ac_2007

A friend has 5% tints in the back. At night, its like the windows are covered in black paint.

Careful reversing!

DriftPlease

Yea 5% is sooo dark, my friend has them and has to put down all his windows to reverse at night so he doesn't accidentally hit something or someone.

Leafsfan16

Got an urge to buy new wheels while lurking on kijiji ... there 17 inch montegi sp10's ... not sure the width, the tires are falkin's, 17/205/35 series

ill take some better pics in the sun, these are just iphone pics






I find the rims look a lot better in person

Brian1037

While im not a big fan of thin spokes, the wheels look good!

Where in canada are you from? ignore my question in the other thread... too lazy to go delete it lol

Lopes101

I like your wheels man, good on ya! Kijiji will get you.. thats for sure.

Leafsfan16

I'm from New Brunswick and thanks, i find they look better in person. Ill take some pics on a sunny day, but yeah i saw them and i wanted rims and had the money so i just did it.

Leafsfan16

just painted calipers red, painting drums in the back black ... any suggestions on my headlights? i wanna paint the inner part black so it appears there tinted, how does this look and has anyone done this that has any suggestions/thiungs i need to do?

rrroland13

well if this is what you meant then heres a DIY thread

or just go through the
DIY section

may i suggest fog lights. i know ill be putting them on before winter in Ontario comes!

rrroland13

nice car btw! waiting for pics on the painted calipers.. i was thinking of doing it to mine but then i thought that it'll just look too weird with only the front ones painted a different color.

Leafsfan16

Car will be getting fog lights very soon, I only have front calipers but i painted them red and just painted my drums with black trem clad after using some rust converter and they look fine. For now i have one bad quality night pic, ill post a better one up tomorrow if its sunny this is the only pic i got now

canadiankid

i blackhoused my headlights and i love em. btw looks like your car is coming together great keep up with the updates

Lopes101

Looks good! keep the good stuff coming!

Leafsfan16

Thanks guys. Tried taking out my tail lights to spray tint them but it seems like its going to be a hard job .. theres something up underneath of them that i dont want to break off, someone know how to remove these or would it be easier just to use my painters tape and some random things and tape off everything on the back of the car and spray it like that? I was waiting for the spray tint to be done before i took some pics

Leafsfan16

K&n cold air intake going in whenever i get around to it. Also taking the tails to get tinted friday i think ill post lots of pics

Lopes101

more pics the better!

Leafsfan16

turns out the k&n was gonna be $310 by the end of it ... far cry from the 180 they quoted me at. anyone know any good filters for less then 200?

Shift-E

Personally, I have an AEM SRI I got used from a guy locally. But most of the guys say that all intakes are basically the same on our civics and the only thing that matters is to put a quality filter on the end. They recommend the AEM Dryflow filter (Thats what I got right now) because it's supposedly one of the best.

Hardcoresteve

I second that. im running an ebay sri(was a "cai" but the filter sat behind the radiator fan rofl) and im using an aem dry flow. The intake was$30 and filter about $30. I just used a 2.5" to 3" adapter then a short piece of 3" pipe then filter

P.S. Read the imprint on the filter element on the aem dryflo(mine says k&n)

Leafsfan16

Whats a good exhaust? I liked the sound of the apexi n1 or whatever it was, how much does one of those go for? Also, bottomed it out on a rough road and now it has a random exhaust leak, must have hit the reasonator or whatever is up the middle of the car, probably going to cut it off sometime. Going to get to spray tinting the tails and park lights eventuly give me time, getting new tires too.

MindBomber

HKS Hi-Power and Apexi are the best sounding 7th gen exhausts imo.

Check out the exhausts dezod carries..
http://www.dezod.com/cat-exhaust-systems2.cfm

Leafsfan16

seems awful expensive for a bit of piping and a coffee can, how much would just the muffler run me? i did stainless x-pipe duals with flowmasters for half the price of some of those setups almost

MindBomber

A lot of work goes into designing an exhaust, then producing, marketing, packaging, shipping it to distributors and then add multiple layers of profit. I somewhat agree though, exhausts can be expensive. EVO, STi, Ducati exhausts can run over $5000, it's still just a bit of piping and a can, but there's even more engineering time put into them.

You can get just the muffler for like $80-120, it just won't sound as nice.

b00$t

If you every do anything I'd suggest K swapping over boosting the motor that come's stock in the 01-05's.

Leafsfan16

Yeah. I would go k-swap over anything but I dont plan on trying to make a 4 cylinder go fast. Its my daily driver. I also decided against exhaust, I'm just getting a set of factory fog lights (if someone can find me a good pair with all the wiring let me know) and upgrade my speakers. I already got a new cd player for it, traded my cb radio for it.

Leafsfan16

Leafsfan16

The floor is fixed by the way, a jack sunk into the ground, slipped off the frame and went through the floor.

PacosTacos88

That's what I did too, although AEM makes a 2.5" filter pretty sure.


I'm pretty sure that's cuz K&N own them now.

Leafsfan16

Got my new cd player in now, its some off brand (freeway) but i got it for pretty much nothing traded an old cb i found in my basement for it. It sounds a lot better, going to get an aux cable and listen to my ipod through that. Getting some speakers soon and for christmas getting some smoked fogs and headlights and gonna actually get my tails tinted.

pray4locust

There is actually a great DIY on here for tinting tail lights. It's easy, cheap, and you can get them the exact shade you want.

Leafsfan16

I think I just might take it to an autobody place around here, I seen my friends do there own lights and they turned out good but it looks way better when theres like 3 layers of clear coat and stuff versus just a can of night shade.