Civic-EG.com Forum 3.3.1

- Sat Nov 06, 2010 3:29 am #221820 Big clean up today, tear apart the interior and vacuumed everything. Cleaned out tons of hidden crap

Decided the fix the dent on the rear bumper and the fitment on the side.

It turned out that I had to spend around 2 hours trying to get those dam rusty bumper screws off. One of the screw, wont come off so I burned it with a torch. Then the rear end damage was worse than what I expected. The foam is gone, the metal is bent pretty bad.

I heated up the bumper with a torch then tries to bend out the dent. It is not perfect, but good enough. Much better than what I started with

Also fit the bumper up.

- Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:46 pm #221866 Better then before

My build Thread
http://civic-eg.com/viewtopic.php?t=14912

- Sun Nov 07, 2010 10:07 am #221954
This is terrible Good thing it was just a small rust. I sanded down with 40 grit. I am not scared!

Painted it with anti rust.


Bought those mesh at kragen for 5 bucks. Bent it to the right place as a foundation for bondo. I don't have the tools to do a proper rust repair, so I went with this method..

bondo the s*** out of it.

sand it down, and match the body curve. it's not as easy as I thought it would be. Matching the original curve is difficult. This is my first time doing body work with bondo. I will try to get it better and post up a pic.

- Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:29 pm #222133
Put on the wheels. When I was installing the coilovers, I stripped one of the oem bolt on the strut. I spent few days trying to PB blast, torch, vise grip, hammer, but I gave up and send the car to a shop. Let them worry about it. and It turns out that the thread of the bolt was fine, it was the bolt rusted down with the bushing in LCA. so there was no way I could have loosen it myself...what a waste of time haha. Ended up cutting and drilling and replacing a new LCA. Quite expensive in a shop.





New corner amber My mud guard is scraping like crazy..Also, ordered some new rear rotor and rear brake pad (hawk performance), since my brake on the back is rusted out. What tools would I need to reset the piston? Where can I rent it? Any help is appreciated. I hope I won't strip another bolt on the caliper..

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- Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:17 pm #222134 The rear pistons screw in you can buy the tool cheap at a auto parts store

- Mon Nov 08, 2010 7:43 pm #222136 Good job man. Theres nothing like the satisfaction of working on your own car.

- Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:58 pm #222155

The rear pistons screw in you can buy the tool cheap at a auto parts store

Thanks man!

- Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:58 pm #222156

Good job man. Theres nothing like the satisfaction of working on your own car.

definitely one of my joy to work on my car

- Tue Nov 09, 2010 7:03 am #222247 Today I picked up some trim paint and started painting trims. Mirrors, wipers and trims.




Look better than the faded grey mirrors... gotta love the trim paint, restoring OEM color!

- Wed Nov 10, 2010 7:08 am #222393 Took out the cluster today, for a LED swap.





Sorry for the blurry pictures...the LED looks pretty nice from outside of the car too.

- Wed Nov 10, 2010 1:56 pm #222406 Not bad at all
I like your rides
Im a student too, its a little hard to focus on your car.
or put any money into it.

- Wed Nov 10, 2010 3:47 pm #222416 Nice!

[Apexracing]

- Wed Nov 10, 2010 4:13 pm #222427

Took out the cluster today, for a LED swap.





Sorry for the blurry pictures...the LED looks pretty nice from outside of the car too.

now replace your climate control bulbs to match please

- Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:45 pm #222441 may i ask where you got your LED bulbs from?

- Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:56 pm #222444 Like the hatch.