For the drag car, it will fit into the space that used to be occupied by the fuse box and the stock battery. My friend welded and i did most of the fab. I will post some up some pics of my new straight beam axle we just fabed up tomorrow. The axle uses the STOCK rear spindles. Also some pics of the battery tray i made to hang the battery in front of the passenger tire. Also i would like to know if anybody would be interested in buying these fuel cells for $225 with the filler cap?? I think this fuel cell will fit integra 94-01 but we could make one for the 96-00 civic also. Let me know!!!

 

nice to see you make it over. i am no welding specialist but those look beautiful

 

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Like i said my friend did the welding and i did most of the fab work, i can weld this **** but i can't make it flawless like him. It was our first fuel cell and straight beam.

 

mike, sorry to butt in on your thread in this section too. is that stainless?
i weighed mine yesterday and i saved 26lbs over stock. my solid axle is made of chromoly steel 1.5" X .058, spindles were machined and the flanges are 3/16 thick.

 

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i weighed mine yesterday and i saved 26lbs over stock. my solid axle is made of chromoly steel 1.5" X .058, spindles were machined and the flanges are 3/16 thick.</TD></TR></TABLE>
Therse not butting in thats the point of forums. The axle is mild steel i machined the spindles also but i have aluminum drums. The forward beams are 1.25" .110 thick. The plates are .25 thick But mine are a little smaller.

 

where did you get the aluminum drums? never heard nor seen them.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 1 2 NV &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">where did you get the aluminum drums? never heard nor seen them.</TD></TR></TABLE>From a friend, i think they are from an early year crx or something. I never really found out for sure. I am cutting out the whole rear subframe also, where the stock control arms mount to all the way the way past the original fuel pump access.

 

thats what i plan on doing. im hoping to do a firewall back. its getting kinda late in the preseason to be doing this but once i get materials money i will live in the garage.

 

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if i recall right the first gen crx hf had the alunimum drums

 

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yep. 7 lbs lighter than the reg 1G drums, 3.5 per side i believe.
looks good mike

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by 1 2 NV &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">mike, sorry to butt in on your thread in this section too. is that stainless?
i weighed mine yesterday and i saved 26lbs over stock. my solid axle is made of chromoly steel 1.5" X .058, spindles were machined and the flanges are 3/16 thick.</TD></TR></TABLE>

.058 tubing on the axle? Does it have built in variable camber? lol I can't imagine that is thick enough on the tubing to hold the wheels straight with any kind of side load.

 

tony, i asked you about this along time ago you said .058 should be ok but you wouldnt go any thinner. damnit anyhow. now you got me worried. if i have to ill cut the SOB off and use some .083. the other alternative would be to put gussets on it similar to mikes.

 

lol, did i really? hmm.

The ends are not where i'd be worried about, i'd be worried about the tube bowing in the middle. You could do a deal like on a sheet metal brake, a small tube (.750 maybe?) that goes from one end to the other like a long A shape, with a vertical tube in the middle. That would help alot. If it's on the car, have somebody push sideways on the car and see if the wheels move from the axle bending.

 

its not in the car right now, but your saying like an rear end axle truss type of deal.

 

not to add insult to injury. here you go tony.
https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1124804

 

Well, i didn't exactly say that i'd go that size, if you look at how i said it, i said i definitely wouldn't go any smaller! Try it. Personally, i'd use 1 5/8 .083 if it was a single tube. It's very important that that thing doesn't bend or flex, as it could make the car drive itself all over the track.

 

Can you guys post some pics of the sold rear axle on the car?
I'm wondering what type of rear trailing arm and stabilizer bars you're using. Like, if it's just tied to the cage, or if you're using the stock trailing arms, etc, how do you keep the upper arms from binding? I'm kind of brain storming for a project I have in mind.

 

is the fuel cell made of Aluminum?? was this done with TIG welding?? thanks!

 

looking good

 

Cell was made from 6061 sheet and was TIG welded.

 

awesome welds dude. those are freakin beautiful!

 

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haha, yea its sketchy, i belive this is exactly what we used on my axle too, and its a flexing pos, im going to have to build a new one, i dont want to wreck my "life"

on another note...

that "fuel cell" looks rather familiar.....

 

what does the rear of your car weigh in at? i can bench mine. no sheetmetal cut yet either. expletive this sucks if i have to redo it but better to be safe than end up in the wall. i stood on the mother ****** and bounced up and down and it didnt seem to flex. i wonder when i build the front bars to tie it into the cage if i should cross brace between them.

 

im not sure, i have scales but i havent put the car on them yet.

on steves car i belive the rear of his coupe weighs in around 240/side(do not quote me on this, we scaled in his car early last season)

take the axle off the car, and just push down in the middle of it.. *yikes*

 

the axle is off the car and i stood on it. ill have my friend take a look this weekend when hes here.