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Hey guys whats up! My name is Mark Shoemaker, i'm 22 and between work and school I don't really have all that much time to just play around with my hobbies. I've just about read every single build on stanceworks. I've always wanted to share what I've been doing so here goes. Gotta catch some you guys up to speed so just keep reading, things are fine and will be worth it i swear! You just gotta give me and my build a chance. So introducing my main bitch that I've had for an entirely long time, my 88 crx si. I call him fragile because hes just one of those cars in which no matter what you do, nothing ever goes right. Things are never easy, but he's still around kinda, actually he's just hanging by a thread. This build thread.
Introducing my friend fragile, bought him when i was 19 for 2,000 which looking back was waaaaaaaay over priced. He came with a full dc exhaust, cold air intake, lowered on Tokyo blues and ebay coils. Fragile here has 16x,xxx miles. he came on steelies and with a factory red paint job. Now that was 3 years ago and i dont have any pictures. He was my daily for years but was always less then reliable. Hes gone through about 5 different paint jobs using paint rollers, rattle cans and even plasti dipp. In his current state he is rocking a maroon rattle can paint job which was done 2 years ago and hes recently begun looking like shit. Lifting the curtain and welcome to the stage my shitty crx.
So this was about 2 years ago, sitting on diamonds 15x8 0 off set with 1 inch spacers, back then I didn't know what mexiflush was. Also, the tires were 195/50 on the fron and 205/50 on the rears. But this was when fragile was at its peaks concerning operations. I ended up trading my diamonds for a crazy ass deal and my all time favorite rare ass wheels. Im pretty sure that I alone have the only set on the east coast, these rare vintage 80s rims. So these kmc 78s were first own by my buddy derek and he had them on his wagon which look crazy ass awesome. I knew that one day i was gonna get me a set but never figured i'd get his. These kmc 78's were rebarreled and redrilled 15x8 NEGATIVE 25 offset with 165/55/15s kumo's on them. They were unreal but he decided to trade them because they poked a crazy amount and he wanted to go back to something practical. He traded them to a guy named dylan who instantly put them up for sale for $1200. He posted them on several stance sites but for a few months just could not get rid of them due to flakers and cheap ass people. So one day I randomly hit him up and offered to trade my diamonds for his kmcs, he was hesitant at first but knew everyone wants diamonds so we traded. here are some pics my peeps.
I know what you're thinking, like WOW those are nice. Now progressing the story I the picked up some xxr 513 16x8 0et for $300 off my buddy john. the only came with 2 205/50 tires but I thought i could find use for them in the future.
They were good looking rims and I always wanted a pair but damn, I ***** that yellow mustard ass color. Oh wells rims are rims
So I was lurking on Honda Motor Heads of Maryland like always and I spotted a 91 crx si with a b16 obd0 swap on some 16x7 black slipstreams. Guy wanted 2 grand for it, but then i found out he was located right down the street from my apartment. So i scooped it up real quick. Came with a body kit but I thought thats different, I bet I could make that soooo coool. Here are some pics!
So here ya go, I had 2 crx's and i thought life was good, Fragile was a pain in my ass it didnt run well so the white crx became my daily for a few months and it was great. But the white crx had a problem with its clutch for it wouldn't disengage and it would randomly stall for no damn reason. So I was in the market for a capable daily so I went on cragslist and found this heap. My 91 ford ranger which I bought for $600. It was so ugly, gross, and just a piece but I loved it because I never wanted to put money into it. It just drove and got me from point A to point B. I also picked up rims for the ranger for $100 because i figured I'd turn it into a lowered flatbed if it survived long enough.
The truck was awesome, it helped me save so much money! Welp I ended up taking the slipstreams off my 91 crx and posted them on Honda Motor Heads to see what was out there.
Guy hit me up, I drove 2 hours away to meet a guy in fragile my less then reliable crx and traded! Boom 15x9 dubfergenworks with 165/55/15s. they had great stretch and were just mint. Guy I traded wanted something more practical i suppose, i didn't complain. Here were the pics he sent me
When i got them home i was so excited!
I had to test fit them and wow, I felt pretty good about myself.
I picked up some mint crx seats from a guy, talked him down from $300 to $100 because he just couldn't get rid of them. Bought a wooden steering wheel for $40 and admired all my rims
Just decided to show some more pics before i reveal what happened next...
Well after this the red crx blew its headgasket, i wasn't upset. I was actually excited because i knew that was probably the reason why it didn't seem all that happy. but things got worse...
Here a random pic of me messing with the damn red crx driver door. I pissed me off because ever sense i got this car the driver door never lined up perfectly. And on top of that i had to buy an 88 crx which was the odd ball out of all crx's because they didn't come with the door mounted seat belts which made doors 100x harder to find.
