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Usually what you see as bad paint is just faded and/or flaking clear coat.
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05-25-2020, 05:01 PM
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Usually what you see as bad paint is just faded and/or flaking clear coat.
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I agree with that. This was about heat gain more than paint. If my paint had also been worse than it was, I would still have done this. Missing from my photos were the three small rust spots I cleaned-up before clear coat. I don't want a "new" look. I like my weird performance art piece of a car. But I don't want outright rot of the body panels either. 
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05-30-2020, 09:59 PM
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center console remake
Ultra Gauge placement and other items. Like everything on this car that is not an important mechanical item, I use as many free used parts and found objects for materials as possible. See key for image.
1. voltage meter seen through small concave piece of a found sunglasses lens.
2. The actual voltage meter facing down and acting as green console light at night.
3. Bluetooth (dark round thing).
4. Green lighted switch for radio/bluetooth.
5. Injector kill switch (immediately left of #4).
6. Shifter knob made from found skateboard/rollerskate wheel.
7. Used iPhone 5s as bluetooth music player (mounted with found/salvage hardware.
8. Mounting plate is redwood siding I took off house 2 years ago, shaped, painted black.
Almost done.
Gauge currently showing 70.2 MPG.
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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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05-31-2020, 12:24 AM
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I am unsure how many people would consider it to be cost-effective. People would just tell me to buy a new car.
"A white one?"
"Anything but that!"
I spent about the same amount for my fan fold insulation. It is just enough to (hopefully) put 1/4" on the roof and all four walls.
I did two panels and compared them with the adjacent uninsulated roof sections.
On a 90° day it was worth 3°.
I wish that I could save 8-9° for $55!
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05-31-2020, 05:26 PM
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Awesome dude! I love the personality, really nice work.
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05-31-2020, 06:13 PM
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Awesome dude! I love the personality, really nice work.
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Thanks. It is kinda like an art project. It takes a lot of time to work found materials into workable things. I learn about materials and processes, I think, sometimes...
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... I spent about the same amount for my fan fold insulation. ... On a 90° day it was worth 3°. ...
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Still that ain't nothing! This is not a cost effective mod at all. I just don't want an AC (weight & parasitic losses), so I am willing to try some odd stuff.
Hey, I am still hunting for someone(s) who will take and send me pictures of the headcodes stamped on the front of their 6th Gen Civic HX... you willing to help out a guy? My thanks if you can (and if you can't, it's cool).
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05-31-2020, 08:55 PM
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Where exactly is this head code?
Are you asking for someone willing or are you asking for someone able?
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05-31-2020, 10:55 PM
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Where exactly is this head code?
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... It is a way of marking which engine a particular head was built for. Here are mine for my DX and they should be similarly placed on your HX ... the pic shows P2F - HA - 3 ... gotta read it carefully, though The digits are easily confused, I think. Where I marked the round date stamps might not be the only spot... maybe further to the right too, closer to the timing belt cover.
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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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06-01-2020, 12:42 AM
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Thanks for the second image. I guess that I did not need to figure it out from the first one.
I cannot take a picture now! It is dark!
Whew! I got out of that one!
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06-01-2020, 10:22 AM
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... It is dark! ... Whew! I got out of that one!
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Help me Obiwan Kenobi. You're [almost] my only hope.
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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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