ill do it all for 200 but ill need your headlights for 2 days

 

I don't know about that, that's too much for me at this point in time.

 

no worries ill just help you doit for free , if you want ,

 

Most help I'd need with is taking off the front bumper and putting it back on. Then either baking the lights or using a heat gun. I can't put lights into my oven that's the problem. And taking off the orange piece. Did you put back that chrome strip? And how did you attach it back on there?

 

yea i put it back , i just used epoxy , man bumper and lights i could probably remove them in 20 min lol but yea ill help when it gets a little warmer lol unless you have a heated garage i dont

 

I got a heated garage with fluorescent lighting haha But I can't do this for at least a week or 2 so it might actually be warmer by then anyways. It'd be great if you can help me out. I tried taking off the bumper and that wasn't going well so I gave up haha I can install the a-spec kit with my eyes closed now but taking off the front bumper is a mystery to me

 

Taking off the front bumper is that much of a pita? I think I might have to remove it when I fix my cracked fog light lens. Plus I do want to cover up my amber in the headlights with CF so it seems like I'll have to take it off for sure.

 

I don't know why but for me it was a pain. Vincent, when we do these one of these weekends. I will let you know when, then if you have time you can come help us out and see what it takes to do it. Then I can help you when you wanna do it on your car or something. You wanna wrap the amber in CF? Not take that piece out? I kind of wanna do that too but I need the type-s reflectors and that's impossible to find

 

Awesome sounds good. Yeah I think I'll go CF for now because if I ever want amber back down the road, at least it's reversible. Removing the amber on my diffuser means no going back, unless I want to whip out the super glue. Yeah those type-s reflectors are quite rare. USR sells the cleared diffusers if you really want. I'm guessing you could probably wrap the end of the clear diffuser to make it look like you're covering up the amber piece. I'm not sure if that would work out though.

Another detailing order arrived today. I went to homedepot earlier and got a wet/dry vac and the detailing kit attachments. Awwww yeahhhhh.

 

I am pretty sure that you are gonna have to take off that diffuser, then wrap it, then glue it back into place. Unless I am looking at this all wrong. And yea I saw those clear ones but really, that's just a waste of money. He want's some ridiculous price for those and i am not gonna waste money on that. I like the cleared out look too, leaving the signal reflector chrome, then blacking otu the rest of the headlight. I think it looks good too.

holly shit man more stuff is coming in? crazy haha When are you gonna start doing your car?

 

Hmm I thought the diffuser would just come apart after the headlight is baked and opened up. I didn't think it would be glued onto the headlight housing There is a member that did his tl-s headlights with cf wrap only around the amber, I should pm him and see how he went about that. Lmao yeah around $100 for those plastic pieces.

Yeah this order was all of a sudden because there were sales. I still have to place 2-3 depending on stock and availability. I'll start doing my car probably as soon as everything arrives. I might be going around tommorow getting quotes for the damage on my rear bumper and quarter panel. I want to get that fixed up so it's not such an eyesore. Plus I have a bunch of hail dents that I want to get rid of, but last time it got quoted $500. A bit out of my price range

 

Bumper removal is piss easy

One bolt on each side of the fender where the bumper lines up in the wheel well..4? on the rad support, and then a bunch on the under tray

 

No I don't think so man, it's attached there and oyu have to cut off the little plastic tab, or break it off to take them out. Then glue it back in there.

I got 2 dents on the part right above the passenger side doors. I don' tknow how they got there but I might wanna get it fixed too. If it's not 500$ haha They have those Dent removals that don't hurt the paint and what not. Where did you get hail damage man?

and USR wants 120$ for those clear diffusers + shipping and duties and shit hahaha Something is seriously wrong with this company haha

 

Oh hmm at least it's not break a bunch of plastic off to get at it. As long as the glue isn't blatantly obvious it's there.

My car got hit by that Calgary hail storm back in either last July or August. When I went to buy it, the seller got a quote of $500 to remove all the dents but he didn't have time to do it so he deducted $500 from the cost of the car. If only I had gone to buy it a few months earlier it would have been safe . I'm a bit skeptical on those DIY dent removers. Although I really don't want to shell out $500 to fix them up. Any forum members here do body work?

 

so I am deciding what to do with the headlights, black them out and take out the orange, or black them out and leave the orange.





or doing this

 

on a SSM, I'll go full black out

 

even the turn signal reflecting piece?

 

yes sir.!

 

I don't know about that, that's too dark I think. I think it needs a little color in there, at least reflection haha Maybe night shade the orange a little. I don' tknow I am looking around for ideas

 

it will compliment your black grill and black roof.. but that's just me. aha

that picture makes me want to get fog lights, BADLY.

