Project IRX: CRX-Insight Renaissance Experiment

[Tygen1]

My welder is the same as yours, just a different brand. You plan on welding some 1" plate? Your welder should be good up to 1/4"... any thicker and you just do a multipass.

So what is this next thing?

[SVOboy]

So, I'm thinking about mounting the cable to hydro adapter, and this seems to be a good place, but I'm a little wary. Unfortunately there are no open bolt holes I can use, so I was thinking of drilling and tapping two holes and just bolting it right there. About halfway through the drilling I started to doubt my plan however.

Anyone have better ideas?

[88hf]

Timeline back past the 1st yet? I'm pretty sure I'm back that far. Have work piling up and the holidays/ ordering/ waiting on parts.

I'd like to see what the progress looks like at this point. Pictures? Sure many others would like to see as well. Happy Holidays!

[Daox]

I've been bugging him for more pictures since he started the project!

[88hf]

Yeah, seems like he has a camera too from what I can tell. lol.

[SVOboy]

You'll get some pictures tonight. It always seems like not enough is changing to me so I hesitate to take them

Anyway, gonna work on a battery box now.

[Daox]

I usually just take tons and only use about 1/4 of what I take, that way I have it covered. Plus, you normally can't go back and get pictures of something half done.

[88hf]

Me too, tons of pictures, it ends up being like a movie when you look through them in sequence.

[SVOboy]

Originally Posted by Daox

I usually just take tons and only use about 1/4 of what I take, that way I have it covered. Plus, you normally can't go back and get pictures of something half done.

It's just troublesome having your flow interrupted by pictures sometimes, so I forget about them completely. But, I'm making a better effort.

[SVOboy]

Okay, so I've got some pictures and some updates and some more whining. I'll just go in the order that I dig up the photos.



Of all the things I've worked on recently, the only thing I can say I really "finished" would be the exhaust. Basically, I realized I couldn't making the crazy S-bend so I cut off the annoying bit and just ran a pipe back. The weld the further back isn't very good, I'm just hoping there's not leaking. Also, I welded in an O2 bung to relocated the second 02 about 6 inches down from the original, which was in the way of the crossmember.



This is just a boring shot of the swapped knuckle, which isn't done finally because I need to lengthen the axle on this side. So, in a few days I'll have to chop that axle, install both sides, load the suspension, see how much gap there is (probably less than an inch), then weld a sleeve on. Not the solution I would've liked, but o well.



The driver's side mount is on upside down, which is causing the engine to sag a good bit. I'll have to pop this out and have someone press it out and flip it for me. Shouldn't be too hard to fix this one whenever I get around to it.



This is the clutch adapter, showing basically how it works. Unfortunately I didn't manage to get this mounted up right today. Humbug.




Thoughts on these flares? The damn thing was giving me trouble, but they look good enough. I cut these off anyway since I kept changing my mind about the hardline, so it's not the finished product. Just curious.



I'm either going to mount the battery or the clutch here. Probably the battery if I can find a better spot for the clutch. You can see the two fresh holes I drilled during my plan to mount the clutch which failed.



This is the other spot for a possible battery mount. Don't like it though.

I would just shell out for a sealed battery and stick it in the back but I'm broke and can't afford it, so that's too bad. I'll figure that out one way or another. Right now I think it'd be prudent to make a checklist of things so I don't forget, so I'll probably do that eventually or else I might forget to tighten something down or put oil in the transmission or something bad like that.