Well heres my story

Ive got an 88 Crx si, d16a6 motor. I recently had a ramhorn manifold but I got rid of it because I became broke, I got this eg rad to work fine with the ramhorn because the wastegate was facing forwards.

now my new manifold places the wastegate to the side and the rad just wont fit anymore, I have to tilt it back and the hood will not close alllllll the way and I dont even have a rad cap on it yet


The first time around I cut the stock crossmember up a bit and wedged the rad down there *the crossmember was welded up where I cut, not shown in pic*

But now I need to pull the rad back a good inch and drop it down another inch, in order to do this I need to cut the bar infront of the crossmember, I think its called the rad support but I duno, see pics

Am I allowed to cut this notch out of this bar without reinforcing it or is it a structural part of the car?

 

it's semi-structual.

cut some of the webbing out of the top of the hood. done deal.

 

we cut the lower radiator support bar completely out of ours and made brackets off the crossmember lip to support our EK radiator - it is just there as its name implies as a radiator support

 

So its not structural? I dont mind cutting it off one bit

i was hesitant though and just got busy with other ****

heres another pic of what the rad looks like before



Oh and the webbing is cut out of the hood, but its a fiberglass hood, seems to sit lower

 

 

i used a grinder to cut half of the old radiator support to fit a 97 radiator in..

 

i cut mine there too, i cut mine closer to the pass. side headlight, so it sits flat against the top support. makes it look a bit cleaner.

 

Awesome, thanks guys I didn tknow I could do it like that or not, aparently I can

Sparks will be flyin tomorrow

 

tilt.... cutting the x member will weakin it. do the tilt.

 

yup just tilt. few people have cut crossmembers only to jack up the car one day and see it either cracking or already cracked and no good for anything anymore.

 

Thats not a crossmember thats being hacked, i cut off the lip on mine and welded the seam back together, but with this new setup it isnt enough, I need to cut the rad support out prety much and fab some bracketery I guess

Tilting makes your car look thrown together to me, id rather hack it haha

 

my fault. now with cutting the radiator support does that weaken the front end any? like letting the body flex in the front??

 

i'm just letting u know what happens. good luck bro! it does weakin the x member and eventually tweak the front end. it all depends on how u drive.

 

I drive like a **********, constantly dropping gears and launching

I might throw a brace across it infront of the rad, i might not need to completely cut it out, just a good 1" chunk of it

Girl was in the hospital today, couldnt do ****

 

i just recently did this for my custom traction bars (made by dturbocivic)and my eg radiator i post some pics tommorrow

 

I did what D15B did, cut that front brace off, and I relocated the cooling fan to a pusher fan, well upgraded to a 1400cfm pusher. Now I have plenty of room for a filter on my turbo.

 

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I just wanted to say that I loved that line.

 

Its true though, leaving now to go hack that bastard, I'll take a few pics

 

Well it was pretty easy, took 5 min to cut it off and then I cut a piece of 2 inch high 1/4" thick mild steel and welded it across the bottom, so my rad sits on that and it ziptied to it and my intercooler is also attached to it

Turned out pretty nice actually

I'll take a pic tomorrow