 

I don't know what I want yet. If I wanna do the matte black or gloss black either. And +1 on the fog lights

 

im getting a new(used) tranny!! woooo! civic si lsd tranny.. hopefully all goes well.. was told i just need to get the mounting plate taken off my old tsx tranny n put onto the si one... getting a good deal on the tranny too... 1000 with only 30k on it.. unless anyone has heard of why not to use an si tranny please let me know asap!!! also anyone know of a good place to get a new clutch? found an exedy oem one for 325... ebay is cheaper but i need it by mon-tues...

 

Myron I'd take out all the amber. But that's just me since I'm not a fan of it. Maybe a light tint of nightshades would look okay if you want a bit of amber showing.

Foglights are cool. Rock chips cracking them are not. Getting new oem ones are ridiculously expensive. I'm going to be cheap and try to go the DIY route with lexan glass. http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/s...k=P_PartNumber
Anyone have experience doing this?

 

so when we gunna meet?

 

Foglights are cool. Rock chips cracking them are not. Getting new oem ones are ridiculously expensive. I'm going to be cheap and try to go the DIY route with lexan glass. http://www.homedepot.ca/webapp/wcs/s...k=P_PartNumber
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thats an awesome idea!!! i know it says it doesn't break... would it get burn marks tho? its the same stuff they use for bus stand shelters right? i've seen em burn b4... obv when idiots put lighters to it.. but the bulbs do get pretty hot tooo... just a thought.. lemi know how it works, i'd maybe think about putting a cut out ontop of my glass fogs i just got, don't wanna have to keep changing them every year.

 

that's good to know! hope she gets back on the road asap so we can do our first meet!

 

So I am thinking this one, but no orange. Blacked out and leaving the chrome reflector chrome.



Or maybe this one.



I don't have switchbacks so I don't know how that's gonna look with just normal bulbs. In either setup. In the leaving the orange setup maybe using some night shade on the orange might be good. I can't look through 1000s of pages of people with their headlights done so if someone sees something like that 2nd pic on a silver car post it up.

 

it depends where you wanna do this? I have a garage and shit so we can do it at my place next weekend. Preferably saturday, but sunday works too. I just want it to be done over the weekend sometimes because I need the car for work on week days.
Did you use the over to heat them up or a heat gun? I have a heat gun at home and an oven haha

Also PM me about the things I need to buy. I know I need some sealant to seal those headlights and some black high temp paint. If you have some of that left over let me know so I don't go buying a whole can for no reason. What else would I need?

 

lol nvm, I thought you are looking for ssm that has amber corner delete.

 

fuck I am gonna decide what I wanna do when I open them up and see what I am working with.

 

From the threads I've read, nobody has complained about burn marks. I don't know if the cutout would be able to lie over top of the glass and still fit flush with the bumper though. Since your glass is still in good shape, why not get some 3M protection on it so you won't have to go through another set of fogs?

 

i've tried manyyy diff over lays, companies claim it won't burn, sure enough they all doo...i have hid in my fog, even tho there supposed to be cooler then halogen bulbs, still burns the shit outta the over lays n makes it look like shit im gonna talk to crystal glass see if they can put a thicker glass in it..

also any feed back from anyone on me putting the SI tranny in my car???

 

I think that HID are hotter than halogen. There is a dude on 780tuners, Sanjay probably knows who I am talking about, and he has a tsx engine in his rsx mated to some tranny. Probably a type s rsx tranny, which is probably the same as civic SI tranny. Try searching on there I am not sure what the guys username is.

 

Are the HIDs for your fogs 35w or 55w? Supposingly the housing can't withstand 55w heat and may melt the inside. Maybe the heat emitted from the hids is transferring to the glass and frying your overlays. I haven't heard of any TL'ers with the 35w fog hids and overlays mention anything about their vinyl burning.

 

35w.... and a guy i knew had halogens and put 3m over lay on his fogs and it burned them as well..

 

Well than.. I'm all out of ideas lol.

 

shit that stupid si tranny isn't gonna work, back to the drawing board.... grrrr!!! i might have to eat it and pay stupid blackgold 1500 for there tsx tranny if they even still have it

 

is anybody going to UC meet on saturday?

 

LOL thanks for the Speedtech sticker! heard they closed down though due to some drug dealing stuff? dunno if its true or not..

 

lol really? that sucks, i used to go there a lot if ever i need something for my accord.

Raj, you mean the tranny with high mileage?