Alright, so I'm new to the forum and I figured I'd show you guys what I've got to work with. I just bought my 97 2.2 CL 5spd a few weeks ago. Its not in the best shape but with a little tlc, and a few bucks, he'll have a woman magnet built right in

Winter here in Nova Scotia is cold, dirty, and white--and that's pretty easy to tell in these pictures

The guy who owned it before me didn't take the best care of it (as you're about to see).

My rear end, fire plate and all


Dirty


The previous owner painted the stock rims black, I'm just going to take them off in the spring and use them as my winter rims.


He also painted the front grille black, however used the wrong kind of paint, and sense I have bought it the paint has been constantly chipping off of the grille.


Rear windows are tinted, but not the rear windsheild


Passenger side


When the previous owner debadged it, he put the Acura logo inside on the woodgrain--I like it though.


It has a pretty haggard deck that isn't even installed properly--that'll be the first to go.


It came with this "sweet" intake...


The piece de resitance: the shocker symbol ftw...well, ftl hahah You can also see how the front driver`s side fender is bent in this picture. The guy before me was backing up and swung the front end into a parked truck (...moron), so I`ll be bending that out.


There we have it; my CL.
Im thinking about going all black--black rims (havn`t decided which yet), maybe that billet ebay grille painted in black, clear corners and headlights, and the overplayed tinted tails as well. Thats just exterior `thoughts`. I`ll sub out that ten dollar CAI for a SRI I think.

What do yooouuu think guys

 

Doesn't look like it will take too much to get it looking nice again. I've seen a lot worse. Looks like a fun project though, keep us updated.

 

damn. id say wash it first. worry about the maintenance next

 

haha, if I were to wash it today, it would look just like that again by tomorrow morning :P
my avatar is a pciture of it--clean--that the prev. owner took.

 

was he a member on here?

 

I dont believe he was, it didn`t come up in conversation when I bought the car.
--why, have you seen the car before

 

get all that snow off of the intake too!

 

Wash & Wax

 

welcome to the forum man.

 

^yes we have, i think it was that exact picture that you have in your avatar too that he posted here along with a couple others, it wasn't too long ago either maybe a couple months ago. but yes your car is dirty as hell, and it doesn't matter if it gets dirty right away please wash that thing, it looks even worse then when i left my car unwashed for a month and how the hell did you get that much snow in your engine bay?

 

the sticker is very familiar.

 

It all looks superficial. Some detailing products and elbow grease should take care of it. Congratulations and good luck.

 

Just a wash and wax isn't going to take all that off. You are going to need an agressive, clear coat safe paint cleaner. That is almost as bad as what my car look liked about a month ago when they were working on intense road construction right by the house. There was dirt and calcium rock haze everywhere and mixed with the morning dew, it all just settled on that car and caked on. Your gonna need a buffer as well.

 

im pretty sure that's acuratl_2nr old cl.

 

That's def an old member's car, not sure if it's tunr's car though

 

maybe its not, but it looks really similar....

 

Yup that's it, I didn't feel like searching, thought the wheels were different

 

I really dont think thats his car, he was around just a lil bit ago n posted that he still had it. could be though

 

the one he bought isn't his car because, he painted his chrome black.

 

ahhhh good call Jonny boy! Also, his rims were bronze with a chrome lip not all black. and he had the tsx exhaust.

 

^^^ yes he couldve brought it back to stock but the chrome would be the hardest to do IMO. it wouldn't be worth its to replace it. but the car still looks familiar to me though.

 

I dont think the above car is mine. That has a New Brunswick liscence plate on it, and the guy I bought it from had a Nova Scotian plate--however, that could be a picture from the guy who owned it before him

yeah, the prev. owner put it on, so Im thinking he probabaly was a member--maybe both prev. owners were.

and thanks f22vtech for the ``welcome``

 

so yes the owner of your car before you is a member on these forums and it is not acuratl_2nr, the member who had ur car before was drifter_sr5 and he only made 5 posts and a couple threads that's why no one remembered his name, i even had to do copious amounts of searching to find him
here is his thread about your car when he had it
https://acurazine.com/forums/showthr...096&highlight=
and here is some pics
this one is before he painted the different parts black


and here's what your car looks like after he did the painting




looks like i am pretty good at searching, no?

 

congrats ^.

you are definetly not a noob

 

he's a noob, that's good at doing what he's supposed to..search. In this case, he was trying to be an investigator.

 

good now pass it on to the retards that cant.

 

damn my car is in the same situation...we should all have a meet at a car wash!!

 

mine was definitely worse......mine went from ashy to classy haha.
i dont think anyone else was missing as many things as i have or has found a beer can and a big ass screw driver in the engine bay or a fork in the spare tire area.

 

a beer can??? engine bay?? what da hell!? dude SRI made by Miller Lite.

 

Yeah I remember that dude, good find mitch

 

^thanks chris, just doing my part to provide usefull info to this forum


and hope that my fellow n00bs will do the same

 

haha, you`ve got an entire picnic under the hood, haha, a picnic with vtech.

goood searching mitch...impressive! Thanks a lot man, its cool seeing what my car looked like before I got it. He did a bad job painting the headlights black; the didnt seal properly and theres silicon all over it. Not to mention the moisture that gets in them from his hackjob

 

A picnic with this?

lawlz!

 

haha, throwing that phone in your car gives you 10 - 15 + hp, but put it in a picnic basket and Yogi bear is going to make a fast getaway

 

There's so few of you that do

 

haha he tinted the back windows but not the back windshield. thats funny.
anyway, looks like it'll be a fun project.

question, how far do you live from cape breton? my neighbor is the goalie for the screaming eagles

 

How much you paid the car? He said he paid it 1900 with mags

 

That's crazy...

 

just my , since we now know who had it, what mods are on it...etc. You really should go over the car very well and make sure there's no ticking time bombs in there....tranny, oil, cooling, brakes.....but I'd really be checking that trans and the motor itself. Not to say the previous owner didnt care for the car, but.......well you know.

 

mags?