RE: New project CRX
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RE: New project CRX - 8/6/2007 11:51:10 AM
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mxs
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I spent most of Thursday night cleaning and painting things. Used a grinder and a wire wheel to take off a lot of the rust, then sprayed those spots with two coats of primer and two coats of Polar White. It doesn't look great up close — needs to be sanded and resprayed probably — but it looks fine from far away. Remember it's a 17 year old beater, and that's good enough. I think the driver's side door is 60% Bondo.
Also repainted the wiper arms, went through the engine bay pretty thoroughly with some Simple Green MAX, and repainted the valve cover.
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Finally got the brake fluid changed on Friday night, and lowered the front of the car a little more. No pictures of this exciting action.
Saturday morning, washed the car before the Honda-Tech meet. This ended up taking five hours. Used a ton of Meguiar's Scratch-X and paint cleaner, plus some Plast-X on the lights, tire shine on all the black trim, and more touch-up paint for the rock chips on the hood.
Notice how the car actually reflects light now!
Sunday morning, took the car to Seneca Army Depot for the WNY region autocross. I know I said the CRX would be STS2 legal, but I was easily persuaded to throw the Kumhos on the car :lol:
Those are 14x8 Diamond Racing wheels with 225/50R14 V710s. We had to raise the car back up by about an inch and a half. I wanted to run in C Street UNprepared, considering the only "mods" are the springs and the muffler delete.
We had three drivers and the car held up beautifully. It's a TON of fun. Takes a while to get up to speed, but whatever. I've never autocrossed a car without power steering, and honestly I didn't miss it at all. I still hit a ton of cones though, I'll blame the wide tires for that.
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RE: New project CRX - 8/6/2007 1:25:44 PM
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ej6buddy
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powersteering is for suckers, i love the way my car feels without powersteering. i'm tempted to not have it on any of my future vehicles, lol.
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RE: New project CRX - 8/6/2007 2:06:04 PM
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mxs
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I wouldn't disable PS on a car that has a PS steering rack, but a fully manual rack is OK.
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RE: New project CRX - 8/6/2007 2:10:38 PM
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riceburner700
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i love not having power steering and ac in my cx. i will leave the ac and ps to my tacoma
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RE: New project CRX - 8/6/2007 2:16:54 PM
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ej6buddy
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quote:
ORIGINAL: mxs
I wouldn't disable PS on a car that has a PS steering rack, but a fully manual rack is OK.
yeah, that's not what i meant, only manual rack, and no, i don't recommend removing ps from really any car that originally came equipped.
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RE: New project CRX - 8/6/2007 6:50:48 PM
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mxs
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yeah I know you didn't disable yours, I was just saying... 
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RE: New project CRX - 8/8/2007 3:35:40 AM
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Awesome work Marnie
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