N1h1l1ty

Too much CF gets a little tacky, and I personally really like the interior contrast between the silver and the carbon. If I were to do anything at all to those interior silver pieces, it would be to paint them something glossy to contrast with the outside. That's just me though

As far as the exterior goes, I personally love the contrast from the silver grill and rear trim piece - I think silver and ABP go very very well together. In fact I think its one of the only colors that makes the stock silver 5 spoke wheels look great precisely because of the contrast. The only thing I really want to do with the grill is maybe wrap the contrasting grey pieces.

Now as far as the front lip trim and rear valence goes, I think it would look awesome in carbon, but I'm not sure how long a wrap would last on those pieces. I'm likely going to leave them for the foreseeable future as I don't mind the color too much.

Oh Sickest TL

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see i hate the silver in the interior LOL.. now the exterior.. some ppl vinyl wrap their whole car so Im assuming it would hold up fine

CLtotheTL32

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I thought about powder coating mine as well but I didn't think I would have the car this long

Thank you for the compliment!

It sounds like you might be better off just removing them. I was just lazy and didn't want to unhook anything

Steven Bell

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No.....just no.

N1h1l1ty

Its ok Mr.Bell, there is enough carbon fiber goodness coming in this thread for it to be renamed "Steven Bell Approved" lol. Just need to take my time and figure out how I'm going to get 18x9.5 +22 to fit lol

Steven Bell

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Hmmm....that is true-I could make that change too!

Greenman604

Much jealous. Such wow.

Flipster23

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Never knew how nice of a car you had.

N1h1l1ty

I'm sure yours will be just as sweet man, fret not

D'aww

Lots of fun stuff planned - Currently trying to figure out my rear toe dilemma and still waiting for the Endless catback. At this point I want to actually dyno it bone stock power wise and then dyno it with the Endless catback, RV6 V3 Jpipe, HFPC, Unorthodox pulley and AEM V2 all of which are going on at the same time. Fingers crossed for 35+ whp gain.

Flipster23

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Sorry have not had.

N1h1l1ty

Inb4 this is an omen and I total it on the drive home

Oh Sickest TL

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UH OH. was looking at that guys RRP thread the other night, fuck i almost cried

N1h1l1ty

Got home safe and sound

Funnily enough, my drive home on Friday nights is probably my favorite part of the day. After a pretty brutal 7:00 am to 10:00 pm shift at work, its really refreshing to roll with the windows down and a near empty road/highway home.

Oh Sickest TL

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RU_JELLY

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plans sounds nice... should turn out well

N1h1l1ty

Thanks man - to be honest my idea of what I want the car to be constantly fluctuates in my head, but there will (soon) be a point where it will either be a focus on cosmetics or a focus on performance, and given what I like about cars, its probably going to be the latter.

Right now my #1 priority is finish up the suspension. My philosophy with the build is simple:

Suspension first,
Brakes second,
Power last.

Now to be fair, the basic bolt-ons are going to happen before my brake overhaul, but that's because I believe that my daily enjoyment of the car will multiply ten-fold when I can actually HEAR the damn thing lol.

Steven Bell

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^^^ Good plan!

N1h1l1ty

Also somewhere in there I'm going to want to address the 5AT being able to reliably handle power. Thinking a higher stall torque converter to start, and then will go from there.

Steven Bell

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Best of luck-that's no small project.

Oh Sickest TL

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with the intake and HFPC and j pipe you may want to consider changing out the motor mounts too ?

N1h1l1ty

Yup definitely considered this. Honestly what I might do at this point is bolt up the exhaust, jpipe and intake when the exhaust actually gets shipped. Ride around for this summer, and THEN install the HFPC, PnP 3.7 IM/TB/Runners, cams, XLR8 pulley and motor mounts. I'm thinking of going with Bisi stage 2 cams and right now a lot of it hinges on what tuning solution I will settle on.

I was always originally planning on pursuing the power adders in stages, but I'm not quite sure what leaps I want to take it in. I know for sure that the HFPC , pulley and mounts are somewhere in the middle between the two right now.

Oh Sickest TL

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Oh Sickest TL

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I know what you mean tho! I go to bed every night thinking what else can I do to this car in the future.. Ill be keeping my TL forever so may as well make it fun. at some point ill get a new car though and the TL will just sit in the garage and ill just poke away at things

N1h1l1ty

Captured my feelings about the TL exactly. I really do think the shape / lines are timeless. I've gotten quite a few compliments on the car, and I do love how people who have no clue about the TLs gasp when I tell them its 11 years old.

