solsurvivor

@ All: thanks for all the kind words! much appreciated!!

Jaker

I thought so, and if it were not for my attempts to reach a fairly lofty weight limit goal, I would probably be doing something similar.

Everything looks great. I'm looking forward to seeing more beautiful fabrication.

hachirokukid

wow indeed

4F_ Mugen CoL

saw the link to this on K20a.org, looks amazing so far man, truly. Props to you for taking on such a build -Colin

stmotorsports

I've since heard from a few sources that the stock crv rear axles are 32mm, which would mean that there is essentially no advantage to running the teg front hubs as opposed to the stock crv rears? other than 4 lug options...

or is this an incorrect axle spec?

solsurvivor

Thx Colin!

solsurvivor

My base was the 92 AWD which has thinner splines and thinner axles, the bearing housing was smaller too, since the crv trailing arms were nowhere to be found used and twice as expensive new (go figure) I bought the awd arms and wanted to use the beefier crv bearings and since I needed to convert to disc brake I figured to use the Teg hubs... so I cannot confirm the crv axle thickness, since my setup does not require these....(porsche axles) I just needed a beefier hub with a thicker spline..and mixed and matched the honda parts...

stmotorsports

ah ok now I gotcha

Jaker

The CRV axles have the same size outer joint as the Wagovan, which are substantially smaller than the Civic/Integra outer joints. I cannot say beyond the shadow of a doubt that the actual splines on the CRV outer joint are smaller or the same size as the Civic/Integra, but I would be surprised if they are the same size.

The Wagovan spline is much much smaller than the Civic. Also, the boys at Braille Auto complained of breaking axles repeatedly on their RWD drift Integra, which was put together with CRV rear end stuff. They had no trouble with any of the other drivetrain parts.

IanB

Very cool project! In for updates.

csubucky19

beautiful project

zaccers

Wow is all I have to say... Give'r **** man. Can't wait to see this done!

eg6ajk

Any more updates, this is HOT!

solsurvivor

Nothing too fancy, been a bit busy with other stuff. Picked up the other EG AWD trailing arm and next week want to try and have them both finished and modified. Then I need to remove the mounting points where the lower rear control arm attaches to the chassis and reweld them about an inch further back to the rear.The reason for this is the geometry of the awd trailing arms, the point where the LCA's attach is further back on the arm to make way for the CV joint. If I don't re-position the attachment point on the chassis, the arms will be at an angle in which they are not able to be mounted or able to move, not good. Although they are at a slight angle in oem position, an inch off they are with these awd trailing arms. I will post pics when I get to it..

solsurvivor

Lost some sleep the last few days irritating myself about the fact that I wanted my trailing arm to look like a reinforced oem arm and not like a fabbed up arm that just meets it's goal.
I know that most of the people would tell me to shut up and that it serves it's purpose and that it's situated underneath the car and you won't see it.
Well that just doesn't cut it for me, I'm a perfectionist and I need every part of this car to be perfect...shoot me!!!
The fact that irritated me the most was that when I cut out a section to make it shorter, the tapered nature of the arm caused an overlap when welded back together again. I reinforced the arm underneath and will also do that on top, but that would still leave the overlapping welds visible and annoying!
I decided to fill her up with metal and smooth it out so that the original curves of the trailing arm would be restored...

Here you can see the overlap:






Welding on a piece of metal to fill it out:





And smoothed out after all welding was done:








And added a little paint to show the difference before and after:

csubucky19

gotta love attention to detail

clean_sol

hot damn i can't wait to see this project done. looks ****ing ridiculous so far. good work.

stmotorsports

wow and I thought I was obsessive...

I'm gonna need obsessive lessons just to be able to keep up with this thread

do you think it would be possible to modify the trailing arm's mounting point as opposed to the chassis on a lowered car, or would the lca still interfere with the outer cv?

solsurvivor

I've given that some thought but then the shock would interfere with the driveshaft and moving the mounting points back on the chassis a little requires only drilling out the spotwelds and rewelding it to the chassis 1 inch further back. Second advantage is I needed that 1 inch up front with my crankshaftpully, so this will solve 2 problems.
Third is that this arm takes the motherload of all stress excerted on the rear suspension and I'd rather keep that mount on the trailing arm stock in stead of welding a new mounting point.... long story short; rewelding the points on the chassis is better in many ways..

Mr P

great work...cheers

killbillet

wow!!

jaysgottavtec

+1!

solsurvivor

Thx guys, I'll be finishing the trailing arm this week, will post pics of it when it's done..

killbillet

i cant wait to see this thing running

Shawn C

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so sick!!! can't wait to see more progress on this thing!!