Teaser Pics? 18X10 -6off on FWD ---update 5/20

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we (''suspended''wayne and i)* managed to get the rear 5 lug conversion somewhat done. at least to confirm the fitment. looks good to us. there's still a lot of adjustments we can do to make it fit better. i can definitely wedge it upwards another 3 inches with a bit of trimming to lay the kit on the floor.

-YES i know the car is very messy but after we confirm fitment on all four corners and do anymore necessary bodywork(like the front door handles),then its off to paint.

updated pics
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/ontop/fsnew4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/ontop/fsnew3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/ontop/fsnew1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/ontop/fsnew5.jpg

[jstyle]

WOW :D

Looking good.
Keep the pics coming.

[PMP-LEX]

That's fuckin' sick!!!

[Pagong]

Now where are these people here in Seattle :-[

Its hard to do when I dont know much about bodywork. HELP! :angel:

[RobSoVip]

SSSSSSSSIIIIIIICCCCCCCCKKKKKK

I cant wait to see the car when its done! :o

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thanks guys but still quite a ways till the EXTERIOR is done. interior is still horrible ''its a 10year old honda!''
the tires are a bit ''chunky'' i think i might step down from 245/40/18 to a 235/40

[PMP-LEX]

thanks guys but still quite a ways till the EXTERIOR is done. interior is still horrible ''its a 10year old honda!''
the tires are a bit ''chunky'' i think i might step down from 245/40/18 to a 235/40


Definitely go with a 235...

[pitchedup]

love the fitment of that.

are you going to camber it a bit?

[AME_VIP]

awesome ! Definitely agree on going to a smaller tire. Maybe a Falken ?

[uncle_el]

definitely looking forward to the final product!

[firelizard]

Wow, that is hot!

[hannibal]

I was thinking How did he fit 10" wheels on an Accord? Then I noticed the wide fenders.

Well very done!

Can I ask what you use for five lugs? The 98+ hubs?

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thanks guys for the support

as for the five lug conversion, try this out this is how i started out. surprisingly i bought the rear prelude hubs/bearings and rear 98accord rotors from my neighborhood discount auto parts store and they were the cheapest.

front:
complete 92-95 odyssey knuckle

rear:
95-94 accord EX (not V6) disk brake conversion
97-01 prelude hubs
98-accord v6 rotors

i think i paid about $550 for alll


heres a link from UNCLE EL(he used to have a 4th gen accord)


depends what you consider to be "quite a bit."* the cost is generally around $500-1000, depending what you buy new, and what you buy used.

i know 3 guys that have gone from 4 lug to 5 lug on accords (all 4th gen, but suspension wise, 4th and 5th gen accords are basically identical).* you get potentially more access to a larger selection of wheels (you can find 4 lug wheels that are "vip" but you have to do more searching, at least for the typically conservative offsets of accords), and you switch from hub over rotor to rotor over hub design, which makes brake changes go from 1-2 hours to about 10-20 minutes.

front diy:
http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=25357

rear diy:
http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=16241

all prelude parts:
http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=25359

5th gen 5 lug (probably the one you're most interested in):
http://www.accordinglydone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1292

[callaghan.]

props man, that shits gonna be sick. especially for doing it all yourself. cant wait to see the finished product

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thanks guys im off to the home of the backstreet boys (orlando) to take the wife and kids out for mothers day enjoy the pics

[CharismaY33]

awww yea looks sick archie nice i was wating patiently like fiddy and wondered what the status was on the convo.
Now i see its finally looks pretty damn decent and whatnot.
Man props to you for the diy's very good to see people doing there own stuff and tell goofy i want my hat back ;D.....

[Gao Jian]

sick

[555]

nice specs..but why 18? :(

[carb0]

awesome* :smitten:
im glad someone in the states is showin the CD5 some love, or mods that are actually worth-while. setup a high standard for the CD and hopefully others will follow and it'll be somewhat accepted as an older platform- i would personally take care of my CD if i had the $ to do so- ive always felt that for a honda- that the accord had a "presence" :)

[ImBox]

SOrry I couldnt come help Archie... its lookin hawt!!! i was telling wayne that maybe next friday doing garage night at your place to get as much done as possible...

[suspended]

can't wait to get the fronts on man, shitty we didn't have the right size socket, i'm sure i coulda taken your cv axle off with a vice grip :idiot2:

with all the plans for this car, its deff. going to be a sick mofo when its finished ;)

[RaCinStylez]

thas madness...just madness I say

[daltonnnn]

Looks good. Just need some negative camber and you'll be set.

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finally back from orlando, thanks guys for the support on this build. its going to be pretty exciting



nice specs..but why 18? :(

well i had 19s before but i just didnt like the way the car sat, the roofline was pretty high. with a 18 and stretched tire i think i'll get the stance i looking for. using 18s is more of a fashion statement as well. you dont need dubs on a honda to make a scene


Looks good. Just need some negative camber and you'll be set.


as for camber, im looking for a good set of camber arms for the front and rears to get a good stance


update: 5-15-06 pm
both rears are completely done aside from Ebrake cables -automatic-

[Seize]

The fitment looks proper!

[RASRX7]

wow...super wide...thats hot...

