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I just finished spraying it with PlastiDip.
I personally think it looks really good.

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Added the front doors, hard mid-panel, glass windshield, wiper, washer, heater, A-Arm Guards, Skid plate, and Honda ROPS bag.

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All I have left are the Rear doors and Power steering.
 
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Thanks, not sure if you've been welcomed to the forum but glad to have you.
 
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So I have pretty much finished mine...

Going to add fender flares as soon as I can.

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Skids and Front A-Arms guards, and 1-¼" spacers.

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Rear A-Arm Guards and a 2-D tip from Ebay
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Video only because a sound clip was hard to upload.

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All my accessories are wired here (knob is 3-speed Summit heater, outlet in and under dash)

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60amp relay feeds the fuse panel.
Hella relay next to it is a 0-900sec delay so I can leave the radio on for 15 mins after I've turned the ignition off.

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Optima battery under drivers seat
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Buss points where factory battery was.


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Honda Wiper and Amazon washer kit.
Wired to my switch panel.
(Honda Glass windshield and Hard mid-panel)

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Summit Heater

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Heater control valve lets me turn flow off in summer or warm weather.
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Pull for valve behind drivers side of seat.

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Sealed the cab as well as I could to prevent dust from getting in and Heat getting out.
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Radio and Garmin Zumo 550 I kept off my Valkyrie( somehow I have lifetime XM they never turned it off even after I asked)

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MSA 17 Elixir rims and GBC Dirt Devil tires 27x10-12 Front and 27x12-12 Rear
Next time I'll go with 28x11-12 al four corners.

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12" and 24" lights bars from Amazon I took them apart and sealed the mating surfaces with black silicon.
Light up the night!


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Note: I have the Soft rear doors and soft rear panel for the very back, but haven't needed them yet so they are still in the boxes in my garage.
 
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How did you mount your 24" light bar? It's obviously on the roof but is it rigid enough? My light bar should be here tomorrow and I'm still deciding on how to mount it. Any suggestions?
Great job on your ride! You really made it your own.
 
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24" is just a ¾ diameter washer on the bottom side of the roof... The 12" has a 3" long piece of 1/8" aluminum flat bar behind it, the plastic was too thin, it shook all over the place. Used stainless fasteners so I didn't have rust issues later.
 
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Did you run the wiring in the roll cage? or zip tied down? Just curious as to what it took to drill the cage if that's what you did.
 
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Zip tied in wire loom, I wrapped it every 6-10" with black electrical tape to help keep it together, liked the idea of running it through the cage but didn't want to create holes for water to get in or to weaken the cage and then something happen and Honda be able to get out of it because I modified the safety gear.
 
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Thanks for the info. I noticed a couple stock holes on my P5 but they're not in the best locations. Once this snow melts I'm headed to my local custom audio shop to see if they are interested in taking on a little project. They should have some good ideas on hiding wires, light placement and give me some ideas for my audio setup. Gonna ask em about alternate power sources as well.
Your accessories have me itching to get stuff done!
 
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1-¼" spacers did the trick! Running these with ⅝" before I rarely was able to hit 2nd gear without bottoming out.

I was occasionally hitting 3rd and didn't bottom out once!

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i like the look but i see that this is two years old how did it hold up in the woods?
 
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The edges feathered away from the plastic on the edges of the fenders. My fault I didn't make it thick enough so about 6 months after I sprayed it I pealed it off and redid it. It holds up really well unless you hit something sharp and it digs into it... Thing is you can fix it really easy with some paint thinner and an additional can just feather the edge down where it's torn and spray the area with several coats to bring the thickness up.

The plastic underneath looks like the day it came off the showroom floor really protects it.
 
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Apparently I'm not done, needed lights for my tractor so I reallocated my small light bar and after Windrock and the 180 turns that I could not see I added some side lights. Amazon light bars are such a steal. $80 for a 40"

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No lights
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Bars
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40" was heavy and needed support so I added a stabilizer bracket.
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Side lights
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Wow, that should light up the trail! I've got a 40" KC light bar on my truck and it's crazy bright. I can't imagine something that bright on a pioneer. How's the current draw with those on?


