"Born to Roll"
OddMarz
New Wagonist
Finally after years of patiently waiting and searching I have found a clean wagon at a great price, the wagon is a 88 RT4wd and its very clean for its age
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Got some sounds today will be installing soon
out of frustration I went home and began to work on the car to get some anger out
it all began with this broken tape deck
then I saudered together the to harnesses
Pulled out the old speaker (they were the 20+ year old OEM Honda speakers)
had to modify the speaker cups
Here the new speakers all ready in place
Any finally the finished product
In 2007 I realized my EK had become to modified to be daily driven, I actively began looking for a wagon again at this point wagon had risen in popularity and I could tell the prices where rising, couldn't find one to my liking or price then my g/f got a car and again the search was put on the back burner, then came 2008 this was a bad year for me was laid off work money became tight but one way or another I continued building the EK and driving it, 2008 lead into 2009 same pattern continued went from odd job to odd job kept pouring $$$ to the build until one day the EK got stolen if you car to read about it go here (http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2597541) and (http://honda-tech.com/showthread.php?t=2772751)long story short car got stolen and the car got recovered, From this point on everything changed for me I became traumatized about the car I always felt someone was after me or watching for the car completely stopped using it then one day I get a good deal out of the blue for 2000 spec USDM type R complete engine w/ papers, I completely fell in love w/ the idea of putting the type R on it, I had always wanted to BAR the car (not really think of how I wasn't driving the car and was terrified to even use it). So I pulled my B20v and type R trans and sold the complete swap bought the type r and never installed it, at some point here it is now 2010 my g/f becomes pregnant baby came in 2011 shit in my life began to take a bad direction (besides the birth of my daughter) shit got bad at home, my g/f , baby, and I stayed at friends house for a little while by this time I was completely down and out or as some would call it hit rock bottom, thank god my g/f still had her job we ended up getting our own apartment $$$ was super tight at wich point I decided to sell my beloved EK (one of the hardest things I ever had to do, had a very strong emotional attachment to that car) but as you all know family comes 1st and I did what had to be done, soon after found out were gonna have another child but now at least I had found a job, it was shitty but it was a job. Now we go to 2012 we welcome our new daughter still had it rough with $$$ job starts to become unstable it's now been months since I've owned a car (had to walk or take bus to work) in July I find a new job and have been working very hard to try to catch up on old bills, school payment and such , then one day about 2 months ago as I was getting a ride to work there it was just sitting on the street right next to where I work soon after I left a note on the car didn't hear back till about 2 weeks ago, she gave me a long story but said she would be interested in selling and the rest is history as you can all see I now own the car..........sorry for the long story
Here's a couple of pics I missed when I did the speaker upupgrade
Had to modify the speaker wires since OEM wasn't a plug and play, all I did was sauder in the speaker wire provided w/ new speakers, did this to all 4 speakers
Found warranty book and owners manuel (too bad owners manuel had a piece cut out)
A look at new speakers on speaker pods (still have to install grills so it don't look ghetto)
Engine bay shots, not have bad looking considering the age of the car
Was up set that I couldn't use the OEM Honda speaker grills (still have something in mind to try and modify them to fit)
The big surprise came when I dropped my phone under the passenger seat when I went to get it low and behold I found under seat storage tray (I looked for it under driver seat when I 1st got car and I didn't see one so I assumed it didn't have one
Roofrack, speaker pods and underseat storage? WIN!
Flat tire & bent rim
bent driver side front suspension
After the incident my job really started to pick up, I started working 75-90hrs a week 6 days on, 1 day off, which didn't leave me much time for anything, I have a G/F and 2 daughters ages 2 & 3 and like to spend what little time I have off with them, due to the circumstances I began to loose interest in the wagon, I just didn't have the time to fix it, so I put it for sale at near market value (which is high) I think put it this way because part of me didn't wanna get rid of it, any time someone would come close to taking it I would find an excuse to not sell, finally I decided to take it off the market and it sat for a long time, about 2 weeks ago I decided it was time to put it together again so I bought
used steering Knuckle
new LCA
New battery
New tires (nothing fancy) Falken Ziex [URL="tel:912 205/50"]912 205/50[/URL]/15
to install onto an old pair of rims that I've had lying around for years
SprintHart R's
So tomorrow if all goes as planned (one can only hope) here's what's on the agenda, cars already been dropped of at a friends house who will do the work for me, go check how it's going, do an oil change on the wagon, take rims to tire place to have tires installed, once the work is done on wagon and if nothing else is bent or screwed up take car to get an alignment, take on test drive, get a smog check
one last look at the wagon, hopefully the last time it looks this plain
As for the work on the wagon well turns out the subframe is bent (wasn't expecting this) so now I have to find one, my question is are subframe between ef's interchangble in to the wagon (CRX, Hatch, Sedan)? Or 2wd in 4wd? Any info would be much appreciated
first of here's the damage to the subframe
went and got a bare subframe at the junkyard
also the driver side axle has needed to be replaced since I got the car so I picked one up
I just hope things go smoother this week than they did last week and hopefully back on the road soon
Look closely at front crossmember and radius rod. Also front left apron where crossmember bolts up. In any "EF" with wheel positioned like yours, that's the likely culprit.
Here's some pics so you can see the size difference in brackets, as you can see they have diffent mounting point do to size difference
Also bought all the drive belts since they weren't in great shape
So finally my friend finished took the wagon out for a test drive everything was working fine and drove relitively straight for not having an alignment yet
Took her to a quick car wash to wash off all dirt, filth, and grime that got on it over the 11 months it sat
heres a day time pic from this morning
but I do still have a couple of small issues to take care off, the passenger side axel also needs to be replaced (it's been ordered and payed for) and I believe the driver side radius rod and possibly the front crossmember may be slightly bent so I have to either change those or possibly buy an aftermarket traction bar (does any one have any positive or negative expirences with traction bars?)
i also found my old CTR shift boot from my old project car, and with a little bit of thinkering around I got installed