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[shadowboy]

surely there must be someone else at least 26 years old here besides me?

yea.. umm, im 26, havent done much (more time & tool-limited for the time being)

[skelly_snake]

38
yep, thats thirty eight....

[Ghost-One]

I am 25 been fidaling with cars since i was about 17 when i got my first 77 civic anyways i am just trying to have a good time

[Doodson]

29 , wow Im almost over the hill at 30 this year

Doodson

[Disco Stu]

Fastbrakes upgrade: The best chunka change I ever spent on my car:
http://www.fastbrakes.com
for the kit, you get a pair of 90-00 integra or Civic EX calipers (pretty much whichever he has handy. If you're not gonna get pads from him, make sure you ask what kind you're getting before you order pads), an aluminum extension bracket, 11" rotors and a hub centric ring, plus all the necessary hardware. Cost? $399.95, just add pads. You can also get a rear disc upgrade, but it's a little more tricky. You basically need to do the teg rear disc brake upgrade first, then you get this kit and get the extension bracker, hub centric ring and 11" rotors. You reuse the teg calipers and pads. You just have to tell the guy, Brian Hasty, that you have a first gen and he'll give you a spacer bracket that will make it all work out. Cost for the rears is $199.95. You can also upgrade to slotted or drilled rotors, and I think he sells the two piece ones as well. Heck, you can even get Willwood 4 Piston Dynalite calipersfor an extra cost. While I was at it, in addition to the front and rear kits I also got the stainless steel brake lines. I think all together everything was about $700, and I spent an extra bit on some Porterfield R4S pads direct from Porterfield.
What's the catch? You need 15" wheels, and STOCK HONDA 15"s DON"T FIT without a 10-15mm spacer! I learned the hard way. Also, you may have to use a few washers to space the rear brake caliper out a bit. Plus if you're just going to put the Integra bracketing on the CRX axle, you need to do something about the bolts that hold the bracketing to the axle because they're too short, another thing I found out the hard way and warped some rotors while I was at it Other than that, the installation of the kit is dirt simple. I have some pics on my page, but only of the front kit installation (I think I'll try writing up the rear tomorrow)
http://www.geocities.com/crx1stgen and click on the fastbrakes front link on the left.

[rpr]

32, almost 33. I've only really worked on cars the last couple of years. In that time I've worked on 4 swaps, dismantled 3 cars, owned 2 CRX's, 2 Civics and an Integra, and filled my garage with parts galore. I have a sickness....

[n1smo]

32, almost 33. I've only really worked on cars the last couple of years. In that time I've worked on 4 swaps, dismantled 3 cars, owned 2 CRX's, 2 Civics and an Integra, and filled my garage with parts galore. I have a sickness....

wow RPR OWNZ JOO!!! youve done alot of work

[B17CRX]

I am 24 as of seven days ago feeling older everyday now... lol, I have owned 8 hondas in the last 5 years, rebuilt several engines, I have done two ZC swaps into crxs, two B16 swaps one into an integra one into a civic hatch, one B17 swap into a crx, one LS swap into another crx, one LSVTEC into a pigtegra, and a B20VTEC into the same car. Right now I am working on a ground up rebuild of an 87 crx Si for E prepared, hopefully I will be done before the year ends...
-Joel

[CRX8Grand]

21, act and feel like in 16 still... guess all my imature friends make me feel that way at least.

Ive droped one motor in my car, stock block. If I had a choice to do it over agian, Ide take the days off of work that I worked on the car(getting up at 6 am, working till 3 then going to work at 4)... accualy if I woulda done it all over again I woulda bought that damn d16a1 I passed up for 800 bucks that had EVERYTHING, even a DC header... My paretns bought a engine so.

[Davidov]

I'm 18, 19 in April......uh my sedan is my first Honda, and first car. I like to think I know what I'm doing when it comes to working on it....
Oh and I can drive real good too....honest.

[nivek2002]

just turned 16 last week only done small repair stuff but this summer will be working for a mechanic/friend, and be learning stuff

Edited by nivek2002, 11 February 2003 - 05:08 PM.

[timothymckay]

20, and did my first engine swap (D16A) a couple of months ago......8 VERY long nights!!! My little civic has been in the family for 15 years, my older brother had it and then he bought a newer car, i couldn't wait to get it into my hands so i could modify it etc

[Airjockie]

Well...where to begin? at the age of five, I was helping my day tear apart engines in his machine shop, I grew up back there. I was tinkering with all kind's of engine's for many year's. When I turned 12, I joined the Civil Air Patrol, and got interested in aircraft, and fell in love with aviation. Bought my first car at 14, a 1958 Studebaker 2-ton dump truck, flat bed, dualies, 12 ft side rack's, replaced the water-pump, and got it up and running. I drove that thing for 7 mile's, and parked it where it sat, and slapped a for sale sign on it. The steering wheel was to big, no power stearing, the shift pattern was hard as hell, and I just knew I would not be able to pick up any chick's with it. I paid $550 for it and sold it to a farmer for $1000.

