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jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project over engineered

Posted: December 26th, 2014
by jman64cola
2008 Honda Accord coupe Ex-L NAV 5-speed

Updated 4/13/2015
Interior
• Back up camera
• Blue 36 led panel interior lights
• Oem ambient lighting
• Carbon fiber 4d vinyl wrap. Center and dash trim
• Crown royal black label shift boot
• Black powered coated shift boot saver
• Carbon fiber shift knob with 5 speed engravings
• Spoon floor mats
• Bluetooth audio transmitter to aux headphone jack
• Arm rest leather replacement
• Switch blade key
• Black and white wood floor trunk

Exterior
• Enkie GP5 18x8 +40 offset wrapped in Goodyear eagle 1’s 235 45 18
• Oem fog lights with 35watt hid’s 6-8000k
• Open face black extended lug nuts
• H and R 25mm spacers for rear
• Rolled rear fenders
• Oem v6 trunk spoiler
• Rear window spoiler
• Mugen rep grill-custom made Mugen grill-Oem chrome grill
• 2012+ sti lip
• Custom 3rd brake light strips on upper spoiler with 5 way function
• Led backup lights
• Front license plate relocation kit
•Custom headlights with paint matched housings, xc rgb led halo rings, red and blue demon eyes, and blacked out side reflectors, led corner lights, led high beams
• The retrofit source 35w hid 6000k hid’s with relay harness
• Switchback yellow/ white turn signals
• Gold powdered coated valve cover
• Led plate lights
• 45% tint on windows-will be redone soon
• Weather tech window visors
• Daytime running lights disabled

Performance
• 1st k-tuned coupe with a 5 speed manual. End user version
• Short ram intake with a black spectre filter.
• Greddy SP elite cat back exhaust
• skunk2 downpipe
• Megan ez coilovers with extended damping controls for easy adjustments
• J-power rear 3 pc control arms
• Drilled and slotted rotors and ceramic pads front and rear
• 19mm rear sway bar and bushings

Anything underlined is in process.


well it took me long enough but i am finally getting around to making my build thread

i picked up my 08 Honda accord EX-L NAV Coupe 5-spd manual in October 2013
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it had a new clutch and some body work done before i picked it up and man was it beautiful.

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so after a few weeks of having it i did a cruse of the maine coast with my car club before winter hit.
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so then i began modding it to make it mine.
hids went in ( and have been replaced with better quality hids from the retro fit source)
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so then i got good news in relation to my career and moved off to Milan IL for my position at John Deere cylinder as a manufacture engineer, also my plates were finally switched over
so i packed my stuff up and moved on out
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so then i got a mugen rep grill and painted it chrome like so and ran that for a couple of months
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fogs were installed as well
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found a used greddy cat back exhaust for it and i jumped on the deal
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then my wheels came in Enkie GP5"S in silver machined finished 18x8 +40 offset
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and whats wheels with out a drop so megan ez's coils were installed quickly after
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and man did it set my car off great
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did the roof and lip spoiler next and spoted an stock accord later that day to compare against
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got tired of that grill so i tried something different and.....well....it was different
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didn't really car for it so i got another black mugen grill and rocked that fro a while while i came up with something better.
meet up with some other accord guys during a meet out here and got some great pics
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cam up with another idea and tried it i liked the look but i need to redo the painting on it
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i suffered from the dreaded arm rest bubble so i fixed that as well,
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so then i went to Import alliance for the weekend so i preped the car and rove down
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had a blast there and actually met some other 8th gen owners there
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h&r 25 mm spacers on the rear
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cars and coffee
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sti lip spoiler installed and loving it
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these cars can actually hold a ton of stuff. i got all 4 wheels 4 struts and rear control arms all in with no problems
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our last get together for the year called fall tour, had a blast doing this and will do it again
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and added my own twist to the led light bar and added 5 way function to it with white and red leds
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and here is the diy for ithttp://www.our8thgens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=279

also done but not pictured
led back up lights
blue led interior lights
switchback front lights
short ram intake
k tuner end tuner system i was the first standard vehicle to be tuned by the release.
carbon fiber shift knob
spoon floor mats
switchblade key
license plate relocation kit
black lugnuts
j power camber kit
weather tech window visors
and more to come......

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: December 26th, 2014
by coolblue
Nice build man..

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: December 26th, 2014
by Bigwilly
Nice! It's came a long way! Looks good

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: December 28th, 2014
by YoLowAccord
looking good. What's next?

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: December 28th, 2014
by jman64cola
Next is retrofitted headlights and then I'm working on custom led tails. I'm doing a gold and black paint theme under the hood. Spare valve cover is already being powder coated gold as we speak. Sway bars front and rear. Skunk 2 downpipe and If I can find one, making my greddy exhaust dual, but I can't find a muffler that matches the one I have. And then the cherry on top is when or if we get boost tables with the k tuner I'm going to be doing a ct-engineering supercharger with meth injection. Goal is 300-350 to the wheels. And that's pretty much it for now.

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: January 1st, 2015
by jman64cola
just bought a black crown bag for my shifter boot inside the car. cant wait till it comes in. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: January 8th, 2015
by jman64cola
Crown bag installed and was actually pretty easy to do

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Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: January 8th, 2015
by jman64cola
so just bought all the stuff i will need to add halos and demon eyes to the accord. thanks to our great vendors i got
1 set of 90mm halos kit for low beams rgb
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1 set of 100mm expansion kit halos rgb
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1 red halo switch
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1 blue halo switch
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1 blue power switch
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2 red leds for demon eyes and 2 blue leds for demon eyes

cant wait to start the fun

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: January 17th, 2015
by jman64cola
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Test mock up on the halos and they look amazing!!!!

Re: jman64cola’s 08 accord ex-l coupe project "over engineer

Posted: January 17th, 2015
by jman64cola
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All torn down and ready for the next step