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Reply #30 – April 11, 2011, 11:02:30 PM

Yeah well i couldnt find the Non- Hp emblems :( Wish the Birds&Cats came with a turbo'd 3.8 like the Buick GNX's :) I think that would make us 3.8 guys happy LOL. I think I'll stick with some turbines as soon as i can find some in good shape for the time being. Yeah I'm counting down till the paints finished. My mom asked me, "so what are you going to be doing while the cars being painted?" and i just replied "polishing polishing and polishing all the emblems, locks, and lights." She looked at me like I was crazy I think I caught the sickness LOL.

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Reply #31 – April 12, 2011, 12:22:29 AM

Yep, that's the way to do it. Polish one piece at a time. Once the car gets back, install everything carefully, be patient, and do not get in a hurry. Bad things happen and good cars start to suck when that happens. Turbines will look right at home on the car. Keep up the good work. Look around here a lot, read a lot, ask questions, and learn all you can. We're here to help if you need any, and there are plenty of ideas floating around.

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Reply #32 – April 12, 2011, 12:30:27 AM

Will do

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Reply #33 – April 12, 2011, 06:36:44 PM

Not many people here from CA. Are you going to have to pass emissions over there? That will limit your exhaust options a little... Anyway, good to see you're taking car of it and not going to rice it out, which, yes, you CAN DO to American cars...:p

...Good to see there's another V6 fan on here too;) Do you plan on keeping the 3.8 or are you going to drop in the V8 and make some power?

//offtopic// You guys mentioned not wanting to drive a py old civic, which I agree with entirely. However, my wife drives an 08 civic, which for what it is, is a pretty nice car. FAR beyond the old ones from the 90's.

....Anyway, she can't understand why everybody hates civics. She's not really a car person, and to her, if it looks nice, it is nice. Anyway, we were driving one day out on the open highway and some ugly little matchbox civic pulls up next to us with a fart can ler and I blow by it. Asked her what she thought about THAT civic, well, long story short, now she gets it:giggle:

There's your unrelated post of the day.

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Reply #34 – April 12, 2011, 07:07:15 PM

That interior is almost a dead ringer for Red Fender's interior.

Good luck with the project, junior!

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Reply #35 – April 12, 2011, 07:15:52 PM

About the Civic thing I agree Civic's are and can be good looking cars if they are not modified with those huge wings, fart cans, etc. Unfortunatley the bird does have to go throught emmisions testing :( 1975 or older to not have to test. The v6 will be staying for now, later on I might work on dropping in a 5.0, parts for these cars are really hard to come by in CA. Fox Stangs on the other hand are all over the place theres about 3-4 on my block. Ive been living in CA for 10 years and have only seen maybe 5 Fox Birds/Cougars. 3 more days till I get it back CANT WAIT LOL:)

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Reply #36 – April 14, 2011, 01:45:45 AM

People from paint called said they finished it! :))))) Still going to pick it up on Friday though which is lame :/ LOL

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Reply #37 – April 14, 2011, 06:51:31 AM

Awesome. We'll need pics from every angle. are they painting the black on the bumpers or are you doing that?

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Reply #38 – April 14, 2011, 12:05:03 PM

It's amazing the similarities with your 87 to my 86. Same color, virtually identical interior, same drive train. Awesome! Good luck with the build. Mine is partially disassembled but I haven't actually started the work yet. I will get off my butt soon. I need to make the trip to the JY and get the window track seals and rebuilt the beltline window seals. Mine has 107,000 miles and the transmission has been rebuilt. I can't wait to see yours in new paint.

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Reply #39 – April 14, 2011, 04:07:28 PM

oh, btw....

Quote from: FirstBird;357793

Wish the Birds&Cats came with a turbo'd 3.8 like the Buick GNX's :) I think that would make us 3.8 guys happy LOL.

...mine will.

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Reply #40 – April 14, 2011, 06:31:32 PM

Ill get the pictures as soon as I can. They've painted the moldings I'm just going to paint the chin spoiler and mirrors.Yeah I might be doing something with the interior later. I really like the design of that stering wheel I WANT IT! lol. sarjxxx are you dropping in a Supercoupe engine? or is it custom?

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Reply #41 – April 14, 2011, 08:08:26 PM

There's a mint steering wheel like that at the local yard. I may grab it. For the mirrors, if you are going to keep them black, I wet sanded mine with 400 up to 2000 grit, then polished them. Very glossy, natural plastic, so no paint chips. I just wax them when I wax the car.

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Reply #42 – April 14, 2011, 08:17:07 PM

I hate the A-frame wheels. If mine was worth a on my Lincoln I would give it to you if I had a replacement......although it's blue lol.

........Patiently awaiting pics of newly painted car!

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Reply #43 – April 15, 2011, 05:55:46 PM

Quote from: FirstBird;358043

Ill get the pictures as soon as I can. They've painted the moldings I'm just going to paint the chin spoiler and mirrors.Yeah I might be doing something with the interior later. I really like the design of that stering wheel I WANT IT! lol. sarjxxx are you dropping in a Supercoupe engine? or is it custom?

Kinda sorta yeah but not really. Go [thread=30050]here[/thread] and go to page 2. Somewhere near the bottom is a post that explains my whole plan. Also if you click my project thread in my signature there is a lot of info also.

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Reply #44 – April 15, 2011, 07:24:34 PM

I must say I would rather DAILY drive a civic than a bird/coug. Stock for stock that is. Something about spending half as much on gas...

Now a riced civic? No thx.

Ill take my soon-to-be-12-second festiva over the civic though