An exercise in Mexellence (my 86 hatch project)

mooreofit · Post by **mooreofit** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 8:01 pm

had a blast today alex thanks for the hosptality and ride along!! and not to mention the corner lenses!!!. ill post pics of the day up in my post on the drift section. im really sorry for aaron. i feel bad getting him out there and the car breaking on the second run.

mooreofmick · Post by **mooreofmick** » Sun Sep 20, 2009 10:31 pm

thanks for the ride it was a blast

mexellent · Post by **mexellent** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:15 am

Hey moore's!

No problem! It was fun to finally beat the living day-light out of my car.

Anyway, I have a couple of updates. No pictures really but I feel its worth posting none-the-less.

First off, I finally went to mineral wells and did some drifting. It was epic. Im hooked. However, the event did take a toll on the car and as a result, my old radiator decided it had enough and sprung a couple of leaks (replaced with SR5 auto radiator). For some reason, my igniter died (Fixed pretty much by aaron). Seat mount broke on the drivers side (still havent fixed) And... my transmission is probably going to die as well.

However, the biggest change that I failed to document was the huge amount of useless wire that got taken off of the car. The previous owner was a giant cheese ball and half assed pretty much everything. I will take a picture of the stuff so you guys can see.

Anyway, giant thanks to HondaRue and my brother Pedro for helping me out with the electrical stuff. Without these two guys I probably would have sold my car already.

Post by **dr.occa** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 2:35 am

mexellent wrote:Hey moore's!

No problem! It was fun to finally beat the living day-light out of my car.

Anyway, I have a couple of updates. No pictures really but I feel its worth posting none-the-less.

First off, I finally went to mineral wells and did some drifting. It was epic. Im hooked. However, the event did take a toll on the car and as a result, my old radiator decided it had enough and sprung a couple of leaks (replaced with SR5 auto radiator). For some reason, my igniter died (Fixed pretty much by aaron). Seat mount broke on the drivers side (still havent fixed) And... my transmission is probably going to die as well.

However, the biggest change that I failed to document was the huge amount of useless wire that got taken off of the car. The previous owner was a giant cheese ball and half assed pretty much everything. I will take a picture of the stuff so you guys can see.

Anyway, giant thanks to HondaRue and my brother Pedro for helping me out with the electrical stuff. Without these two guys I probably would have sold my car already.

glad to hear you enjoyed your first mw outting. if your car could talk i bet it would've been freaking out. that would explain the leak and breaking parts.

yay to Aaron and Pedro!

mooreofit · Post by **mooreofit** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 8:17 am

ha ha ha, your brother is going to kick you butt alex!!!

i forget his name so i called him pedro

as for the drifting it was awesome to ride along!!!!! sorry to hear about your tranny problems!!!! if you want help with it talk to my little brother he's a tranny man. also my seat bracket was broken and i welded it back in. it was pretty easy. i can do it for you but i have a feeling you dont need my help.

aaron is a great guy you are lucky to have such a great friend!!!!

mooreofmick · Post by **mooreofmick** » Sun Sep 27, 2009 12:13 pm

i agree its pretty hard to find such good people these days and arron is one of those guys

madcao · Post by **madcao** » Mon Sep 28, 2009 10:34 am

did you ever get those wrx seats in? if so, any pics. thanks. -sang

mexellent · Post by **mexellent** » Tue Oct 27, 2009 7:57 pm

No, not yet. Ugh....

I need to.

Anyway, lots of updates sorta....

(Aaron) put on a JDM front bumper. hahaha.

One of the mounts for the seat ripped out of the frame. Guess Im pulling too many G's. Gotta get that fixed. Gonna go to evodynamics. Maybe they can help me install those WRX seats.

Theres going to be a drift event at mineral wells on 11-22. Im gonna try and make it and here is my to do list:

-fix seat
-change steering rack bushings
-change rear (and front?) sway bar bushings.
-change out the rear pinion seal and make sure ring and pinion alignment is gooood.
-change out rear calipers (thanks again chris-peee)
-find new rod-ends for the 4-links
-fix front camberz

I think thats it.

HondaRue · Post by **HondaRue** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 12:26 am

Where are the pics of the new front end?

mexellent · Post by **mexellent** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 5:41 pm

Oh yeah!

Ok, this is how much Aaron weighs:

This is how much Aaron weighs holding a USDM kouki bumper:

This is how much Aaron weighs holding a JDM kouki bumper:

a picture of the car in pieces

a picture of the USDM bumper:

a picture of the JDM bumper:

and a picture of the bumper on the car:

MadeInThe80s · Post by **MadeInThe80s** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:02 pm

Yeah the USDM bumper beam is way heavier!

mexellent · Post by **mexellent** » Wed Oct 28, 2009 11:17 pm

Yeah.

Now i really want a rear JDM bumper.

USDM bumper ftmfl

Post by **dr.occa** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 1:49 pm

looks great guys. yes, agreed on the rear jdm bumper.

Post by **CBR_TOY** » Fri Oct 30, 2009 4:44 pm

damn.... love JDM bumpers

car looks really good man

mooreofit · Post by **mooreofit** » Sun Nov 01, 2009 6:23 pm

thats very sick!

the usdm is deffinatly heavy but i still weigh more than aaron and two of those bumpers....

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An exercise in Mexellence (my 86 hatch project)

wrx seats?