Willdat?

This would be a great little bike loop. I have a pair of CT90s and a Lifan 125 on standby in the workshop... https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Hanmer+Springs/Molesworth+Station,+Awatere+Valley+7274,+New+Zealand/Pelorus+Bridge,+7192,+New+Zealand/Maitai+Valley+Rd,+Nelson+7010,+New+Zealand/Rainbow+Station+Toll+Gate+Wairau-Hanmer+Springs+Hydro+Road,+Rainbow,+New+Zealand/Hanmer+Springs,+New+Zealand/@-41.8943439,172.809209,9z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m38!4m37!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d3063796f545947:0x500ef86847973f0!2m2!1d172.8288246!2d-42.5262427!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d3a14d049276985:0x494c57d5ff09f89!2m2!1d173.2591273!2d-42.0862879!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d3be340c4ab1c95:0x500ef868479d490!2m2!1d173.5716845!2d-41.2977248!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d3bedd37066b9c5:0x87d6a51cab8fffa9!2m2!1d173.3292901!2d-41.2876764!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d3af56c3f100b9b:0xc2fe37b51d743472!2m2!1d172.889758!2d-41.9901204!1m5!1m1!1s0x6d3063796f545947:0x500ef86847973f0!2m2!1d172.8288246!2d-42.5262427!3e1

I remember as a kid my old man doing the same with his BMW R80 and Suzuki TS185ER...

Please tell me you're only paying rego on one of these fine machines...What did you do with the EFI gear?

I'd love to but it's not going to happen while I'm a teacher...

These look like NC30 wheels - I wish I was 5ft7 so I could fit one without looking comical

Would be keen to see some photos!

Thanks heaps for the offer - I already have one. civicwagon.com people would fizz, has @chris r got a copy?

Result of center caps from one stop cutting shop - not sure if I want to shoulder or counter sink the cap screw... Parts are fitted. Strut spacers have levelled car out perfectly - this is with both ends as slammed as they can go... Just need to sort out what I'm doing with ABS and then cert.

Spring compressors - not something I need often, but keen to own. Where's the sweet spot of cheap/not shit?

Brings back memories! I've had both - rode the RMX50 to my first OS event in Kaikoura from Nelson. Cruised at an indicated ~90km/h, topping out at ~110. Is the TS a 5 or 6 speed?

You'll be after an RMX/SMX50 in no time...

Definitely easier - civicwagon.com has plenty of info on this, the lifting wasn't the only end goal though - was really after adjustable height with a leveled (Beagles run kind of nose down) starting point. I've sent this away to One Stop Cutting Shop to be cut out of 5 mm aluminium as center caps for the wheels. Not quite as cool as the stock ones but quite a lot cheaper at $15+GST each.

Pulled driveshaft was the solution. Have ordered some of these and these to sort front suspension. Honda Rescue garage can supply a 6" lift kit if I ever feel like getting silly/making something completely undrivable... @cletus pointed out a really simple way to see if the spacers were going to work - just unbolt the strut from top mount and see how much movement I could get without fouling - was an easy 45mm so have gone for 1.5" to be on the safer side. Extractors are fitted, feels like it pulls better to redline as the SOHC cast manifold was restricted. Once these parts show up I just have the ABS removal to make the vehicle completish...

Hey Clint, would these be certable in NZ? https://www.ebay.com/itm/HRG-Engineering-Honda-Civic-88-00-CRV-97-01-2-lift-blocks-kit-RD1/263707103095?hash=item3d662b0f77:g:feMAAOSwtida3L2r Cheers!

Haha yeah - the stainless extractors are not really hammerable - they seem to want to take aroute straight over the transfer case! - The stock lower 2:1 section works but the cast iron doesn't take too kindly to hammer action. Definitely not coming out the bottom, passenger side is pretty close...I could pull the crank pulley to give me a little more room - here's someone else attacking a CRX.

