What have you done to your car today?

I was planning to replace the distributor and alternator in the Accord this weekend but the transmission died on me tonight. It just revs up in any moving gear (it's an auto; fried the clutches, methinks). I'll get it running then I'm getting rid of it. However, I'm in love with the chassis, so I'm replacing it with another CB/CD Accord or, preferably, one of the latter two generations of Prelude. A coupe either way. I love my car to death, but I'm sick of all the work it requires.
 
Well, the handbrake is... somewhat fixed. It holds as it sits, but the front mount of the handle broke off. My neighbour/mechanic says that next week they'll weld it properly down and take care of my exhaust while they are at it. :) Meanwhile, put in an order-form for a W-41 chip for the car, which will bump the horsepower and reset the redline to around 8,000 rpms. Can't wait. :D


Cheers
Jetboy
 
*long sigh*

So I`ve calmed down. I was just ready to buy a gorgeous `98 Prelude and came to my senses. I love the Accord too much to give it up. Too much went wrong with it in such a short time, I just got fed up. But the beauty of the car is its sleeper-ness... and I`ve got a soft spot for the boxy-with-flares look of early-90s cars. In a couple months I can get a Prelude engine (nothing like a project car you built up yourself) for a quarter of the price of the entire car. That`s what I`m gonna do. Then go rub it in the face of the tool (in a same-gen Accord) who beat me a couple weekends ago. He`s not running 200+ horse :mischievous:.

Gonna deep-clean the interior tomorrow and reinstall some 'system wiring.

EDIT - Called up a Honda parts place in town who has a Prelude VTEC tranny in stock. I`m getting that for the Accord instead of replacing with the 'proper' trans. Saves me 90 bucks since it`s compatible with both engines. Gotta love Honda engineers.
 
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Ditched my door mounted seat belts in my SE-R in favor of a more standard B-Pillar mounted setup out of a 1996 200SX. (American) Two of the three mounting points are already there from the factory, so doesn't take much effort to do the swap.
 
From the weekend, but did a clutch job on the Talon.

For obvious reasons:

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Replaced the clutch (was an ACT 2100) with a SPEC Stage 2+.
Replaced the flywheel (stock) with a 9 lb. Fidanza aluminum one.
Replaced the throwout bearing, clutch fork, and pivot ball with new OEM parts.
Replaced the bolts attaching the clutch to the flywheel due to damage from flying clutch bits.

Also replaced the transmission-end shifter bushings with new pressed-in bearings.
 
Put a K&N drop-in replacement filter in the Si today. After looking at the stock filter I'm sure there was no reason to change, but hey, an upgrade is an upgrade right? I can barely tell a difference, a tad bit of a whistling sound about 4500rpm with heavy throttle. My exhaust pretty much drowns that out though. I'm thinking you might hear the difference more from outside the car.
 
*says in Cleveland voice* Oh, that's naaaasty.

Since I'm without a tranny for about another week, I've still got the interior completely shelled. The carpet molding is sitting on my bedroom floor, where I'm scrubbing it down with carpet shampoo. Found a dump-load of change underneath it. Very sticky change.
 
CyborgGT
*says in Cleveland voice* Oh, that's naaaasty.

Since I'm without a tranny for about another week, I've still got the interior completely shelled. The carpet molding is sitting on my bedroom floor, where I'm scrubbing it down with carpet shampoo. Found a dump-load of change underneath it. Very sticky change.
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Helped a guy I know in my apartment complex replace his power steering pump on a 98 Jeep Grand Cherokee.

They had the water pump replaced but in the process the guy broke off one of the plastic hose things on the reservoir and just glued it back on. Obviously that didn't work so it needed to be replaced, the only problem being the reservoir is attached to the pump. Luckily it's right at the top so it wasn't hard to take off, but the pulley that's supposed to move to take the belt off wouldn't budge so we had an interesting time getting around that. Taking it off wasn't too bad, pretty much just pried it off with the pump loose, but to put it back on we ended up having it barely on the AC compressor while he turned the key on so it jumped on the pulley.
 
Earlier today I went to Autozone to get some tune-up parts for the Rex in hopes that it helps out the positively abysmal gas mileage I've been getting. So I ordered some spark plugs. Aaand I ordered some plug wires. And I...ordered an air filter.

It took the guy 20 minutes to figure out what plugs I needed and how many. Two of each buddy, leading and trailing. I also realized that car parts places stock no parts for an RX7. I guess that's what I get for owning a car that nobody else has.
 
The carpet wasn't getting much cleaner after a while of scrubbing, so I decided to throw it back in the car. A new kit is $200, I`ll opt for that sometime after I have the new engine. I got most of the interior re-installed, including some sub/amp wiring I had removed in anticipation of selling the ride (also wired a CB antenna under the rug; the radio's ready to be mounted, I just need some screws). Pretty much just the seats to bolt down for tomorrow. Everything fit together so much tighter than before, I'm pretty satisfied.

The DIY grille I've been working on is also finished... I just broke the mounts in the accident in the fall, so I'll need to raid a junkyard soon.
 
Put an aftermarket radio in my step-dad's Accent. He's happy having a radio the first time in over a year. For The Brick, I managed to locate a few transmissions for it. So, hopefully soon, I'll have a car again.


Cheers
Jetboy
 
Perfect Balance
3000k.

They're yellow, and very bright.
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And unless they are in proper housing they aren't going to work in the fog and they are just going to annoy the hell out of other people on the road.

My question still stands, why would one put HID's in their fog lights?
 
Perfect Balance
3000k.

