Actually, life in Iraq isn't go go go all day every day, you do have downtime. So in my downtime, I decided to start doing some research on what everyone was doing to their cars. That's when i found the beauty of the online forum. I admit, I was only checking out Absoluteprelude.com, but then I noticed that other Forums had much more and different things to offer. I also was coming into a little bit of money being deployed and tax free and all... I decided my car was worth it and began to coordinate through my parents the things I wanted done with it. Ebay was a great friend to me and still is, so I was able to source everything I needed. I came home in July 2007 for my 2 weeks of leave to finally inspect how my car had fared while I had been gone. I was very happy with it, but I call this period "end of phase 1" meaning the proverbial cherry had popped and I was now in deep enough to see that the only way out of this hole was to spend more money, do more research and get more modifications done to the car. The more I saw on forums, the more I wanted to do!
My baby getting done literally 3 days before I came home. But as long as I got to drive it!
Oh yeah, this is a photo within the first couple minutes of getting out of the car from the airport to finally see and touch my car in person!
At this point, the car's exterior sported an OEM front lip, WW rear lip, carbon fiber Invader Hood (painted in the pattern you see) and a roof that was painted glossy black for an extra JDM touch. It was also de-badged but a red "H" was put on the rear. For flair in the front, I had sourced a Honeycomb grill from a 99-01 Prelude that already had the ATTS emblem on it. Also note the pinstripe has been removed to show a more smooth, clean outside appearance.
Enkei RSV bronze rims fitted with BFGoodrich TA/KDW tires (215/40/R17) were put on all 4 corners, but the stock suspension remained.
The interior was also getting some nicer goodies as well. A set of Recaro Speed Seats were ordered (with the sliding mounts already installed) as well as a Momo Millenium Steering Wheel. New OEM floormats added a nice touch and I even won a very steep bidding war to get my hands on the OEM red stitched leather shift knob.
The stock sound system was going as well, so I upgraded to a POS Kenwood and some Alpine Type S Rear Speakers.
