donpisto's '01 Accord Build Log (Alpine, Zapco, TC Sounds)

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

trial and error my friend

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

trial and error my friend

uh, no. unless you want to fund the trial and errors

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Got the car back, but still haven't done much with the car. I started to today though. I had about 3 sq. ft. of Damplifier so I laid some under the carpet on the driver side. I'm going to order 20 sq. ft. of Damplifier and 9 sq. ft. of luxury liner and do both the passenger and driver sides on the floor (front only). Gonna do as much of the firewall from the cabin side as I can as well. I'll start working on new baffles sometime this week and finish the doors either this week or next. I'll have pictures as I do some more updates.

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Well unfortunately I ran into some problems yesterday. Car wouldn't come out of park. Happened all of a sudden once I got back from work so I have to manually release it. Now the gear seems to be stuck. Seems like its in 3rd gear all the time since acceleration from stop is horrible and it won't go past 2.5k RPM. Could be the transmission or some electrical issue like a short, which it very well may be. I'm sick and tired of all this and to the point where I nearly wanna call it quits and just stick with the simple 10 I have running and sell the rest of my stuff. But for the moment I'll see how things go and I just want to finish the setup and be done.

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Apparently I had a short. The other day I was looking at the tail light bulb and I guess something over there had an exposed wire and was shorting out. It caused a couple other fuses to blow I believe. No charge but I'm buying my mechanic and his 2 other guys pizza and drinks. So **** glad it wasn't anything major. Amazing what fuses can do the vehicle.

 

[steveyhustle]

ha that happaned to my car once to wouldnt come out of gear lol and it was a small *** 10amp fuse like WTF!

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Yep, my was a 20, but replacing it still didnt fix it cos i would press the brake and the fuse would pop...just because of the stupid short in the back. Glad its al taken care of tho.

 

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

clear ur **** pms //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/biggrin.gif.d71a5d36fcbab170f2364c9f2e3946cb.gif

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

I have decided to do a couple things. I haven't done much work but started a little. The tweeters should be done end of this weed or beginning of next. I have also decided to tint my current tail lights just to get experience with them. I'll end up going with the red/clear tails that look like the OEM ones, or go with the OEM ones and either way tint them. I'm still debating on whether or not the LED's will look good since I heard they are bright enough and some say they are not bright enough. I'm also going to replace the headlights with some retrofitted ones (hopefully real soon //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/smile.gif.1ebc41e1811405b213edfc4622c41e27.gif)

 

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

hey whats end of the weed mean?

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

I meant end of the week.

Anyhow, sadly I got in a big accident today. Some guy on the freeway crossed 2 lanes, cutting me off and I slammed on the brakes and rear ended a truck, one of those enterprise-rent-a-truck sort of ones. My front end looks to be completely gone. My battery post got yanked out, radiator pushed in, distributor knocked off, glass broken, engine cover partially broken, one of the spark plugs got yanked, and probably a bunch of other crap that I didn't see...not to mention the hood and bumper being royally messed up. I was really looking forward to finishing this up before summer but it looks as if they may not happen. I'll probably end up selling almost all my audio equipment //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[steveyhustle]

DAM!!! sorry to hear that ****

 

[Intrepid Bass 10+ year member]

Shit that sucks... you put so much work and $$$ into deadening that car. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/frown.gif.a3531fa0534503350665a1e957861287.gif

 

[donpisto 5,000+ posts]

Yeah, I'm hoping it's not going to be considered totaled..I'm REALLY crossing my fingers. A new car would be nice, but I'd rather stick with this and finish my setup rather than having to sell and be depressed as shit.

 

[tc3k101 5,000+ posts]

yeah bro that sucks bad well pm me back now maybe i can help ya out