CB9-cl

Well, i paid $1900.00 for my cl and it turns out i need $1000 of work to get her on the road.

- Upper ball joints (left+right)
- Outer tie rods (left+right)
- Rear breakes (could save rotors)
- Head light
- Hood latch
- Alignment

Engine, Trans., Clutch, all Perfect
Tires are fine
Frame is solid
She got rust on rear quarters and under the grill
Front bumber has minor crack under drivers side signal
window reg.'s are gone

Serves me right for buying as is.. but hey, $1000 gets me a solid car.
Should i pay it or no?

Gnate

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how many miles? 2900 is a pretty good deal for strong CL!

CB9-cl

270xxx KMs.. dont know the convertion

Gnate

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Almost 170k miles... I dunno! I'll wait till others chime in.

mitch14

seems like a good deal to me, mine had almost the same mileage on it, when i bought it last year, and i paid more than that

SupraManAG

if you have a basic understanding of the car and some free time you can do all the above on your own except the alignment which will need to get done by a professional.

South Jersey CL

eh, i guess when its all said and done, $2900 for a car with 170k miles isnt so bad.

YtseJammer

Those are all pretty easy things to replace yourself. Do enough shopping around and you can have all that stuff done for a lot less than $1000.

CB9-cl

i've taken auto classes and done auto co-op for school.. what tools would i need other than a ratchet set?

Blazin Si

Yes, pay it. You have solid car and these things run forever. If you do the work like SupraManAG said, it would probably cost 1/3 the price you were quoted.

Dicorp

diy everything except the alingment and you'll be good.

Tehvine

Yeah just buy accord parts on ebay when you do the suspension, works out cheaper. When I had to, I just bought whole new upper control arms for my front upper balljoints. Paid $70 for the pair I think shipped. That's all trivial crap really. Just when you do the tie rod ends, match them up as close to where yours are right now before you put them on so your alignment is not way the heck off when you drive it to the shop to get it aligned.

CB9-cl

i live in canada so i dunno about the ebay stuff.. im considering DIMyself but im going to call a guy tomorrow who usually does work cheaper.. i'll keep posting, your advice is golden rite now

davzilla

so it's 2900 canadian then too.

dude that's cheap.

i saw a bone stock 97 3.0 with a 100,000kms less than mine for like 3000cad a couple months ago.

97BlackAckCL

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good deal, and you'll have a brand new car with all that stuff

Eband27

where do u live in canada? I saw a 2.3 cl with rust under the grill and on the quarter panels yesterday in montreal.

CB9-cl

cool.. well i live in east end of toronto, any places you know where parts are cheap?

Not me buddy, like i said, east end Toronto.. p.s. sry about your Canadiens

starboy2nv

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eh... diy

davzilla

check out the toronto accord club, they have local sponsors and stuff. cl forum there as well.

WineRed2.2CL

dude thats is no real hard part just get to it.

Why do you need to decide. You have an Acura for cheap.

I get mad dude cause seems like they do not see what they have right under their noses.

IF yo have no car experience or the time then don;t get into it.

CB9-cl

well now my car isn't passing the emissions test for ontario.. mechanic says the car is burning too rich (too much fuel to air).. any suggestions as to what might be the problem? is this common with the 1g cl's?.. and he said im lookin at a whole tune-up now, so im gunna get him to do the ball joints and ish.. i can do the tune up myself, good idea? let me know

WineRed2.2CL

you could do a basic tune-up. if you are willing to learn. Get a haynes manual for our cars or 94-97 honda accord haynes.

Get some spark plugs new. Oil and oil filter. Air Filter. CHeck all your fluids. Make sure your radiator fluid is not brown. Oh and type or brand you get what you pay for.

Do you have a V6 or 2.2*3

bRunCL

iTrader: (1)

Any codes or check engine lights? usually if theres a problem with your emission system it'll throw a code. I would do a tune up first and then try to find out what levels in your exhaust are too high so you can narrow down the probable sources ie: catalytic converter, o2 sensors, egr.....

CB9-cl

The guy cleaned the EGR, put in new air filter, changed the oil and it still didnt pass.. so im thinkin plugs, wires, dist. maybe, fuel filter(could use a diy), seafoam, coolant flush, tranny fluid change, would say o2 but those things are $$.. and yea, anything i missed?

CB9-cl

2.2

97BlackAckCL

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There's some good diy info for the fuel filter in the diy/faq forum, also I posted some more info about it back in the day. I would def do the tune up yourself, plugs, wires, dist cap after you seafoam of course, and your car should be like new for sure.

CB9-cl

sweet, good to hear.. hopefully i'll have it in about two days, i'll take some pics an then get to work

bluebug

Do it! 2900 all together for a good running acura. Steal.

CB9-cl

Not much help in the diy/faq section.. and yours is for a 3.0.. i havn't got my car back yet but the filter is in a diff. place rite? 2.2.. i hope this tune-up works, i dont wanna get into sensors and cat.'s right now

97BlackAckCL

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Yes, ff is in a different location, but requires the same wrenches and banjo bolt

Anhedonia

it could just be as simple as your MAF.. which isnt a difficult DIY either. id reccomend that before a cat. i do have a NIB magnaflow highflow cat i could sell you if your looking to replace yours. although from what i hear, they tend to throw codes with our cars, but a member on here did have a solution to this issue with a couple of nuts

Josh99CL

More specifically some spark plug non-foulers to space the secondary O2 out of the direct exhaust but ya =)

DaInFaMMuS1

Our cars don't have a MAF. They use a MAP sensor, and that's just pulling the old one out and putting a new one in. A bad MAP will be highly noticeable though, car will buck and not accelerate properly at all.

CB9-cl

well my mechanic is a good guy.. he got me a new pcv and plugs but it like i said it didnt pass.. he said that its probably a cat, so im thinking 2.25" custom with:

- Catco cat. (will not throw codes, correct?)
- 22" res.
- magnaflow muffler

Where can i get the catco? and who makes cheap resonators?
p.s. custom = headers back

97BlackAckCL

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magnaflow resonator

CB9-cl

the catco's are hard to find, and ebay doesnt seem to have the high-flow models

DaInFaMMuS1

Excelerate sells vibrant high flows. Getting mine from him

http://store.excelerateperformance.c...3/i-36900.aspx

CB9-cl

nice website bro, thanks.. so those wont crew with my ecu either?