dang. I just discovered this thread tonight, ended up reading it from page one all the way to page 51. Nice work man.

 

Thanks it is deifintely a work in progress, keep checking back! Some serious work will finally get done.

Oh btw Kenny, never answered you about the CRV. It is the 1st gen, so it is b20, not k24. It is pretty damn slow, drives me crazy, but it is awesome in the snow. We get a lot of snow in WI, and with the awd it gets through everything. It kinda sucks cause it kicks 4wd in on its own, so you can't throw it in just rwd and drift easy. Pretty much I have to throw it in to turns to really get it sliding good. But as a dd it is awesome. Not big, but not too small, gas mileage is pretty good. Kinda disappointed on my freeway mpg. It might be my driving but I get about 22 mpg and that's driving 30 miles each way to school and probably 20 miles of it is on the freeway, rest is city driving. So at about $3 per gallon of gas, it cosst me about $9 a day to go to school and back lol.

Overall though I'd give the CRV a 7/10.

When I get my OWN someday, I will FOR SURE get a stick awd and make it b20v so it has some get up and go to it.

 

Yea? doesnt sounds too bad honestly...my truck actually blows on gas milage im surprised im lucky to get 20 mpg's in the town and its a 4cyl :/ oh well. and yea my next vehicle that i purchase myself is gonna be a stick no matter what haha i miss my manual cars :?

 

I def miss driving my Civic for sure lol, oh well get to drive stick cars at work, and our schools got a fully caged TSX A-spec, it is amazing.

Didn't accomplish anything today, was by my sisters all day, but I'm going to get some stuff done after work tomorrow. Hoping to have everything drained and the dash out tomorrow so that I can pull the harness through and drop the engine next week.

 

Here are moar pictures.

Todays accomplishments:
-Worked for 9.5 hrs at the dealership >.<
-Fixed the cat heat shield on the CR-V at work, the wo pieces were rusted and vibrating so I used some big *** hose clamps, good thing I did it at work cause those things aren't cheap.
-Drained the whole clutch hydro assembly stuff, except above the pedal. But resivouir and slave cylinder are empty.
-Power steering pump is out
-Drained all my coolant out and pulled the radiator.
-Raised one coilover to max height, took me like an hour to do so I didn't do any other wheels. So one is at max height while three are slammed. What took me so long is adjusting the coils is fine when you are really low, but to raise it to max you have to fight the tension of the spring. So I had to release the fork to relieve tension so that I could actually raise the coils on the sleeve. Well fighting all that tension to line the work back up sucked, and getting the ball joint back in sucked too. Cars at stock or close to stock height are stupid, slammed is so much easier to work with. Pulled the axle out of the hub while I had the fork removed too.
-Ordered my Energy Suspension master kit finaly! Should be here next week I'm assuming, then I will start pulling pieces of suspension and pressing the bushings in and out at work.


How it sits

Radiator out

Can't wait to get rid of all these wires


I'm also going to look into a way to tuck a radiator, without buying some cusom made one. Going to see if I can cut away at the lower radiator support and reweld pieces across, but cutting it out would lower the radiator like 1-2 inches I think, which would be enough to bring the radiator under the upper radiator support, making it invisible o_O. Just have to cut a hole in the upper support for the cap. We will see, going to have to order my eBay aluminum radiator pretty soon so I can start measuing stuff.

 

Pulled the dash today. Was lots of fun... not. It is awesome workin for Honda though, went on Isis (database for EVERYTHING Honda) and looked up dash removal for my car, printed it out. Had step by step on what to remove what clips to take out and where every bolt is. Made is soooo much easier. But, I'm making progress. And it really is noticeable difference in progress lol.

Here's the dash halfway out.

And completely out

The dash itself, it's a heavy ****. Defintely one thing that should be lightened up first if you ever plan on gutting a car and losing weight.

The first hole... pulled cabin side part of the engine harness in to the bay.

How she sits on the outside, and what my neighbors get to see.

And the interior as is.


Going to keep working on draining fluids and **** this week. Hopefully begin a lil welding next week.

 

i bet our all data aint got **** on isis. ive looked at the clutch job for my car on all data, aint that much help really, few pictures and vage instructions. seams like you got a lot done for the day, specially if you worked 9.5 hours.

 

Yea Isis is a lot more specific. All data is still pretty nice. If you ever need anything off Isis of a how to o something just let me know.

 

^Think we could get away with writing up some Isis DIY's for the forum? Or is that stuff REALLY copyrighted?

 

I eventually plan on doing a tucked radiator. Look into a MK2 VW Golf radiator. It should fit in there with the inlet/outlet being on the passenger side.