The Oldschool Addiction: Budget ED7 Daily Project

[M.Doban]

Ehh. You don't need to trim the mud flaps. Mine were all "flowing" but after about ten minutes of driving they wore down. The ground will always do a nicer job of trimming anyways.

[1mellowkid]

true^ i was just warning him haha mine are perfectly shaven now

[EF303]

Haha you guys... But yeah when I said the low would destroy the flaps, I meant the bottoms would just grind off after hitting the highway the first time.

[1mellowkid]

if your going as low as i hope you are... they won't say Honda for long

[EF303]

Oh I'm puttin' her on the ground for sure. Those flaps' days are numbered

[EF303]

Well despite 7" of snow here for no reason, I got more work done today. Calipers are complete and shocks are cut and assembled. Pics up tomorrow night

[EF303]

A promise is a promise. Here we go.

Calipers fully built with new pads, ready to go:





Cutting shocks....



Rain or shine, bitches... hehe





The finished product. Hope I did it right....





And assembled. The sleeves seem to still have plenty of metal to stand on top of. Gonna be riding on my bumpstops though until I have the time to weld up some super extended tophats haha



And this was happening tonight:



That's right, wetsanding wheels in the bathtub. Gonna finish painting them at work tomorrow, then when I get home the whole install process begins...

[Mk4WiLk01]

do work!

[1mellowkid]

Attaboy! Time to get loww! And I expect to see a slammed EF on my birthday! (may 5)
Du Werke...that is all.

[EF303]

do work!

Attaboy! Time to get loww! And I expect to see a slammed EF on my birthday! (may 5)
Du Werke...that is all.

Thanks guys! Work is getting done, to be sure.

1mellow, I'll put a bow on her for your birthday

[EF303]

SHE'S LOW, BITCHES.

pics up tomorrow

[EF303]

Well I'm a huuuuuge liar about those pics, but I've also been hella busy these past couple nights getting her where I want her. Are you ready? Here we go...

End of Day 1 (Friday night/Saturday morning about 1AM):

Almost completely stripped, most everything is hanging by a few threads or on the ground...



The whole rear suspension built and ready to be installed



Day 2 (Saturday into Sunday morning)

My friend came over about 8am to help, but I got called in to work at 10 so I had to leave for a couple hours. He took these while I was away:

Front calipers cleaned and ready for paint





Fascia pulled apart to access fender and brake stuff



This is my fender after some asswipe backed into me a few months ago



Yours truly, building the front suspension



Driver's side, installed. The hub was hit with a quick coat of rusty-metal primer, soon to be followed with flat black paint.



Classy...



Passenger front installed



A quick test-fit of the wheels after the front was completely built







Dem new parts....



To be continued...

[EF303]

Day 2 Continued

Rear suspension sitting tight and waiting for install



So here's where things got interesting. After both sides of the rear suspension were installed, I realized that the top bushings in the tophats had popped out, because Tokico only saw fit to provide ONE washer per tophat, instead of two, leaving nothing for the shocks to push against underneat the tophat and rendering the whole suspension completely useless



Day 3 (Sunday into Monday)

First thing's first, I pulled the rear shocks and used some leftover shock washers from my dad's truck to install some bottom washers for the tophat bushings.



Reinstalled and the bushings are sitting like they should have in the first place



Rear suspension



My solution for the extended shock pistons reaching past the interior. Dem nipples.



By the time everything was tightened and ready for bleeding, I still needed to install the new proportioning valve. My friend came back over and rigged this up, to help us



Because we're ghetto like that.

Making some slight modifications to a random 10mm wrench I had, to create a flange-nut wrench to help with all the brake lines.



And finally, at the stroke of midnight, this miracle happened...



We mocked up the bumper lightly and realized the plate had fallen off. Whatevs.



Sweet jesus, that's low.

[EF303]

Alright so some things needed work. On Day 4, I shaved the rear fenders to allow the car to sit at its correct ride height and re-bled the brakes.

There's a video of me trying and failing to get out of the garage. I'll try to get it posted.

We managed to get her out, then took her to the wash





This shows just how much I was scraping over everything, and she rode like total shit, just super bouncy all over the place, and really uncomfortable.

Then this afternoon when I got home, I finally took some daylight shots









Tonight I shaved the front fenders (they were really rubbing like mofos), secured my shitty exhaust midpipe with some metal bands to help keep it from scraping, and raised her about 2" or so, so I can daily her. Took these afterward





The ride is wayyy more comfortable; it doesn't bottom out and scrape over everything, though it's still a little bouncy. Not sure exactly how to rectify that, but I'll recycle the old tophats and make some super-extended ones for the rear. I'll maybe get some stiffer springs for the front, and move the 350s to the rear.

That's all for now, kids! Later on I'll fine-tune the suspension, and inch my way down to a comfortable daily height. For now that's how she sits.

[M.Doban]

Looks heaps better, dude. Very nice! Kind of discouraging that it rode like crap at the low height though :/

Nevertheless, it looks great, man!