The Oldschool Addiction: Budget ED7 Daily Project

[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

[1mellowkid]

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

[Mk4WiLk01]

do work!

[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...

[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]

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

[1mellowkid]

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

[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]

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

[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]

ya go ahead and trim the mudflaps there bud, it'll drive you insane..trust me
and the like to rub on the paint if they're not trimmed at least till they're not like a flowing rubber gown

[M.Doban]

Man its all so nice and clean. Those new bushings are going to make such an improvement!

[EF303]

Progress! With pics no less!

I got two of the wheels wetsanded and finished them with a couple coats of paint. Here's one of the finished pair mocked up with the lugs and valve stem




The paint didn't come out 100% perfect but I wasn't expecting it to anyway. I figure if it really bothers me I can take them off and smooth them out one by one later...

Anyway, I built both calipers but realized that I probably broke the passenger side one where the e-brake connects, so yesterday I went and bought another set of calipers and e-brake cables.

The left caliper built and ready




The new right-side caliper, disassembled, cleaned and painted



I finally scored a set of Wagovan mudflaps to fit the sideskirts. They might go on this weekend too if I have the time...



Yeah, genuined SH5 flaps. Too bad the lowness will probably destroy them. Oh well...

My brother also delivered my suspension arms with their new bushings. Over the weekend I cleaned them up and put some final paint on them too



New Hardrace bushings in the rear trailing arms...



And I also cleaned up all the hardware for the arms because I'm anal like that



And some hubcentric rings to eliminate wheel vibration. These ones are correct, and secured with tape haha (the previous set I bought adapted to a 57.1mm hub.

[EF303]

Alright boys and girls, next weekend (May 4th) is finally Install Day. All this suspension shenanigans and whatnot is finally coming to a head.

Expect to see a rather large and awesome update in a week.

[1mellowkid]

Received and replied! Thanks so much man.

So to everyone who's not in on the pm whisperings, here's the plan:

I'll cut the rear Tokico perches down to the base, removing just the cup, and then flipping the coilover sleeve upside down should get me another 1-2" of drop. The 3G Accord shocks will be shaved just in case I want more than the 1.5" extra drop they offer, so I can adjust them through the fork clamp.

It's gonna get loooowwww

Your welcome! Anytime that's what the community is for!