Looking good. I got the CRX mostly done. I just have to order the expensive bits now... like $1,400 dollars worth of custom Konis and a matched ground control coil-over set. Then later down the road I have to swap in the engine I am building. I got the car running with a junk yard engine/tranny set-up.

 

Sweet

 

It's about damn time you changed the name!!!!!!

 

Can't wait to see this thing running, it's going to be a BEAST!!

 

I need to get out there

 

For a more conservative name......



PS. Come on VSDanny cut the man the vinyl!!

 

I was thinking MX2000.

 

Day 25 Update!

The aim being to bolt everything in the front of the car up, we start by hanging the teins:









Bolting the engine mounts to the engine:











...And then creeping the subframe under the engine:



Right about this point we realized the following:

1) This isn't going to be easy, all of the pieces have tight tolerances and the subframe flexes alot.

2) What about the header? The last time we tried to fit the header in once the engine and subframe were bolted up, it didn't go in.

3) What is that stench coming from the trunk area (we later found out it was Dario)

4) The teins get in the way so they're coming off for now.

5) Newcastle & Sam Adams are vying for the top spot in the beer fridge. Amberbock is losing the battle and running like a French footsoldier (is there such a thing?)

6) What of the brake proportining valve? The mounting location I had in mind could only be worked on with the drive train dropped to the floor.

Right then, so they rest of the night we spent thinking of what the correct order to this in was. Hmm...

 

Or so I thought.

Part of the reason we stopped to think things through is that we weren't having any luck getting everything to line up. The combination of the trans mount (8 holes), motor mounts (8 holes), & subframe to chassis (8 holes), was far too many things to line up all at once. Basically we ended up calling it a night and vowing to return with renewed vigor and a clear mind the next day to try again.

So everyone started heading out at about 2AM and I began to pick up tools. Eventually only Dario was left (having wrapped up a night of tail light wiring) and he sat in front of the car staring at the engine/subframe assembly.

A few minutes later he came up with a simpler way to do it, and thus our second wind began.

To make a short story long:

1) Instead of trying to line up everything at once, we eliminated as many things as possible.

2) The trans mount came out completely and was to go in last.

3) The engine/trans assembly got dropped as low as possible, then we bolted the mounts to the subframe (NOT the engine).

4) Then, we rolled the subframe with the mounts already on around the engine(away from the chassis) and lined up the 8 bolts that attach the mounts to the engine (this took a while but it workedand was much easier than the other way).

5) Once that was bolted together, the entire engine/trans/subframe assembly could be lifted to line up the next 8 holes that bolt it to the chassis.

The last step was for another day (it was 4:15am by this time), but we'd made some headway.

 

A new day....26!

Now that we had the drivetrain connected to the subframe, I started to finalize location for the Wilwood brake bias valve:





I decided to put it to the right of the shifter and slightly forward towards the dash. The top part of the valve with the knob would stick up and the bottom part where the line passes through would be inside the trans tunnel where I'd relocate and splice the line.

So I start drilling & filing:









The big hole is for the knob, the small one are for the bolts:



Then, I gutted the stock brake proportioning valve (rear) so that the wilwood valve had full control:





While all that was going on, Dario was wiring the tail lights:











Jose installed the fuel pump assembly, connected the fuel hoses, and added pigtails to the connector (the pigtails are temporary):



My dad went shopping for radiator hoses, lines, and a fan:



...and Rene cut the header in half and started cutting off the flanges for the stock heatshields (in an effort to get it to fit):













That's where we ended. Now that the valve has a home, we need to splice the steel line, add fittings, and re-doubleflare the lines.