[Digger]

Duts the tint on the taffy looks great!!

 

[jtsi2012]

Looks killa bro!

 

[Dutsguru]

Right after I took these pictures it started pouring rain! That front that everyone else saw over the past couple of days got to the Carolinas.

 

[Dutsguru]

Thanks everyone! Makes the car look sick! But that was on a cloudy day going to take pictures again when I am in total sun, bet the tint will appear lighter.

The tint installer measured my windows before adding the tint, from the factory our windows come with 11% to 12% tint or window treatment. Pretty cool how tint is measured, the device is about the size of a sandwich and has a slot that slides over the window once it's lowered. About 10 seconds later the meter will give reading. Sun Stoppers told me how limits are set, with my choice of 25% tint, means it blocks out 75% of light coming into the car. Given that the windows come from Honda factory with 11% to 12% of tint built in. I am sitting at 86% light not coming into the car - 11% factory built in tint + 75% = 86%. Window tint is measured in 5% - grades are as follows 50%, 45%, 40%, 35%, 30%, 25%, 20% and then 5% which is considered limo tint.

 

[Frankyy]

sweet good to know, i still want 15% in back and 30% in front

 

[R18-Power]

Looks good bro.. Tint changes the Car completely! I went with 5% in the back and 20% in the front

 

[jtsi2012]

Right after I took these pictures it started pouring rain! That front that everyone else saw over the past couple of days got to the Carolinas.

I ran into a lot of little hail pebbles headed home from work the day it came thru Dallas/ Ft Worth. It only lasted 5 minutes [at the most] and luckily no damage that I can see. Some damage may be hiding under the dirt left over from the storms that day though. We'll see this weekend after a good wash and sunlight. Is it even possible to get out with no damage after a driving thru a hailstorm regardless of the size?

 

[EffBee6fromthe209]

The instant you have a chance wash and use a good hand rub pure carnuba wax or go to body shop supply and ask for a good wax because you my friend may end up seeing little tiny rust spots and not the industrial fallout type hail suxx but do that the sooner the better because generally hail will cause tiny clear coat fractures causing rapid oxidation unless you know how to use a professional grade buffer do it by hand or go pay to have it done

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[jtsi2012]

Appreciate the heads up...for clarification, you said to use a pro grade buffer or I can for it manually by hand? I had used megs ultimate liquid wax appx 2 months ago, and tidy up weekly with the megs ultimate quick wax.

 

[EffBee6fromthe209]

A pro buffer is dangerous in untrained hands you'll burn the stock paint so fast you don't know what or when or how it happened so if you don't know how to use one don't the easiest is practice on faded junk to get to know the feel and the particular ," kick " the buffer shows and by pro I mean single action with either variable or single speed.and as far as waxes go ill put it like this if its sold in a chain retailer its not great stuff regardless of name brand.if you want show car shine status hit up body shop supply that's reputable and know what they sell not the 18 yr old counter kid unless he's been doing it all his life he may not know

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[Dutsguru]

Thanks David with YoSpeed! :eusa_clap: Super fast and easy transaction! I got the tow hook today!


Right out of the package

Semi put together - prop up

On the car

Again, Thank you David with YoSpeed! EXCELLENT service and fast delivery!

 

[EffBee6fromthe209]

As well as different colors of cars depend what wax or products to use such as compunds or glazes you don't want the same for a black car as white car

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[Yospeed]

That looks awesome, especially with that carbon fiber lower portion!

 

[gocjgocjgo]

Nice build. Im just wondering why you went with 205/50r16 tires? Messing with the overall diameter of the wheel can mess with your speedometer reading and possibly brake failure. For example: Your speedometer will read 60mph but you will actually be going 62.2mph due to the change of overall wheel diameter. I would go with 205/55r16 if this concerns you. If you wanted a lower profile tire you will have to upgrade to 17" rims and you could run 205/50r17. If you need any other information on wheel sizes check out this website:

http://www.1010tires.com/tiresizecalculator.asp?action=submit

And this is based off the factory tire size of 195/65r15

 

[EffBee6fromthe209]

Not necessarily the Speedo takes its readings from the overall tire sz not wheel because if that was the case Honda wouldn't offer different wheel sizes be it the lesser ex model or si without beign technical in a shell its tire sz

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[EffBee6fromthe209]

Nice build. Im just wondering why you went with 205/50r16 tires? Messing with the overall diameter of the wheel can mess with your speedometer reading and possibly brake failure. For example: Your speedometer will read 60mph but you will actually be going 62.2mph due to the change of overall wheel diameter. I would go with 205/55r16 if this concerns you. If you wanted a lower profile tire you will have to upgrade to 17" rims and you could run 205/50r17. If you need any other information on wheel sizes check out this website:

http://www.1010tires.com/tiresizecalculator.asp?action=submit

And this is based off the factory tire size of 195/65r15

Both those sizes are almost 25 inches tall the 205 is wider is all

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[gocjgocjgo]

Not necessarily the Speedo takes its readings from the overall tire sz not wheel because if that was the case Honda wouldn't offer different wheel sizes be it the lesser ex model or si without beign technical in a shell its tire sz

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I think you misunderstood me when I said wheel. By wheel I mean rim and tire. And yes the ex has 16 in rims and r running 205/55r16 which is why I said he is running a smaller wheel diameter than factory. He is running over 3% smaller wheel (tire & rim) diameter. I wouldn't recommend anything over 3 percent larger or smaller then factory.

 

[EffBee6fromthe209]

I was giving you benefit of the doubt I figured the info you threw on there was for tires sz so the info was fairly accurate just worded a little different but yes your right

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[Dutsguru]

Nice build. Im just wondering why you went with 205/50r16 tires? Messing with the overall diameter of the wheel can mess with your speedometer reading and possibly brake failure. For example: Your speedometer will read 60mph but you will actually be going 62.2mph due to the change of overall wheel diameter. I would go with 205/55r16 if this concerns you. If you wanted a lower profile tire you will have to upgrade to 17" rims and you could run 205/50r17. If you need any other information on wheel sizes check out this website:

http://www.1010tires.com/tiresizecalculator.asp?action=submit

And this is based off the factory tire size of 195/65r15

Glad you like my build! To answer your question yes, I am concerned about effecting the true reading of the speedometer and any potential brake related issues. I factored that in and the experts at Discount Tire assured me that making a 1 size change will not effect the speedo reading anymore that what you have mentioned and no possibility of brake failure. I am happy with what I selected in both Tires and Wheels!

 

[meltedopen]

Thats a sweet looking car!