OFFICIAL BigDare's Build-up Thread!!!

[bigdare23]

I love working again!!! MONEY MONEY MONEY!!! MONEY!!! MONEY MONEY MONEY!!! LOL


In prep for the mountain run, and because I'm tired of my car pulling to the damn right, I decided to fix the damn thing


So I'm replacing my bent rear crossmember, rack and pinion, and front crossmember . I decided to tackle the job of rebuilding a spare rack I had (thanks scotsman). So I'm replacing my bushing and inner and outer tie rods in my spare Hf rack. Also, I'm installing ETD traction bars. I had Avid bars for a few months, but they did not have good clearance. So I got rid of them. Now I'm trying the traction bars again. I heard good and bad thing about ETD traction bars overall, but I haven't heard anything bad about their latest setup. I truly wanted Innovative traction bars, but I didn't want to wait for weeks at a time to get my bars. So I decided to go with my 2nd choice. I let ya know when everything get here and installed. If the shipping time is correct, everything should be installed by next weekend.

[bigdare23]

Since this was a long weekend, I decided to work on the hatch.

So my homie and I put in some wrench time and converted my hatch to rear disc. Since my new trailing arms had bad bushing, we install new energy suspension bushing. To install, we had to remove all the old rubber. So after an hour of playing with fire the trailing arms were free of rubber. The new bushing were easy to install! We installed them with a long as bolt (and nut), and two big ass washers. :boobies: Piece of cake! (I don't recommend ES trailing arm bushing, but since I'm building this car on a budget I decided to go cheap. I would install mugen or oem bushing in the CRX).

results are here



(sorry for the crappy pics, for got the cam so I used the cell)

Thanks to pull a part I have a clean set of taillights

Before


After


After the install, I decided to give it quick wash






To keep nature from taken over



Here how the family do it.