[Profile] Jeff (Updated 11/24/11) New Car!

[accordguy04]

Well then hold on to her!  That'd be so cool if my girl was good with a camera... she'd get so tired of me askin her to take pics of my car though. haha

[sherker55]

Added a blue ambient LED light today. I replaced the boring amber one that shines down on the shifter and cupholder. It looks pretty neat. Nearly every interior light I have is blue, lol. I've also ordered a white LED for my license plate, since the stock one looks pretty disgusting. I have no clue why I'm so infatuated with lights. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt="" title="Razz" />

Jeff, how'd you change that little bulb?

[sherker55]

was wondering about the car, just read, dorry to hear about the accident, glad you are ok man!

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

Jeff, how'd you change that little bulb?

I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to find the link again, but I found it!

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/566877/2004-honda-accord

As far as where to get the light, I believe this is the correct one:

http://www.superbrightleds.com/cgi-bin/store/index.cgi?action=DispPage&Page2Disp=%2Fspecs%2F74_t15.htm

I never got a chance to take my blue one out of the old car, so I may have to buy a new one. Despite what the guide says about getting the focus LED and not the wide-angle, the one I got was wide-angle, and it worked a lot better. The blue light did shine a little on my rear-view mirror though, but it wasn't annoying or anything. I wonder how the cool white would look. Actually, judging from the above link, the cool white outputs 3 times the amount of light compare to the blue. I would probably stick with blue, haha.

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

Got my car retinted today with 3M Color Stable:



I've got to call them back tomorrow morning though because there are a couple small bubbles, and for some reason on my front passenger side window, there are two upside-down 3M logos on the tint, lol. Strange.

And yes, I still need to remove 3 panels of that pinstripe, lol. It's such a damn pain in the ass.

[sherker55]

black out that chrome Jeff, it'll look sick

[alpha]

The logos are from the plastic that you pull off to expose the adhesive of the film.

Are they air or water bubbles?  If they are water, don't touch them.  They'll dry out.  If they are air, then if they aren't pushed out in time, they'll dry like that.

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

Tint is looking good after it has cured. The logos came off in like two swipes with a cotton ball and rubbing alcohol.

I need some of your guys' opinions. I know Mark suggested blacking out the chrome trim... what other things should I do to my car? Eric suggested Inspire foglights, which is very tempting. I'll have to do some research on it. I'm going to take a step back from any serious mods like sway bars or pulleys. Basically, I just want to stick to mods that I can install myself without having to pay a shop.

I took a bunch of Z's advice on his custom icebox... I plan on gutting out the baffles in the stock airbox, then I'm going to take the intake resonator that I still have from my old car and cut it up to use the piping as a CAI extension. Hopefully the piping is long enough to get what I want.

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

I know I posted the pics in the other thread, but I thought that I'd continue progress in here.

So here is where I'm at so far. I've gone from this:



To this:



I'm debating on installing it without any support mounts to see how well it holds. I found that rubber pipe fitting and all the hose clamps from our shed, so I saved a trip to Lowes.

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

I got it installed... haven't test driven it yet.



Only one problem, though. When Honda upgraded the intake on the 06-07 Accords, they even increased the diameter of the pipes of the intake resonator. So I basically just put in straight pipe, but the diameter is the smaller one from the 03-05 Accord. We'll see how it goes when I test drive it.

Edit: Gave it a test drive. Car felt slower... RPM's were slower too. Guess I'll have to put the resonator back in. Back to the drawing board!

Other than that though, it sounded nice. It's no K&N intake, but you could hear it more. After around 3,000RPM though, the engine was louder than the intake.

[CrackerTeg]

Haha! 

At least you gave it a try. That's what trial and error are all about man.

[Mike]

Did you retain the stock air filter? Maybe adding a cone filter and removing the stock one could help...

[Jeff Likes Bagels]

For now I'm going to stick with the stock air filter. I don't have any plans on adding an aftermarket intake anytime soon. If I do any mods to the intake, it will be DIY, aside from maybe a K&N drop-in.