Oh Sickest TL

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yea i know man!! lol. thats funny. theres not many if any 3g TL's where I live and ppl are like man no way that is a 06.. such a timeless body design..

I remember when they first came out in 04 i was 17 and I said to myself.... THIS is the car I WANT.. but they were like 40k LOL

N1h1l1ty

You're a good couple of years older than me - I was 11 lol

Oh Sickest TL

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nice! yea my previous car was a 02 WDP Type S... Loved that thing....I took a lot of time off after I graduated high school.. worked some random jobs, took me a while to get my head on straight.. in school now tho to be a chemical engineer! i got another year and a half left of that and then the cash will be ROLLIN in lol.

Im hoping by that time acura actually puts something out that is worth it. they just fell off after the 08 type s

N1h1l1ty

Nice, I'm in a similar-ish position. Finished high school with great marks, went to uni, did really well but just felt like utter garbage in my program, decided to take some time off and now I'm here. I mean, I work full time for the city right now and while I'm not making huge buck, its enough to tide me over while I figure out what I really want to pursue - I just figured out quickly enough that I'm not the person that can pilot a desk for the next 4 decades of my life.

N1h1l1ty

And 0.00000005% chance acura will put out something worth buying lol. Sad, but oh so true.

Oh Sickest TL

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you'll figure it out bud! I didn't enter my program until I was 26...I wish I would've started post secondary right out the gate but oh well... I moved out at a young age so things were hard for a while thats for sure.




NSX? Hopefully I can afford that someday LOL

N1h1l1ty

Chem engineer? Hell yes you can dude

Dream big. Hell a year ago I would of laughed if somebody told me I would own a pretty clean looking TL. A year and a half ago I didn't even have my licence

Oh Sickest TL

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Thnx bud

Steven Bell

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This NSX better be awesome. The Ford GT just stole it's thunder at the New York Auto Show.

N1h1l1ty

Couldn't agree more

Steven Bell

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Yep, sad but true. And no one saw it coming either.


That's what happens when you wait for YEARS to bring a car out to market.

N1h1l1ty

Sooooo this week I got stranded in Ottawa with Guitarplayer16. Here is a quick little recounting of said adventure:

I drove up Monday, which is a Civic Holiday here in Canuckistan, do work on my headlights with GP16 and pick up my tails which he had so graciously finished for me.

The day went great, minus a small painting fiasco with the headlight housing which forced us to chip off/sand down all the paint and start over.

After we finished the headlights, it was already quite late and I was planning on driving back during the night, but we decided to go out and snap some quick pics of our two cars together. We got to the shoot location, and when Thanh started taking pics, I noticed I had a flat on the rear passenger side tire. After a quick inspection I discovered a GIANT screw wedged in my tire. What's worse is I hadn't realized I had driven on the flat, effectively destroying my tire.

The rest of the story is pretty mundane and basically goes like this: We spent half of the following day trying to find me a new Continental DW in 225/40/18 and NO ONE carried it, so I ended up getting stuck in Ottawa for a second night and we ordered the tire. The following day we installed my Inspire fogs while waiting for the tire to show up and as it turned out (naturally, with my terrible luck) that the tire wasn't going to be here until the following day (Thursday).

Finally, the tire did show up today, although 4 hours later than expected, and I finally parted ways with Thanh and made my way back to Toronto.

Despite my absolutely abysmal luck, I really enjoyed the trip - It was the first time I had 4 days off in a row in what must be a year.

Oh and Thanh took pics. A LOT of pics.

Oh Sickest TL

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WOW, at least you got some fogs installed and pics by the MASTER lol

I would have lost my mind waitin all that time.

I wanna get inspire fogs so bad but I really don't have confidence on installing them myself and to be honest don't have any confidence in any of the shops around here with my fresh painted bumper lol

N1h1l1ty

The install is super easy - Me and GP managed to get them done in about 3 hours or so, and a good half an hour was taken up by our feeble attempts to relocate my horn(s) lol.

Follow his DIY and go slow with the dremel and you'll have absolutely no problems

Steven Bell

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guitarplayer16

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bump for cleanest TL

hope you're well, haven't heard from you in a while!
recouping the money for the tire