vectorsolid

Well, I figure I should get a build thread going for this car. It's my son's first build thread. He's not much about hanging out on the forums, so I'm gonna get the ball rolling. I mentioned to him that it's important to document the build, and you can store information about the car here in the thread and refference it later.

I'll have him come by later and tell us what he'd like to do to the car, and what direction and styling he likes.

Car runs great, is pretty straight, little or no rust at all. We G-tech'd it right off the bat. Here's what it ran as we got it.

1) 17.199@82.91, 0-60=10.17seconds
2) 17.422@79.14, 0-60=10.53seconds

2nd pass, had some wheelspin in 1st gear. Not to embarrassing for the little HF. Fun car.

Well, let's see what happens.

Pee Wee

that hatch bumper looks so weird on a crx

ryanevansoh

that looks like a hatch bumper to me too. but gl on build, good starting point

EF-Devotion

Looks like a clean crx to me, expect civic bumper and bottom of doors. other than that it's clean. great find.

89CRXHFB16A

Clean little Hf, get rid of that civic bumper quick, and that blue interior at some point. good luck, drop some bucks and let us know how it goes!!!

BrayzieEF9

So this is what happens, when you can't source crx parts.you get a civic front end on a crx.

lunalink

LOL

vectorsolid

He's on the hunt for a front end.

vectorsolid

looks like we found a GSR engine for the rex. Found it in a roached out project car. Guy claims it has a sleeved bottom end, aftermarket rods and pistons, springs retainers, clutch and aftermarket axles. I guess we'll see how it goes, we swung the deal for the car.

craphatch

bump for fellow montana crx owner glwb

redef90si

iTrader: (3)

that a very nice "donor" motor,goodluck with the build.

vectorsolid

Started working on the seats. Randon found some old D.A.D. seats (dynamic auto design) I'd purchased for a Rabbit build quite a while back, hanging out in the corner of the garage. Turns out... was 2002 according to the receipt on the box... He dug on the seats, so we had to figure out how to mount them. We didn't want to just bolt them through the floor with nuts or bolt heads hanging out under the car. We liked the idea of being able to use the factory bolt locations for quick seat changes. So that's how we designed this seat base. I've made my fair share of seat bases, but usually it's just something that bolts through the floor, rather unceremoniously. This one had to use the existing mounts. AND, he's taller than I'm at over 6', so we had to make sure the seat (still on a full slider) was as low as we could get it for head room including a helmet. No easy feat in a Rex.

This is what we came up with.

The rear slider bolts on the seat, rest on the carpet. I think if we cut the carpet out, and peened a small spot in the floor. and ground the bolt flush with the nut, we could lower it perhaps another 3/4".

vectorsolid

all the way forward and all the way back.

vectorsolid

Does anybody know if the CRX floor and seat mounts are the same as the EF's? I might make a jig to make this quicker on the next go round.

BrayzieEF9

They are not the same,they also differ from years and trims.

vectorsolid

I think we're going to end up making another set of seat bases with no sliders. As the only person normally driving the car is the owner, why not absolutely lock the seat into his favorite position? Also would help lower the seat about 1.5 inches, putting the driver lower in the car as well which is better for road racing.

Going to start thinking about a roll bar design, a traction bar design, battery box and a few other fun projects.

DCRB

those brackets look CLEAN good job!

dcraige

Are you guys going to junk that EG? It looks like an easy fix. Mabey put the HF motor in there?

vectorsolid

thanks.

We already have a buyer for the EF engine and trans. Guy offered us $200 for the complete d15b2 swap, so we took it (hella good deal for him!). The early plan is to utterly strip the EG sedan and junk it. I'd quarter it up if guys need major body pieces. Or sell the shell with title, come and get it $100. Plan on skidding it onto your trailer... it ain't gonna be a roller of any kind.. think "shell".

khellapeter

is that a ef hatchback bumper on the crx?

vectorsolid

Nah, better than JDM it's a hella-sweet "CDM" body panel kit. "Canadian Domestic Market".... not a lot of guys do it or know about it, pretty obscure next level stuff. I think it was about $6500 and came on a RHD car front half we had air freighted in. We put the bumper cover stuff on and scrapped the "played" RHD conversion. It's just how we roll. I suspect the Honda Tuning magazine dudes phones are ringing off the hook about it...

vectorsolid

There was so much "hokey" wiring with old stereo and alarm stuff, it was decided to pull the dash and clean up the wiring. While the dash was out, we took the opportunity to pull the A/C stuff out permanently and fill the firewall to tidy it up.

There is now talk of a full wire tuck and shave this winter. Ambitious!











Looks a little better.

vectorsolid

Modded the battery tray so we could use the red strap, put some fresh paint on some Tokico drop coilovers.

Before


after


Cleaned up, painted and ready for install.

Crackdonalds

Interested in the end result.

mruneek

awesome build!!!! wish my dad was down with the honda love!!!