I've been thinking of doing this forawhile, and I pretty much decided I'm gonna do it. I've never seen it before, but I'm willing to try it out. I figured I would show it on here, and see what you guys think. I think it would stiffen the chassis and clean the frontend up allot. Mabey even drop a lb or two, but I doubt it.

Here is a pic of my car w/o an engne, or anything else for that matter from the firewall forward.



This what I plan to do. All the black is removed stuff, and the new stuff is easy to see. The front z10 crossmember has 2 tubes, it's the only design I know of like that so I figured I would specify. I will remove all the sheet metal, and that stupid lower rad support peice that isn't even used anymore. Then I will plate the end of the frame rail, and run a 1.5" .120 wall peice of tubbing the whole width from rail to rail, and notching the tube in half, and welding it where it meets the plate on the end, and also welding the part where is wraps around the side of the frame rail. The lower part of the headlight bucket would be welded to the tube aswell, to futher stiffen up the frontend. I will also weld the Z-10 crossmember onto the chassis, in attempt to gain even more rigitity.


It would look something like this:

 

i did something similar, i'm finding pictures right now...might be on my parents compute though.

it works, you'll love it, do it up@


EDIT


here is a pic that shows (kinda) my old turbo setup with my modded intercooler/radiator support.









Modified by redzcstandardhatch at 3:37 AM 11/18/2006

 

Sweet, any body else tried anything like this?

 

i'd like to add another bar into mine, above the intercooler, but the new one i have is just too big (the IC). goes to the top of the bumper.

more pics of more modded efs!

 

Here this was my inspiration, but I wanna do it less radical.

 

Is the CRX still a street car? stock bumpers, hood and fenders?

 

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street legal? no.. stock fender/hood? no... but you could do a money run on the streets with it.. just a chance you gotta take lol

 

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street legal? no.. stock fender/hood? no... but you could do a money run on the streets with it.. just a chance you gotta take lol</TD></TR></TABLE>

Welding the crossmember on, stitch welding the engine bay and foam filling the unibody and rear crossmember will make this 'street car' really stiff. (ask me how I know this haha) And it's much easier and cheaper.

I'm guessing, because I thought Bart was into turning corners, that chassis rigidity is the #1 issue (as apposed to weight)? I haven't really been following this car so I don't know.

Edit: + showing up to the races with a "street car" that actually looks like a street car is a bigger slap in the face to the guy with the V8 that you just smoked.

 

Bart hit up Mike. He will know how to help. You know how engineers are.

 

ahhh...I can't wait till I purchase my new welder.
Keep the info/pics coming

I'll pull a pic up today, I want to say Wayne had a similar setup on his coffee colored CRX

 

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Yes it is still a street car, and thats why I plan to keep it not quite as radical as the IPS car. It will still look like a street car with all the panels on. I just wanna clean it up a little, and stiffen it up a little. I have a tube bender too, so I'll probally kick that top tube out a little for rad clearence. I can also integrate a nice bumper cover mount aswell. Those are my ideas. I'm gonna start fabbing tomorrow.

 

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good luck bart hope it works i'm here all the way