So yesterday I continued with John's wiretuck on his awesome 4 door EF.  So far the engine harness is pulled, the headlight, ac and accessory harness's are all pulled though the firewall.  Right now Im cleaning up the wires under the dash and getting started breaking down the rest of the harness's to get any and all unessesary wires out of the harness and simplfy everything.  Ill be finishing her up on friday so Ill have another update then. 

This is the begining of the pile of trash. Ill have a photo of the pile when the job is done, lol.

  The last week has been a very busy one in the shop.   Made great great progress on Austin's Integra and got a couple new projects in the shop.   Unfortuneately I didnt take as many pics as I should of the Integra but Ill get some more monday night.   The shifter is complete, the cage welding is almost done and the engine will be back out soon.  Ill post more updates on that.

  Meanwhile,  Did some wiring work on Gary's Wagovan, and got new new projects in the shop.  The first is John's pristine EF sedan.  Gettiing a wireworx harness and a wire tuck.   Going to clean a few other things up as well.   So far the origional harness is removed and the tuck is started.

  Second is Jason's DA Integra getting a full shave and tuck and much more.   So far the engine bay is prepped for welding and ready to make plate templates.  Expect more updates.

  Next week I will continue the Integra, finish John;s wire tuck and get Joeys car back together.

GARY"S WAGOVAN

AUSTIN'S INTEGRA

JASON'S DA INTEGRA

JOHN'S EF SEDAN

  Now that the basic baseplate is made and the proper shifter hieght has been established its time trim it to fit the exhuast tunnell and make the heat shield for the lower portion of the shifter. 

  Here is the plate trimed to fit the tunnell.

After makeing a template and a little forming this is the result. 

Now its time for side plates and side plate fitting.  Here they are cut and all tacked together.

Time for welding.   All boxed and sealed protected from the weather and exhuast.

Well thats all for now.  Ill have the finished product on friday.  Thanks for watching.

As you can see the TL shifter is quite large and in order for it to fit with the integra console I had to make a shifter plate and cut a massive hole in the exhaust tunnel.  Dont worry It will all be boxed and sealed when Im done.

During this portion I will make the plate, cut the hole and fit the shifter to the console.   Next part  will consist of box plates, cable bracket and welding.  I will also be making a heat shield for the lower potion of the shifter as its about a half inch from the exhuastStay tuned.

  In light of some recent events and questions I have gotten I thought I would post a detailed blog on my roll cage instalation and process.  This particular set up is a 10pt jegs jegster cage kit in a 95 Honda Civic Si.  It was welded with a Millermatic 250 mig welder with 030 70 series mig wire and 75/25 gas.  From here Ill let the pics do the talking, Thank You and enjoy!

First things first. Buy some dry ice and removed sound deadning.

Brian says hi.

The proper way to mount main hoop baseplates.  The pipe should always be in the center of the plate so bending the plate upwards towards the interior walls is nessessary.  This makes for a much stornger joint to the chassis,

Now that the main hoop and base plates are installed its time to fit the roof hoop.   As you can see spreader bars were used to get everything in its proper place and width.

Now for A pillar bar fitment.

Door bar fitment.

We decided to fit the factory steering cross bar to our a pillar bar.  Worked out quite nicely.

Harness bar and passenger door bar fitment.

Underdash cross bar fittment.

Rear strut fitment.

Raer strut base plate.

Secondary door bar fitment.

Rear strut cross bar installed and welded.

A pillar/Roof hoop gussets installed and welded.

Rear tower connector plates installed and welded.

D bars and base plates.

Finished product.  Big ups to Rogue Auto Werks for the paint and finish work on this entire project.

  While Austins integra is in the shop for a cage and a few other mods we decided to raise the engine a couple inches.  On the origional install we set the engine at the lowest setting. The dual height Hasport mount kit ( minus the trans bracket ) was used.  At the lower setting the engine just sat to low to the ground to get the car at the ride height we wanted to acheive. 

  Unfortunately in order to raise the engine the frame of the vehicle would have to be notched even further than before.  On the origional install I only notched it just engough to ensure removal of as little material as humanly possible.  Just enough for the trans to clear.  As most of you may know we used a triptronic auto trans on this project.  Massive in size next to its manual counterpart.  So raising it up would mean pulling the engine and notching the frame much higher for the trans to clear.  Here are some pics and a little info on the progress. Enjoy!

The engine is out. Time to get started.

Here you can see the origional notch and the line drawn for the new one.

The big hole.  Kids dont try this at home, lol.

All boxed, welded and smoothed.  Sorry for the bad pic, the primer was still wet.

Engine reinstalled and reay to roll to the new shop.  Just need to swap to a 3.7 mannifold to get that hood to shut.
Stay tuned for cage completion, some custom shifter stuff and start up.

So over the last 2 days I have finished 2 cars.  The CB7 and the EG.  Heres a few pics.  The CB will be back early spring for brakes and assembly.