so i just got my it, its a 98 3.0 and im in love with it. hope to get some usefull info on here. ive beeen a member of hondatech for years but sadly they have no CL info. ill get some pics for you guys in the morning.

 

!!! haha congrats on the pick-up

 

Welcome... I know someone's going to do it, so I might as well get it out of the way...

you beat me to it, but I'll still leave it...

 

Welcome to AZine and get those pics posted up ASAP

 

Welcome!

 

'pics before thread'
idc if ur new lmao

jk

welcome holmes

 

Yoooo! Welcome to AZine! Pics bro, pics!

 

We have no info here either, jk

Welcome, check out the n00b guide as a good place to start

 

Morning has come, where are these promised pics?!?!

 

welcome homie

 

welcome to a place better then google acurazine....

 

well, i git hit in the parking lot at the tag agency yesterday......its not bad but im really pissed. sorry about the pics but i was in a motorcycle accident last week and my job has been givving me a hard time about comming back to work. ive been running aroung like a madman trying to get things in order with hospitals, work and othe things i had to catch up on since i was in bed for a week. but i will get the pics up soon(new crash as well). thanks for the warm welcome guys.

 

THAT sucks my friend, sorry to hear that. was it a hit and run?

 

yikes welcome

 

he didnt "hit" me, but he did run me off the road(into a tree). so it was more like a "dick and run".

 

oh wait, your talking about the car rite? not it was not a hit and run, and it was witnessed by a cop so he ran over and wrote the guy a ticket.

 

that sucks man

 

here they are









the crash



the wheels (for sale)

 

looks pretty good man
have you done anything yet to it, or are those the mods from the previous owner?
and i think a trunk debage would make it look a whole lot cleaner IMO

 

the only thing ive done to it was hang my cross on the rear view mirror, i hate the rims and the flipout tv. i cant wait to put a pioneer 2-din and the stocks for now(came with the car also) and a debadge is on the way dont worry. and now for the interior pics....







sorry for the night time pics.

 

sorry about the sterring wheel cover, it came witht the car and it needs it. but im looking for an MDX wheel as we speak. and dont tell me to paint my wood, i like it. lol

 

^yea i feel the same was as you, if i ever bought a wheel it would probably be a wood mdx one. And yeah i agree with you on the rims and the tv too, i just hate those flip out dvd players they look so tacky and so old. are you gonna get a new set of rims or no?

 

about the rims im not sure, im so picky that i dont think ill ever settle, but for now it will sit on the 7-spoke stocks. and it will get a real drop as well.

 

good start man, clean up the front bumper though

 

i like your painted calipers, just like mine gg

 

Great that you're going to debadge, was going to suggest that, nice loking car

 

good lookin car! Def. debadge and get some touch up paint for those chips in the front. I'm with you on being picky about rims, I'll be runnin my stockies for a while for sure

 

you might want to touch up your grill to it looks really faded. all you have to do is mask off the chrome pieces and paint the rest black.

and if your going to to stay with the silver and black theme i would suggest blackhousing your headlights, and get new turn signals instead of the amber ones either clear or smoked would look good

 

its funny cuz im planning on doing everything you said, the blinkers are going smoked, and as soon as o grow the balls to butcher my headlights ill do that too. i eventually want to paint the car black but that not in the neer future.

thanks for all your compliments, i know i need to fix the bumper guys you dont know how much it bothers me. baby steps.

 

Yeah that flip-out tv has got to go too, what is that a Jensen? And it covers half the buttons on the climate control! What is the point of putting those in a car like that unless it has nav.

 

The only advantage I see is that it moves it higher up and makes it more accessible. One thing I hate about our dash is that the audio console is mounted too low and a double din is blocked by the shift knob at times (manual tranny). Also, if you're trying to read the map while driving, you really have to take your eyes off the road to look at it.

 

God eye, it is a jensen and its not even touch screen. if i dont go with a pioneer 2-din it'll be one of the new alpine units. the volume knob works backwards (when it does) and im not putting my sub back there to get blown cuz my shitty head unit spiked. but living in miami the first mod will be a clifford G5 w/ blackjack, then ill get on the sound.

 

Well, the tranny gave up on me sunday night...........so i crawled it to the shop monday morning and got an estimate of $1,350 to do a "soft part" rebuild. Well they pull the tranny apart the next day and call me in to see a dissaster of mashed up gears and casing, not to mention a bad tourqe converter. someone rebuilt the tranny recently and didnt know what they were doing, they left out an o-ring and used the wrong barrings in some places and just ruined most of the internals. but to my surprise the price only went up to $1,950 with a free car rental (08' accord) for 4 days. so i agreed and got the job done. just picked up the car today and its running like a champ.

long story short, i almost got the car for $3,500. but i guess $5,500 for a CL with a clean interior, strong motor, BRAND NEW TRANNY, and clean body isnt too bad, right?

Another update: i picked up the stocks so if my knee agrees with me tomorro ill paint the calipers black and put the stocks on with pics!!!

 

not too bad, i guess it was cheap for a reason when you bought it.
good to hear that you got her fixed tho, i don't think my cl would fare the same fate if anything catostrafic(sp?) happened to it.
And did you actually pay $1950 for a brand new tranny or to rebuild yours? i've only really heard of ppl getting theirs rebuilt on here
but i don't really pay much attention to the 3.0 problems cuz i got the 2.2

 

well by new i meant that almost all the parts are new, but it was a full rebuild.

 

Wow, that's great! How did you like the rental? I would assume it would be hard having to give the rental back.

 

Haha, that O-ring. I remember when I swapped the trans in my accord that I had just managed to finally get the beast in there using floor jacks and had to pull it back out from fear that I forgot the O-ring. O-ring was there on the torque converter.

 

thats sick that you got the CL with a new rebuilt tranny. i agree, you should ditch that POS jensen flip out. i've never been a fan of the flip-out screens.

i love the for sale ad on your windows, x2

 

wasnt too hard, it was a silver on cloth 4-banger. i like my car better, and the new body accord sedan hasnt grown on me yet. coupe is pure sex, but they didnt have any. its a nice car but the i4 is way underpowered

 

lol, couldnt find a sign that had the room to write "RIMS for sale" and my number. and i didnt want people calling me thinking i was selling the car.