Project Accord

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:18 am

Bought two new axles and replaced the fender. Washing it tomorrow and pics to come.

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Apr 19, 2010 12:08 pm

Pics of before and after fender replace. I also managed to reallign the bumper with the turn signal and fender. The bumper screw are so old and rusted I can't even get them out.

BEFORE

Midway shot:

AFTER

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 12:14 pm

Put new tires and ditched the stock 13 inch steelies with bald tires for 14 inch steelies with new tires, new lugs and EK hubcaps.

The previous owners were pot heads who never took care of the car. When I got it, it had one stud broken on the front and I ended up breaking one myself taking the steelies off. They used these crappy lugs that rusted to to the stud. No amount of WD40 got this one loose and it broke.

Guess I can add replacing the two studs to my to do list. There were three more like this that lots of WD40 and patience were able to get off.

Here's the new wheels.

Slowly but surely, it's getting there. I replaced the battery last week.

speed · Post by **speed** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:23 pm

Aw man that fender was my favorite part..it was so weird i loved it. I liked imagining all kinds of crazy stuff happend to make it bent like that. Like tupac was riding in it and it got shot at but that fender deflected the bullet..

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 4:52 pm

It still have the fender. After I changed it, I chased my gf around with it making lazer noises like an idiot.

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Wed May 05, 2010 11:53 am

Pics of rear splash guards installed. The driver side needs more work. It has four screws. One that attaches inside the wheel well, and then three for the bumper. On MY bumper on the driver side, there is no bracket behind the bottom hole for the screw to catch, then the splash guard doesn't have a middle hole drilled in it. So it's just held on by two screws on the driver side. Ugh.

Sorry for crappy pics, snapped em on the way out the door to work this morning.

Passenger side

Driver side

Sitting in the Fit, getting ready to drive off.

Fenian · Post by **Fenian** » Wed May 05, 2010 12:55 pm

Looks good. Have you thought about losing the Lou Fusz decal?

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Wed May 05, 2010 1:01 pm

FenianFit;231277 wrote:Looks good. Have you thought about losing the Lou Fusz decal?

Yep. I think that it's either so old it won't come off or is like painted on. When I repaint the whole car, all emblems will be gone except red JDM H's on the front and back.

I wanna fix the rust, repaint it all in the original color (laurel blue I think) or maybe even Tidewater blue, and lower it on white Rota Track R's.

GAWear · Post by **GAWear** » Wed May 05, 2010 10:18 pm

Looks to be a promising build! Keep the pics coming

Edison Carasio · Post by **Edison Carasio** » Thu May 06, 2010 11:50 am

I need to reallign that driver side splash guard. =/ If it sits too loose I'll just throw some 3M double sided tape on it.