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Old 05-27-2012, 07:43 AM
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sKepz '09 TL RBP progress
Got my 09 TL RBP about 2 months ago, and I'm starting to do little tweaks to it.

Crappy cell phone pic, but this is the day I brought her home.





Up next will be tinting the windows and night shading the tail lights.

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Old 05-27-2012, 08:37 AM
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Congrats! RBP is such a rare color you have picked up a jem. +1 on the window tint, its always my first mod. Chech out djtanveer's thread - he also has a RBP tl.
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Beautiful color,congrats
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Congrats! Looks like you are in South Florida, what part? I am in Broward.
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Old 05-27-2012, 01:03 PM
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Congrats! Looks like you are in South Florida, what part? I am in Broward.
I'm in the Miami Lakes area. Good eye.
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Old 05-27-2012, 01:46 PM
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I'm in the Miami Lakes area. Good eye.
Awesome!! Maybe if I ever sell my vossen wheels, you will be interested, I change things up quite a bit.
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Rare color indeed. It looks great on a 4G.
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Old 05-28-2012, 10:27 AM
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Just a little update. Nightshading your tail lights in this So Fla weather is horrible.
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Sweet color i love it! Very rare indeed.
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Old 06-02-2012, 05:05 PM
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So I got the tints and didn't use my crappy cell phone for pictures.

35% carbon tint in the front and 18% in the back.

I attempted to do night shades myself, had to take it off due to error. That will be next week's project or so.

Waiting for the rear window spoiler to arrive.




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Awesome colour.
Ride looks very clean and classy with the tint.

Nice neighbourhood too!
I spy a clean NBP A-Spec 3rd gen lol
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^^ the color is a neck breaker, so what's next? I see you potential might have a acurazine member right across street.
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MUCH better pics-the tints look good.
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Congrats, love the color. Great pics enjoy your ride!
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Looks sharp. You should black out the chrome window moldings as well. =)
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Nice color What plans do you have for it? RBP FTW!!!
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So how come your house hasn't been painted yet?
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Old 06-03-2012, 05:51 PM
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Thx all.

Originally Posted by djtanveer
Nice color What plans do you have for it? RBP FTW!!!
Drop it, RJ front and rear body kit, and god knows I gotta do something about that grille. Good looks on your RBP.
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So how come your house hasn't been painted yet?
Ha, house got painted 3 weeks back. Stupid association and their color restrictions.
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haha, Had to ask!, Well keep the mods coming and let me know what ya wana do with that grille.
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So ended up purchasing Tein SS coilvers. Had them for bout 3 weeks. Finally got them installed yesterday!






I also installed the rear roof spoiler. I will post up pics of that later.
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Looks nice on the teins! Whats the white sticker deally on your rear drivers side window?
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Originally Posted by LawnPro
Looks nice on the teins! Whats the white sticker deally on your rear drivers side window?
Thanks. That's a barcode to get into my community.

Here are the rear roof spoiler pics.




Last edited by Steven Bell; 07-01-2012 at 11:21 PM. Reason: Merged Posts.
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Old 07-01-2012, 09:24 PM
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I got the hookup at Acura, let me know if you are interested in the kit. I think it was like $869
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Looks sharp skepz, installing the teins was nice upgrade. Now you need a good set of wheels to make the transformation.
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I like the roof spoiler! Well done.
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Looks good! I like the blacked out RX-8 in the background too.
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Anyone here tinted their backlights? If so, what would you recommend?
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Roof spoiler looks really good!!!
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Nothing major, but I installed a K&N SRI.





More updates coming soon.
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LOoking good! I've been wondering for a long time how the K&N SRI sounds. No one ever posted a clip or anything. Would you be so kind and post one up?
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Nice! I didnt know K&N has a sri too. Im interested to learn how it performs. any feedback?

have you considered blacking out your headlights? I just did mine recently and we have the same color car.
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Originally Posted by eazy
LOoking good! I've been wondering for a long time how the K&N SRI sounds. No one ever posted a clip or anything. Would you be so kind and post one up?
Ill post one up, but I think the sound will be skewed. I just installed the ATLP Catback Exhaust.
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Quick little preview of what's to come...



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sKepz, you're busy today!
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sKepz, you're busy today!

Yeah man! Finally made some time for the car today! Beautiful day in SoFla.
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hey sKepz, did you do anything to your camber yet?

Is is just me or does anyone else notice how our rotors rust on the center portion?
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Nothing like a beautiful day to do some mods,car is looking real nice,probably sounds beastly too lol.
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Originally Posted by djtanveer
Nice! I didnt know K&N has a sri too. Im interested to learn how it performs. any feedback?

have you considered blacking out your headlights? I just did mine recently and we have the same color car.
The K&N is a very nice noise maker. We have the FWD and it may just improve gas throttling, that's about it. Sounds beastly when over 3k rpm. I didn't dyno but I'm in tune with my car, and did not really notice any kind of hp increase. I got it for the beastly sound and the hopes to improve gas mileage.

Eventually I will touch the headlights, but I don't think im going to be doing that anytime soon. I'll do a few more mods before I do that.
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Originally Posted by Acc-Rite
hey sKepz, did you do anything to your camber yet?

Is is just me or does anyone else notice how our rotors rust on the center portion?
Yes I do. What brand, I honestly do not know.
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