MrChad
Active Member
I've owned this car since new in early 2000. It has a grand total of 67,000mi and some change on the odometer, which rolls even slower now that it's not my daily car.
Exterior stuff I can remember doing...
50/50 Honda OEM & Wings West lip kit.
And some 35% tint.
Suspesion...
17x7 BBS RK rims ET +46mm (17lbs. each!)
Koni Yellows
Eibach Prokits
Ingalls camber kit
'03 Acura Type-S sway bars and strut bar
Under the hood..
AEM V2 intake (my 3rd intake)
DC header
Apex-i WS2 Cat back exhaust
Fidanza 8lbs. flywheel and 2.1 clutch kit balanced prior to install as a set.
Kenwood stereo with new speakers blah, blah, blah. Prelude SH shifter with a B&M shift kit and Acura Type-S leather steering wheel. And Homelink added from someone's dead coupe on eBay.
Yellow OEM style headlights with 9006 HID's in them; this is about the 4th set of headlights on this car. And I like them, they have a function - the yellow film makes the HID's look OEM at night cutting down the glare a great deal. The yellow film also makes road lines stick out like none other behind the wheel. The film also keeps the housings from pitting. Form follows function here.
The Accord had some 18" RacingHarts M5's at one point, but the rims were heavy, tires where expensive, and noisy; and it generally drove like crap on them and they rubbed in the rear on twisty roads. For my 2-cents RacingHarts = over priced JDM hype.
So I upgraded to a proper set of 17-inch BBS rims (they were much less expensive then you'd think) with some sticky Bridgestone Potenza RE050A Pole-Positions tires, good enough for the BMW sport package, good enough for me. Actually if you look the BBS RK was a commonly sold E-36 3-series rim - the spec's match very well especially given the very M3-esk 225/45/17 tire size from back in the day I now run. Remember when 16" and 17" tires were only available on sport cars?....I do
The wife drives an '04 Acura TSX, I like this car better - because I've made the pieces all work after years of trial and error - lots of error. And this was the last time you could get an Accord that didn't weight 3000lbs+. I only wish it got out of the garage more, it's parked under a car cover most days now...sadly.
Exterior stuff I can remember doing...
50/50 Honda OEM & Wings West lip kit.
And some 35% tint.
Suspesion...
17x7 BBS RK rims ET +46mm (17lbs. each!)
Koni Yellows
Eibach Prokits
Ingalls camber kit
'03 Acura Type-S sway bars and strut bar
Under the hood..
AEM V2 intake (my 3rd intake)
DC header
Apex-i WS2 Cat back exhaust
Fidanza 8lbs. flywheel and 2.1 clutch kit balanced prior to install as a set.
Kenwood stereo with new speakers blah, blah, blah. Prelude SH shifter with a B&M shift kit and Acura Type-S leather steering wheel. And Homelink added from someone's dead coupe on eBay.
Yellow OEM style headlights with 9006 HID's in them; this is about the 4th set of headlights on this car. And I like them, they have a function - the yellow film makes the HID's look OEM at night cutting down the glare a great deal. The yellow film also makes road lines stick out like none other behind the wheel. The film also keeps the housings from pitting. Form follows function here.
The Accord had some 18" RacingHarts M5's at one point, but the rims were heavy, tires where expensive, and noisy; and it generally drove like crap on them and they rubbed in the rear on twisty roads. For my 2-cents RacingHarts = over priced JDM hype.
So I upgraded to a proper set of 17-inch BBS rims (they were much less expensive then you'd think) with some sticky Bridgestone Potenza RE050A Pole-Positions tires, good enough for the BMW sport package, good enough for me. Actually if you look the BBS RK was a commonly sold E-36 3-series rim - the spec's match very well especially given the very M3-esk 225/45/17 tire size from back in the day I now run. Remember when 16" and 17" tires were only available on sport cars?....I do
The wife drives an '04 Acura TSX, I like this car better - because I've made the pieces all work after years of trial and error - lots of error. And this was the last time you could get an Accord that didn't weight 3000lbs+. I only wish it got out of the garage more, it's parked under a car cover most days now...sadly.
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