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1st Gen Accord Resto

Product Review: Evaporust.

March 20, 2013 Ethan Strok 3 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1st, 2nd, accord, cars, civic, cleaning, dirty, early., Evaporust, first, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, install, prelude, product, removal, resto, restoration, rust, sedan, test, testing

Restoration isn’t always about tracking down tricky to find parts or installing them, sometimes it’s a matter of just cleaning

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Old school tools and dying arts…

February 6, 2013 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1st, 2nd, accord, advance, cars, civic, control, cvcc, diagnosis, dirty, driveability, emissions, first, gauge, gen, generation, honda, Honda Roots, install, knock, pinging, prelude, resto, retard, sedan, smog, timing, tool, tools, tuning, vacuum

So I re-installed my Weber recently and was running the vacuum line from the brake booster to the base of

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My love/hate relationship with cvcc.

November 22, 2012 Ethan Strok 25 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1st, 3 barrel, 32, 32/36, 36, 3bbl, accord, black, box, C.A.R.B., california, carb, cars, civic, control, cvcc, diagnosis, dirty, draft, early., edm, emissions, first, gen, generation, honda, install, jdm, keihin, mikuni, prelude, sedan, seide, smog, testing, tuning, usdm, vacuum, weber

Well, it’s that time again… Time to get that old Keihin dialed in for smog testing. Now, if you’re like

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Hulks in the yard.

September 28, 2012 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1st, accord, cars, civic, dirty, first, gen, generation, honda, junkyard, old, parts, prelude, resto, restoration, sedan, used

You know they’re out there waiting for you, waiting to make their own contribution to the cause and give you

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Resto File #4: Cleaning up electrical connectors.

September 6, 2012 Ethan Strok 0 Comments 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1st, accord, cars, civic, cleaning, connector, connectors, dirty, electrical, first, gen, generation, harness, harnesses, honda, install, prelude, resto, sedan, wires, wiring

I decided to do a piece showing how I clean up electrical connectors, not just for maintenance reasons, but also

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Resto File #3: Vacuum Leak Troubleshooting.

September 2, 2012 Ethan Strok 1 Comment 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, accord, cars, civic, cleaning, dirty, first, gen, generation, honda, install, leaking, prelude, resto, sedan, vacuum leak, vacuum leaks

Admittedly this is somewhere in between troubleshooting and restoration but I figured I would share the process with you and

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1st Gen Accord Resto

Resto File #2: Interior Dye Test.

August 29, 2012 Ethan Strok 1 Comment 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1st, accord, cars, civic, cleaning, dirty, door, dye, dyeing, first, gen, handle, honda, install, interior, paint, panels, prelude, re-dye, resto, sedan, vinyl

I recently decided to try my hand at doing a little interior dyeing. My whole interior needs work but I figured

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