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Okay, so let’s start with the concept. Some days ago I was just thinking about how the fsck to get my car hifi components back into the totally emptied out trunk of my CRX. I did quite many designs until I’ve actually found a way which would be fairly easy to build and wouldn’t look that bad. And that’s how it looked like:

Full interior concept drawing

After some more drawing I finally got a detailed plan on how the construction could look like:

Detailed drawing of how the construction could look like

Then I bought the materials I needed and went to a friend’s of mine garage. Together with him, we started implementing the stuff I doodled on that paper. First, we had problems with the welding points, because the used to just break up like nothing. After replacing the gas with a new bottle it worked out pretty good. We bended the small steel-pipes for the speakers and created the “arms” that hold the amplifier. Actually I wanted to bend these two pipes, too, but it would have looked pretty ugly, so we decided to just leave them straight. For mounting the speakers and the amplifier, we took screws and welded them onto the pipes, with theirs screw thread to the upside.

After everything was welded together, we started grinding all the ugly welding points away and sprayed the black-metallic paint onto the construction. Then, we waited. And waited. And waited. God, I hate this sleazy paint. And still waited. After nearly two hours the paint wasn’t at least running away anymore, so I carefully took the construction and mounted it into my CRX. Then, piece for piece I started putting together the hifi components and did the wiring through the car, to the front where my capacitor is. I know, a capacitor should not be more than thirty centimeters away from the amplifier to be efficient, but actually the only reasing why I have that capacitor in the front of my car is for not having to wire every little cable (central-locking, amp, etc.) directly to the battery.

However, after wiring the whole thing up I tested out the sound and quality, and I have to say that I imagined worse. The problem is, that these speakers are hanging “in the air” and have no resonators, so I didn’t expect to much from the output, but it’s actually better than I thought. Now I’m wondering whether to just build two resonators or make an open baffle construction out of it, for example by using two thick plexiglas disks.

Anyway, I will think about it some more. So far, so good. :-)

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Do I need to be afraid when a frozen pizza with no tuna on it tastes like tuna? :-\

My gimped version of that hot, red Honda CRX.

So, I just took the CRX’s picture I wrote about and thought, How about gimping it a little bit up? And so I did. I actually “implemented” everything I was talking about. The black lights (though it is pretty hard to darken lights with The Gimp), the stock gas cap and I also removed the spoiler on its back. I actually also wanted to darken the rims to make them look more like graphite or even black, unfortunately that’s not that easy and the draft I designed looked pretty crappy - so I just left them as they were. Now only the H-emblem on the hood’s still missing. I was wondering, whether to place the original, chrome H onto it, or maybe brush it matt-black to fit the lights and the fence.

This CRX really kicks ass, in my opinion. Unfortunately, red is a very complicated color which shouldn’t receive too much sunlight anyway. But I think that the <color>/black-combination looks pretty cool on any color - yellow (for example the one that Audi uses to paint on their RS4), pink (the one from the S2000 in TFTF) or orange (some chameleon sunrise-orange). Besides, I really start loving the rims, though I think that without a bodykit which extends the car to the bottom, these 18 or 19″ rims would look pretty stupid on the CRX.

Later today I will go and buy some more steel for bending and welding, to finally finish the HiFi built-up in my car. I love holidays. :-)

Really hot CRX with very sex rims.

As I was saying yesterday, I’m really thinking of getting an 1988 Pontiac Fiero GT 2.8 V6. Unfortunatelly that car brings so many disadvantages that it could only been driven as second car. Besides, I would not want to sell my CRX, since I’m really attached to it. Yesterday evening I was browsing a bit the internet and searched for parts for my CRX, when I just found this really nice and red CRX. I really like the way it’s been built up, though I would do some more modifications on it. First of all I would paint the fence in its front lip black, just like the blinker lights, the headlights and the rear lights. Besides, I would unmount that ugly spoiler and replace it by the CRX’s original one, of course painted in the car’s red metallic. And the last two things I would change back to stock would be the gas cap and the H-emblem on the hood. I don’t like it when people clean away the Honda sign. What I actually really do like on that CRX are the rims. By now, I could not find out what make they are, so if anyone actually knows how these rims are called please tell me.

Whatever, I think the guy who did that put about three or four K into the car’s exterior design, what would just be the price for a used, stock Fiero. Humpf.