2011 Taffeta White Ex Sedan:
What's up guys, just wanted to start my build thread as I made a lot of progress over this last week. I work at a school and we're currently on spring break, so I thought I'd take the time to get under the car for a while.
Here's a picture of a 2011 taffeta sedan that I stole from google just to use as a placeholder for what my car looked like when I first brought it home.
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Luckily, cops really don't give a shit if we remove front plates in southern california, so the day I brought my car home that was the first thing I did.
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The following day, I had to do something. Something to make my car not look like every other accord in town. The car scene is quite small where I live, so even the slightest mod makes a difference. I hate the way chrome looks on cars, so I ran to walmart and grabbed some plasti dip and went to town on the grill. (I plan on dipping the front H white soon)
I was driving a 97 civic coupe when I bought my accord. My plan was to sell my civic and pick up some wheels/rubber with the money. Sold the civic the following week for 2500 (it had 300k miles). Picked up some Niche wheels (F: 19x8.5+40 R: 19x9.5+35) and slapped em on asap for a feel on how my car would look later.
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I started to save up some money for further modding, but I ran into some things that set me back so I killed some time and debadged the back end and dipped the H. I also got a solid deal at a tint shop so i got my windows tinted (5%) and you'll see how that looks in a bit.
Tax season came around! Ordered Megan Ez's and a camber kit (Yes it's a no name, Yes I know its risky, Yes I got impatient and did it anyway. lol I'll let you guys know how it turns out.)
Called my buddy German over and we installed the 3pc camber kit and megan's. Neither of us had ever installed suspension or a camber kit, but it didn't turn out too bad.
Just took a couple beers and we were good to go.
As I mentioned earlier, I dislike chrome and the chrome window trim just looks so out of place. You know what that means? Dipped it. lol
I also had some spare time and decided to paint my calipers. I went with white, but I'm not too sure how I feel about it. This picture can also serve as the picture that shows my current wheel gap (highest ride height on the megan's for now.)
Here is a front end and back end shot to show what it looks like currently. (March 2015)
When I bought my accord I had that stupid blue tint on the front windshield, the visor that does basically nothing? Either way, it looked like complete shit.
I decided to pick up some black vinyl and make a solid black visor, it came out pretty good. It was definitely a bit more complicated than I thought originally too,
but I luckily have a heat gun and that was of good use when applying the vinyl (wrinkles and bends in the vinyl shrink when heated)
Got around to putting my wheels on and maxing out the rear coils. Cant max out the fronts til I get smaller tires.
Until then, here are some shots of the car currently.
Tires went shitty! Heres an update on my new tire setup.
225/35/19 on 9.5
Future mods:
-Retro fit headlights
-Eagle eye or Beamer style tails
-Vinyl wrapping the roof gloss black
-LED interior lighting
-Leather interior
-Upgrade flooring
-Lip kits
That's all I can think of for now, thanks for looking at my soccer mom car!