I bought this car locally from someone who was moving and desperate to get rid of it. I didnt' like the whole "no floor" thing it has going on right now but the price was too good to pass up on a rustless bodied EG. Anyways, the guy had started work on back halfing the car along with a solid straight axle set up. Im worried about this axle moving side to side when driving. Never have really seen anything like this so I thought I would post some pics on here before taking it to a fab shop to see what they ahve to say about it. Any ideas or pictures of other peoples rear axle setups on Hondas would be great. Here are some pics:

View of cage from Hatch, you can see where the axle can pivot up and down.


Here are some shots of the strut mounts, like I said, not sure of the safety of this and looking for ideas from you guys before I take it somewhere.

 

i think it will be fine just as long as you keep it straight and dont go any faster then 35mph lol looks pretty scary

 

You can put a panhard bar on there to keep it centered. I am unsure about the bolts going through the tube for the struts though.

 

Yeah the strut mounts need to be beefed up for sure. Theres no way I would drive this the way it is.

I was thinking of a panhard bar but I wasn;t sure if that would be enough.

 

Car looks ruined.

 

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LOL

 

The main hoop looks way over 190* in the first pic.

And yeah, a panhard should keep side-side play to a minimum and the struts should have brackets welded to the straight axle and then bolt the struts to the brackets, not through the straight axle.

 

I went to kenskustomchassis.com and took a look of their setups they sell and I have a pretty good idea of what to do.

I'll check the main hoop david, thank god that piece is tacked in and can be changed.

 

how much $ ? you get it for

 

you need to beef up the lower shock mounts. also, you cant mount them like that. they need to be turned 90 degrees to they will pivot with axle travel.