CFP_IVAN

Hello, this is my 1990 CRX SI track car. I'm getting this car ready to take it to SEBRING RACEWAY to learn how to properly race on track. By signing up with events like CHIN MOTORSPORTS and SAFE, i'm able to have an instructor whom is very experienced, teach me all the things i should know to be a great driver. From turn in points to hitting the apex and exiting as well, braking, shifthing, and accelarating. I've built this car mainly betwen me and my friend Patrick, on a very strict budget.

The body harness is a 20 circuit painless harness which is not really painless. lol. :D

I completly removed any bit of wiring from the factory harness, even the engine harness. Then I cut all the pigtails to the body harness and engine harness that I needed for the car to run. I purchased an OBD1 ECU and had Hondata installed (S100) is what i needed but with boost, since next year I'm supercharging. After all that I went to the junkyard and purchased an OBD1 dizzy, Injectors, TB, IAC, IAT, VSS, ALT, and engine harness. Cut all the pigtails of the OBD1 Harness and I started making a one-piece engine harness. If you look at the pic with the switches, the one to the right is my self diagnostics switch, If I have a code,there's a yellow check engine light at the cluster, if it turns on, I press the yellow switch and it starts blinking the engine codes. .

The Body harness took me 8 hours to finish, blinkers, hazards, headligths and tailights, brake lighs, cooling fan, fuel pump, gauges, ignition coil, ecu, and sterter.

The Engine harness took me 17 hours to complete and lots of headakes :crazy: yes, crazy work. I happened to have had all the wiring diagrams. It's a task that requires lots of understanding on how electrics and electronics work.



Here's a listing of its mods.

ENGINE:

B16A STOCK
ARC INTAKE
DC HEADERS
ALUMINUM EXAHUST
HASSPORT MOUNTS
NEW OEM TIMING BELT
NEW LMA
NGK PLUGS AND WIRES
OBD2 INTAKE MANIFOLD
OBD2 FUEL RAIL
OBD2 INJECTORS
OBD2 T BODY
OBD2 DIZZY

DRIVETRAIN:

ACT STAGE II CLUTCH
6 LBS ALUMINUM FLYWHEEL
B16A TRANNY
SKUNK2 SHORT SHIFTER AND ****
POLY LINKAGE BUSHINGS
NEW OEM AXLES
NEW AXLE SEALS
SYNCROMESH

BRAKES:

OVERSIZED MASTER CYLINDER
RUSSELL SS BRAKE LINES
BREMBO BLANK ROTORS
MOTUL RBF FLUID
HAWK BLUE PADS
CUSTOM BRAKE DUCKTS

SUSPENTION:

FULL BODIED COILOVERS 32 WAY ADJ
ST FULL SUSPENTION BUSHINGS
FRONT AND REAR INGALLS CAMBER ARMS
SWAY BAR BUSHINGS
FRONT STRUT BAR

BODY:

JDM FRONT END
FRONT LIP 3 INCH
FRONT SPLITER
SPORTS BIKE MIRRORS
LEXAN WINDOWS
SPARCO FIBER GLASS DRIVER SEAT
SPARCO STEAL FRAMED SEAT
CUSTOM MADE DASH
FLARED REAR FENDERS
CUSTOM REAR WING
SIX POINT ROLL CAGE
RJS HARNESSES
HOOD PINS
UNDER BODY PANEL
REAR DIFFUSER

ELECTRONICS:

HONDATA S100
CUSTOM MADE ONE PIECE ENGINE HARNESS
AUTOMETER GAUGES, OIL PRESS, WATER TEMP, EGT, VACUUM
AEM UEGO WIDEBAND
PAINLESS 20 CIRCUIT BODY HARNESS
KILL SWITCH
TAYLOR BATTERY BOX
ODDESSY 10LBS BATTERY

FUEL SYSTEM:

WALBRO IN LINE FUEL PUMP 255 LPH
8 GALLON FUEL CELL
AUTOMETER FUEL PRESS GAUGE
B&M FUEL PRESS REGULATOR
SS FUEL LINES
-8 AN FITTINGS AND HOSES

WHEELS AND TIRES:

DRY:

JDM BLACK RACING WHEELS 15X7 +35 OFFSET, 11 LBS EACH
HOOSIER R6 FULL SLICK RACE TIRES 205/50R15

RAIN:

USDM ROTA WHEEL 16X7 +38 OFFSET 16 LBS EACH
BF-GOORICH RAIN TIRES 205/55R16


THANKS TO EVERYBODY FOR ANY HELP OR PARTS PROVIDED FOR THIS PROJECT.

Most recent pic of the front end, and engine bay.

ART 6 point rollbar, Taylor aluminium battery box, badass camera mount. RJS CAM-LOCK 5 point harness.

Driver (SPARCO EVO) Passenger (SPARCO ROAD)

Just picked up the valve cover. $30 bucks. :mrgreen:

Interior cabin. all panels are real CARBON FIBER.

This was at SEBRING RACEWAY for first test drive of the day, at CHIN MOTORSPORTS event.

Lexan side and rear windows plus making rear aero.

About to start drilling the Lexan.

Back window almost done, looking good.

Full custom made aluminum exahust and Kawasaki muffler.

