Good, I like blondes

 

Livin that hoist life bruh, and no that is not me in the pic lol

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Livin that storage life! If you look closely in the relfection theres a sweet white and blue SRT challenger.

Im going to take your advice J, and go with red stipe tails next season and maybe go back to the OEM red side markers as well.
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dyed it every colour of the rainbow bruh. You know like how Roy G Biv once did ?

 

I'll miss her over the winter!

 

Man your car is fresh

 

Aw, I bet if you sweet talk el-jeff-eh? he'll put up some new pictures once she gets the skittles re-dyed blonde.

 

I love the blue on his car, no doubt.

 

Wow, that 2nd picture.....wow!

 

Damn, I love this color. What's your winter ride?

 

 

Nice. You certainly don't see those in the states lol

 

haha no you dont. I think its a civic Si in the states if I'm not mistaken?

This EL is on its last legs though. The motor is burning oil like crazy, like fucking black dude lol.

It does its job though which is to beat around and do all the daily shit

 

Where did you learn to park...?



?!

 

Reported

 

well you can see my TL is perfectly parked, so that was the gf

 

you own a boat

the car is looking good bro - did you work out the fitment issues?

 

I haven't got it sorted out yet. The height of the car is not where i want it at all so in order for me to go lower Im going to have to run 225s at least in the front but I'm thinking of doing that all around.

Going to do a 25mm spacer in the back and put the 20mm up front. I want the lip of the wheel to poke out just a little bit

 

Sounds good man - hope it works out!

 

I've been unofficially subscribed to this thread for a while now so I figured I should stop by and make it official. This is by far my favorite color on the TL and you're lucky to have it. I can't wait to see what's in store for after the winter. I wish I had a beater and my TL could live the luxurious storage life for the winter

 

thank you my man. Keep on plugging away and yours can look just as good if not better!

Cpl things planned for next summer if I can get my funds in order

But I need to start focusing on maintenance items now. Motor mounts, power steering pump rebuild, I also have a very small oil weep that only coats half the block on the pass side so I think my oil pump is weeping a little, nothing major as I see zero oil spots on the ground.

And oh yea my headlights are all fucked up as well. Oh good times LOL

 

keep an eye on this because even though it's very common to not have any oil spots, you can still have a decent amount of oil leakage as you drive. i talked to the shop that did my 105k service and they mentioned the leak and i said i don't have any oil spots. they say it's normal for this type of leak because it leaks under pressure when you're driving. i have to put in about 1 to 1.25 quarts every oil change (6-8k miles).

one time i didn't check it regularly and i could tell my car was not performing well (vtec, starting, etc). checked my oil and it was just below the "low" mark...i freaked out and didn't drive it until i filled it back out. now i check it every 4 weeks....more if vtec happy hahah

just a heads up jeff!!

 

Yes, sockr1 is totally correct on this. Mine leaks on the passenger side too but I just keep an eye on it.. In an 8000 km change interval, I'll lose about 1/2 to 3/4s of a litre. Still well above the min mark, but I'll top it off around 4000km into the change interval and it keeps me good until the end.

 

thanks for the heads up fellas. I drive the car 10,000 km a year max so I think I'm good to go on that front. Come to think of I didn't even put 5k on it this season

But when I come up with some coin I do plan on getting in there and doing a full 105k service with the exception of spark plugs. Ill do all the seals and oil pump seals and what not too!

My timing belt is fairly new though, however my thought process is if I'm going to fix that oil pump may as well just do the whole shebang in one shot

I do plan on keeping the car a long time so I do want to address all of this stuff in due time

 

Question though, when I had the car in the air looking at the leak I couldn't really pin point where it was coming from but figured it was the oil pump.

What exactly is the culprit of the pass side leak? Oil pump seal??

 

Car's still looking awesome. Those RS's tho love em. No volks in sight *sigh*

I dig your winter beater too. It's unfortunate they didn't bring the CLX to the states. I really like the Type S.

 

Thanks mang and you mean CSX

 

is that what it is? lol ive seen the next generation in person here in the states before. never that. my buddy had the civic version and beat the piss out of it... extremely reliable daily

 

yup this was the csx type s. It had the k20 6MT.. Basically the Civic Si

They made these through 05-11... The Type S was only available in 07 if I'm not mistaken. This is what the EL turned into then the CSX became the ILX

My winter beater is the 03 Acura 1.7 EL... It has the d series motor. Which was the civic Si in the states

 

Type S was available for several years. Definitely 07-08, as I was looking at those in particular, but I'm pretty sure they went up to 2010. Just no one was buying the later year Type Ss

It can come from a number of places, unfortunately. I haven't pin pointed mine either. The VTEC solenoid is another, plus there are seals there, like the cam seals, or crank seal, if I'm not mistaken. Either way, a pain in the ass. The best time to fix it is when you go in to do your timing belt. Mine started leaking after the belt was done, so I've never gone back in.

Why did you say you won't do your spark plugs when you do your 105k service?

 

because my plugs are brand new NGK, i doubt they got 5k on them. I changed those when I did the whole 3.7 manifold business

Im going to dig into the archives of azine when the time comes and do everything thats in that general area even if it doesn't need to be replaced lol

The PO of my TL did have the timing belt done at around 150xxx kms and I'm at 220xxx kms now so the belt is still more than good so I likely will not touch this leak for another 2 seasons and just keep an eye on it like y'all said

 

For $40, if I have the plugs out, I always just replace them if I'm over like 10K. Just peace of mind to know it's all brand new.

 

Sup man I have the bp ack
i live in NYC queens I wanna have my ack looking like your

 

English ?

 

Hello! Did someone push #1 for English?
At your service, thoiboi!:

"Hello friend! I have a Bellanova Pearl Acura TL. I reside in the New York City borough of Queens. I would like to eventually modify my Acura TL to resemble yours"

 

Jesus.. Im the dumbs...

 

It's lit, fam.

 

sup fam. Im packing the mac in the back of the ack in Bronx New York and I saw yo car and said dam that shit lit fam I need mines to look all like that

 

lol...so you RE translated it?

 

Soory. Hello buddy! I was at the Timmie's getting some poutine and maple syrup and I noticed your AcuraTeeEll parked over there, eh soory. Soory but I wanted to say that it's really keen, guy, and I'd like to make mine similar once my moose accident settlement check arrives, soory eh? Alright pal, have a super swell day friend, eh? Soory eh? Eh? Soory?

 

LMFAO Joe your a nut