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Old 09-23-2014, 03:22 AM   #197 (permalink)
California98Civic
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Originally Posted by pletby View Post
Awesome thread California98Civic! So many of the mods you've done I'm planning on implementing. I have a long highway drive of 80km with 20km of city too. Was looking at your fuel log and decided I need to change.

Read the whole thread the last 2 days, don't recall how you attached the lawn edging front air dam. If you could clarify that'd be great.

The side skirts were vinyl rain gutter? Was it 4"? I know aluminum rain gutter is available in 4" and 5", but that would not flex back into shape at all. Looking to do highest value mods first.

I Like the rear wheel covers.

Hid looks cool too. Thought they'd be more expensive... Any hurdles with installation of those?

Know what you mean about energy. I've finally got a week off and catching up with so many things that I fell behind on.
Thanks for the read! Always fun to see the thread does something for someone. I think the rain gutter is the 4" kind, yes. And it is vinyl, painted black and then painted with plasti-dip.

For the airdam I drilled holes into the botton of the bumper cover and used screws and little black self-locking tabs to secure the horizontal ledge on the lawn edging to the bottom of the bumper. Different lawn edging products have different features. Experiment. You'll find something workable.

The only hurdle on the hids was fitting the bulbs into the stock housing. I had to work patiently to avoid breaking things too much. Lots of brittle, thin plastic around there.

I hope that helps... it's tough to describe without photos.
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See my car's mod & maintenance thread and my electric bicycle's thread for ongoing projects. I will rebuild Black and Green over decades as parts die, until it becomes a different car of roughly the same shape and color. My minimum fuel economy goal is 55 mpg while averaging posted speed limits. I generally top 60 mpg. See also my Honda manual transmission specs thread.



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