Took months of deliberation and indecisiveness but finally did it: got new wheels and springs on Friday. My wife and I went on a road trip yesterday and she took some preliminary pics:









We broke off the front emblem when installing the CT Engineering "shield", but it may have been a blessing in disguise because it looks kinda nice with a dark color there in the middle. I ordered 2 new emblems and will paint one of them gun metal to see how it looks.

I still need to do an alignment next week, and then I'll give it a nice wash and a real photoshoot.

Enjoy the pics!

 

NICE!!! they are the rims i've always wanted!!!!! nice nice nice nice nice! what are the wheel specs?

 

those are some nice rims!!!!

 

all you have to do is to paintmatch the smiley face part of the grille. what size rims are those? 19s? and what type of tires?

 

The wheels are 19x8.5, 42mm offset. Tires are 245/35/19 Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Pole Positions. Eibach springs.

When are you getting yours?

 

To be honest, I kinda like the smiley face (I don't think of it as a smiley face). I was thinking that with a dark-colored emblem on the front it will look alright, so we'll see.

 

Good job. Car looks nice

 

love the rims

 

Thanks for the comments. I painted my broken emblem as a test, and here's the result:

 

i think if you want to go for the all black look, you are goign to need to take out all the chrom, then it'd look killer.

 

good job and very very very good choice for the rims.....

 

Car looks awesome! Very Nice!

 

Looks good, man!

 

Thank you, and may I say your car was one of the things that inspired me!

 

love your rims. the car looks great

 

Wow, thanks! I appreciate the compliment! Really digging those wheels! Keep up the great work! How would you rate the CT Engineering shield overall. Looking into that or just paint matching.

 

Looks really nice. I think you and I are some of the only one's on this forum with the CT-E Carbon Grill

 

Well, I've had it for about a week and I'm really happy I got it. When I first got the car whenever I saw the chrome shield I would gag and have an adverse reaction. After awhile, I got used to it and it didn't seem so bad anymore. Having said that...

...with the dark-colored shield I don't even have to try, I just like it. It's much more understated and that's what I like. If the car wasn't a lease I would debadge the "Acura" and "TSX" in the back to make it cleaner, but I don't want to deal with the hassle of gluing the emblems back on at the end.

Another thing is I've seen pictures of the Mugen grill elsewhere on this forum and sometimes at first glance the car looks like that, i.e. just one flat piece across the front.

To be honest I'm trying to envision the grill on your car, but I can't see it because it clashes with your color. I actually think the chrome grill on your car looks good with your color and rims.

Lastly, the CT-E grill doesn't have the extra clips that hold it to the front bumper like the OE chrome grill does. It's just screws. Don't get me wrong, it's secure, but I was pushing around that area and it seemed like I was able to move the bottom part.

 

I like it...the combo wheel and tire looks awesome, it matches the car real well. Nice job dude!!!

 

I agree with you 100%. The chrome definitely grew on me, and since I have the chrome on the door handles, it kinda ties everything together. I was thinking if anything of color matching, but at this point I'm really happy with the car at this point. This car doesn't need much to really look good. Very sexy car, I just wish they came pre-lowered

 

How much did it cost you to paint match your grill? I'm planning on doing that but i cant find a legitimate paint shop =/

 

Wheels are fantastic, but I think you should paint rest of the grill and keep acura emblem chrome, or paint all emblems to match.

 

I think your grille looks flawlees as is... the 2 tone is the best look for the style of grille. Keep up the good work, the car looks amazing.

I say take them off Its easy to put them back on with double sided tape.

 

man...

your making it hard to decide what color to get! i like this one!

 

Nice rims.

 

OP, love the drop and the rims!
tints. mugen visors, roofwing, and lip spiler and your car would look so sick.

if you are in long beach, CA (judging from your forum name), try S&W garage on broadway and junipero.

 

Actually, I didn't paint-match the grill. The grill you see in the pics is the carbon fiber grill from CT-Engineering. It resembles Grigio Metallic which was the reason I bought it.

 

I actually thought about painting the rest of the grill but because my car is a lease, it would cost me a bit more to buy the extra part (it's like a couple of hundred $USD; the emblem is ~$15) to paint. I expect to restore everything back to stock at the end of the lease.

Sometimes when I'm daydreaming I do think about just buying that part of the grill and then paint-matching it, but I'm just reluctant to shell out the cash. Also for some reason I've started to like the stock chrome grill a bit more and have been thinking about putting back on, too. Darn indecisiveness!

 

Hey, thank you. My wife and I were looking at the Nengun site and we were like "it'd be badass if we bought the whole Mugen kit" but of course for that price it becomes a question of how much we're willing to spend, and at this point we're not prepared to shell out that much (I already spent a bundle on the wheels/tires).

 

Really nice rims. Flows with the car.

 

I hear ya, i still havent been able to pull the trigger on rims and drop yet. got other small stuff done though.

 

Those rims definitely compliments your car to the fullest.

 

Nice wheels

 

Frommmm the dead ahhhhhhh hahahahahahahah

 

nice necropost

 

Shit, almost 4 years to the day, brings back some memories for sure. Wow I am different now than I was back then.

 

Hey Mr. Oto. I like the things you do.

 

Thanks brother, likewise, likewise.

 

HOLY SHIT GRAVEDIG, I thought Mr. Oto got a CDM TSX or sumtin jus reading this post lol. Hows hk?