enginetiks

Congratulations on the article...still one of my favorite cars I've dealt with.

retroman

I'll be brutally honest. I hate asian cars. I've come across a few that I have looked at, but overall I don't like the way they look or sound. Hollywood and 16 year old ricers have not helped me along any. I'm purely a muscle car enthusiast, so this may be the only time I ever post on an import forum, but I want you to know that I for whatever reason have always had an unusual (for me) appreciation for the CRX, and I read all 26 pages of this thread. I wondered if someone had done a mid-engine conversion to one, so I googled it, which lead me here, and now I know. Congrats on the mag cover story btw. I will have to pick it up off the rack next time I'm at the store. There are a few suggestions I'd like to make though if you don't mind. If you do a more streetable version 3, what I would do if it were mine would be to see if I could fit a gas tank in the center hump where your coolant lines are currently run. I own a Fiero, and that's where the tank is from the factory. The coolant lines are then tucked behind the sideskirts. Battery would be up front with the old engine bay converted to a trunk. Other mods I would do would be to put a vent in the hood to let out hot high pressure air. Many Fiero owners do this to improve handling as it keeps the car from floating at high speed. The gas door intake was ingenious, but I think V3 should be more professional, like the car came that way from the factory. I would shave the gas door lid and either put scoops on the quarter windows or go with lower quarter panel scoops. I would also cut the rear hatch window in an inch or two on the sides and put full length vents running down to let hot air out of the new engine compartment. Because many exotics also showcase their engines this way, I wouldn't bother covering the motor up with an aluminum sheet so spectators can see it in all its glory under the rear glass. Instead I would separate the passenger compartment with a piece of Lexan running from the roof down halfway where it would meet the firewall. I have seen this in a few exotics as well. Lastly, I would probably go with small block Chevy or at least a GM 3.8SC, but that is the muscle car guy in me talking. I know you all have your own ways to getting power. I'm no fabricator, so I don't know what it would take to do all this, or if some of it would be legal on the track, but I thought there would be no harm in putting it out there. Hope I didn't hijack your thread and ramble on too much. I wish you the best of luck. Please keep building because I hope to read more on this project later and it's just pure awesome!!!


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zimsplat

Well I had a bitter sweet day last week. Two really cool guys made the drive up from San Jose to sign papers for the RWD CRX. I was sad to see it go, but happy to see how excited the new owners were. Sounds like they had some pretty cool plans for it in the future. Nearly shed a tear when I saw her drive away. I realized that I'd only seen/heard it drive from the outside once before with my best friend Tim behind the wheel. This has been an insane and fun project from day one, and definitely learned a ton. Almost equal to the amount of joy I've had building and driving the car was sharing it with others that were interested. Hopefully I've inspired others to do something truly unique. I'd love to see some links posted up of other people who have done similar projects. It is time to move on though to the next project, heaven knows what that will be. I'll continue to keep an eye on the HT thread, and as always, I'll be happy to answer any more of the emails about this project.


-Caleb

JuggerNaut-CTR

That's sad

tegsandsol

Probably the coolest build on a Honda I have ever seen. Mad props to you my friend.

88ED8

How much you sell if for, if you don't mind saying..?

SOCKinside

i guess if the price was RIGHT, would be the only way i would sell it

soopakool

Basically the coolest thing I have ever seen. If I had that kind of cash, I'd do that with my Crx too. So much cool.

zimsplat

I'll say that the price was right, but more importantly the circumstances were right. I had a blast building this project over the last few years, but the last 2 Its done alot of sitting. Life changes, new hobbies, etc. It was sad to see it go, but it made me happiest to see owners with fresh motivation to take it to its next level of rediculous. It would have been much harder to sell even at a higher price to less excited owners.

Kova23

zimsplat

did you weight your crx?
could you say what is weight distribution?

zimsplat

https://www.facebook.com/pages/RWD-C...8653092?ref=hl

weiRtech

I won't sell mine because no one would be willing to pay the value I feel it is worth.






aaron

abnaasefmb

That is just cool. What did you do for steering?

weiRtech

this was before the risers were made.

Pipnorcali

videos i shot at the last Cmi race

zimsplat

Nice!
What time did it run?

My_EFsedan

that would be my cousin and his partner! i drove the car and i must say, its a whole different feeling. that video above the car went 12.1 and i think that was the best that day. it also spun out but barely missed the wall. theres more bugs to work out as far as i know. marco babied that car down the track haha.

(this was the day of track)

Jelle Schrijver

This is freakin awsome...👍👍👍

zimsplat

soxle

Congrats!
very nice build!

Martin Jr

aswome set up, how did you get the shifter to work?

nstyd15b7

I just saw a 1320video on a RWD civic last night this is so COOL... awesome build...

ssmrico

MAN badass

MofasterthenUr'

any help on how i can make the pictures work?