Here are a few shots of mine and my buddy's car. We got his wheels installed today and took a few shots. The Tein SS Coilovers are getting installed tomorrow so don't worry, we won't be riding around in the 4x4 very long


Anyways, here's some pics of Dave's '01 CL-S and a few with my car mixed in as well. Some of you guys may remember this car from a thread I posted with pics of his car with $14k+ in damages. Also a pic of his car without the wheels.

Wrecked



OEM Wheels After Repairs

 

19" Chrome Axis Hagens

 

'01 CL-S and '02 Maxima SE





Tein SS Coilovers Just Waiting For Installation

 

Send the coilovers here, I'll install them.

 

Well, overall he's happy with the look, but EXTREMELY upset with these wheels that he purchased of a member on Acura-CL.com. One was completely trashed and WELDED on the inner lip and doesn't hold air. He was also not made aware of the quality, or lack of quality in this particular rim. He's basically out $1k+ and will not try to sell these as he isn't going to stick someone else with a set of pretty much useless wheels. He's called today and ordered a set of new wheels from RonJon. Also, the car is currently at the shop getting the Teins installed. More pics will come after the Teins are installed and the OEM wheels are back on. He doesn't really feel like carrying around an airtank and filling the damaged wheel every day.

 

Sell 3 of the wheels, and tell the 4th is damaged.

 

I like that Blue BMW 540i in the first pic, My dad has a White 540i. Very Nice!

 

Its sucks when people pawn off their defective products to let someone else worry about them when its their problem. It would be different if it was explained. How was he to know. Sell 3 and say the 4th is damaged or pick up a new one.

 

Well, today we picked the car back up after having 4 new 225/35/19 Toyo Prox 4's installed. Turns out that 3 out of 4 of the wheels are bent in one place or another, but none bad enough that they won't hold air. My buddy settled everything with the seller and is just trying to forget about what a mess this whole ordeal has been. He basically has lost faith in all internet buying at this point. But here are a few pics of the car today after the Tein SS Coilovers were installed. It's a bit overcast here today, so they aren't the best pics.

 

Both cars = sexy

 

Very nice indeed.

 

Can that car keep up with yours?

 

My buddy Dave says that my car is more responsive and pulls harder than his CL, but after driving both of them, I'd say if we went from a roll, it'd be pretty even.

 

My buddy went and had his new Neuspeed catback installed today. I took a few pics while it was being installed. 20 minutes and $20 later, it's looking pretty nice. Overall, the sound really hasn't changed very much from the Thermal R&D axle-backs that that were on the car, but I will say that it does look much better. The next mod he's debating about is picking up an Unorthodox UDP. Any thoughts/suggestions are welcome.

Enjoy the pics

Thermal R&D's



Puny OEM piping soon to be removed



OEM catback gone



Stock piping and R&D mufflers

 

New midpipe & one muffler



Neuspeed muffler



Got a pic of Dave giving a thumbs-up during install

 

All bolted up





Finished product!

 

Everything looks good, love the color. Not digging the Chrome rims,IMO.The Chrome door handles look out of place too.

 

Chrome door handles = stock. I was kinda sceptical on the chrome wheels at first as well, and on any other color = :007 but they go well with the Sundance Gold.

 

That car is sexy as fawk.

 

my bro has an 02 TL-S and i barely pull on him in my 6spd. both stock

 

 

My buddy decided to play around under the hood and have some paint-work done. Check out the pics.

 

that sucks about the rims, id be pissed send them back or somthin...

 

Wow that looks sweet! Can't wait to see it in person.

 

That things hoooot.

 

wow that color is sooo sick, my boy just bought a black cl 6 speed, that car is noice, but i love the color of that one and those chormies look nice

 

big props, the car is put together really well.

 

the acura is nice and all but what website is this acura.org or maxima.org
and it looks kinda like the cl i sssmmmoookkkeeeddd
2 nites ago. looks clean though

 

looks really nice..... and it must be nice to have mod7's with a lip.... mine are dishless..... i wish i would have seen this before i travelled to worthington at the end of june, i could have come to see it, rockin my mom's POS '01 accord 4cyl.....

 

1 question is that you on your homepage??????

 

haha for wrteam.com? nope not me. i keep myself off the internet. only my cars ever make it there

 

I loved that Acura. It's soooo clean dude, just like a show quality car. I love those crome exhaust pipes. Well overall it's awsome.

 

That CL's exhaust looks incredible!

Has he had any tranny problems with the car? I was really wanting the exact same car until I read about alot of transmission failures so decided to look into maxima's instead.

 

yea basically the same thing here..

my friend was sooo set on a 02 TL, like he was about to go to the dealer and buy the car untill he found out that it has alot of transmission problems, that an average owner replaces atleast 2-3 trannies in 100K miles.

Hes thinking of getting the I30T now.

 

Nope, no tranny issues, and he's just under 100k miles. He is a college recruiter and uses this car to travel all over Ohio. I'll have to show him some of your posts, he'll appreciate it.

 

looks good!

 

love the rims car looks clean

 

While I was cleaning up my car, my buddy Dave stopped by. Snapped a couple of pics of his CL-S. He recently added this new grille insert.

 

Not really into those 2 cars, they're pretty boring. Don't dig the east coast style thing. Props for putting work into it though.

 

I'm guessing mod7 is the kind of wheels on the white maxima? Nothing special about those, since any wheel can have a "lip" if the spokes curve inwards like that. The manufacturer does it just for looks.
To have a "dish" like you want, the whole face of the wheel needs to be sunken in, and that would be a true dish. No part of the wheel should come out too far.