installed a 1" mc and booster from a teg along with a 40/40 prop valve last night, finished up both rear trailing arms and realized that once I tightened the wagon axles into the crv rear hubs they locked up. I found where it was snagging and ground the axles to fit. the entire rear end is done. taking the drive shaft to six states (drive shaft shop) to get shortened. a little worried about using a crv driveshaft since every one else runs a wagon one but we'll see what happens.

 

Everyone used the wago drive shaft because of the viscous coupling center differential.. it'll eat up the extra rotations when using a CRV trans and wago rear. I'm curious how your car will feel with a "normal" drive shaft and wrong ratios with same size tires all the way around.

 

Im pretty sure it will feel fine, if not Ill do what epic tuning does and run slightly bigger up front. took the driveshaft in today to get it shortened and the guy doing it made me feel better. he said the weak link in the crv driveshaft is going to be the U joints and he said sometimes its alot better to have a weak link there where its alot cheaper to fix then busting a transfer case. once the drive shaft is done Ill be building a couple driveshaft loops to help with keeping the car safe if it brakes.

 

Post a lot pics when you get is back from them.. You took it to Drive Shaft Shop, right? Ask them about the adapters they can make to allow the use of some American U joints, I plan on running bigger/ better U joints and a 1pc. aluminum shaft.

 

will do, he basically said honda U joints are non servicable and pretty much **** lol. Ill ask him when I go to pic it up.

 

Huh. This should be interdasting.

 

forgot I had this video of when it was still fwd with the gsr tranny.

getting really close to being finished, redid the down pipe today and doing the exhaust later using my buddys lift then just waiting on the drive shaft and shes done. also need to bleed the brakes a bit more though they feel a bit mushy. Ill post some videos as soon as its road ready and awd.

old mc and booster.


gangster rear camber kit

 

Siiick.

4 wheel burnout vids pls!!!

 

damn bro, that´s a nasty eg

 

thanks man. got the exhaust done today using my buddys lift. erh mah gurd exhaust work is soooo much easier on a full sized lift lol.

 

Damn this is a sick *** build. If I would have known the work you put into it I would have given it a 10/10. After your done clean it all up a bit and I bet a feature awaits.

 

that would be sick. I was kinda hoping to get something like that or even get it posted on honda-techs face book page. that kinda stuff helps big time with my small time shop I run and its always nice to get that kind of publicity / credit for my hard work

 

It would deserve it. Its a performance shop that you own?

 

ya if you wanna check it out the link is right under my build thread link in my sig.

 

Very sick!!

 

Dope ride brah.

 

Very nice, all these awd threads has me itching to get my own underway. Can't wait to see this thing finished

 

This looks fantastic, and I can not wait to see more.

 

Is it just me or are those axles binding up ? Its on a lift but if guess once u go down it will bind up more??

 

no although it does look like that in the top picture. the axles have plenty of range of motion still left. If I wanted them to align better I would have had to drop the diff down and moved it back along with loosing about 2 more inches of ground clearance. last thing Im waiting on is the drive shaft. it should be done sometime this week. can't wait to get it in!

 

people the wagovan pumpkin cause it stronger and made of cast iron the crv rear isnt. epic tunning and imw out of carlise pa will tell you the same thing both have awd civics

 

ya I had both rear diffs to choose from. the crv rear diff has smaller inner splines but uses the same outters (you have to grind the wagon axles a tiny bit to fit them into crv rear hubs) the crv rear diff doesn't even have a real bearing cap on it it uses the diff cover as the bearing cap. the wagon rear diff can also use a d series lsd Iv heard but I just welded it, cheaper and full time locked which will make the car alot more predictable too.

 

what are you going to do if you have to change a rear wheel bearing ? they might not like the heat from being welded on.

 

Oh okkk, hey if it works its all gravy, looks sweet

 

got the custom drive shaft back today and put it on. with it hooked up there seems to be a pretty bad vibration coming from the back of the car. I believe that the driveshaft is too short and hyper extended. Im gonna try spacing it out tomorrow and seeing what happens. Im pretty sure its driveshaft related since the car drove perfectly fine with the rear axles in and no drive shaft and now it has a really bad vibration and when I got on it it seemed like it was fwd still lol. Ill post updates once I figure it out.