Making some more slow progress, I better pick up the pace given it's only 45 days until I need to attack the time at Sydney Motorsport Park. Over the weekend I got my front suspension cross-member (traction bar as the kids call it) all mocked up:
Here's all the bits that go into my fabricated radius rods. Some 1" .120 thick tubing, left and right hand tube ends, jam nuts and the standard radius rods which have been shortened with a 5/8"-18 thread cut into them.
Welded the tube ends to the tube section and fitted the whole assembly in the car to double check the measurements of the tabs where the radius rods attach, and then tacked it together.
I'm now part way through fully welding it so I'll finish it off tomorrow evening and give it a coat of paint since I don't have time for another batch of powdercoating before WTAC:
On Saturday I picked up my bumpers, front lip and trim from the panel shop all freshly sprayed with the correct matte finish in the right spots. I cannot tolerate CR-Xs with gloss painted trim and mouldings, it grinds my gears immeasurably, but luckily the matte painted finish has turned out great as the mouldings were very faded before.
I've also fitted up a pair of the tie rod ends that itsu-san and I have been developing. They're only loosely installed at the moment as I still need to roughly set the toe, measure the bump steer and add or remove spacers beneath the outer rod end to correct it if necessary. This should be a good test of the kit as the EF8 will have around 3 times more power than the EF2 that I've already got the kit on and should develop a much greater cornering forces once I put some proper tyres on it.
Here's all the bits in the kit:
Here they are roughly assembled. I had to shorten the black turn-buckle section by about 12mm as the EF8 tie rod end, like much of the car, is a special snow flake and shorter in length than all the other 88-00 double wishbone Hondas.
Installed:
I also fitted up the ASP header, which required a bit of tweaking of the engine mounts to get enough clearance to the steering rack as I foolishly didn't check clearance with the rack installed when I test fitted it a long time ago. I think that the header might have been designed for a car with manual steering, not the bulkier power steering rack that I have.
Thanks to Ying and Dan from EXE for the support and photos over the weekend. More updates soon, the car is close to rolling so next up I'll move on to plumbing and wiring, and will get the glass installed soon and start fitting some panels.
Here's all the bits that go into my fabricated radius rods. Some 1" .120 thick tubing, left and right hand tube ends, jam nuts and the standard radius rods which have been shortened with a 5/8"-18 thread cut into them.
Welded the tube ends to the tube section and fitted the whole assembly in the car to double check the measurements of the tabs where the radius rods attach, and then tacked it together.
I'm now part way through fully welding it so I'll finish it off tomorrow evening and give it a coat of paint since I don't have time for another batch of powdercoating before WTAC:
On Saturday I picked up my bumpers, front lip and trim from the panel shop all freshly sprayed with the correct matte finish in the right spots. I cannot tolerate CR-Xs with gloss painted trim and mouldings, it grinds my gears immeasurably, but luckily the matte painted finish has turned out great as the mouldings were very faded before.
I've also fitted up a pair of the tie rod ends that itsu-san and I have been developing. They're only loosely installed at the moment as I still need to roughly set the toe, measure the bump steer and add or remove spacers beneath the outer rod end to correct it if necessary. This should be a good test of the kit as the EF8 will have around 3 times more power than the EF2 that I've already got the kit on and should develop a much greater cornering forces once I put some proper tyres on it.
Here's all the bits in the kit:
Here they are roughly assembled. I had to shorten the black turn-buckle section by about 12mm as the EF8 tie rod end, like much of the car, is a special snow flake and shorter in length than all the other 88-00 double wishbone Hondas.
Installed:
I also fitted up the ASP header, which required a bit of tweaking of the engine mounts to get enough clearance to the steering rack as I foolishly didn't check clearance with the rack installed when I test fitted it a long time ago. I think that the header might have been designed for a car with manual steering, not the bulkier power steering rack that I have.
Thanks to Ying and Dan from EXE for the support and photos over the weekend. More updates soon, the car is close to rolling so next up I'll move on to plumbing and wiring, and will get the glass installed soon and start fitting some panels.
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