anibis

I'm not sure the timing belt is included in the 100k maintenance, I'd check to be sure, Honda recommends 110k and I can see them skipping it, most used car lots try to keep turnaround costs low and won't do maintenance like that, it's an expensive job.

It's very hard to find a stock/clean '04-'05 5-speed em2. Good find.

tipnitty

I was hoping to find an 04-05 white with black interior and 5spd. But the only one I could find was in Nevada. But I have the paperwork saying it was replaced. I made sure of that, and Was glad to find one wingless as well.

lollygagger

Ahh good lookin car

tipnitty

Thanks man! I just checked out your silver em2 and it was a great looking car, sad to see it go. What lip kit did you have on it?

lollygagger

hfp sides, type r rear, mugen front, a smörgåsbord really but I got inspiration from Muirsy

Civicnoobie

Looks similar to mine with the HIDs + tint. To me, i couldnt live without either one.

Is it me or does the black grill look much better than the silver. I would love to have a black grill on mine.

tipnitty

Thanks for letting me know lollygagger, I'm definitely going to look into that lip and sides.

I love having hids and had to have the windows done by the dealer, was easier for sure. I want full honeycomb grill with no "H" symbol, but I might just black it out. I would love to use some 3m dinoc wrap but I don't know what else I want to wrap. Time will tell I guess.

montecarlogrrl

Very clean Civic, definitely a good find. I really like those stock wheels, I want a set for mine. :/

tipnitty

The fat fives are nice, but I'm pumped to put the enkei wheelsbon more. But definitely keeping the stock wheels. If I don't like the way the enkeis look I will be selling my wheels and stock fat fives and doing a 5 lug swap. But I'll make that decision next summer.

lollygagger

I have three fat fives from my old car that I don't need, but I'm not sure who would want three only.

tipnitty

Ok so I just found out that my buddies dad has been working for 3M for many years. My buddy just wrapped his hood scoop on his mustang with it and I love it, asked where he got it, and his dad gets it for free. So we talked to his dad and he can get me any color, as much as I want( within reason) but he said I could get enough wrap for my entire for for $100 if I wanted.

I REALLY want to wrap my radio trim piece and my center console pieces in this. But I don't know if I Should do it in black or silver, since my car is silver. I'm thinking black, but what do you guys think?

I would love to take advantage of this offer but obviously don't want to go overboard. Any ideas?

SlimRisk

Black would look sweet IMO. It wouldn't stand out but it would still give a badass sleek look

tipnitty

That's what i'm thinking and is my goal. But giving the interior a little contrast would be nice. But I'm thinking silver might be a little too much contrast.

SlimRisk

Im all for contrast and everything but theres something I love about a clean interior. Keeping everything within the same color scheme. Or else I would have my black trim pieces painted blue lol

tipnitty

Indeed. I think the silver in the black CF will give it enough contrast.

krudmuphin

iTrader: (1)

Very nice and clean looking EM2!
That's really sweet how the Enkei Shoguns have a Left and Right variant. I hate seeing wheels like that when they're all the same and the spokes appear to "Slash" on one side of the car and "Slice" on the other.
All around really good! I'm jealous of that interior...

tipnitty

Jealous of the interior? Its all stock lol. I presume that you have tan then?

I've seen some people run these wheels in opposite directions. Why? I have no clue. It looks so much nicer and when they go with the car. Hopefully I'll get them on this summer so long as I can get enough hours in at work since I'll be taking classes to graduate on time

tipnitty

Ok so here is a little update, with nothing fun.

So while at the self car wash, I was nearly finished with my wash when I heard a "crash". Looked around and didn't notice anything odd, so I kept going. Go to spray my roof and I see this.




9" threaded rod with a 1" bold fell from the mount that holds the hose to the ceiling had nailed my sun roof. I was so pissed. After hours of calling the owner he met up with me and his insurance took care of the whole thing.

So now the sunroof has been replaced. But the shop that did the repair did not vacuum up the glass above the sunroof cover inside the car. So now when I move it, glass tumbles around and the sunroof won't open the whole way because glass is blocking it (glass eventually collapsed in the car but i had the cover closed). Any ideas on how to get that glass out of there? I might just take it back to the shop and tell them to do it.

krudmuphin

iTrader: (1)

Damn... at least it wasn't your own equipment that broke it. Good thing it was covered!

tipnitty

Kills me to do this, but I'm selling my shoguns if anyone is interested. Check the for sale section tonight.

sdaidoji

iTrader: (1)

ouchie...
fer the sunroof and the rims.

PS: if you still looking for gauges, i would recommend oil temp gauges. you would be surprised to see how long they can be in high temps in a hot day. coolant temp goes down, but oil will still be hot as hell.

tipnitty

Finally removed the pinstripe. Took me 2 years to finally do it and 20 minutes to be completely finished. soooooooo difficult. lol

tipnitty

Yeah looks better. Spent hours cleaning the car only for it to start pouring now. Figures

Kennykid2002

iTrader: (1)

That always happens.

And finally, the pinstripe is off :P

krudmuphin

iTrader: (1)

Lookin good!
Yeah, I cleaned my car last night and by 11:00 this morning I've gotten about 4 splats of bird crap.

tipnitty

Thanks guys. I'm HOPING my refund check is more than I anticipate, that way I can finally make a little bit of progress on the car. But I doubt that. Until then, it remains plain and boring.

tipnitty

Got off work early yesterday, so took a few hours and spend it clay barring and waxing the car and getting the car to shine once more. I think it came out looking really good.

sl33pyriceboi

iTrader: (3)

jeeeeeeze......you have scratches on ur front bumper and your at stock height!

tipnitty

Previous owner, and my father lol

sl33pyriceboi

iTrader: (3)

ok, ill let you have that one. :P