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I put 10ga wire, el cheapo lead it came with was 14ga, the voltage drop was incredible when I checked it on the bench. (14ga is not rated for 18 amps which is 240watts (40" alone) at 13.8 volts)

I have a SPDT switch ordered so I can set up on my switch panel where I can only have one or the other of the bars on. The 24" is 120watts @9amps at 13.8v and the cubes are 18watts each(little over an amp)

The 24" drops it about a .7 volts on a digital voltmeter and the 40" drops it about 1.2 so I guess the 40" is a bit more efficient of a Chinese diode. The Cubes dont even register a drop. With them all on its a 2volt drop, I don't know if that is helped by the 48ahr Optima or not.


Definitely bright took it out for a ride tonight and tried it with all of them on. It's like driving the sun!

The headlights are utterly pointless with LEDs They're like peeing in the ocean and trying to measure the rise in sea level.
 
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Added 28x10x12 Blackwater Evolutions all the way around as I wanted a taller tire, the same size and unidirectional so I could use one spare, and a narrower rear tire for thick gooey mud(easier to sling the mud out of the tread)

Spare tire and tool carrier because I have started carrying 3+ people and need room for them and/or a cooler. The tools and spare took up the bed and didn't let me carry 3+.
I have two RotoPax
One containing Recovery Gear: Block, tree saver strap, (2) D-Rings, 50' synthetic winch cable extension, collapsing shovel, hand chainsaw, and winch remote.
The other containing tools: Tire repair kit with plugs, patches and a mini compressor, folding lug wrench and splined lug nut adapter,ratchet with standard and metric, allen wrenches, hammer, 8-1 Kline screwdriver, electrical tape, butane soldering iron and solder, wire dikes, zipties, black RTV silicon, waterproof matches, ratchet strap(to reseat a tire if it comes off), and the most important of them all toilet paper in a ziplock bag.

More details on the tire carrier here http://hondasxs.com/threads/spare-tire-carrier-w-recovery-gear.2397/#post-16203 and will soon be available for sale here https://www.redmountainproducts.net


I played musical light bars and added some cubes, I needed lights for my tractor and the 12" was perfect, since Amazon has such great deals on LED bars I bought a 42" for @$60 and (2) 6 watt cubes for side lights for about $20 (the night ride at Windrock was "illuminating" as to the fact in tight turns I had no light to see where I was going.) I moved the 24" to the dash braced behind it with 3" long piece of aluminum flatcar to keep it from shaking hardly at all and mounted the 42" to the roof, its braced off the windshield using the screws that secure the windshield to the quick release clamps, doesn't even think about a wiggle.

LED light strip instead of the headlights, with the light bars I don't need them anyway, the el cheapo headlights I could find locally kept blowing and I had extra RGB led strip from another project, stuck it on. When I turn the headlight switch on my switches light up and the LED strip is powered.

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Also re-installed my power steering and re-plumbed the heater so I can replace the heater valve with an electronic version that hopefully will not be under water like I had it previously.

The present valve does not seal off the heater well enough either and as it's gotten warmer the heat that comes out of the vents is a bit much. I want to use the fan as just that a fan.

Which I also relocated the second vent from under the dash to into the dash above the map compartment so it could serve as a defogger if needed, because after I hit a mud hole it's like a steam bath in the cab.

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SuperATV was nice enough to send me cable extensions so that I could use the power steering and the heater. So the second picture with the control box mounted to the fender is current the first is just to show the power steering unit itself. Power steering is freaking awesome, way easier for my wife to drive it around(may have been a mistake installing it, I get to drive less now) see this thread for more details http://hondasxs.com/threads/power-steering-and-heater.2544/#post-17122

Install Instructions http://www.superatv.com/instructions/IN-PS-3-37.pdf

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Added 2015 Dual rate shocks, better ride, copied @RunningBear, they work well. See this thread for more details http://hondasxs.com/threads/2014-honda-shocks-vs-2015-honda-dual-rate-shocks.2399/#post-17385

You can see the difference here (dual rate on the left)
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Better ride not quite Fox Shocks but also about 1/10th the price, but with all the adds and without the 1-¼" spacer the 28" Evos rub now.

My next add which is being powder coated right now is a custom 4" lift front and rear based off a strong made design (not getting 16" of clearance because of all the weight in accessories) only getting 3" in the front but it's enough to not rub a hole in the floorboards.


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And I was cleaning up the shotgun shells after a particularly vigorous day of skeet shooting when I decided to do this just for fun.
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