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Painted my VTEC Solonoid.

You're in my head. Been thinking about painting mine since the covers sold are too big. Did you use engine enamel paint? It looks nice.

Nope,
Just used the same Rustoleum high temp I've been using.
Engine enamel is high gloss, and that's not what I wanted.

Just spend the last hour reading through this thread and very nice job Can't wait to see what you do next.

looking good!

Thank you =]

Thank you =]

Sorry for the lack of updates folks.

Installed the Megan test pipe, and since then been having a slew of problems.
One of which, is a dead alternator.
Car's been sitting in my garage this weekend.




Speedo and odo dead after alt cut off.

#Becausetestpipe

I don't even know what that does.

Is it a fancy pipe that you smoke before taking a test that helps you get better grades?

Nice Brings back fond memories!

Got one of those and it needed a o2 simulator. Kinda pita, but it changed the sound and response of the exhaust.

Nope, it's basically a straight pipe that bypasses the cat.

It's called a test pipe because it's for "testing" purposes only, offroad use.
Not road legal.

It has nothing to do with passing emissions.
And you'll never pass any emissions with a test pipe

Unless you use an O2 simulator.. lol

No, you won't pass emissions with test pipes period.
Lol
O2 sim is to trick your engine into not throwing out a CEL.

Aside from the issues, did you like how it was running?

Love the sound, but the vic is being a pain in the *** recently.

Tragedy has a good point. At some places, if your car has OBD2 they will just hook up a scan tool and see if you're throwing any codes along with a possible visual inspection. They do this to make the process quicker. The average driver is not smart enough to disable their check engine light

dam i wish i could just pull parts off nice and clean like that and not have to use cans of PB blaster and replace rusted bolts. must be nice

Autozone no longer checks it.
I went to Midas, and their diagnostic guy wasn't in.

Got it fixed, alt fuse under dash blew when alt blew.
Got it replaced, everything's working good now.

Stock kitty back on for now, CEL is gone.

Lol, it is nice.
Just one of the perks of living in California.

Stock kitty sucks ***.

Test pipe going back on.

Got some work done over the weekend.

Not sure if you can see, but my black trims are faded to hell.





So I decided to plasti-dip them.

After:



Liked the look of it, so decided to do my window trim as well.



Here it is up close


Final result:


Looks good IMO.
Better than faded trim pieces.

looks good!
I just wipe them occasionally with armorall protectant and they stay black for a couple months.

Thanks, mine are way too faded to restore.

Anyways, something else I got done.
Rerouted both my cruise control and throttle cables.

So much nicer without them hanging about.

Clean looking engine! I didnt even think you could reroute the throttle and cruise cables.

The whole car is looking good! Like the painted trim. Was thinking of doing mine with plasti dip also. Think ill move that up on the priority list looks a lot better!

Forgot to mention,
Also painted my dipstick to match with Tragedy

Thanks man,
I didn't know I could too, till I tried it.
The throttle cable is such a stupid concept.
It goes from the middle of the firewall, all the way to the right strut, up over the intake and engine, then back down to the middle where the ITB is.

One thing I forgot to do, when I had cruise control throttle cable off, was to take off the cruise control and paint it.

Anyways, time to replace both my battery terminals.

Also, update on the plastidip.
Seems to be holding up well, even during wash.
It's a bit sticky and tacky first couple of days when it's still curing, but afterwards, it's smooth and durable.
When it gets soapy, my wash mitt just glides over, doesn't rub it off as I expect it to.
One thing, don't rub/mess with the dip when it's still curing, one mistake I learned :P

Nice, Plasti dip is a great product for making things look good again.

Sprayed a little of this:


and it took out some of this:

Lol, where the hell was all that? Looks like speaker wire.

look like ricewire

^
Exactly what it was.

I used spare speaker wire to hook up some LEDs.
Took em all off now.