Left work early Friday to head down to Portland for the Rose Cup races. Met up with Victor that afternoon at the track, and went to Scott's place to work on the new Mugen and King decals before heqading out for a late dinner. Saturday morning myself, Kyle and Nash got to the track just after 7:00am to prepare for 8:30am qualifying. Scott had some contact from a PCA fellow on Friday and was doing alignments. Victor's car was pretty much all set except for mounting the video camera.

(Read Scott's race report for details on the race, qualifying and the weather)

After dinner with Scott, Victor and friends, Nash, Kyle and myself drove back home late Saturday evening, and I finally rolled into my driveway and about 1:00am.

I slept in until about 10:00 this morning and finally got out to the garage at about 12:00 or so. Nash delivered the rest of my suspension, and I finally had just about everything I needed to get the new parts on the car. I worked out a deal with a local wrecking yard last week and will be able to purchase parts very cheap. I bought Integra front lower control arms and the GSR front anti-roll bar (minus the end links). I got all the new Koni's/Ground Control stuff on, installed the Integra lower control arms, replaced the rear lower control arms, installed the Comptech rear bars, and set the height.

I need to buy the end links tomorrow for the front bar, and get the car into the exhaust shop so they can build a 2-1/4" exhaust. The plan is for cheap, thin, lightweight tubing to the Supertrapp at the rear. I made some galvenized/aluminum (26GA gal-alum) door panels last week also.

More prep photos at... http://members7.clubphoto.com/john51...62/guest.phtml

 

Looking good! When are you building another one of those patented front chin spoiler/splitter combos you had on your old car? I built one for my red 93 hatch based on the pictures you posted here, so thanks! I'll post a picture if I can find a host.

BTW, what did you use to line the door handle cut outs on the door panels you made? Looks great!

Keep on wrenching,
Dave

 

Dave,
I don't remember you sending me $50 for the splitter copyright fee? j/k

The steel was really sharp so to prevent future injuries to myself or others, I bought a bunch of door-edge trim from the local auto parts store and lined the door panels with it.

 

If I didn't know any better, I'd say you'd owned that car for years.

 

Even though I'm gutting my driver's side door for nASScar door bars, I have to do something very similar to your aluminum panels on the passenger's side. Your setup looks fantastic, and I'd appreciate any extra pictures or a how-to to make my job easier (I'll make sure your $50 check is in the mail ).

Yea, no sh*t. I've had my car over two months and it doesn't look that prepared.

 

The rules cops are watching...

What are the Integra lower control arms for? Hmmm?

Kirk

 

I did the same thing on my CRX..But my CRX didn't cover up that easily. Are your doors gutted? or did you just take the interior piece off?

My door skins that took a lot more engineering: http://www.fatboyraceworks.com/~ndahl/crx/DSCF0069.JPG

There's a lot more room in there for nascar bars though.


[Modified by martini, 9:56 AM 6/10/2002]

 

Since I'm still running all the glass, I need door panels. I just removed the plastic/fabric door panel and used rivets to attach the steel one. Saved 1/2 pound per door

 

Yup, I noticed that as well. And the aluminum door panel - legal only if cage requires it - gonna add some nasscar bars?

Boy does the Autopower look small when the interior is gutted. Now I know what people are talking about in all the bolt-in vs. weld-in threads. never noticed in my RX-7, since the interior is intact.

 

What's the advantage of the integra lower control arm? I imagine it's from the 94+ integras? Does it matter what trim (LS, RS, GSR)? Just wondering because I'm gonna be replacing all my suspension bushings anyway so if they're better I'll pick up a set. I already swapped the left and right front upper control arms. Some please respond. Thank you!

s

 

Looks really good John! I'll make it up to PIR one of these seasons to race with you!

 

On the rear, the Integra lower control arms is much beefier (heavier, but probably also stronger), and it adds the attachment point for a swaybar endlink. That's not an issue if you have a GC, Progress, or other rear swaybar that mounts to the shock bolt.

In the front, again, the integra LCA is an easy way to get a swaybar endlink attachment, and again I think it's beefier. On my civic, I have GS-R rear control arms, and the back half of my front control arms are from an integra.

-Mike

 

Thanks. I just bought a poly bushing kit for my civic (94 DX coupe). I imagine the bushing for the integra is different? Am I correct? I'm confused by what you mean as the back half of the front lower control arms. Thanks again.

s


[Modified by stevel, 4:32 PM 6/10/2002]

 

WOW the car looks GREAT!!!!

yes you are correct. Ask me how I know
The civic LCA's have smaller bushings (outside diameter), so the Integra Bushings will not fit civic LCAs.
And civic bushings do NOT fit Integra LCA's.


Sidenote, oem Civic bushings are two metal tubes with rubber in between, like two rings with rubber in between.
The oem Integra bushings are of similar design yet have a third metal tube (thin) in the middle of the bushing, like three rings.
That must allow more torque without ripping the bushing or offers a more firm bushing? I dunno.


[Modified by owen_the_soyboy, 4:48 PM 6/10/2002]