96romaCX CIVIC hatchback BUILD THREAD

[96romaCX]

nice pick up on the sway bar. dont remember but do you have a front sway bar too?

Yeah dood! A while back I swapped in the energy suspension bushings and re finished 97 ex front lca's, then I ordered a used 22mm 99 ex front swaybar. Thanks man!

Sweet man! I need to get around to installing my CTR front and rear sway bars someday haha

Do it. Dot it. Do it. Do it. Haha thanks homie! I can't wait to see some work on yours when you get home! I was still serious about maybe going to VIR in October, there's an event the. And I'm gonna try my hardest to pay bills and get a b16 swap!

 

[Intertwined]

awesome. was gonna say if you didnt have a front sway bar that you would hate how it felt with only the rear. love how mine handles with the SI 26mm front sway and ASR 24mm rear sway.

i really think youre going to like how it feels after putting on the rear.

 

[96romaCX]

Yeah me too! I'm mounting it tonight when I get home from work, what are the spring rates your running? With your sway bar set up if you could tolerate the ride, those Sizes would be perfect on something with a stiffer set up. It would feel rather solid!

 

[96romaCX]

ASR adapters arrived today, bars going on tonite and a quick trip to the exhaust shop in the morning.

 

[Intertwined]

my fronts are the same 10k/mm as yours but were you have 6k/mm in the rear mine are 8k/mm. honestly i dont know enough to be able to say if its a huge difference or not. the car is pretty damn stiff though and i daily drive it with hasport 65a solid mounts.

the ride comfort is still good and feels solid. still want to get a rear upper strut setup as well.

 

[96romaCX]

Well.. It's A-f**king-ficcial. I have a race car. I took it down a local road with my brother and he speed limit is 45-55... We never came out of 80ish.. 70 at the least. We hit it initial d style and my straight pipe with turbo pipe muffler sounded insane. That's the hardest Ive ever driven in that car and it stuck every single second.

 

[96romaCX]

my fronts are the same 10k/mm as yours but were you have 6k/mm in the rear mine are 8k/mm. honestly i dont know enough to be able to say if its a huge difference or not. the car is pretty damn stiff though and i daily drive it with hasport 65a solid mounts.

the ride comfort is still good and feels solid. still want to get a rear upper strut setup as well.

I don't know a lot about suspension by any means, I'm just scratching the surface. Suspension tuning is a deep involved black art, I just google about suspension set ups and theory for road race cars and learned simple math using the cars weight, wheel base and spring rates to estimate what I would expect.

But honestly... YOU WERE SO RIGHT BRO!!! That sway made a huge difference!! If you were here I'd high five you to death!!!

It corners amazing, and its soo stable!

 

[ReedMann]

Do it. Dot it. Do it. Do it. Haha thanks homie! I can't wait to see some work on yours when you get home! I was still serious about maybe going to VIR in October, there's an event the. And I'm gonna try my hardest to pay bills and get a b16 swap!

Yeah I'll get to eventually. I need to buy or make some endlinks and figure out something for subframe reinforcement. I'd still be down to go to VIR. Sounds like a lot of fun.

 

[96romaCX]

Yeah I'll get to eventually. I need to buy or make some endlinks and figure out something for subframe reinforcement. I'd still be down to go to VIR. Sounds like a lot of fun.

Yeah man I wanna go for my bday. I really need a new motor first, I can't push my single cam lol.

What type of rear bar do you have?

 

[96romaCX]

Went to the exhaust shop this morning and I love the way my exhaust sounds so much with just a turbo muffler pipe for a resonator, I didn't put my second oval muffler back on and just ran a straight pipe over the axle. It's sounds like a tame buddy club, very similar tone and rasp, but way quieter! It's awesome, just as quiet before at idle and cruising speed, but vicious at WOT. I even had them slightly angle the pipe out like the buddy club spec 2 looks lol.

Pic of the new set up



I couldn't be happier right now with how my hatchie is turning out

 

[mymmeryloss]

Lookin good!

 

[96romaCX]

Thank you man!

 

[ReedMann]

Yeah man I wanna go for my bday. I really need a new motor first, I can't push my single cam lol.

What type of rear bar do you have?

Keep saving. I want to see a B16 in your bay too haha.

I just have the CTR front and rear bars, whatever size they are lol

 

[96romaCX]

26mm front and 22mm rear! Those are awesome bars man a great set up. You can get used em1 front lca's. I think you need the forks and form bolts also cause they are thicker.

 

[Intertwined]

yup to use that front sway either get SI lca's with shock forks or i think you can get ITR endlinks and use EX lcas or somethin like that.

in for sound clip of the new exhaust!

 

[96romaCX]

yup to use that front sway either get SI lca's with shock forks or i think you can get ITR endlinks and use EX lcas or somethin like that.

in for sound clip of the new exhaust!

Haha I haven't posted one of those before... I don't know if you will like it lol

 

[ReedMann]

26mm front and 22mm rear! Those are awesome bars man a great set up. You can get used em1 front lca's. I think you need the forks and form bolts also cause they are thicker.

Yeah, I got all those parts from my buddy when he went K in his EM1

 

[96romaCX]

Oh... Lol

 

[96romaCX]

Took a pic of my hatchie at work today, I was walking in and everytime I look back I can't take my eyes off it.

So here's a pic just because

 

[ReedMann]

Looks clean man!