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Hey guys my name is Cody. Im 17 and am a junior in high school. I currently live up near polaris and work at roush honda where my job title is a porter. :) I do and love everything that is honda. But Im not big into the muscle vs rice BS. I respect anyone that loves cars and works on their cars. I love all fast cars no matter what! And I respect peoples opinions!

 

Now onto cars which is the important part. I daily drive a ford contour that got tboned by some bitch in the school parking lot, but i collected $1500 from her insurance company, and didnt fix the damage. So I invetested it into my project car/s.

 

I own 2 Honda prelude VTEC's. The first one I bought when I was 15 for $525. It had a running H22 in it which was cool, but sat for a long while and was rusting very very bad... After a year of screwing with that, I decided it was financially smarter to buy a new shell that had no rust. Here are pics of the rust.

 

http://a2.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/27805_385836941098_741701098_4094251_2102985_n.jpg

 

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/27805_385836946098_741701098_4094252_5226651_n.jpg

 

And here are some pics before we took out the motor and all the other fun parts... And started tearing it apart for parts and what not..

 

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/35811_409693026098_741701098_4684066_6817275_n.jpg

 

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/35811_409693046098_741701098_4684069_5768134_n.jpg

 

So after the rust deal i decided to ring a prelude friend in florida. And asked if he had a shell. He said why yes I do my brother just blew his motor a couple of days ago, so I said right on! And i bought that for $1900 which included shipping. It was a 1995 honda prelude vtec that came with JDM one piece black housing headlights, a real seibon oem style CF hood, mint leather interior, and a front and rear camber kit... This is the first day I got it... Washed the salt off from its long journey through a georgia snow storm!

 

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/162899_490756721098_741701098_6224768_2763242_n.jpg

 

And here is me pulling the H22 out of the old car.

 

http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/167347_494406561098_741701098_6274958_6784957_n.jpg

 

After I pulled the motor I instantly swapped over my Tein Coilovers to the new car and began shaving the bay!

 

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash1/179463_498456166098_741701098_6326597_3257031_n.jpg

 

Not much happened with the car besides me shaving the bay in the garage... But this past friday I just got back from the body shop where I just got done shaving the bay, putting it in primer, then I did all the body work on the driver side (fixed dents and fixed a piece of rust), and primered the driver side of the car. More pics... BTW the body shop I was at was in wilmington, which offered me a job for the summer and for when I graduated High school. So thats my future career trade! Pics of that

 

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216311_10150149084041099_741701098_6783766_6017409_n.jpg

 

Dents haha

 

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/217110_10150149875526099_741701098_6788250_342751_n.jpg

 

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216549_10150149875911099_741701098_6788256_5850579_n.jpg

 

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/207727_10150150826581099_741701098_6793644_3934484_n.jpg

 

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/216057_10150150826816099_741701098_6793649_3579145_n.jpg

 

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/208246_10150151779721099_741701098_6799592_2301972_n.jpg

 

 

Pheww hope you guys like!

 

Oh and almost forgot another prized possesion of mine are my volks that I picked up for a steal!!!!

 

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs304.ash2/58446_621170926569_24807363_35920461_2271796_n.jpg

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Or for the weak... It takes alot of dedication to keep dealing with spots that look absolutley terrible when you lay primer down.... It made me sick some of the spots we missed. :)

 

One of my buddies said make a good intro. So I made a damn near build thread... Which I have an 18 pager if anyone is interested.

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^^^ Hey my "CAR" services are always up for negotiation... Im always down to make money. ;)

 

 

Nice. Let me know if you need any help with parts.

 

What do you mean exactly parts??? Do you have prelude parts or just fabricating stuff and what not?? Thanks!!

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i pointed out the obvious. just stupid to put so much time and money in a car that will never go up in value.

 

Your opinion was noted and respectfully dismissed.

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Ya for sure!! It took alot out of me to get all the bodywork done in just 5 days.. And I cant get any more time off of school to go down there and finish up the sanding, scuffing, and fixing dents. So Im prolly gonna wait till about june to have this thing in color... And this is the color Im hoping for it to be...

 

http://images.autocatch.com/boo586_152871_7-640x480.jpg

 

I wont give a name cause people like to steal colors!!! haha

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