Busabos77

very nice car!!!!!

tom27897

Your car has been the background of my laptop ever since you emailed me that last set of pics i asked for lol. Definitely my all time favorite lude.

Any chance you could email me a high res pic of that last picture you posted in 1280x800? i think it's about time i get a new background lol Tom27897@msn.com THANKS!

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chuitron

Thanks lude4life.

Thanks Busabos. I like what you have done to your lude as well.

Wow, Thanks for the comments Tom.
Per your request, I sent you an email.

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RedPreludeOO

Very nice! I wish mine looks so perfect!

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chuitron

Thanks man.



A random picture.

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neonxiii

You have one of the cleanest 5th gens I have ever seen. I love it! Easily one of my favorites. I love the effort you put into each and every photo you displayed. That honestly made viewing a lot more pleasurable. Keep up the good work man!

chuitron

Thanks alot neon. It has been slow progress, but she is getting there.

I have to say the same about your 4th gen. Easily one of my favorites out there.

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chuitron

Well I decided to experiment with my old Type S lip.

Usually the Type S lips look best with SH sides and rear lips and is considered too small to flow with OEM/Mugen sides etc.

I decided to try it out with the OEM sides anyway.

I inverted the mounting clips so the lip would sit about a 1/2 inch lower on the front bumper.






Here is how it looks when the clips are not inverted; you can see that the top edge of the lip matches up closer with the bottom black grill.



This is how it looks when the clips are inverted. It's barely noticeable, but you can see the top edge does sit slightly lower.



And here is out it looks with the OEM sides/Mugen Rear.















What do you think? Yay or Nay?

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lude4lifeh22

Nay, just doesn't flow well. MAYBE, if you had the more plain mugen sides, but in general, I say no.

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Jacques

I'd have to agree with Simon on this one. Had you had the Mugen sides, I think it might've flowed a little better. Interesting test try though.

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chuitron

Thanks for your feedback guys.

Yup, I was curious to see how it would look since I had never seen this combination done before.
I looked all over the internet for pictures, but no luck.

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thepreludedude

i agree with simon and james. oem lip looks better but i do like how you mounted it.

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edulerp10

thanks for my new desktop background

chuitron

Thanks for the feedback. It was a nice little experiment.

Not a problem.






Some more updates:

Got some crazy deals on some rare items recently.






Also picked up a new steering wheel and retrofitted the S2000 CC switches.





A couple of interior shots:






With the new grill mounted (experimenting a little with HDR).

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Jacques

The steering wheel swap was one of my fave interior mod changes (I did a DC5 swap). Looks good as always!

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www.hacstl.com...RIP 1999--2011

Busabos77

Hey man... As always... your car looks good!!! Goodluck on the POTM in PP... You have my vote on that one!!

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chuitron

Thanks James. I have to agree.

Thanks man, I appreciate that.

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pIERCE

What did it take to "swap" the CC controls? That's a mod(steering wheel) that I've always been a little perplexed about.(Some people use JDM wheels and JDM Preludes didn't get CC)

Jacques

I can probably answer for chuitron on this one. I don't know about the JDM Prelude wheel, but on the DC5 wheel, there's a slot where the CC would normally sit (I believe the JDM s2000 has that as well). Had I gotten the s2000 CC controls, I could've put them in if I wanted to.

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The value of life can be measured by how many times your soul has been deeply stirred...--Soichiro Honda
www.hacstl.com...RIP 1999--2011

chuitron

Thanks James. That was pretty much the same process. The exception with the CL1/CTR/DC2R MOMO wheel is that there are no mounting locations on the wheel in order to mount the plate from the S2k CC switch.
I had to make a custom metal bracket/adapter and attached it underneath one of the 4 bolts on the interior back face of the steering wheel. The s2k CC plate was then attached to this.

Other than that, I just had to cut a hole in the wheel in order for the CC switch to sit flush.

Hope this helps.

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