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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Valve cover

Recently joined my pals to do some D.I.Y jobs ... here they are:

Tearing the old paint using paint remover 


Use the scrapper just for those stubborn paints only, not all surface! 
 And did on mine also laa ...


  Can see the paint damaged on it's own, so no need to scratch actually.
Tools used: soft rug/clean cloth, used tooth brush and scrapper.
 After 20-30 minutes, clean up with running water and here how it looks: 
 Some sanding done to smooth the surface (use fine grid that you feel suitable)
 Ok, before performing the spray paint. Close all holes and gaps with anything you can think of. Me, I just use plain multi-purpose 'old news papers'.

Here are the best part, using special ingredient magic portion ... spray this to the valve cover ...
 Another angle
 Wait for 3-4 hours under direct sunlight or if you have room oven even better. This is to secure and lock the powder coated paint onto your valve cover.

Then choose the weapon you like, me, I choose violet blue.


Notice the difference?

left: B16B valve cover and right: F20B valve cover. Same color but different layers of paint. 
































An yeah, I know I didn't skim the DOHC VTEC writing yet. Coz it's still not fully lock to the valve cover even you can feel it dries.






That's all folks, it took me 8 hours and only cost around RM100 to do it yourself.

Can find more articles on "How Do They Do it?"

Thursday, January 19, 2012

S84 Exterior converts to CF6 Accord wagon front facelift

Have you ever envy to those nice cars?I mean those normal cars were "pimped" and modified to a fears-looks with average modified. Not those for auto show cars. I definitely don't want to ride in one of that. Here are some stock light modified Accord CG/CFs with Mugen body kits





Day by day, my car looks damn dull!!! ... So, what if I injected some "sunshine" to my car?.












In the picture, can see the CF4 fog lamp with the original casing being customize to fit my huge S84.





Actually planned to get my car converted to Euro-R the moment I receive the key from previous owner ... having though that it might just plug and play but actually it's not. Recommended by one of Accord member, bough the CF6 Accord wagon facelift




and left the car for 3 days ... just cant wait to see the results

Try and error method:
















Some cutting required:
In order to fix the fender, have to sacrifice half my original S84 fenders. To be mixed with another half of the CF6 fenders.










After surgery, here are some results after 3 days ...  


Can spot the not?


Need to lower some more my adjustable 















































Some picture of S84 taken from Thailand Accord Club









Look flawless ... 












Nice Accord CG boot with year 2001 tail light and CF4 stock spoiler. It will look more fierce if fit with CF4 modulo spoiler ( one with both side green top light)

















S84 Interior, clutch pump and fuel pump

Hi, there ... back again with new update. Since most of my friend's already in holiday mood, I finally have some time to update my blog ... for those who keep viewing and learning from my blog, thank you very much ... Really hope my experience can be use in good cause ...

Enough of that, so what's new to this year??

Done some refurbish on the interior. Open and redo back the FRP on the air cond panel ... looks ugly before though.
After some touch ups ..
But still I'm not satisfied ...

Last month while driving, my clutch pump leaks ... due to that, I cannot free my gear ... panic a while then remember to hump the pump few times until it' release the clutch. Thank God, if not I may end up in a drain ... If let the engine switch of while gear engaged, my LSD gearbox will go to the drain ... park a side the road and check what happen.

Both pumps is not working already, a lot of grease inside ...
 
 
Here a clear picture 

 Wondering how am I gonna drive the car to work shop without calling tow truck?? My wild guess was to bleed again and it works, sure I didn't keep any of the fluid brake spare. So what do I use? Just plain mineral water ... don't try this on your car, it just work for a while only. Enough for you to find help.

After all the modification, forgot to install any security alarms ... lucky I remember and here how it looks to re-wire back the cobra alarm system ... all wire are in  BLACK color!!! ... damn!


After a while, my fuel indicator got some issue like intermittent. I was fooled by the meter few times, end up pushing my car to the road side due to out of petrol and my meter say "still got half" ... so Installed external fuel level meter
and that doesn't help also. Opened the S84 fuel tank, take out the pump assembly ... trying to figure out what went wrong ???



Test a few times by pulling the floater up and down, the fuel meter moves as well. Few crazy ideas flying into my head and one of it to dip it in water ??!! Of course water and gasoline density was not the same but at least I want to see for myself if Archimedes principle works or not. In other words, does it floats or the gasoline run in small whole on the floater ...

After quite some time, my friend bought a CF4 complete front cut including fuel tank. Just wondering if the tank was the same or not ... pluck out the fuel pump assembly and who would have guess it, it fits nicely in S84 fuel tank. The only different was, CF4 fuel pump assembly is a bit short than the original S84. Nevermind, as long as I don't have to push my car to road side again ...