Anthony : 1987 Accord Aerodeck LXR-S

[YOanthony]

While you're doing your rocker cover give your bonnet latch the same treatment

Mmhmm, I intend to. It's very sticky too. If I wanted to give it easier movement, would that just be squirting some WD40 in there?

[Jasemas]

Or some grease

[YOanthony]

Or some grease

Thanks mang. I will try that.

[YOanthony]

Here's some more stuff I picked up today;



Globes, some glue for some broken trim pieces (temporary until I source some parts - which will be near impossible ), radiator flush, oil flush, some cleaning products for the interior, some rust converter and some authentic Japanese Pocky from one of my regular customers. :3

[Jasemas]

Is it obvious that you work at repco :P hehe

[YOanthony]

So a small update. I've been spending a lot of time cleaning the interior and it has come up really mint! I have a few problems, but I think I'll be able to handle them.

I have a few pics here if you want to see:
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Nothing special yet. Only done the vacuuming, and cleaned the dash, doors and center console. I still have to apply the lube :P

Here's some pictures of rust. Nothing major I guess. A bit worrying that they're both on parts that are very hard to replace (the door and hatch). But I'll drop them off to a body repairer as my body repair knowledge is... none.
The 1st and 2nd picture are of the same rust spot.







Apart from that, I replaced a couple globes and I've started thinking about paint colours. I wanted to stick with OEM colours, and I was thinking something light / bright so scratches won't show up as easily. I don't see the point of getting a brand new paint job of black if I'm only going to see scratches after the first trip. :/ Not to mention keeping it clean.

Here's a compiled list of the OEM colours: http://3geez.wiki-tv.com/Available_colors
I was thinking maybe Sonic Blue Metallic Clearcoat, B-33MZ? Here's what it looks like on a hatch:



What do you guys think? My dad thinks I should repaint it the same colour as it is now as the interior of the doors, engine bay and other visible painted areas are already black. :/ But yeah. What do you guys think?

[cbauto]

Naiceeeee




Do what you want to do.

Deep down inside, your 1st brain thought.

1st thought is the best

[YOanthony]

Naiceeeee




Do what you want to do.

Deep down inside, your 1st brain thought.

1st thought is the best

Hmm, after thinking long and hard, I might try my luck and see what a cutting compound will do for it.
As much as I hate owning a dark coloured car (and I REALLY do) I think I might keep the stock colours. Black and gold will be fine.

Besides, I was searching a while ago and found this It's the first black-gold combo'd Aerodeck I like!

[YOanthony]

Been busy lately. Too many excuses to be honest. I did however finish cleaning the interior. Just need to clean the glass, give it another vacuum, polish the plastics and give it a once over with some shine and it'll be looking extremely mint. I also managed to recover some random trim pieces and find homes for them, which is awesome as it saves me having to find them second hand :P

So today I kicked things into gear. I put it up on jack stands, drained the old fuel out (as requested by my dad), changed the oil, the oil filter, the leads, the plugs, the battery, all the fuses in the engine bay, general cleaning as I went through, and the fuse index sticker ontop of the fuse cover was peeling, so I cleaned both surfaces and glued it back on.

out of all this, the only picture I managed to take was one of the old spark plugs.
LOL. Sorry. I didn't think the other stuff was too important to take a photo.
I'll also provide a picture of before and after of the jdm fuse box index sticker. I managed to find a picture of the engine bay and zoom in, then take one of the work I did and put them next to each other. Very happy I could salvage it, cause I doubt I'd get my hands on another one. :P

[YOanthony]

I raided a local wreckyard a couple days ago. There was only an old CA5 hatch there. I grabbed multiple screws, the oil cap, the remaining switches (demister, headlights and dimmer) as well as a dash mat (to suit blue interior - I'll dye it or something to suit mine), fuse box lid (no sticker), heater hose and the exhaust manifold cover (which turned out not to fit). I also got some parkers. One of them was in bad condition (as in faded) and I thought it would be alright but when I got home they looked terrible. I'll just save them as spares and buy some JDM ones after I pass inspection.

Here's a picture of the stuff I bought :


I also put the car up on 4 jack stands so I could get a better look at everything. It all looks okay, brakes will need replacing, calipers need a respray. There is however some damage to the chassis where it looks like someone has tried to jack it up from there. Here's a picture. My dad seems to think we can drop it off to someone and it'll be as simple as welding an L piece there. Unfortunately, this is a MUST fix before inspection, otherwise it will not pass.



And the brakes :
front - http://tinyurl.com/pbwh52o
rear - http://tinyurl.com/otb53by

Apart from that I've dropped the coolant, found a few replacement bolts for rusted ones, I've managed to take off the bumper, pull apart the thermostat housing. So yeah, moving a long slowly. Still a bit of work to do.

[YOanthony]

I called up Regency to make sure I could fix this and still pass. They said as long as I got an engineers certificate I will be fine.
So I called up a chassis repair and body shop to get a quote and I was quoted $1,000 +GST WITH an engineers certificate.

So I'm happy and progress can continue on the Aerodeck

[YOanthony]

Old owner of the Aerodeck finally sent through the books and paper work ! I now have the original jdm owners manual as well as rego papers from 02-11 and service receipts from 02-11. All the stuff I thought might break (axles, alt., brake master cylinder) have already been replaced within the last 20,000-30,000kms