Crikey - least productive afternoons work on a car I've ever had! First fitted extractors - unfortunately 2:1 section fouls on the transfer case. Followed by pulling the alternator out - as far as I can see I'll have to pull a driveshaft to get it out. Or does @chris r have a clever tip?

I'd do the same - except my ABS pump squeals like a bastard if it's not activated more than once a week, I don't have an aggressive enough driving style for this. So it spends its life (except for the drive to get a WOF) unplugged. Which also means I'm probably driving around uninsured, looking forward to getting it all sorted!

Cheers, seems really sensible to me too. Have chucked a question in the cert thread. Alternator failed this weekend which kind of made me pause and think about whether I'm missing the point with this car. Perhaps I'd be better off in a WRX and maybe be a little more competitive, but then I thought about how this really is the one car to rule them all, for this stage of my life. I can't think of anything else that could tow a boat up to St Arnaud (with 4 people and tramping gear). Enter in an Autocross event and do pretty well despite average driving. Doort with the best of them >5000rpm, and make me smile because it's different. Oh and that I can afford... And finally a car that I can 'almost' fit in with around here, it's not my dream car, but it's a pretty sweet compromise.

Getting my ducks in a row for cert for the Beagle. Are these style of strut spacers certable? https://www.ebay.com/itm/HRG-Engineering-Honda-Civic-88-00-CRV-97-01-2-lift-blocks-kit-RD1/263626959047?fits=Model%3ACivic&hash=item3d616428c7:g:feMAAOSwtida3L2r Will only be needed in the front end if that makes any difference? Also, is there anything tricky about getting cert for removing ABS beyond changing master cylinder and brake lines to non-ABS?

I understand what you're saying in MTB world I would have called droop travel 'sag', a little bit easier to tweak just with air pressure! I'd seen top hat spacers on budget 'lift' kits but had figured they might be a bit primitive for here. The fact that @cletus has liked your post fills me with some confidence that they might be certable. Are there any guidelines that you know of for design/materials? Cert is on the cards before next WOF so would like to it once, correctly. edit: would something like this be ok? 50 mm is probably on the excessive side, but could that style of spacer be legal? https://www.ebay.com/itm/HRG-Engineering-Honda-Civic-88-00-CRV-97-01-2-lift-blocks-kit-RD1/263626959047?fits=Model%3ACivic&hash=item3d616428c7:g:feMAAOSwtida3L2r I hadn't thought about checking wheel clearance, last event (with stock suspension) my front jacking point touched the ground..

Managed to wind up another 5 mm into the front - full firm is actually amazing handling on seal, and full soft is tolerable for general driving. I've popped adjustable camber arms in the rear (arguably the nicest item on the entire car...). Will be going to a guy who likes unusual cars in the next few weeks for a wheel allignment and some advice on springs, I'd really like another 25mm-50mm of height in front, but that's more about aesthetics/general rock dodging than necessity. Took my little brother for a drive, doorts sooo nicely, but still pretty slow. I wonder if @chris r still has that braced DOHC ZC block? Quite keen to build up a turbo engine and gearbox slowly over the next few years...

I think this Beagle is the tallest car on adjustable suspension ever, rear springs are only just captive at this height, fronts are wound as high as I can get them. Still better than it was before!

This is relevant to my interests, but I still can't come My first OS meet was in Kaikoura - rode my RMX50 from Nelson there and back. Miss that bike, my CL50 is cuter but not as fun.

Fitted Konis tonight, like @chris r said they bolted straight up, in fact I've had more trouble with bike tyres than I had swapping suspension over - it actually would almost be worth swapping them in and out each WOF if you were that way inclined. I've only done a lap around the block with all 4 shocks wound all the way to firm, felt hilarious, definitely less body roll. Height wise the rears look like I can get about stock + or - 50 mm in height. Fronts are hopefully capable of the same. Really need some C spanners to have a proper play. edit: Figured out I had them wound all the way to soft, crikey, slammed on firm is going to be interesting. C-Spanners are on the way.