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I loved sifting through the entire build so far. You've done a fantastic job of making it yours! It looks great! I gatta say, those mario stickers for the inside buttons has to be my favorite haha! Sometimes, I want to blue shell those slow drivers out front!!
Those Mugen visors look spectacular!! I got some cheapo knock offs, off ebay for my ES2...definitely not as cool . Look forward to seeing what else you do and definitely inspired me to make my own progress posts!

ALSO!!! The custom air intake you made is incredible! You sir deserve a beer!

 
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Thanks for the kind words! She's def a work in progress and making it mine. And the DIY intake... Def couldn't justify dropping $400 on a noisemaker. I have empirical evidence that my setup performs just as well (in motion at least) with zero fuel trim issues

as far as the visors.. I had knockoffs (as you may have read), but Vegas heat made them not play nice. I'm just hoping the legit ones play nice with the heat

Oh, and those stickers.. I bought a pack from everythingdecal or something.. They started peeling up.. so I made my own. My roomie has a cricut vinyl cutter and I just used that to make my own decals now. As long as I don't have to print patterns and they're just straight up since colors or colors I can layer, I'm good

 
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Plastic just doesn't play nice with Vegas heat. My shoes melted to the ground as a kid.

 
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No wonder there's no **** shot in Vegas

 
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That took me a second.

 
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It's been a while since any progress has been made.. Work has been.. Interesting, to say the least. They decided that they wanted me as the new office manager for a 24/7 operation. I mean, I did use a Cricut vinyl cutter to make a new shifter assembly vinyl overlay (brushed black instead of carbon fiber), but I suck and forgot to take pics, post pics or provide that update. Whatever.. lol

BUT, Miyuki got some new shinies today. Her smoked sidemarkers were looking.. meh.. to say the least. The insides were fogging up or something, and the Morimoto xB LED on the driver side started flickering. It was a bad look. Miyuki deserves better. I decided to pick up some Unity Performance sidemarkers. Stuck with the smoke motif and amber LEDs, but these LEDs are built in to the assembly, they're kinda Porsche style, in the fact that it's kind of an outline, and they have a sequential startup to them. They're kinda nifty. $50 bucks, but still kinda nifty.
Here's what they look like lit up:


And the fancy pants sequential startup (don't mind me shaking around. I was in a weird posture holding the camera out that far so I could still reach my headlight stalk):


OH! I can't forget that I also did this:
I'm a bit of an anime nerd, and Sinon from SAO ended up being one of my favorite characters in that series. Girl with big gun and funky colored hair. Yep.

Love it or hate it, idgaf. It's my car. Not yours. Bring the haters.

 
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Nothing big today. Roomie (who also has a 10thgen Sport Hatch) was asking about interior cosmetic mods, and that prompted me to say screw it and buy these aluminum paddle extensions I'd kinda been looking at for a while. Half wanted to go with the red carbon fiber ones, but I didn't feel like spending $90. The aluminum ones were only like $30, so I said why not. Anyways, look at the shiny!


Rice? Maybe. Is it yours? No. Therefore, I have no fck's to give whether or not you like them. lol
y'know.. it's kinda funny. I never really liked having red on my cars before, but with the dark grey car, it feels right.

 
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I never realized they gave paddle shifters in the CVT Civic. Does it just fake gear shifts?

 
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They do in the sport/sport touring trims. Yeah, fake shifts, but it also lets me force it into peak torque band. It was enough control that made me be okay with not having a manual trann (and the fact that I really needed a car)

 
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Nothing huge, but the first thing I've done since March.. After 1638 days (about 4.5 years) of owning her, I had to replace the battery. Had enough juice to light up everything, but not enough CA to start the car.

Decided to go to Advanced Auto and drop in a Die Hard branded AGM battery. Let's hope this lasts at least 5 years. Almost went for their "top tier" flooded acid battery, but the price difference was only like $20. Military discount brought the battery cost down to $200 after taxes, so I'm not complaining. I def spent more on Azumi's Optima Yellow Top, and, from the looks of it, Optima ain't what they used to be.

 
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I have heard that a lot. The one in my Civic is 5-6 years old, no issues yet. Maybe it's old enough to still be considered "good".

 
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The optima I had in my EM2 lasted 7.5 years. I was quite happy with that

 
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Welp, my hand was forced in this latest addition. As some of you may have known, I've been out of town a lot on work trips to Salt Lake City, UT. For some of the trips (3 of the 8 total I've done between April and June), I decided to drive my car from Vegas to Salt Lake City so 1) I could be flexible on when I leave, 2) not be subjected to flight delays, and 3) not have to rely on Lyft/Uber when I was in SLC. Whhhaaaaalllleeeeee... this last trip (June 28-July 5, yes I got home a couple hours ago), I managed to pop a tire. Luckily, it was because of a hidden *** pothole in the turn-in into the hotel parking lot. Also luckily, hitting the pothole just compromised the sidewall just enough to not fully pop the tire, just to the point where it finally popped it after I drove 100 feet then cut the wheel hard to back into a spot. That's when it became apparent that I popped a tire. Also luckily, there was a discount tire a half mile from my hotel. I made the guy's sales life easy by telling him I wanted a full set (since I had 62.5k on all 4 tires), even when he said, "well, the treadlife on the the other tires is still within acceptable range, but I'd still recommend replacing at least 2.." Me, being car guy, went into it already planning on replacing at least 2, then saying screw it and grabbed a full set. My "wishlist" of tires were, in order, Michelin Pilot Sport 4's, BFGoodrich Sport Comp 2, Firestone Firehawk Indy 500's. The manager overheard my wishlist and was like, "man, you want some nice tires, huh?" Unfortunately, I needed tires that day, or first thing the next day, and none of them were available in local warehouses. The manager then said he could get me a set of Yokohama ADVAN Sport A/S+ that day and for a better price than the 3 on my initial wishlist. You're damn right I went with those. I will say, they're noticeably grippier and quieter than the OEM Continental ContiProContacts.

No pics bc they're just new tires and I was busy af the last... week... Now it's sleep time.

p.s. also had to buy new front turn signals bc one of them broke on my 2nd to last SLC trip. The ones that broke were Morimoto X-VF transplants from Azumi