97BlackAckCL

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After 2 years of being uninspected (tag expired July of 07) took my car with retrofits, window and tail light tints, smoked upper and lower corners and all. Got it inspected and it passed Car is road-worthy again Spent the last week reinstalling my entire interior, and putting things back together, for those who don't know I had my entire interior gutted for various projects that I only got 25% of the way through, but at least I can drive the CL again. Felt so good driving her this morning after I got my seat all arranged into pimp lean. I was worried because it takes our cars about 50 miles of driving before all of the o2 sensors recalibrate before you can pass emissions, however since I had only driven just over 1000 miles since my last emissions, I didn't have to be tested since under 5000 miles is not needed for a retest. So to make a long story short, I'm back bitches!

DaInFaMMuS1

YEAHHHHHHHH its about time! lol. Congrats!

REVTEC

Nice! If the inspection wasn't for e-check, what was the inspection for?

732xghost

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haha i kno all about shady stickers. good luck its always good for the common man to beat the system.

homemade stickers ftw.

97BlackAckCL

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Pennsylvania state safety inspection They check, brakes, rotors, tires, wipers, headlights, blah blah blah. 3 years ago when I got it inspected, it failed for clear corners and high wattage headlights (nokyas) back when they were the rage on this site.

<------ So needless to say, I was looking to get the hookup this time around.

Easiest way to get pulled over is to have expired stickers in your windshield. Had it happen a few years back, cop made a u-turn and pulled me over cuz my sticker was 3 days expired

97BlackAckCL

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Had to wait 4 months to actually get this guy to do it, was going through a friend to his buddy that does inspections, been trying since march to get her in. Course I didn't have my car back together till last night around midnight

oct

as a side note, my fully gutted cl passed NJ state inspection. that surprised the hell out of me.

97BlackAckCL

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This is where my interior's been for the past year





Door panels have been off for a year or so as well. Finally got them dynamatted and such and got them reinstalled.

732xghost

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a fully gutted CL in jersey. id like to see that.

REVTEC

State Inspection huh? That sucks. We just have the E-Check in Ohio...which also sucks. At least it's a free inpection now.

Doctorsound

makes me feel a lot better about not putting my interior back together...

mitch14

In the province i live in canada, all we have to do is a safety before we insure a car, they check basic stuff like brakes, tires, rust holes in the body, the electrical etc etc.., but after you get that done, aslong as you continue to insure it and it stays in your name, you never have to get it inspected again and we don't even need to do an emissions test at all.

1slo23

the e-check by me closed down

shnee

Maryland: just need an inspection when getting a new title, and emissions once every 2 years

1slo23

and oh yeah congrats on getting the CL back together...hopefully i'll make to the meet and see it in person

ZeroCL

Cant wait to see her on the road again. we definitely need to get some pics but mine prob wont be ready til the meet anyway. so i guess we'll see!

Cocoa

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Sweet! Looking at your pic makes me wonder why the hell I still have a glove box I see a metal bracket that is bound to weigh a pound.

I bet driving her around felt great. Can't wait for me to insure my car for a month when it's ready to drive for the Sept meet.

Dicorp

umm pics of exterior? rims?

klepto

awww snap!

97 2.2 CL Premium

mitch what province? im in sask.

DaInFaMMuS1

Why the hell are you fully gutting your CL in the 1st place?

s10httnswtchs

nice glad to see you got your car back on the road. Im glad i dont have to go through any inspections cause the cl is the only one of my rides that would be even close to passing.

DoubleSh0t

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Glad she's road worthy again

AznX TL

shady stickers ftw indeed, nothing like taking a car in with a cel, and tons of illegal mods to be passed

SupraManAG

what do i do?
i need one soon.

AznX TL

you need to.........move to pa

SupraManAG

never again !!!!!!!!!!