They're yellow, and very bright.
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Hit the nail right on the head.

i have 4300 k in low beams.(Factory HID look) and the best elimination, looks like the headlights on a bmw, of course....i dont have projector lights like i had on my old neon. so there not as sharp.


@ joey d, i like the look of them thats why i have HID fogs. infact alot of cars now have people putting HIDS in the fog light housing, hence why they make after market HID foglights.
 
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TorqueHappenS08
Hit the nail right on the head.

i have 4300 k in low beams.(Factory HID look) and the best elimination, looks like the headlights on a bmw, of course....i dont have projector lights like i had on my old neon. so there not as sharp.
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If you don't have proper projector housings for HID's then you are just being annoying on the road for no reason and making it unsafe for other motorist. There is a huge amount of glare that comes off of improperly fitted HID's and actually makes it more difficult for you to see at night.

With overly bright fog lights you are essentially doing the same thing, when it gets foggy and you turn the lights on you aren't going to be able to see anything since it will glare off the fog.
 
Joey D
If you don't have proper projector housings for HID's then you are just being annoying on the road for no reason and making it unsafe for other motorist. There is a huge amount of glare that comes off of improperly fitted HID's and actually makes it more difficult for you to see at night.

With overly bright fog lights you are essentially doing the same thing, when it gets foggy and you turn the lights on you aren't going to be able to see anything since it will glare off the fog.
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Thats where your wrong, my 4300Kelvin(Factory spec low beam) has a very illuminating range, i can see farther, my cut off beam is set nice and low, Due to them being professionally fitted and tested for scattering beam patterns.

My fog lights adjusted forward to the road, And they illuminate very well also, and preform as well as the HID "Yellow" OEM fog lights in my friends Lexus IS300, i have also had them tested.

I see wonderfully at night, and my car has not been flashed once,
 
TorqueHappenS08
Thats where your wrong, my 4300Kelvin(Factory spec low beam) has a very illuminating range, i can see farther, my cut off beam is set nice and low, Due to them being professionally fitted and tested for scattering beam patterns.

My fog lights adjusted forward to the road, And they illuminate very well also, and preform as well as the HID "Yellow" OEM fog lights in my friends Lexus IS300, i have also had them tested.

I see wonderfully at night, and my car has not been flashed once,
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It doesn't matter what you do or how "professional" the installer was (I doubt they were professional). HID lights in non HID housing give out less light and are unsafe for you, along with fellow motorist.

Daniel Stern
The most dangerous part of the attempt to "retrofit" Xenon headlamps is that sometimes you get a deceptive and illusory "improvement" in the performance of the headlamp. The performance of the headlamp is perceived to be "better" because of the much higher level of foreground lighting (on the road immediately in front of the car). However, the beam patterns produced by this kind of "conversion" virtually always give less distance light, and often an alarming lack of light where there's meant to be a relative maximum in light intensity. The result is the illusion that you can see better than you actually can, and that's not safe.
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Read this article if you wish to be educated on the matter:
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/conversions/conversions.html
 
Joey D
If you don't have proper projector housings for HID's then you are just being annoying on the road for no reason and making it unsafe for other motorist. There is a huge amount of glare that comes off of improperly fitted HID's and actually makes it more difficult for you to see at night.

With overly bright fog lights you are essentially doing the same thing, when it gets foggy and you turn the lights on you aren't going to be able to see anything since it will glare off the fog.
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Most BMW fog lights usually have a metal piece inside them to direct the light downwards towards the road. This does the the exact same thing that projectors do, it basically creates a nice cutoff line to keep them from shining all over the place and blinding people.
 
Perfect Balance
Most BMW fog lights usually have a metal piece inside them to direct the light downwards towards the road. This does the the exact same thing that projectors do, it basically creates a nice cutoff line to keep them from shining all over the place and blinding people.
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Even with the little metallic piece it's still not going to work correctly. Modern BMW fog lights (not sure about old models) are designed to work with an H8, halogen bulb. Cramming an xenon HID blub in the housing is still going to make the light behave incorrectly, cramming a xenon look bulb in there is either going to melt the housing or burn out prematurely due to excessive heat (that's why Silverstars suck).

Even with all of this though, based on forum information, he owns an SRT-4, which I know do not have HID fog light housings and I believe are designed to work with an 899 bulb.
https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showthread.php?t=124925

I'll quote Daniel Stern again:

Daniel Stern
Nevertheless, on the particular count of HID "retrofits" into halogen headlamps, the world's regulators and engineers all say DON'T!

The only safe and legitimate HID retrofit is one that replaces the entire headlamp—that is lens, reflector, bulb...the whole system—with optics designed for HID usage....
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Joey D
It doesn't matter what you do or how "professional" the installer was (I doubt they were professional). HID lights in non HID housing give out less light and are unsafe for you, along with fellow motorist.



Read this article if you wish to be educated on the matter:
http://www.danielsternlighting.com/tech/bulbs/Hid/conversions/conversions.html
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And thats where you wrong again, My HIDs were installed professionally By the company that distributes them, Mobile HID. I do not care if they give out less light, as long as i can at night, which i can,and very well, as well as other cars that have HID lights in Halogen reflectors, ie Acura RL, Lexus GS300 and the Lexus IS300 to name a few, So what are you honestly trying to get across, i know i dont give as much light as say a Hyundai genesis with "HID projector lens housing", For the last time my lights Illuminate well off the road and into the distance, They are adjusted low to the ground, only time i light up oncoming signs is when i hit a bump or coming over an incline.

And i have zero scattering beams. because i had them tested.

This goes for the fog lights to

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Hid right, silver stars Left. Foglights on. see how low i adjusted the fog lights to the ground.

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4300k low beams no fog lights. pretty good illumination for "Halogen housing".
 

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