Hondanickx
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- Nick
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- 1998 civic hatch , 2018 civic sedan 1.5T
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Been building my own trunk brace for the last weeks.Why ? Because I wanted as much trunk space as possible and not block the hole behind the seats with braces.And this is a lot cheaper for me since it only cost me the powder coating.
I started with inserting 4 M10 rivet nuts in the top holes ,and I enlarged the 4bottom holes to also accept M10 rivet nuts.
Started making a top bar and a bottom piece .Worked my way from there and connected the 2 with additional braces.
Welded as much as I could while mounted inside the trunk to reduce warping.
Still need to fully weld the backside and hopefully have very little warpage.
After that will do some testing to see/feel if the cars back is much firmer and get it powder coated black as last.
I started with inserting 4 M10 rivet nuts in the top holes ,and I enlarged the 4bottom holes to also accept M10 rivet nuts.
Started making a top bar and a bottom piece .Worked my way from there and connected the 2 with additional braces.
Welded as much as I could while mounted inside the trunk to reduce warping.
Still need to fully weld the backside and hopefully have very little warpage.
After that will do some testing to see/feel if the cars back is much firmer and get it powder coated black as last.