Then I turned around and put that money on a down payment for a $2000 1974 Jeep, Grand-Wagoneer, LTD. Edition..brown. Got my licence at 15 year's old, and then drove it all the time. Then one day, I droved a valve, and it ended up in the oil-pan, along with the shattered piston, and half of the rod. So my dad pulled some string's and got me a new AMC 360, V-8, and then he showed me what can be done to it, to make me happy. Bored it out, new piston's and ring's, P&P head's, hooker header's, and all the trimming...only ran me $3500...but that's what I saved for...hehe, but then I started blowing azel's, and tranny, and the old Jeep couldn't take it anymore, so I had to rebuild everything else...which cut into my money-belt real hard. Then I joined the Air Force, and after Basic training, I picked up the Jeep, and left it the way it was. It took me all the way to FL, and back to NM many time's, picked up chick's like crazy, and car-pooled all the other Airmen to the club's and strip joint's......ahhh the memories. Then I got the order's to report to Okinawa Japan, so I drove the jeep back to NM, and handed my dad the key's, couse I still owed him a lot of money....I got a $300 check from my dad, when he sold it...and he won't tell me how much he got for it.


While I was in Japan, I owned a Bluebird, a prelude, two toyota van's, and an Accord, then when I moved back to the state's, I got my dad's 82 Chevy conversion van for free, but it broke down with two blown head's, somewhere in the middle of TX, and I needed to get to FL, for college. So I u-hauled that POS out there, fixed it, and it blew again. So I decided, the only good American car's were Jeep's, but I didn't buy one at that time....instead, I bought a VW gulf,and I cought it on fire, it went t the junk-yard a smouldering crisp...then I picked up a 280ZX, and I blew the head, so I fixed that, and then the ring's blew.......Then I got my Rex......

After abusing it delivering pizza's, for a few month's..I got into a front end collision with a 94 Rustang, and I was at fault.....DUI....I have paid my price, done the time...And this year, I finally got that mustang paid off. And all the time, the rex was going thru some identity problem's, couse it thought it was a bull-dog, and every thing on the front was destroyed, but I didn't have any money to fix it up, so I was junk-yard diging, and found the part's needed to get her up and running again.....so I litterally changed everything at least once on the car's except the engin, and tran's, but I eventually re-built those as well. I have had the Rex since 1997, and I pamper the hell out of her now.

Then I bought another Jeep last year, completely rebuilt the cooling system, and now I got to start work on the rust system......if there is any hope. but I now have a 1990 Jeep Cherokee.....the newest car I have owned, but it has a temper like the other car's have....And then a freind gave me his 87 Toyota Supra, and now that has also got my hand's involved in making it into a monster....one of these day's....After I finish the REX completely....like a cam and turbo....

Ohh, I don't just work on car's constantly...I have one of the best job's in the world. I am still an aircraft mechanic.....have been since 1991....with a breif interruption due to the fact that I was living in Japan, and worked as a bartender for a few year's, but now I got my attitude straight, and went back into being a professional. I was a crew chief on the F-15 C/D's in the Air Force, I worked on everything from Cessna 150's to Beechcraft B200's, and I'm now making Blackhawks and Seahawk's at Sikorsky Aircraft.


Age?......does it really matter?.......your only as old as your mind want's you to be.

I will be turning 31 next month, but I still feel like a teenager....and I still get carded buying cigg's all the time......so age mean's nothing...


Sorry I made you guy's read.....

[n1smo]

nice to hear a good Titantic unabridge rough draft story of your life. Naw j/k i love those 84 supras

[C_piddy]

uhhh... 19 teen... student.... poor.... what else can i say. i paint draw make films. always liked taking stuff apart. complicated things are interesting to me... never was afraid to get durty... i am very patient... other wize i would have set my 1986 crx on fire by now. i have been tinkering with cars for 1 year now... before my swap i new how to do an oil change. after my swap i still hadn't done my own brakes. i have a carbed zc in my crx and am "helping" my brother boman do his swap... some times i think i am the only one who realy wants to get it done. ohhh and the only advice i can give a novice mecanic is be logical. everything has it's place it all is designed for a reason, don't unplug the vacume hoses. lol...

poo

chris