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    ... continued side molding update

    One of the initial issues I knew was going to come up were clips. Every pair of side molding I have seen on eBay or in person were missing the clips. If the clips were present, they were broken. Looking closer into theit I realized that making my own was totally possibe. With a bench grinder, and the remains of an actual clip, it is possible to almost exactly replicate the JDM OEM clips by using OEM usdm clips. I picked up plenty of OEM side molding clips from 90/91 at the yard. 4 small slide in clips and 8 larger twist in clips are needed. Here is the finished product. I have only made 3 so far. The biggest difference is the inner centering steps.







    With a sharp blade and a heat gun, I went to town and detached the end caps from the side moldings.



    I removed the rear cap from the front door molding and the frond cap from the rear door molding. inderesting thing about the side molding is that the inner frame is metal and it's lined with rubber. see for yourself.







    This is as far as I have gotten. the next step is going to be measure, measure, measure, and then cut. The rear molding is straight forward. The door moldings need to be welded together. Of course I also need to complete the rest of the clips.


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      Originally posted by SanJoCaF22DrAcc View Post
      Update soon to come but I leave you all with this.



      I am putting this as a wall paper on my computer if you don't mind.

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        Not at all bro. That's definitely an honor to me. Thanks man.


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          Originally posted by SanJoCaF22DrAcc View Post
          Not at all bro. That's definitely an honor to me. Thanks man.
          quality work pays off bro. If the Honda would have made a type r for the cb chassis it would look identical to yours.

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            That's so bad ass Carlos. Not many people would cut jdm moldings. My respect to you for making yourself 90-91 jdm coupe moldings w/chome. Can't wait to see it in person bro!
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              Originally posted by moes92CB7 View Post
              That's so bad ass Carlos. Not many people would cut jdm moldings. My respect to you for making yourself 90-91 jdm coupe moldings w/chome. Can't wait to see it in person bro!
              Thanks Moises. I wouldn't be cutting these beautiful rare parts if I didn't have a good reason. I think I have. Damn good reason to, but everyone's going to have to wait till CAM to see what that is. I hope I'm able to pull this off as well. See you at CAM bro.


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                NorCal Beast!


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                  Originally posted by SanJoCaF22DrAcc View Post
                  One of the initial issues I knew was going to come up were clips. Every pair of side molding I have seen on eBay or in person were missing the clips. If the clips were present, they were broken. Looking closer into theit I realized that making my own was totally possibe. With a bench grinder, and the remains of an actual clip, it is possible to almost exactly replicate the JDM OEM clips by using OEM usdm clips. I picked up plenty of OEM side molding clips from 90/91 at the yard. 4 small slide in clips and 8 larger twist in clips are needed. Here is the finished product. I have only made 3 so far. The biggest difference is the inner centering steps.







                  With a sharp blade and a heat gun, I went to town and detached the end caps from the side moldings.



                  I removed the rear cap from the front door molding and the frond cap from the rear door molding. inderesting thing about the side molding is that the inner frame is metal and it's lined with rubber. see for yourself.







                  This is as far as I have gotten. the next step is going to be measure, measure, measure, and then cut. The rear molding is straight forward. The door moldings need to be welded together. Of course I also need to complete the rest of the clips.
                  You can't use the OEM ones? I can't recall if all the clips came with my coupe moldings, but if it did consider me lucky. It's been so long.


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                    Originally posted by jdm_inspired View Post

                    NorCal Beast!
                    Thanks bro. I'm just trying to reach my goal. I just love my CB.

                    Originally posted by jdm_inspired View Post
                    You can't use the OEM ones? I can't recall if all the clips came with my coupe moldings, but if it did consider me lucky. It's been so long.
                    In the first 2 pics, the top clip is a USDM 90/91 modified clip. The lower clip is a factory OEM JDM clip that came with the side moldings from japan. It came over broken. In the next update I'll puts the before and after pick.

                    My friend Mitsubishievo and I went to the junk yard in search of clips that could possibly work. We checked many other different models with no luck. After observing the sure moldings, I figured I could probably make my own out of the USDM versions. I am happy with the results as it's not going to get any closer to the originals than this.

                    I completed the rest of the clips today after work. I needed a total of 8 clips.


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                      just wanted to show that I started with 90/91 USDM side molding clips. just had to do a little bit of grinding. The more difficult ones are going to be the Fender moldings. I dont have any and I'm not sure on how to go about making some just yet.





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                        So clean, so clean. Can't wait to see what you come up with.



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                          Quick Edit. I took a couple of pics this past Friday and just edited this one shot so far. There are a few more that I want to post up soon as well. I really wanted to showcase how the side molding are coming along thus far. They are not complete just yet, but enough to rock em untill I can find someone willing to weld them together for me.





                          Last edited by SanJoCaF22DrAcc; 08-03-2015, 11:31 PM.


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                                Daily Wheel setup

                                Picked up some Daily wheels a while back. I've wanted to rock a reverse stager for a while now and so I made it happen. I love the fitment of how everything came together. Wheel and tire combo ended up super flush with my fenders and the setup looks real aggressive.

                                Wheel and tire specs are as follow

                                Enkei/BBR Comp. 6, 2 piece wheel, Yokohama ADVAN Neova

                                Front: 16x8 +32 with 225/50R16
                                Rear: 16x7 +38 with 205/50R16





                                Purchased From: busak87, GunRunner, Bruce Banner, Itstatcb7kid707, tJoods, DannyD


                                The Caravan 2015
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