My Ef hatch build. The Long Road.

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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 09:50 PM
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Greetings guys. My names Rob I had picked up this Ef off a buddy of mine and decided that I would start slowly making modifying it beyond the stock capabilities. Bear with me there will be spurts of activity. Any advice is always welcome, whether good or bad!

The first few pics are of how I got it off of him.

Really clean car to start out with.
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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 09:51 PM
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These are from awhile ago and there aren't many pictures of the work that I've done to it back then but as we go I do have a bit more.
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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 09:54 PM
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I put a set of Koni yellow shocks all the way around and have it set to the stiffest setting there is on them (slightly rough ride at times ) Added a set of Tein lowering springs to it as well. I have a camber kit in the back but installed stock honda control arms, ball joints, inner and outer tie rods new in the front and the camber and toe in is perfect as it sits.
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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 09:55 PM
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I'll try to post up some pics of the new suspension stuff here later.
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Through out this I've been trying to focus on performance rather than looks. Hopefully soon I'll be able to get this thing looking snazzy too!
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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 09:56 PM
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Oh! It does have a B16a JDM swap in it with a Ys1 tranny. So it's fairly zippy.
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Old Oct 14, 2012 | 10:10 PM
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Besides painting the bumpers white, battery relocated to the back, Type R TB and a short ram intake. Those were the only modifications I've done to it in a long time.

Recently however I started getting the itch back. So I gutted the interior, added a rear strut tower bar, racing seats, harness bar and harnesses. Soon (hopefully) I'll be doing some engine work to it as well. I've got everything I need but living in Colorado, winter is coming soon and my garage is tiny and unheated.
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Sorry about the bad pic quality on the first 2 photos....
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So, stupid me couldn't find all the spot welds to drill out so I thought I could cut them with my pry bar.... Bad Idea! It works for most of them but if you pry even slightly the bar will go through the floor....
But I now knew where all the welds were so the drivers side came out much better. I had to remove these brackets to fit the seats to come into position.
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I finished taking out the carpet and found that the floor beneath, like the trunk area was nasty dirty.... Simple Green to the rescue !!

Although the floor doesn't look a lot better the bucket of water proves that indeed a lot of dirt had been vanquished this day.
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Now that it was cleaned and scuffed painting time commenced.
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I'll add more tomorrow night.
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