wow. and why does it look bubbly on the top left corner of the front passenger floor? issue or nothing?

Nah that's nothing it's just the factory sound deadening being weird. It was like that before I had any leaking issues.

Well there's your problem. Pull that from the Titanic, did you?

I like seeing people work on their own cars. Keep it up, you're doing great.

Well there's your problem. Pull that from the Titanic, did you?

I switched gears a little today.

I wanted to get the carpet and padding out due to a water leak I have. I'm pretty sure it's the leak is at the bottom of my rear window and at the top of my windshield. I don't have any immediate plans to fix this since the car is going to be kept in a garage by May. But, I don't want soaking wet padding against metal till it finally dries out. With the car in the garage I can take my time having the glass out, addressing any corrosion etc.

I adjusted the TCC/brake switch and verified the TCC engagement but my mph settings are still goofy from my last tune. My laptop is currently MIA so, I'll revisit this.

I definitely found why my airbag light is on.. lol. The module looks like it's been in the ocean for a year. I have another one of these modules buried somewhere in my storage space. I'll find it when I move vs. wasting time looking for it.

And I finally finally finally got the hood stay bracket back from my painter buddy and installed it. I couldn't mount the oil coolers till I got this in there. The brackets should be pretty easy. The coolers are re-zip tied back in place for now.

And on to the pics.. The interior is kinda beat with no carpet but it'll do for now.

my bonny leaked as well. it leaks from the moulding that goes around the roof of the car. and it also leaks from the weather stripping around the door. im not sure if its the same for your car but i had to replace the moulding and had to make sure that the weather stipping stays in place. a quick fix for the moulding leak would be to put duct tape over it lol i did that until we got the new moulding

and to make your car look a little bit nicer on the inside, you can buy huge rolls of like sham carpeting from home depot that you can just cut up with an xacto knife to the right size and put it in your car

The leak is definitely not the door seals. They are shrunk but I re-seated them around all the corners so that the gap would be at the bottom of the door and then filled that gap with a cut section from a spare seal.

I have two sets of OEM floor mats so I'll probably throw in the spare set for the time being so it doesn't look as bad.

Minor update.. I'll probably be putting some time in on the car this week since I'll be back from travel.

I did order a BPI velocity stack and new air filter.

This thing has been on the list of things to buy ever since I read the honda-tech thread on it's development back in 06ish. The owner did flow anaysis to optimize the radius on the inlet. It won't add anything earth shattering HP wise but there are plenty of dynos showing 5ish whp. On a tapped out n/a build, that's worth it.

did you check the moulding that goes aroung the roof of your car? on your car it is black and on mine its chrome. because ive seen multiple bonnevilles leak from there as well. the water would actually trickle into the car and come down the trough the where the seatbelt is. my mind was blown when i discovered that.

My leaks are right above the rear view mirror and the bottom corners of the rear window.

check the outside moulding above the windshield and the rubber on the back window

Lol. Relax. I'm trying to tell you I know where its coming from and I'm going to address it later. The issue is bigger than parts replacement.

I'm pretty sure it's the leak is at the bottom of my rear window and at the top of my windshield. I don't have any immediate plans to fix this since the car is going to be kept in a garage by May. But, I don't want soaking wet padding against metal till it finally dries out. With the car in the garage I can take my time having the glass out, addressing any corrosion etc.

lol just trying to help my car used to leak and it was a bitch

I got a couple things in today..

My oil coolers were temporarily ghetto rigged where I want them with zip ties.. I picked up some aluminum angle stock and put something together with rivets. The placement tuned out pretty good. I have them up behind the bumper support and out of view of the lower air damn. They'll still see enough flow but this way it'll be more subtle. And even though the coolers are just hanging, they don't move at all.

One of the harnesses to my fuse block was too close to the exhaust crossover so I made this and used a stud on the firewall to hold it out of place:

nice! hey how do you make these parts? do you have a machine shop or something?

Thanks. I just used a chop saw, bench grinder, hand drill, and pop rivet gun.

I got a bunch of stuff in today..

-Mounted and tied in the vac canister back into the booster line

-Modified the hidden battery tray so that is wasn't pushing the bumper to the passenger side

-Mounted ext air temp sensor

-Mounted driver’s side fender and side skirt and ran the wire or the puddle lights. (just had a couple bolts holding the fender before)

-Pulled the spacers I had on the rear of i30 (replaced them with spacers made for that car) and put them on the front of the Bonnie

-Re mounted the 9/10" super RSes

-Added some negative camber to the passenger side front since the tire was constantly rubbing the fender. lol.

-Temporarily mounted passenger side skirt

Making progress!

Keep trucking, good work

The E39 headlights are looking hazy.

The RSs look amazingly good on there.

I have a friend in Philadelphia right now, who has been there for a couple weeks but will be back in a week or so. I should have put two and two together and realized you live in the area- I could have gone to visit you both! Meeting this car in person is almost on my bucket list. At this rate, it will officially be on my bucket list once you're "done."

an auto enthusiast, being "done" with their car...i dont think so.

My current definition of "done" for this car is when Mike crosses everything off his current checklist. I'm sure he'll have plenty more lists in the future!