it's running or not. I told him to look on craigslist, although I don't think he knew what that was. He told me where he lived and said to let him know if I ever wanted to get rid of it. Kinda random :lol:

Tomorrow I'm going to my first autocross, should be interesting. I'll be in the SMF class, wish me luck :biggrin:

Ha ha. Sorry man! I've been busy with the move... Mad props yo!

Thanks man! My next autocross is on Sunday My Dad is running my rex in the 2nd heat and I'll be running it in the 4th, hope I win 8)

 

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So last night I went up to the Hanover circuit (local chill spot for cars) and when we went to go cruise, my crx decided to not start So we pop the hood at Wendys, and try to jump start it. She didn't start, so then I thought back to how a distributor wire broke off a couple months back. We used electrical tape to fix it, but when we looked the tape came off. I guess that's what happens when you forget about stuff :lol: So anyways, we try to use electrical tape to tape the wire down again but we had a lot of trouble. The wire needed pressure on top of it to hold it down, so we taped a dime on top of it (yea I know, really ghetto). Eventually we go it to start, but about 10 minutes into our journey home it shut off. Turned right back on, kept driving, and about 5 minutes later it shut off. This time it didn't turn back on, so we (4 of us total) all pulled over. We re-taped the wire, and started driving again. Not even 5 minutes later it shut off again, but we got it started and luckily we made it home.

Somehow I made it to work today, and after work I went to my friends house to try and fix the distributor wire. We used my friends soldering iron to solder the wire, eventually we got it to stay. So tonight we went up to the circuit again, and I noticed that my exhaust had a really raspy tone to it. My friend said I might have a hole in my exhaust, which is weird since it sounded fine last night. I don't think it could have anything to do with soldering the distributor wire, but correct me if I'm wrong. Other than the exhaust sounding weird, the car runs fine. Tomorrow (or today I guess) is the autocross, so hopefully everything goes well.

EDIT: Here's a pic from Hanover, the Accord is my buddy's

 

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Lol fixing a wire will dnot do anything to your exhaust. Bro take off the 17's they make your car look like a 4x4 and while your at it get rid of the tail lights b

Your car will be a lot faster in the auto cross with smaller rims.

I have the 17's on for the autocross (which is tomorrow). I even posted a thread about if I should use the 17's or not for autocross

Smaller wheels are generally better, but if your steel wheels have some all-season economy tires or something, and your 17s have some performance tires, I'd go for the 17s.

Funny thing is, I was supposed to drive up and meet a member on here to buy some stock taillights. But I didn't trust my car since it shut off on me 3 times on the way home. It should be fixed now, so if everything goes well hopefully I can get them soon.

 

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Let's just say that last weekend was pretty crazy. Here's some pics from the autocross to start out.

This crx was pretty sweet

I thought this was a carbon hatch and sunroof, but after seeing the guy pop the hatch I'm pretty sure it's just a layer of carbon fiber over everything.

Beamer crew

Mad JDM shifter yo

Muffler fail

Some guys were even taking pictures of my car haha. Here's a video of my dad at the autocross, on the second run he spun out from taking the turn to hard. On the third run, his friend was sitting in the passenger seat, and decided to yank on the e-brake because he thought it'd help my dad out :lol:

Rain is bad

The rain started shortly after the 3rd heat began, and everyone in the 3rd heat only got 1 run at most I believe. I was working during the 3rd heat, and even when it started to thunder and lightning they didn't immediately stop the event. After the rain cleared up, most of the scca board members wanted to clean up the track and call it a day (since more storms were coming). This didn't sit very well with the 3rd and 4th heat drivers because most of them have already did their job (working the corner, ect.) and virtually for nothing. The scca board members offered a free race at either dates of the next event, but since some of the people weren't' local they just wanted a refund. This lead to lots of people yelling, a scca board member giving some kids the middle finger, and another member saying they hope these kids never come to another autocross event. It wasn't a very good representation of the scca, but I would've acted the same way. I mean these 20 year old college students are yelling at people that have been doing autocross their whole life. I don't think all the drama was worth the $40 it cost to register. I have clips of everyone yelling at each other, but the sound isn't working so I'll try to figure it out.

Later on I was cruising on the highway and ran into another crx owner. We both pull into a local gas station, turns out that he's on crxcommunity as well (1cr_xxx). Funny thing is we were gonna meet before but never really got around to it. We went back to his place and he showed me his glasstop crx project which is pretty awesome. Snapped some pics, but it was dark out and cell phone pics aren't good to begin with