My ED6... weekend racer on a budget

[FunfGang]

I'm still waiting for the first fitted car on crazy wide drag slicks. Get on it, Micah

[CrackerTeg]

Not a bad idea. Front UCA's are expensive for older Hondas though.

Even the newer stuff, believe me. I have no intentions of ever getting them myself. Even at a 3" drop, I only have -1.7 in front which surprised the hell out of me. That just means moar lows are in my future.

[MommysLittleMonster]

I have not doubt you'll dial it in. I'm glad you're leaving the front camber alone though, your power output warrants needing traction.

No notch of the towers in your future? With the appropriate covers of course.

Not a bad idea. Front UCA's are expensive for older Hondas though.

[CrackerTeg]

Upper control arms are both too expensive and would hit my shock towers.

No notch of the towers in your future? With the appropriate covers of course.

[M.Doban]

floatingdino: HA! Sorry, dude, I must have just glanced at your name and that's what my mind saw. Also thank you!

Monster: I do agree that it's right on the edge. I can do some fab work to get more camber in the rear but the fronts are not going anywhere. Upper control arms are both too expensive and would hit my shock towers.

[MommysLittleMonster]

Me gusta.

I kind of have to agree with Stuart, you're on the verge of too much poke for my tastes as well. It doesn't look like it can't be dialed in with a tiny bit more of camber, though.

I applaud your use of wide tires for good fitment though- instead of stretching 165's, you're like "nah fuck that".

[floatingdino]

If it's not rubbing, I'd say it's got the perfect amount of springlesprangle.

Also I've not heard "floatingdomino" before.

[CrackerTeg]

Dat meat stance tho.

[M.Doban]

Oh wow, these pictures look terrible! Oh well.

Stuart, I think it just looks like that in the pictures because they're all close-ups. In real life everything is super small and there's not much poke. Heck, you have more than I do. I like it anyways though.

Thanks floatingdomino. It's actually not. At least as far as pulling it out and back into the garage is concerned. I haven't driven it yet.

[floatingdino]

I like it. springlesprangles get my thumbs up.
I assume it's rubbing like nothing else now though.

[FunfGang]

Micah, I **** to say this, it just has too much poke/ negative springsprangle for me

Hopefully some more wizzlewazzle will help.

[M.Doban]

I still can't quote or use the "advanced" reply. This is pretty lame. I tried a different browser too. Any ideas, gents?

Thanks for the kind words, everyone! The body work did go surprisingly smoothly... which never happens.

EF303: Thanks so much dude! Oh, and I got my patch panel from fixmyrust.com and I will get everything from them from now on. Perfect fitment, inexpensive, and fast shipping.

Randomofodication: : We will see... we will see.

MommysLittleMonster: (gosh you guys have such long usernames) Ahh, I feel ya. Oh well. Yeah, mines spray painted too. Twinning. Thanks for the kind words as well, my friend.


UPDATE TIME.

I actually did something cool to my car. It's been a while.

I got some springlespranglers (1 inch to be exactomundo)





This is full droop in the rear.



So I got out my trust roller and heat gun and had at it. Originally I had planned to pull the rears and adjust the camber to get the fitment where I wanted (and to correct the camber because the driver's rear has more camber...???). BUT I MADE A MISTAKE YO. I bought ebay crap. Again.



I was winding in the adjuster and it just stopped suddenly. So I tried to back out the side that had stuck and it wouldn't back out either. After much hassle and all sorts of shenanigans that included the weight of my dad standing on a crescent wrench, it broke. I guess it's good that it broke here and I didn't have it on my car. UGH. Whatever. Just don't buy any ebay garbage okay? That includes me.... maybe I'll listen to myself from now on.

Moving on....

These are all pictures I took with my point and shoot. As you can tell, I cannot photography. Someone come take pictures of my car.







I still need to mess with the camber on this next one. With the factory arms I can get less camber, just not more.












It looks freaking boss. I'm going to do some finishing touches tomorrow but I'm so bleeding happy about this right now. I'll throw the bumper on tomorrow too and grab some pics outside (it's pouring here right now).

Hope you have all thoroughly enjoyed yourselves. PEACE

[MommysLittleMonster]

Mirrors are cool. I can never understand their magic.

Yours is sick though! And may I ask how you kept it white? It's so minty. Is it powdercoated?

It annoys me when people either have like 5 rays (I counted the proper amount on a real flag; looks like you did too) or they are crooked as POOP.

You did a really nice job on yours, dude. Props! Can't wait to see it in real life.

Freaking clean bay too!

YES, exactly! no one can seem to count, or grasp the concept that they're super easy to replicate. I actually used a picture of the actual flag as a masking guideline. Pro tip- computer paper sucks as a mask. Mine is actually spray painted, but I used two coats of high temp primer, three coats of high temp white, and finished it with two coats of the red on top of the white. I don't use it anymore, and it yellowed a tiny bit over time. Now I have the flip-flop purple/polished one. Thanks for the kind words.


Your rust repair looks like it's gone smoothly, albeit the giant pain the ass that it is. Keep it up!

[EF303]

Fantastic fab work as always bud, that rear quarter looks awesome. I actually have to do the exact same thing with my own rear quarter (same side, same place) and I'll be getting a new one to patch in :P it's almost like we got a connection.

Can't wait for your next update.

[Randomofodication]

Alright, so sort of an update. I just ordered 1" spacers for all corners and a rear camber kit. The next update will come as soon as they get here. Expect to see some mad fitment yo.

Dang son, didn't know this car could handle that much springlesprangle!