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while waiting for the spacers to arrive, got myself some rear camber arms. and here are the spacers! 20mm front and 15mm back. set about getting the spacers on... before sorta after guards needed a roll...

Advanti Tech-x 18x9. +15 offset tires were neuton nt5000

my goodies arrived rear suspension ended up rubbing the wheel so some spacers were in order. Got them sized up and ordered. in the mean time ended up driving with stock rears for a while. got to test the wagon on a few occasions... moved my girlfriend from one house to another in one trip! also managed to get some time up the mountain. everything fit awesomely in the back

I was pretty stoked with the newly acquired wagon, and was looking forward to giving it a good looking over. Took it to a mates work and got it up in the air... standard 10 years of wear everywhere. tried on some rims, and had a look at some suspension options... ended up going for the same wheels, but in red. ordered those and some BC golds and began the wait.

The prelude did the job, got me around town, and even fit my snowboarding gear to take to the hill, but i always wanted a nice wagon... and so the search began. ended up finding a gem in Tauranga. Here is the beast, 1996 RSFour, bone stock. Perfect Apparently the engine has had some problems, and the loom was replaced. Wasn’t too fussed, I wanted a project car anyway so I figured that ll just give me something to tinker with. The plan for it was just to get some good suspension, wheels and that’s it. I guess that’s how everyones project start right…

So starting at the beginning, before I decided on the wagon life, I had a prelude... Not really my first choice for a car, but I just got my first engineering job and I needed something to get me from Nelson to Hamilton. Picked it up for 3K, got it serviced and drove it up to Hamilton. Over time I did a few things to it, nothing major. At some point decided to respray it, just because I wanted to see how it went. After that I sold it.

So I ve been on this forum for a while now, and at some point even tried to document the build of my Stagea. Unfortunately being pretty busy, I let it slide. Now that I am traveling and got more time, figured I d get it done. Hope some of the stuff comes in handy for someone on here, I know I got a lot of handy info from this forum.