Anthony : 1987 Accord Aerodeck LXR-S

[YOanthony]

Hey so it's been a while. I got the dash in and working. It's amazing when I go out driving, however I get distracted easily as it's so awesome to watch. :3

Last week I ordered a new radiator off of eBay for $95 shipped. It's a copper core with plastic tanks and two row (as opposed to the older radiator which was only single row). I was going to get one through work but they wanted $400 or something ludacris for a single row. This was definitely the issue (or the major issue) for the overheating. You could scrape out gunk on your finger in the old one :/



After throwing a few swear words around we eventually got it and I took it for a test drive. I drove it for 2 straight hours from Unley to Marion to Bridgewater and then to Lofty. The temp gauge didn't budge ! It was awesome. I know it's not fully hectic but we got it up to 130 on the freeway which I thought was an achievement given I'd never had it over 3 figures prior to this day





It's very dusty though as it's just been sitting. I've been doing little jobs on it throughout the week too. For some reason the digital climate control never worked properly after I did the digi-dash swap. It used to spew out hot air even if the climate control was off. When I put it on 18 it still came out hot... so I spent a couple of hours under the dash just looking at plugs and noticed I missed two - one of them being the plug for the heater core bypass or something. After I plugged it in everything was fixed. I'm so glad I didn't have to take off the dash again :P



The power folding mirrors that came with the Aerodeck were seized and so a little while ago I bought new ones from someone in America. I tested them prior to yesterday and found I only needed to swap some plugs. I went to put them on only to find the mounting face that held them onto the door was different. I imagine it's because the sedan doors differ to the wagon. I pulled it apart and found I could use the body from the good mirrors that worked with the mounting face of the old mirror. So I got those hooked up and working too.



I've never had PFM before so I'm pretty happy to have them on. Everything is shaping up... I'd love my next buy to be Webers given all of the "accessory and aesthetic" mods are sorta done. (Apart from a spray and Watanabes) Stay tuned.

[hondapop]

Strange that the doors would be different between Accord 2 doors, especially at the front A pillar. May mean the windscreen is different too. I could understand the B pillar end being different because of the roof line being straighter. I know for instance the Gen1 Teg's whole body has no interchangeable panels with the Accord even though they are similar size. The chassis of course is Civic based. Honda must be one of the only makers to be able to have so many un-alike models and still make money.

[YOanthony]

Strange that the doors would be different between Accord 2 doors, especially at the front A pillar. May mean the windscreen is different too. I could understand the B pillar end being different because of the roof line being straighter. I know for instance the Gen1 Teg's whole body has no interchangeable panels with the Accord even though they are similar size. The chassis of course is Civic based. Honda must be one of the only makers to be able to have so many un-alike models and still make money.

Agreed. I thought the same about the doors. One night I was scrolling through Yahoo Japan Auctions when an Aerodeck door and Sedan door ad popped up next to each other and I saw the difference. I couldn't believe it. It kind of sucks as my door is rusted out a little bit near the mirrors. It means I'd need to find an entire door and have it shipped over if I ever want to replace it. What a hassle !
Wow really ? You're not wrong. I wish a lot of it was plug'n'play (even with earlier/later/different models) but I guess that would take the fun out of having something so unique

[YOanthony]

Been a while... not sure where to start. Things were going well with the car last year. I bought a new radio which I thought matched the era of the car a lot more (plus it worked as opposed to the other shitty one !) This one was off Yahoo Japan Auctions... I had to buy an fm band extender to make it work with Australian frequencies and a new harness. Got it in eventually and it's pretty damn cool. It's got some wicked equilisers ! Pioneer Model MEH-P9000CD





Continued to the drive the car for another 3 months and even chucked it on the rollers for shits and giggles !





It kept going for a bit longer. I drove it daily in stop start traffic for 2-3 hours a day with no worries for another month or so.



I honestly couldn't get enough of the car and then my grandpa brought around an Easter gift (Easter of 2016). Genuine Minilites... 15x7 +25 all round with 215/65. Pretty wicked gift... my vision was always Watanabes and I think these will do just right !



I went get some new tyres and ended up with Potenza RE003, 195/60 but they still looked like balloons. The guy chucked 195/50 but I guess with the 4x4 height my mind played tricks and I didn't think it looked quite right. The wheels themselves sit out about 1"-1.5".



Then the week after the trans decided to spit the dummy and I was forced to garage the Aerodeck.
As you guys know the engine was in pretty bad shape anyway... I was actually surprised it made it as far as it did.

It had been almost a year since I last drove it and it'd been killing me ever since. Well... the wait is over. Street Level Tuning, some local lads here in Adelaide who specalise in building proper street Hondas are going to help me bring the Aerodeck back to life. Manual transmission, new engine, and... our friends below: 45 DCOE Webers.





These Webers set me back $500 for the pair from someone off Gumtree. We bought a donor Integra with a manual B18A1 we'll be using for the swap.

It's quite literally nothing special but it has super good internals. It also means I don't need to go through vehicle inspection when changing the engine number for registration as it's the same capacity and fuel management system as it was originally registered as.



The boys cleaned up the Webers while we sent the engine off to the machine shop. Check out this before and after !



Here are a couple more pictures of this porn.





New pistons look pretty damn sexy too.



Then the engine came back from the machine shop. Wowzers !!!







The head too.





We're getting so damn close to go time. I took the car down last week (scary drive... note to self: old cars don't like sitting for so long and then suddenly be driven)
However, I love the 80s appeal this car is now taking. The use of neutral colours, and I love the wheels... I knew I would, but the test fit made me weary.



SLT got the rocker cover painted too... wrinkle black... so ****ing nice.







We started taking the engine out and cleaning the bay too. Lots and lots of little rust spots became apparent after all of the gunge was gone. Cause for a respray, nothing special. Maybe a satin black just to cover the rust spots and provide a clean, simple look.







There's more rust but for the sake of being sexy I won't include them.

This is all I can update on now. Sorry I've been silent. There's so much more to come ! I don't want to spoil any surprises, so sit tight and subscribe because you're about to see some serious shit !

[Jasemas]

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[RenzokukenJ]

Yo Anthony

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[YOanthony]

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Yo Anthony

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[Dxs]

[hondapop]

'Nuff of the yo yo'ing already, making me feel queasy watching the page bounce up and down. So, a B18a1 eh. Investigate the possibility of B18B2 pistons to see if they have a higher crown. The compression ratio was raised on that later version.

[YOanthony]

Hi. Been a while. Looks like this forum is dead. Have an update, anyway.























I won't include the pics, but we stripped the roof and bonnet and have begun repainting it.

Almost on the road. Woohoo!

[mlracing]

Nice, can definitely get around the carb setup !

[Richard B]

What a project! Hadn't seen this thread before.