Chef's been Cooking!!!!! What I been doing for the past year: Timeline

[Chef Andre]

Well I been on this site for awhile but never really posted any pics of my car. I'm nearing completion so I had a freind of mine take some cool pics for me. I'm going to do a little time line for now and eventually edit this to a full build thread. Constructive critism is always welcomed. Page 5: NEW WHEELS!!!!!! ITR 22mm sway bar and Blox adjustable endlink install APR mirror repair and install Ingalls camber kit install JDM window visor install Page 6: New Bumper Walbro 255 fuel pump installation Random photoshoot Harness bar install Camber kit Misc Parts Page 7: NEW WHEELS AGAIN!!!! Wilwood front and rear brake upgrade Poly bushings Page 8: Conversion spacers Volk formula lugbuts Random pics from HIN Miami Page 10: K SWAP BEGINS!!!!!! K20a2 full swap and misc some swap parts Start of engine bay prep Page 11: More engine bay prep DC sport tsx header S2K CMC New spray gun Primered bay Page 12: Summit overflow tank Reprimered bay DIY paint job CTR ECU Hybrid mounts and Karcepts shifter box install Rywire conversion harness is here!!!!! More K series parts Page 13: Randon ass trip to the Keys, lol MOTORS IN THE CAR!!!!!!!!! Brake line tuck Other randon ass parts Page 14: New VC Painted interior pieces (Sem paint FTW!!!!) and passenger jdm Recaro Reupolstered headliner Mandrel bent exhaust piping w/ summit muffler VIDEO OF CAR RUNNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEW WHEELS!!!!!!!!! CCW LM16's Headliner and some interior installed In febreaury of 2007 I got in a fight with a cadillac in my old hatch. I got my ass beat, lol. It was ironic because I was actually sending it for paint in a couple of days. I had it from 2002 all the way until that day. Here are some pics: Day of accident The insurance company totaled it and gave me a measley $1200 dollars. I was happy with that though because they let me turn it back to stock before they took it. The accident happened in front of my house so I just pulled it back in the yard. In desparate need of a car I came up on the car I have now. A 1993 DX that was converted to RHD. The interior was in pretty decent shape but the exterior needed help bad. It had "time attack steelies" and the front end was all different colors. It had a complete SiR2 interior but I sold it because it was purple. First thing I did was have the Single cam taken out and put my B16a2 in it. I also put my old front end on because it was still good. Here are some pics. Fast forward a few months I got REALLY bored with the car so I sold the motor and begin collecting parts for a K series. Shit started getting expensive so scrapped that idea and sent it for a paint job. A lot of money later and I had this. Put a single cam in it and drove it home. From there it sat for another couple of months and then I got some motivation to work on it. Started stripping it back down and cleaned it and started a wire tuck. Let's just say that it's ALOT harder then it looks. Here's some pics of that progress. Rusty ass battery tray Picked up some parts for the swap. Original plans were a B20 but I ended up with a LS for cheap. Put the engine swap on hold for a few months and started collecting parts to put the exterior back together. I was aiming for a clean but aggressive look. I think I got what I was looking for. OEM HONDA GOODNESS!!!!! I tried to buy majority of the moldings and misc clips so everything was nice and fresh. Parts are expensive but worth every penny. Other Misc crap I bought. Couldn't find Vision teardrops to save my life so I bought these off egay. APR CF mirrors. To help that look I was going for I saved for a long time for this so even though the car wasn't running I had to mock it up. Here's a couple things fresh back from paint. J's racing spoiler, you need the jdm Sir spoiler as well for this to work. I also had my new OEM side skirts color matched. Bored and broke I pulled my Ksports off and cleaned them up a little bit. My girlfreind suprised me with an awesome gift. I had my wheels in the boxes for like two years and I was complaining I didn't have money for tires. Came home one day and look what was there!!!!!! Yeah She's a keeper!!!! Had them mounted at work the next day. HHHHMMMMMM sexy!!!!!!!!!!! Soooooooooooooooo I went and did something very bad. Let's just say I owe Visa alot of money. And my girlfreind was pissed at me for like a month and a half. I called up Vivid racing and got myself some seats. I highly reccommend these guys. I actually got a REALLY good deal. Status Ring buckets in CF with regular cloth material. I wanted them in FRP but they were on back order for like six months so I splurged and got these.YYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH Second one came about four months later. A local member was parting out his show car so I picked these up for $250. Pretty mint too. After the heat blew over my girlfreind decided we needed to redo the panels and the armrest. Looked for about a week before I found the fabric. I figured it was a good time the paint my panels as well. Now my focus went back to the engine because HIN orlndo was coming up in a few months. I was a little disappointment with the stock LS so I contacted Phil at Spoolin performance. I bugged the shit out of that guy for like two weeks before I ordered. Slowly pieced together a kit. He sold a B series manifold package so I bought that. Fast forward a little bit and the car is back together. Carlos at Label one garage came through big time for me. He dropped in the engine for me and installed the turbo kit. Got the car all back together and running for a local meet. Still quite a few kinks to work out but I'm happy FOR NOW. Here are the pics. Here are the "bread and butter pics". My boy Nelson (Souless photography) Hooked me up with these bad ass pics the other day. He made the car look alot better them it is. Check em out. There you have it. A breif timeline. I will go back and edit things later. Let me know what you think.

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[nightrider]

nice looking hatch. what wing is that? don't think i recognize it.

[iheartmyej8]

clean man, its reminds me of my old one...

[KHMERXB0I213]

[rayray NOT shanaynay]

very well put together! i love it

[gen2fanatic]

Wow! I always saw your posts, never seen your ride. Car looks great man, I love red when its fresh

[Nate047]

ganster!!

[jdmdc_5]

saw it at the local meet here in florida that shit looks clean as hell

[DangerMouse]

Looks good

[diLLy]

dang it, makes me miss my hatch even more.

white gabs are legit.

[pasenast]

Damn, that hatch is 97% of the things I wanted to do to my red hatch! Looks great. Looking forward to pics with the fix bumper lip

[donut.]

looks real clean. very nice choice in wheels

[MLRtime]

Originally Posted by Nate047

ganster!!

Originally Posted by Nate047

ganster!!

[PBzAllan]

glad teh quick release went to a good home

[Chef Andre]

Thanks alot guys. My goal is to just clean it up. It still has alot of flaws.

[mrkrooz]

Originally Posted by rayray NOT shanaynay

very well put together! i love it

[JDMvirginNC]

Sick build bro!

[blackANESE]

good job, came a looooong way

[91b16acrx]

Classic!

[M2S~Juan]

nice build!

[JDM knowledge]

Andre is the Top Chef!!! Shit is proper. And i dont say "proper" anymore so you know i love it homie!

[Chef Andre]

LOL, Thanks homie.

[rhd94teg]

[NERD_CD5]

sick fckin' hatch. mucho pretty. haha

[JReal]

looks great and like fun.