my first DIY i never thought it was gonna end... I replaced the rotors on my 94 accord ex. after 2 full days of work from trying to get the bolts of the hub assembly, i was ready to give up hope... but i went to the store, picked some new bolts up and everything went smooth. brakes worked awesome. but to think i did it just to save on payin someone to do it... not worth it

 

i painted my car lol... I do not have a steady hand and i would never be a plastic surgeon either lol. no pictures... it was horrible. RUNS RUNS RUNS!

 

My first DIY was to revinyl the upper interior of my del sol (the gray part) in red. With the help of my girlfriend (and her keeping me patient!) I managed to do everything perfectly...except for one piece in which a corner ripped. I'll redo it eventually but for now I'm going to leave it alone until it bothers me enough to fix it since I don't want to deal with it again for a while.

Now I'm working on various other things. The aesthetics of the car are almost complete then I'll start to delve into the engine bay . . .

 

my first DIY was replacing the cluster bulbs with amber ones in my civic. easy as pie and turned out great.

 

My first diy i Was changing my timing belt, didn't relize that it was the tensioner bolt and that was it, i had to the whole thing from scratch like 6 hours to get the thing on tdc because my dad was turning it backwards the whole time haha but it got done anyways.

 

my First DIY was painted Needles. It was kinda hard because I used nailpolish on the bright side it doesnt look bad @ all.

 

Not So Bad..... 1st project car was a 1969 Pontiac Catalina 4 door boat and i mean big.

I brought the car to shop class for my first year in high school auto body repair.

The first thing I did was sand off the pain, tape up the windows and parked the car outside the shop class building where it sat in limbo for the whole class year.

That was Great..... The big four door car gave us a nice hiding spot where we could sit behind the taped up windows and roll'em up and burn'em down, had a nice cooler in back seat to hold the extra beer,

custom built 2' water bong under the front seat (thanks to the guy's in welding class) for the friday afternoon Blonde Lebanese

A flip down table top for playing cards (thanks to the guy's in wood shop)

half the school would hide out in the car until bell rang everyday so that we could go for the bus ride home and that was great too

We Mildred who was a 69 year old lady for a bus driver and she used to be a boot-legger in her day.... so she did not mind us smoking the good stuff but would give the guy's hell if they burned up the shit and actually stopped the bus one day and made some of the guys toss their weed out because it smelled so bad.

man those were the day's...

o sh!t i think i am getting head rush with this flash back

Was not until the last week of school that i had to kick @ss, finish sanding
and roll that car into paint booth to finish up the paint job so i would get passing grade for the year.

The old catalina with the 400 motor would float at 120mph on the black top roads and lasted 250,000 miles before it ever to as much have had a valve cover seal replaced but gas was cheap back then and now have to suffer with driving these little cars

The BAD Part....
I had priorities back then and purchasing other than what would smoke was not in the top ten. i did not buy clear coating to apply over the color coat and the paint faded off in a year

but the primer paint lasted until the death of the car

1981-1982

 

don't wanna recall my stupidity on my first DIY. but at least i tried and learned from the mistakes.

 

First DIY was new deck and subs in the Teg. Went easy peasy, with the help of a $9 wiring diagram off the net.

Also installed Sparco hood pins, that took about an hour. Hardest part was measuring where to drill the hood.

Installed a Fidanza short shifter in a parking lot at my buddy's apartment in college. Took about 2 hours all together, but then "oh shit" I installed the shifter with the Z-Bend backwards:doh: Jacked it back up, unbolted the shifter an spun it a 180*. Works great still! Shucks grease was a plus, else it squeeked a bish...

Then I installed an Oil Pressure gauge, that was fun times, lol. Stock sender was leaking really bad, so I just decided to get the aftermarket one and install it. Again, about 3 hours in the apartment complex parking lot and it was done. Looks sweet too.

Next DIY is the turbo installation. Manifold, Turbo, FMIC and charge piping, have a custom DownPipe made and install that, Fuel Pump, Injectors, Oil lines, ECU, boost gauge, vacuum gauge, relocating the oil pressure gauge to the tripple pillar pod I'm also installing.......whew.

I'm giving myself 2 weeks to complete the Turbo Install. Sounds pretty reasonable, mostly because I still have to order the Injectors and Fuel Pump. ECU will be here this week with the Turbo Kit. Then have the DP made and it's done, ready to be tuned! Woohoo!

 

DIY Black Housing headlights on my Civic... i left it in the oven for too long without watching it and it melted the top portion of the headlight, sort of. it changed colors from being burnt and is now a white permanent color to it...