Eband27

Um. Inspection? Whats inspection? Hahaha. Gotta love quebec for that! We have the shittiest roads ever, the worst infrastructure.. but inspection? The only inspection there is, is when we want to buy a car from the states or from another province. In quebec.. u can drive a really uberly disgusting car.. But! If a cop car stops you because your rust holes in your body are too visible or ur missing a windshield, they could send you to an inspection.. but it doesn't get done too often.

You guys should see what i bouhgt a couple of days ago. a 1994 Integra 5 speed 2 door RS for 1000$. It has a HUGE rust hole behind the driver door. lol.

97BlackAckCL

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Rims aren't on yet, coils aren't on yet, got it inspected before I did all that. But did meet up with my buddy at the park and take some dusty car pics

Painted wood grain and several interior parts satin black, also have satin black painted door sills but they're not installed yet.


Interior's mostly back together, woodgrain etc




Painted stock speaker grills, mounted led's inside, wired to the door lights, so they come on when you open the doors, lights up the speaker cones


Also mounted led's under the door handles, to illuminate the middle of the door panels


mcajka's runs through the door panels, 12 guage monster speaker wires through the doors


Painted the steering wheel trim, there's already dust on it. Cleaned it off after this pic.



Always love to get random stuff in my photos, last time was no dumping sign, this time porta-john, oh and screw the striped corners


Grill is going to change, this was just temporary till I put the hood back on.


WW Lip waiting for new bumper




2 year old rotors still look brand new after I got the surface rust off


One of my fav shots, retro ftw


Always have to throw the ass in there


Test fit of 2nd gen battery box, battery bling not installed yet


Not done with engine bay, just letting it evolve slowly


Ballasts, custom wiring, bat box




Hayden tranny cooler, gloss black painted condensor, gloss black painted hella horns (125 db's a piece)


Brand new fuel filter, was a nightmare to install, went through 3 fuel filters

97BlackAckCL

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Right hand drive CL

97BlackAckCL

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Got driving shots, I'll put them up in a bit

AznX TL

looks great.........except the school bus shifter, holy shat batman.
i can't wait to see your car with all of its parts put on finally

GhettoNinja06

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Lookin' goooooooooood! I thought you painted the handles.

97BlackAckCL

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I did they didn't come out, used my spare set from my spare door panels. school bus handle wtf? I like my shifter, really easy to use and works smoothly, never liked my stock shifter handle

ZeroCL

yeah if the shifter was shorter itd be sweeter i think. cars looking good man, cant wait to see it all together. im hoping your trying to get most of it done before the meet?

AznX TL

now we're game.

ZeroCL

haha that loooks good there. what kind of led's did you use chris?

Dicorp

looking good. is that rust i see in the 4th picture, the drain holes on the door?

97BlackAckCL

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All different kinds, LED's in the climate control in the works now, got LED bulbs in the guage cluster, cig lighter, ash tray light, dome, shifter light, doors, under the door handles, in the speaker grills, under the glove box and steering rack, and under each of the back seats, plus a whole bunch more in the trunk also installed a powered switch box for the interior lights, installed in the center console, tapped the wires on the car part of the wiring harness for the cig lighter so I can still remove the console, came out good. And the shifter is as low as I could get it, and I like it, not gonna cut my stock shifter so w/e.

97BlackAckCL

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Meh, maybe a tiny bit of rust, didn't really notice, there's a whole bunch of sealant crap there from the edge of the door panel.

Pieces painted satin black include:

4 woodgrain pieces
4 main vent grills
2 defroster vents
Steering wheel cover trims
Shifter plate
2 outer seat trims
Speaker Grills
New airbag
Door sills
Fuse Box cover
Trunk latch cover
Mirror wire covers

Items painted that failed:
Guage cluster trim piece
Both door handles


Lovin the black and charcoal 2 tone interior, already got like 4 compliments on it

Really wanna get my fogs installed but need a new bumper first. Let me just say drove back from a car show tonight with the HID projectors, my god I love my headlights.

More to come