So I bought this car to replace my LS430. I wasn't really planning on buying anything else, but I was doing some side jobs and it was better to have a commuter and now itll be an airport car.
Some young twin girls were driving this car for the last year or 2 and it showed. There are scratches and dents on every single panel of the car, rock chips galore on the hood and front bumper, bumper was falling off, zip tied to the grill which had the tabs all broken, clips missing, headlights ziptied, the fog lights were smashed, the trunk used to have some kind of aftermarket spoiler, but was taken off by the PO, so theres holes in the trunk, it was just a fucking mess and the interior, my God they never cleaned it, that im sure of. Be that as it may, it actually ran great.
When I went to look at it, based on the pics from kijiji, I didn't know that it was lowered or that it had rims or an exhaust. So when I looked everything over, I noticed that those parts were fairly decent.
So when we negotiated on it, I ended up getting a great price on it, plus the addition of what was at least a few grand in extra parts on the car.
It has an invidia N1 exhaust and BC Racing coilovers as well as some Konig rims with pretty decent tires, however, those rims are not staying.
First I started by getting it on the hoist(no pics of this) checking underneath and doing an oil change, its very clean, but the mud guard was missing, probably because the thing is so low.
Then, I ripped off the front bumper, lights and grill to find out what all the mess was. They obviously bottomed out many times and broke everything while doing it.
So i bought all new clips, made a bracket for the broken grill and for one of the headlights and put everything back together, finally it stays together and doesn't move anymore lol
Then I started to clean the car inside and out, it looked OK from far but up close is still a nightmare, the interior needs a shampoo, but its pretty clean now, found some used fake eyelashes in there :puke:
Today was body work day, I started out with the hood and trunk and then i took off the vtec decals that were half peeling off. For what the car is worth, im sure its not worth me doing all of this lol but its fun.
There was one dent I had to pop out of the trunk, but other than that, just scratched up and had the spoiler holes. At the end of today, I'm at the point that I need to sand the primer on the hood and trunk. I'll do that in a few weeks when I get back home from work, then I'll spray it.
When I picked it up
Cleaned it up to see all the defects. Lots and lots lol
Bodywork, I am not a body man
Removing the decals
Primed, still needs a sand
I dont know how far ill go with it, but im going to raise it up a bit and throw on some better wheels for next summer, hondata and a few other things. Its not so much a build as a restore to OEM+(ish).
I do however want to see what can be done via a couple of dents that could be PDR'd and paint correction as i dont think i know what im doing lol