Even the hangers are made of aluminium.

Not the cleanests welds but it'll work.

Transition from Steel to Aluminum for the exhaust.

Dry ice to remove sound deadning material.

Dry ice job finished. Much cleaner and lighter.

Getting ready to paint.

Custom wiring and interior got fresh paint job.

Front spliter plus brake duckts.

Full JDM front end convertion.

Some downforce at the back, also smoked taillights.

installing front end and preping for paint.

Interior almost done.

Clean engine bay, stock B16A with some mods.

Flaring rear fenders to fit new HOOSIER R6 Tires, 205/50/15.

A little bondo and we're done.

New HOOSIERS R^.

Painting interior.

Side view.

Some wiring.

Brake fluid, Motul RBF 600 and Russell brake lines (stainless steel)

Wiring (cleanliness)

Tail light harness.

Back of switches

Removed the sunroof, replace with thin sheetmetal.

At the track, SEBRING.

Brake ducting

17 hor engine harness.

Hawk blue pads on brand new Calipers.

One more.

Getting ready to pressure wash the engine.

Front spliter before paint

Kawasaki 1400cc muffler

Prep work.

Taylor box

Wet sanding engine bay.

More brake duckting and engine bay finished painting.

Getting ready for engine to go in.





I'm now working on the under body panel and rear diffuser which is connected to the front spliter. I'm making it from the same material as the Spliter, (Alumalite)

By building this panels, I'll lower my (drag coefficient) turning my car into a more aerodynamic platform. Thus making it faster and more stable, as well as increasing its handling. Although the prototype of the diffuser looks like is at 15 degrees, I'm going to be runing about 10.


Total cost so far- $50.00

Total time so far- 4 hours.

Here's what it should look like. Bottom view.

Here is the view from the back. Rear diffuser.

First glance at the prototype

clean3two3

looks good.keep the pics coming

D16SiHatch

very nice gypsy

es.roadster

freakin sexy. track *****.

D16y7delsol

lol thats freakin sick!...not fans of CRX but this 1 is sick!

acmoc

this is cool, subscribed=]

CFP_IVAN

Thanks for all the good comments, i'll post more picks after the next track event at SEBING RACEWAY january the 3rd.

EFRue57

subscribed......................clean car man, keep up the awesome work.

sgallagher

Very nice! So what was this very strict budget?

S2KFTW

cool man! I bet that'll be a lot of fun at the track I was looking into going to a NASA event at Sebring with my CRX. just didn't work out but next time they're there I'll be going in my S2000

89civicdx

Your whole rollbar is totally unsafe dude . At least add the rear down tubes to some 1/8th plate because now its just welded to the sheet metal corner


And I don't understand the fuel lines are just hanging off with some zip ties....off the swaybar


But otherwise It looks pretty awesome


Oh ya you can buy the slipfit so it slips inside the aluminum tube then clamp the aluminum around it coming off the collector then it won't leak like it will now. I made mine for $10

heel_touge

more of the finished product!!!


so once at sebring was it anything like you thought?

89s1

I think you got ripped off if you're calling those things in your engine bay hasport mounts.

or maybe thats why you said "hassport."

Looks good overall though. More pics of the brake ducts

CFP_IVAN

i had a deadline to meet and the fuel lines were temporary, will be addressing them in the near future. The cage is not mandatory and its also not finished, their main purpose for me was to have a good harness bar at shoulder hight. And thanks but the exahust doesn't leak at all, its flared and expanded inside the steel pipe.

Thanks for looking out, and appreciate the nice comments.

CFP_IVAN

It was more then i thought, great track, event, people, learning experience. Highly recommend to race car enthusiast.

CFP_IVAN

I checked and those are actually their first mounts the put out. but we replaced the inserts with good ones, the B16 in my car was swapped almost ten years ago. And no i din't get ripped off they where free to me.

CFP_IVAN

including car and parts, about $7000.

south504

what is the part number to that painless kit?

0ne-Cam

slam a turbo on that beast!!!
got any 1/4 mile times? just the (trap) time

and SUBSCRIBED...

northemt88

very clean, 2thumbs up

LightWeightChamp

I'm so jealous. Nice work.

89s1

Proof? I own Oldskool hasports. Thats not what mine look like...

89civicdx

^No offense but they are just mounts with bushings...what is the difference really? The motor is in and sits properly...what more do you want?

redzcstandardhatch

i love how just because its not the "norm" they sometimes think a cage is "totally unsafe"

that cage would stand up rather well i'd guess. good triangulation, etc.

one more bar from the top corner by the drivers head down to the lower pass-side of the hoop would really help.

cool car. i wanna build a low-powered dedicated track car so badly it hurts.


those mounts look just like the OLD hasports we've got in a crx. the poly in our bushings was bleeding out so hasport sent us brand new inserts for free. THUMBS UP for hasport.

89civicdx

What do you mean not the norm? lol you mean the safe way?
1st its not a cage its a rollbar
2nd the rear down tubes don't attach to anything but sheet metal there is no plate under it....you think that corner is going to stop those tubes from shooting out?
3rd , how do you figure that having 2 triangles meeting at a point is safe at all? The main hoop is just going to spread the top of the X open, just look at the picture it it's not that difficult to picture.