[ImBox]

Let me know if you need help archie... Cassie's brother will be in orlando this weekend and we are going to see him one day.. i will find out when but let me know man

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update: i finshed the entire lug conversion but im still out one brake caliper. i aslo reinstalled my air ride system. other than that its all about working on the stance. as you can see, the rears need to come down quite a bit. my plan of attack will include a 235-40-18(now 245-40-18), neg 3deg camber(with modified camber arms), and toe correction(rear are pointing to the middle of the car), and trimming the helper spring on the rear air cylinders.

enjoy: sorry for the bad quality, there are 2 pics put together

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/ontop/wholestance.jpg

[username]

so how long have you been working on this car?

[matt is legit]

WOWZOR :D

[AME_VIP]

sickness !
I think the front bumper will turn out very nice. Have you considered making the side skirts flat instead of that indent?

[jbo]

It's definitely coming along great its looking sick.

[bBOXD]

Lookin good so far man! Its Gonna look sick once you get it lower in the rear.

[erry]

WOW dats tite!! the wheels kinda look more like 19's!! GOOD JOB

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the side skirts have always annoyed me. im looking for some with door panels like these for $290:

http://www.raceonusa.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1063
http://www.jmetenterprises.com/ProductImages/ls_series_91/ls_series_90_raceon_frp_body_kit_sides_raceonvip_t humb.jpg

ithink they will really set it off

[CHUPACABRIO]

damn dood that looks hard as fuck

[RHDVIPbB]

When you are done with that can you come pick my jaw up off the floor? Looks really nice. What color are you going to respray the car?

[CharismaY33]

Hey arch im curious how you are going to manage door panels with a widebody judging by the way the ls flows and your rear door widened its im curious to see how that will turn on of course you will have to mold some kind of flat panel to stay flush with teh rear???
wow man im really interested to see the end result of the super vipstyle cd5. i have been following the progress so we shall see....

[One Ton VIP]

Flat, smooth sideskirts would go a long way towards changing the look of the car's profile also... and definitely will tie the front and rear bumpers together a lot better. Hmmm... what color were you thinking of going with this time around?
Oh, as for door caps... since you're down with custom fabrication, I'll PM you a good OEM source for some door caps I stumbled on...

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im going to keep it silver House of Kolors platinum pearl -or- OUTRAGEOUS fine aluminum silver. white is tooo easy and black is too involved

[One Ton VIP]

check out www.alsacorp.com
They've got a really crazy vibrant silver basecoat...
But have you considered something other than the black, white, or silver? For the body shape, I'm sorta thinking something like a slightly purple-tinted gunmetal gray would look quite nice... like the color on garage magical's Y32 cima

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you mean this

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1510.jpg

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1313.jpg

[AME_VIP]

*drool* man I love that car. The Weds were badass they had before too. 8)

[Pagong]

I like that color...is that blurple? blackish purple?

[suspended]

wow, that really is a beautiful color from the second pic when the light hits it :o do i smell the gears turning in your head mr. gahndiancko (or whatever :P)?

and did you get your calipers yet??? we can have a garage night at your house for a change if you did, work out all the minor kinks and such ;)

Car has deffinitly come a long way though, I still remember 7 years ago rockin the sikkens woodland green with the zeal and the zenkies....man how times change...NOW HURRY UP AND FINISH IT!!! you can actually ride out with us on saturday nights!!! ;)

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green?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/ontop/greeeen.jpg

[suspended]

lol, exactly mang ;D

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nah im sticking with the silver. this project is getting on my nerves enough as it is. WHERES THAT D@MN CALIPER!!!!

[suspended]

did you order the calipers yet? also i'm telling you man, if your fed up with it, just do it white and you dont' have to worry about the body work, you coulda been done like 3 months ago ;D

or show off your full body work skills with chrome paint :-X

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if i painted it chrome, not only i'll get a front cover feature in a lowrider mag, i'll get a notice in the ''in box'' saying im banned from this forum :crazy2:

[Gao Jian]

dude I think you would get way more than one PM in your inbox about that!

[carb0]

green might actually look quite nice on the cd5, i always thought dark green complimented the car just forgot to think or say anything about it

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UPDATE: i finally lowered the rears today i gained an additional drop by trimming the helper springs and cutting out more clearance in the wheel wells. the distance from the edge of the wheelwell to the edge of the lip is now 4cm, opposed to 10cm. once i get the smaller tires i should be able to trim more off the helper springs and close the gap between the wells and the rims. ill post pics then

[gato]

I dunno how I missed this, but this is freaking HARD :o

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v418/ontop/wholestance.jpg

[i20solara02i]

your accord looks freken hard :smitten: love it.

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wow really guys i appreciate the support for this particular build. but this project may be delayed just a wee lil bit. the fishing on fire right now and im starting a new job june 5th. but i reallly want to get this thing done

[CleanS14]

This is pretty cool looking for a FF car... a Honda at that! Seems to be done tastefully which is the biggest thing... just stay away from that chicken wire stuff LOL... I'm just messin! Nice!

[One Ton VIP]

you mean this

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1510.jpg

http://www.clublexus.com/gallery/data/500/1313.jpg


yup that's the one... and then you can wear a suit and shades to shows and squat by your car too

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i like that color alot. i found one similar to it in the ''Outrageous'' chip book. but yeah i hear you on the japan pimp style but man do i love them OZs.