Hey everyone! New to the whole 2nd gen experience. Just bought this car a few days ago, alternator crapped out on the way home and now it sits for a little while. But anyway on to the car.
So some information! As the title states, 1990 GS Hatch, with leather 3 point steering wheel(which I’m told is rare?), OEM lip(Which I’m told is also rare?), B16 transmission, Progress CS II coilovers, 180,000kms, new front seats, some kind of short throw shifter and a few other things. I got it with three bins FULL of spare parts. Interior pieces, mud guards, flaps, control arms, distributors, fuel pump etc… The owner also gave me JDM one piece headlights, spare tails you get the idea.
Passed inspection with flying colors, minus the tires but the car has been sitting a while. About a year actually. Really well upkept and maintained.
QUESTION: Coilovers are brand new, the fronts, and rear right sit PERFECTLY! But the rear left sits way too high! I adjusted the ring to where its the exact same height as the other side but it still sits high! Then I lower the crap out of it and the spring then went into negative preload. So I backed it up until the spring sat on the ring again… STILL TOO HIGH. What could be causing this? They’re brand new!
Modifications:
Progress CS II Coilovers
Short throw shifter with energy suspension bushings (I’ll get the brand later)
NEUSPEED front strut brace
B16 transmission
How much did he charge you to replace the alternator? You have a G2 again, time to get some tools and start fixing things yourself. I do all my own work. I prefer to buy the manuals, tools and proper parts so that I know the work was done properly and to spec.
Welcome to the site! G2 aren’t hard to work on. I suggest what he said ΔΔΔΔΔΔΔΔΔ. You’ll learn a lot about your car just by doing ,maintenance and repair! Good luck!
I do most of my own work or as much as I can at least. Its my daily and I need it for work. It would have taken me a day or two to replace the alternator and with the amount of work and hassle involved I didn’t want to mess around with it. I’m aware of the tedious process. Remove wheel and fender liner, drop lower control arm, remove axle, and the strut fork too I believe. Thats a nope for me. They charged me $300 for the work and rebuild.
i totally feel you man. I do most things that i can handle myself but if the payout isn’t too crazy i rather pay to get it done by a professional. Because with no garage and this Florida weather it’s a real PITA.
Yes, those summer afternoon 10 minute hurricanes do get annoying. After that comes the 105 degree 99.9 % humidity that makes you sweat soak your cloths. Very glad I have a garage. Tomorrow I will be chopping up a CRX that I bought for parts. My first time actually cutting up a car. The integra that I parted out got the chassis drug onto a flatbed tow truck.
Well I need to get some tires, I want to get the wheels painted and I wouldnt mind having a dual exhaust tip. A transmission mount needs replacing first as well as something else I can’t remember. My vents are stuck on the defrost they wont do anything when I click on them. Id also love a paintjob too.
I wanted to wetsand with a higher grit but it was all I had on hand due to everything being closed. Ran into a guy at the grocery store today I worked with him in the past. Said he’d spray my car for me with a gun and I wrote down his number. No reply yet, hope I wrote down the right one.
Then after the large amount of rainfall we’ve had I found out that I had a leak in my trunk due to a bad tail light gasket. :’( Hard to see but there’s water in the housing. So I took it out and threw on another stock tail light I had.
So I got a few days off and went on a 450km drive to my GFs place. On the way, I blew two coilover struts and got a large screw lodged in my tire. I was just driving down the highway and BANG. I pulled over PRAYING to god that maybe I destroyed my rim or blew out the side wall on my tire but nope. I damaged the coilover.
Coilovers now scare me. It was only a small bump on the highway but it blew out two of my coilover struts. Now I’m out another $350 though it’ll take some time for me to save up that much. Looks like I’ll be driving around with blown struts for a while. Progress(Company) won’t cover the damage. They’re brand new with not even 1000kms on them but they were put on the car and the car sat for a year so no warranty for me. :’(
Gas station pic, take note of the mismatched tail lights. Theres a method I read up on apparently you take out the tail light, dump bleach inside the housing and slush it around a bit and it turns out like the right tail light. (White) I’ll be doing that when I order in a new set of gaskets.
I took my old camera that I sold to my GF and took some shots, she took a few as well namely the ones that aren’t watermarked.
Notice how crooked the front end is? The car is a rebuild title. Frame was never straightened.
When I washed the car I had a bunch of water come in from the driver side rear window. LOVELY. At least its as easy as bringing it to a glass shop and getting them to reseal it. Also my gasket job I did with half a tube of silicone failed horribly. I made a small swimming pool in my trunk, so I went out and bought a full tube and went to town on the tail light. Hopefully it holds up until I can afford to order tail light gaskets.