Well, one day it was raining extremely bad. I wouldn't be caught in the rain at all but i had to go to work. I had a great day at work, i'm a server and pulled $172 dollars in a 6 hour shift and was like I'm king of the world. I got off and decided to head home, I too this day do not know why I choose to take the highway home but i did. I was driving up the ramp/semi circle in my crappy ranger, and next thing i knew the truck started slipping. I lost control and spun out on to the highway only then to be T-boned by a tracker trailer going about 70. It hit me on the passenger side door and to this day I don't know how i walked away from that with no damage except some glass in my right hand. I didn't know what to do, I had just destroyed my daily and had 2 undrivable cars. The red crx fragile was down because i was replacing a head-gasket and the white crx just stalled and didn't wanna run. I had no time for either and was in a pickle, so I was looking on the Honda motor heads and saw a guy looking for a crx si. He said he'd pay cash or trade for one. He was looking for a while so i decided to see what he'd give me for my white crx, he offered me a 93 eg si hatch back. I couldn't be picky because i needed a daily so i accepted. So we traded, I was honest to him about the white crx. It needed a clutch, fuel pump and some other things, he said yes and we traded. So i now had a eg hatch, a car i never personally wanted because i thought everyone had one. here some the pics of the eg which he sent me
The eg was clean, had 25x,xxx miles, aftermarket headers and skunk 2 coils on stock struts. At first i'm not gonna lie, i didn't think the guy as gonna trade me, but he did and even came to me. He dropped off the eg and took the white crx away. It was a sad moment but it was for the best. First thing i did with the eg was max out the shitty ebay coils, put on a hood brah, slapped a front lip on, bought and installed a universal roof rack off ebay for $40. They didn't fit so i just drilled them into the door jam, and strapped a basket to it.
1st day i had it
Slapped all that stuff on in less then a week! Needed my daily to look kinda nice
The car loooked pretty great to me but it needed a damn armrest for it didn't come with one. So i posted a ad on the honda motor head forum and found a guy selling one for $20, I go drive 10 mins and meet him. He asked me is there anything else i was currently looking for and i said well i could use some 16 inch tires. told me he had a set of new 205/40/16s at his shop that were collecting dust and asked me to throw him an offer. I didn't know so i talked him down too $100 and picked them up! Next day i had the xxr 513 mouted ! and clean those things up
they looked good but i need that mustard yellow one gone so I plasti dipped them white because i was in a rush! here are some pics!
Well i still gotta a lot to update you guys with. Right now its a clean daily and looks pretty decent for only owning the car for 1 month. I was pretty happy with this set up but it made me made because the rear of the car wasn't as low as the front. Lot more updates to come when I get home from work my peeeeeeps!!!
Introducing my friend fragile, bought him when i was 19 for 2,000 which looking back was waaaaaaaay over priced. He came with a full dc exhaust, cold air intake, lowered on Tokyo blues and ebay coils. Fragile here has 16x,xxx miles. he came on steelies and with a factory red paint job. Now that was 3 years ago and i dont have any pictures. He was my daily for years but was always less then reliable. Hes gone through about 5 different paint jobs using paint rollers, rattle cans and even plasti dipp. In his current state he is rocking a maroon rattle can paint job which was done 2 years ago and hes recently begun looking like shit. Lifting the curtain and welcome to the stage my shitty crx.
So this was about 2 years ago, sitting on diamonds 15x8 0 off set with 1 inch spacers, back then I didn't know what mexiflush was. Also, the tires were 195/50 on the fron and 205/50 on the rears. But this was when fragile was at its peaks concerning operations. I ended up trading my diamonds for a crazy ass deal and my all time favorite rare ass wheels. Im pretty sure that I alone have the only set on the east coast, these rare vintage 80s rims. So these kmc 78s were first own by my buddy derek and he had them on his wagon which look crazy ass awesome. I knew that one day i was gonna get me a set but never figured i'd get his. These kmc 78's were rebarreled and redrilled 15x8 NEGATIVE 25 offset with 165/55/15s kumo's on them. They were unreal but he decided to trade them because they poked a crazy amount and he wanted to go back to something practical. He traded them to a guy named dylan who instantly put them up for sale for $1200. He posted them on several stance sites but for a few months just could not get rid of them due to flakers and cheap ass people. So one day I randomly hit him up and offered to trade my diamonds for his kmcs, he was hesitant at first but knew everyone wants diamonds so we traded. here are some pics my peeps.
I know what you're thinking, like WOW those are nice. Now progressing the story I the picked up some xxr 513 16x8 0et for $300 off my buddy john. the only came with 2 205/50 tires but I thought i could find use for them in the future.
They were good looking rims and I always wanted a pair but damn, I ***** that yellow mustard ass color. Oh wells rims are rims
So I was lurking on Honda Motor Heads of Maryland like always and I spotted a 91 crx si with a b16 obd0 swap on some 16x7 black slipstreams. Guy wanted 2 grand for it, but then i found out he was located right down the street from my apartment. So i scooped it up real quick. Came with a body kit but I thought thats different, I bet I could make that soooo coool. Here are some pics!
