Mike1357 : 1992 Accord EX

[accordtypeR]

[Mike1357]

Another little something. Ordered Energy Suspension upper control arm bushings as well.

[Mike1357]

Few pics.



Got around to cleaning the messed up clear coat off the wheels and polishing them so they all looked decent. Then proceeded to curb one (first time I ever curbed a wheel). Did the H23 manual timing belt tensioner conversion too. Highly recommend it.

[Mike1357]

Thanks gents. Hopefully she will look better when I get my GReddy lip back from being repaired and one tire size thinner width on the front. Suspension is next on the list and then it'll be fender flare time.

[Lucien]

[islandhopper]

...they really compliment the car.

agreed.

[Mike1357]

Thanks. I'm really happy with the wheels; they really compliment the car.

[sonikaccord]

Nice wheels! Your car flows really well.

[Mike1357]

[Mike1357]

Thanks Richie!

Some updates:

[RICHIE*GT35R]

Nice spark plug cover!!!

[Mike1357]

Picked up a new sticker. Also decided to finally swap in my Ichibahn spark plug cover and I honestly think I like it more than the carbon kevlar. Grabbed a new AEM filter for good measure.

[Mike1357]

Picked this bad boy up from Losiracer2 and got around to fixing it and partially installing it today while I was swapping out a wheel bearing. I've been wanting one of these for quite some time now so I was thrilled when I saw it was up for sale. Took it to a local machine shop to have two cracks welded on it then it was test fit time.

As you can see, my old Megan Racing header sat really close to my a/c lines which also made it a pain to install and remove, more so when I had the header wrap on it.

Call it quality or call it common sense but the GReddy header gives the a/c line tons of room.

Here you can clearly see the differences between the two.

Now one thing that gave me a moment of pause was seeing the difference in piping sizes between the GReddy downpipe and the Megan Racing downpipe. I can only think that the small piping size was an effort to maintain low end torque as well as keep it CARB legal.

As of right now I'm running a hybrid setup out of necessity (GReddy top half, Megan Racing bottom half). Within the next week or two I'll have the GReddy lower half re-welded with new material so that it is the proper length and have the proper flange. I'm looking forward to seeing the difference between having the larger diameter piping with a 2.25 collector versus the smaller diameter piping with the 2.5 collector (since everything from the header back is already 2.5 anyways).

[Mike1357]

I basically just started taking apart what looked like it needed to come out. The only thing I got hung up on was the snap ring that held the bearing in the case and I ended up just googling that.

[cb9love]

nice trans work, what did you use as reference material for the trans work?