ok well ive posted pics and talking about what ive been doing for while now and thought id show and prove that i dont talk out my @ss
pics will vary from when i first started working on my car to where im at
i bought the crx july 15th of 2002 just before my 16 Bday from an old fart that told me that it only needed a cv boot to pass saftey yeah right and i beleived him but what do you expect i didnt know shit it was my first car and thought he was legit guess not lol.So i payed $750 dollars for my POS and just after i bought it i was going over a bridge and hit a pot hole the size of the car and snapped my passenger torsion bar oh well so i thought might as well go get something to eat
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bad idea when i was getting out i put my foot right through the floor (shit that sucks )and i still had to go a 3 hour drive with my front allmost touching the ground and in the rain at night so i dicided to stop in at a pick and pull and grabbed a used TB from a 86 sedan i think for $20 bucks and they even cut the subframe right up with a plasma torch and sent me on my way with it lol So with my ass draging on the pavment im made it home on 5 bucks worth of gas lol nice at least i got a clean engine didnt burn oil car was really cheap on gas and had no rust on the shell (well that you could see )
July 16th 2002
couldent drive standard worth a poop and hit my house i ended up cracking the front bumper on the passenger side oh well couldent really tell so i left it like that parked the car and went and bought my first floor jack $19.98 at walmart a mach truck one
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too see how bad the rust was.jacked up the car and found that it was rusted in the front by your feet on both sides and along the rockerpanels on both sides oh know this isent good.So i called up the guy that i bought the car from and flipped out on him and he said that he had know idea that it was rusted but told me that he just took it in too the shop and they said all it needed was a cv boot yeah right what kinda shop passes a flinstone car lol i asked him for my money back he said no even after i said that this was going to be my first car and didnt want something that would cost a pile to get on the road
He hung up the phone and wouldent take my calls anymore Bastard
August something 2002
took my car to my buddys a half hour a way on the back road to change the Tbar and start cut out rust ! well when we were all done we had cut out all most all of the driver side pan front to where the seat mounts and the same on the passenger side. i say again oh well i got on the phone and ordered new pads and brake lines front struts rotors drums shoes the works picked them up the next day installed all that mess of stuff (and remember i was really new too all this car stuff i really loved cars but never really got this into one before so it was all kinda to much for me
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so i thank my buddies who took me under there wing
August 19th 2002
with my car still sitting at my buddys house with no floor it was time to put one in
so i looked all over for replacment pans nothing of course so i bought some sheet medal and thanks to my buddys dad we went to work after 3 days of grinding cutting and riveting the pans in we finally got them done after some primer and paint and some box liner of course took the car for a spin and was so happy until i noticed that there was like a rubbing or draging sound coming from the rear right wheel
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brought the car back to my buddys and took the wheel of and found that the bearing was toast
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i guess having the car allmost on it side for a few days while we were doing the pans messed it up oops
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i was pissed and said fuck it im done with this POS!!!! So about an hour later i ordered a new rear bearing not knowing that it a hole unit and not just a bearing i forked out another 200 bucks (i know 200 bucks crazy and that was for only one
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) picked it up installed it and did not touch the car for a while untill i got my license that is lol
May 15th 2003
i got my full license i had to do the graduated license program BS i think all it is is 9 months with your learners permit
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and then you can take the road test wich i passed with flying colors yeah boy
i went to my buddies to get my car and was showing some of the guys the pep it had and my buddy had a 87 prelude he just got and wanted to race on his land the driveway was paved so we raced and my car beat him walked on him like nothing dont know how dont know why it was just a stock crx so then i took on my buddys bro that had a 96 caviler beat him too ok somehting is up eaither these guys cant drive to save there lifes of my car is pretty quick so after throwing it in there faces not to make fun of a little 56 hp crx his cousin showed up with his swapped mustang 289 v8 and we raced he jumped the line and i hung with him the hole time im pretty sure if he didnt cheat i would have beat him too but even though it was only a 289 carbed i was still happy to hang with it
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not being a 5.0 but still good times
so the car was back in my garage sitting for a while and i noticed that it was starting to rust by the emblems and wheel wells
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so it began i went and bought my first tool set 289 peice 350 dollar kit got it for 99 bucks thanks canadian tire
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and then stripped the car down to allmost nothing the hole rear end frontend the hole 9 everything that unbolted was off borowed my friends grinder and went to town
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got rid of all the rust (well what i could with a grinder and then bought some fiberglass and plastic bondo and went to town and then came the trimeclad paint job rattle can here i come
here is the only pic that i could find and that was on my pc to show of that paint job keep in mind that it was my first time ever doing such a thing oh and the car was blue top silver bottom with red strip on the side just give an idea of what it looked like before and i did not have those rims in the pic either those came after
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as you can see its winter in the pic and i had done the panit job like in june 2003 so it had allready started to fade but held up very well for the time i had it
inspection time winter 2003 went to saftey my car and it failed booooooo the guy said he could not pass the crx because of the pans not being welded in
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well i didnt know that was a problem at the time he said it was because of the unibody frame not having any real frame rails so i took my car home and when doing so i noticed that the heat guage flew up too hot in the winter in like minutes so i went back and noticed that there was a big pile of oil and antifreeze in the snow i asked him what he did and he said nothing knowing that he over heated it i said why didnt you tell me that you fudged up my engine ???He deniyed it and would not give me shit for the damages so i went home and ended up slitting my whrists no im just kidding but i left the car for a while picked up the rims and dicided to start over looking for someone too do the welding but i couldnt find no one willing to take on a import (stupid hillbillys and the only guy i found wanted 600 bucks yeah right allmost what i paid for the car it self not going to happen!!!so i ended up parking it in the garage for about a year while i worked on making money too get it up and going again time past dust gathered on the my car while my hopes started to slip away not making enough money and not having time because of work and what not
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so it just sat there wasteing away
SPRING 2004
things are looking up i moved into a new house well new to me and finally had enough money put away to start fresh on the little honda so i again stripped it down and dropped the pans that failed and bought a compressor and a little sandblaster and a shit load of sand. Blasted the hole under body where my new pans that i was going to make a new home for the last time cut new pans had them bead rolled and what not for strength and used a few rivets and bolts to hold in place untill i found a welder to weld them in place or i bought my own and did it my self again could not find anyone to weld my pans i started doing more body work and another paint job yeah another one
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but this time at least it was done witha compressor and spray gun
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finished the paint and then got alot of people wanting me to do there cars and trucks so i took on the guy next doors little ford ranger needed body work done in the rear fenders and dings little stuff just to make more money because the construction job i had just wasent cutting it i charged him 300 for all the body work with the fiberglass included so that only left me with 200 prophet not bad i guess for my first job but he ended up stiffing me on 100 of it so i did it all for 100 bucks
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and i told him that i wasent going to give his truck back untill i got my money but the cops said i had to because i wasent a real buisness whatever ok but here are some pics of that paint job many on here dont like it but this paint job is what got me a few jobs working on others cars
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