So here ya go, I had 2 crx's and i thought life was good, Fragile was a pain in my ass it didnt run well so the white crx became my daily for a few months and it was great. But the white crx had a problem with its clutch for it wouldn't disengage and it would randomly stall for no damn reason. So I was in the market for a capable daily so I went on cragslist and found this heap. My 91 ford ranger which I bought for $600. It was so ugly, gross, and just a piece but I loved it because I never wanted to put money into it. It just drove and got me from point A to point B. I also picked up rims for the ranger for $100 because i figured I'd turn it into a lowered flatbed if it survived long enough.
The truck was awesome, it helped me save so much money! Welp I ended up taking the slipstreams off my 91 crx and posted them on Honda Motor Heads to see what was out there.
Guy hit me up, I drove 2 hours away to meet a guy in fragile my less then reliable crx and traded! Boom 15x9 dubfergenworks with 165/55/15s. they had great stretch and were just mint. Guy I traded wanted something more practical i suppose, i didn't complain. Here were the pics he sent me
When i got them home i was so excited!
I had to test fit them and wow, I felt pretty good about myself.
I picked up some mint crx seats from a guy, talked him down from $300 to $100 because he just couldn't get rid of them. Bought a wooden steering wheel for $40 and admired all my rims
Just decided to show some more pics before i reveal what happened next...
Well after this the red crx blew its headgasket, i wasn't upset. I was actually excited because i knew that was probably the reason why it didn't seem all that happy. but things got worse...
Here a random pic of me messing with the damn red crx driver door. I pissed me off because ever sense i got this car the driver door never lined up perfectly. And on top of that i had to buy an 88 crx which was the odd ball out of all crx's because they didn't come with the door mounted seat belts which made doors 100x harder to find.
Well, one day it was raining extremely bad. I wouldn't be caught in the rain at all but i had to go to work. I had a great day at work, i'm a server and pulled $172 dollars in a 6 hour shift and was like I'm king of the world. I got off and decided to head home, I too this day do not know why I choose to take the highway home but i did. I was driving up the ramp/semi circle in my crappy ranger, and next thing i knew the truck started slipping. I lost control and spun out on to the highway only then to be T-boned by a tracker trailer going about 70. It hit me on the passenger side door and to this day I don't know how i walked away from that with no damage except some glass in my right hand. I didn't know what to do, I had just destroyed my daily and had 2 undrivable cars. The red crx fragile was down because i was replacing a head-gasket and the white crx just stalled and didn't wanna run. I had no time for either and was in a pickle, so I was looking on the Honda motor heads and saw a guy looking for a crx si. He said he'd pay cash or trade for one. He was looking for a while so i decided to see what he'd give me for my white crx, he offered me a 93 eg si hatch back. I couldn't be picky because i needed a daily so i accepted. So we traded, I was honest to him about the white crx. It needed a clutch, fuel pump and some other things, he said yes and we traded. So i now had a eg hatch, a car i never personally wanted because i thought everyone had one. here some the pics of the eg which he sent me
The eg was clean, had 25x,xxx miles, aftermarket headers and skunk 2 coils on stock struts. At first i'm not gonna lie, i didn't think the guy as gonna trade me, but he did and even came to me. He dropped off the eg and took the white crx away. It was a sad moment but it was for the best. First thing i did with the eg was max out the shitty ebay coils, put on a hood brah, slapped a front lip on, bought and installed a universal roof rack off ebay for $40. They didn't fit so i just drilled them into the door jam, and strapped a basket to it.
1st day i had it
Slapped all that stuff on in less then a week! Needed my daily to look kinda nice
The car loooked pretty great to me but it needed a damn armrest for it didn't come with one. So i posted a ad on the honda motor head forum and found a guy selling one for $20, I go drive 10 mins and meet him. He asked me is there anything else i was currently looking for and i said well i could use some 16 inch tires. told me he had a set of new 205/40/16s at his shop that were collecting dust and asked me to throw him an offer. I didn't know so i talked him down too $100 and picked them up! Next day i had the xxr 513 mouted ! and clean those things up
they looked good but i need that mustard yellow one gone so I plasti dipped them white because i was in a rush! here are some pics!
Well i still gotta a lot to update you guys with. Right now its a clean daily and looks pretty decent for only owning the car for 1 month. I was pretty happy with this set up but it made me made because the rear of the car wasn't as low as the front. Lot more updates to come when I get home from work my peeeeeeps!!!
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((((( I'm about to just cut the rear springs but my twin wont let me so I found this to occupy me for a while. Introducing my new friend i bought for $600! I decided to let my twin buy 50% of it so we can both have a back up car in case something happens to our dailys drivers. But the new sedan was bought after i talk the guy down from $1000. i really beat him down on the price because it has 275,xxx miles, all original stock. It burns a lot of oil and smokes a little at start up but it is a nice beater. When i get the hatch a the yonaka coilovers i have saved to my chart for X-mas, the sedan will get the skunk 2 coils and stock struts off the hatch.
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