robx7fcna

Hey guys, I am pretty much a lurker on here so I thought I would come out of hiding and post some info and pics on my car...

previous car.

This car was nice, but there a couple things I didnt like about it...

-I bought it new so there wasnt much I could do to it at the time to retain my warranty
-freaking heavy and the B16 made it slow
-Also wanted to sell it so I could take the majority of the money and put a downpayment on a house!

With that being said, I ended up buying a house and I didnt have much money left over for a car. I wanted an eg at the time but the guy that happened to buy my car had a rather beat up 89 Si that he was willing to trade to me and he would put cash on top. Thinking that this would just be an "in between car", I made the deal, got $19k for my car and the 89 Si as well. this was back in early 2003

The car...





The car was so beat up, the water pump was weaping, the idler pulley bearing was rattling like crazy, the exh was leaking and the heat sheilds were rattling. On the way home from getting this car, I had to stop at a tire shop to get a new front left tire cause the front tire had a big blister on the contact patch and I didnt think I was gonna make it home hahaha

That weekend, I did the timing belt/water pump/ idler pulley just for peice of mind.

here is some more pics of when I 1st got it.

ripped seat

rusty quarters

stock D16a6


with this many kms on the odometer


1st thing I did after the important stuff was that I recovered the drivers seat and extensivly cleaned the interior. cant really see the seat but I dont have a good pic of it

a little rice is allways nice
before


after


Now by this time I've owned the car for 3 months, put a bit of money into it to make it reliable. I thought, "man this is a pretty fun car! for the amount of money I have put into it it has been pretty reliable too! I am gonna get the g/f a CRX!"

got this for her

clean interior!

I thought since I had such great luck with my car that the CRX would be a great commuter for her, and who knows, maybe another project car!

started building a motor for the civic
rebalanced/micropolished crank lightend and balanced flywheel

D16a6 bottom end, .020 overbored and honed, Arp headstuds


Eagle rods, SRP 8.5:1 pistons



z6 head. comp cams 59300 cam, valvesprings and retainers. Head resurfaced

bottom end assembled

bought a Greddy kit. Hey it was the **** back then! hahaha



So Now the bad news.... My HG blew right around this time and my built motor wasnt ready! I needed this car to get back an fourth to work and couldnt afford any downtime. So I did what any sane person would do... BUY ANOTHER MOTOR ahaha. And if I was gonna buy another motor it cant be juat a single cam, lets make it a B16!

I thought, what the heck, I'll put the B16 in my civic, and we will make the CRX the single cam monster and put the built motor in it.

B16 swap done by me and my dad, along with some wise friends on http://www.vancouvercivics.com Thanks Eli(bluelight) and Ian (Aka Raene on here) my great sources of info! swap was done in nov/03



More bad news! Now the CRX blew a headgasket hahaha! good news is that the built motor is ready so we swapped that in.









Back to the civic, (about feb/mar 2004) I was working out some small bugs, (bad ECU, o2 sensor probs, axle seals) got it all fixed, and decided to clean up the engine bay a bit.




17" rims (what was I thinking!)



At this point I was pretty happy with the civic took it to the local track and it ran low 15's not spectacular but I knew it had more into it. I didnt care anyhow, since the CRX was supposed to be the 1/4 mile racer.

Since the greddy kit isnt made for the ef, I had to make my own chargepipes, and I modified the downpipe to a 2 1/2"

turbo kit installed late 2004



oh yeah, I got a wings west kit for the rex as well


custom made my own 2.5" mandrel bent exh

Meanwhile, its now apr 05 and I was tired of those heavy assed 17's I had on the civic. I traded the IC piping that I got with my graddy kit for a set of 16" ADR ryver G5's Kinda wanted 15's but hey these were free!


bought some neuspeed koni yellows and newspeed race springs


Hey is that at fluidyne radiator in my front airdam?



It is! along with a ITR head complete with ITR cams and valvetrain, OEM headgasket with the middle layer removed, AEBS intake manifold and a custom 321 stainless shortram I made









fast forward a yr (june '06) took the car back to the track and ran a 14.1@97.77

put some kms on it

why do I hear a funny sound comming from the timing belt cover? maybe this is why!

the culprit... one of the bolts from the timing belt cover fell into the bottom and was rubbing my timing belt for who knows how long! Thanks god I checked!


replaced the belt, cut the valvecover soI can see the belt at all times from now on...

Ok too much typing! I have to take a break so I will leave it to be continued for now, Lots of cool stuff to come.

Thanks all for looking




Modified by robx7fcna at 1:08 AM 10/13/2008

harmonator84

Looks like you have some nice projects there.

Damn dude you must not like your GF very much getting here a Y49 crx. The headgasket is just the beginning....If I drove one I would keep crutches in it too..haha.

91ed9

sweet

my g/f hates my crx her words (screaming metal death trap)

haha sweet builds bro!

abnaasefmb

sweet, i went for a ride in my buddies b16 na ef today and i love all the sounds!

EFM_ookie

u have some clean cars.. i wish i could find another 88-89 si in that shape

Ready Set Go

i like how her daily commuter becomes your new toy.

crazykamper

both look very nice and clean!! keep up the good work!!

robx7fcna

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by harmonator84 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Looks like you have some nice projects there.

Damn dude you must not like your GF very much getting here a Y49 crx. The headgasket is just the beginning....If I drove one I would keep crutches in it too..haha. </TD></TR></TABLE>

hahaha, you are correct on the headgasket being the beginning, I have some good stories to tell about the y49, just wait hahaha

robx7fcna

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yeah, funny how that worked out eh? hahaha


Modified by robx7fcna at 12:46 AM 4/15/2007

Jerms

oh wow rob didn;t know u use to have a sir ek

hows the Ef coming along at the shop

robx7fcna

Hey Jerms, yeah I had an EM1 SiR before, nothing special... JDM recaros, ITR cams, greddy evo exh but I shouldnt be talking about that car in this forum hahaha.

Anyhow, on with the projects...

So as I said to harmonator84, the y49 CRX was having some problems. I worked on it for a month straight trying to figure out a grounding problem since the ground was so weak that it wouldnt start. I eventually found the problem... I relocated the battery, and never made an engine to chassis ground! fixed that but since I was trying to start the car without that ground before, all the ground traces in my cluster burned up...

Fixed that, drove the car on a basemap for 3-4k kms and all was well. Even on 6 lbs of boost the car hauled! One day I was driving out to my parents house and all the sudden the car started bogging randomly. Then I look in the rear veiw mirror and see a shitload of white smoke...

Turned around and limped the car home, pulled the head ans saw a huge crack in #3 sleeve. That pretty much concluded this build on the car as I was so dissapointed and didnt wanna put more money into the car. I parted out all of the goods and put a stock A6 back in and focused on the civic, and the g/f had a daily commuter car again!

which brings us to the present! In Dec 06, I started gathering parts to do a full exterior restoration, using all OEM parts and all fresh metal.

I came on here for inspiration to see what ppl had done and what colors would be good for me. I wanted it to stay black, but maybe black with pearl or flake. Then I saw this in appearace/cosmetic forum
Java black pearl!


picked up a new front end EF9 front with a mugen lip moulded in


I wonder what these could be???


maybe this is what they are!


New OEM front fenders




Power folding mirrors


EF8 cluster


Sideskirts


JDM tails


New wheels, 15" rays Gram lights 57c's


Matching lugnuts Rays dura-lugs


So I gathered all of these parts and started looking for a reputable bodyshop. Once I did that I started gutting the car for paint. I'll post more pics in a little bit.

djphonics

Damn this thread rocks. Great projects!

teewhy55

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i agree, keep it coming
btw, what sideskirts are those and do u have pics of them on the car?

Autoworks

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agreed

dumped4dr

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x3

wanna see it all put together

89efDUSTY

iTrader: (4)

nice

wantalude

nice ride! not ricey, real clean.

No2Pencil

SOB... NICE man
ill be verry mad if your birlfriend gets one of those no joke

91ed9

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dgonzals

a house and two cars...what a deal....

Prelude_2_NV

Awesome build thread Rob! Those Rays Lug Nuts will look mighty fine with the Gram Lights.

harmonator84

Man I want those rims....where did you get them?

hardEH2

color looks good!

civicflow

awesome

berettagtz117

Damn man that is awesome, your really put the time and money to have a nice EF!