Snafu-Si

Every time I look inside the engine bay of a 1st gen, I always think, "did they have something else planned in here? Because damn there's a lot of room in here!" I kind of thought they had planned a V6 option in the CR-V and just decided not to.

kiseliok

I paid around 1k for a bunch of various rust / paint repairs, bumper paintings, etc.

OneBadTurboCRV

The engine bay is just like an EK if you haven't noticed. The only difference is the height due to the design of trying to be a SUV with high seat placement. MANY EK parts work perfectly in the bay. Engine and torque mounts being the most popular used ones if I had to guess.

tony_2018

Which makes it perfect....for the j-swap. Don't have to worry about hood clearance, or ground clearance. Best grocery getter and get away suv (if it had the j swap).

OneBadTurboCRV

I am not convinced a J-swap is best. Why don't you do one and post some videos for us and time slips. Thanks man.

Ratt1

So Snafu-Si --- I'll ask the tough question since no one wants to.... Who is that in your avatar picture?

tony_2018

Its planned. I just need to save up. I"m not all about dragging. I just want this 1st gen to have some amazing pep without having to do any FI. +/- 240hp isn't so bad. To its just another fun project lined up. I've already asked one guy I heard about that has a shop out of New York and he told me the simple route to get what I need.

Snafu-Si

That sounds like a fun project.

tony_2018

Fun or not its second on the list. Gonna do a b20b automatic in a civic sedan. The d is so underpowered. Can't have my little sister driving around in a slow as civic

Snafu-Si

I'm wondering if Honda is ever going to give some real engine options on the CR-V. From the early B series engines and eventually to the K24 variations they've been stuck on since 2002? I think the first K24's in the CRV had about 160 ish HP. Now today the current 2014s have about 185, its nice and all but it seems to be lacking somewhat to some of the competitors.

MPG doesn't seem to be particularly its strong suit with rising fuel prices, the modern ones rated at 22city/30hwy, and its lucky if it even does that. City mpg hasn't changed ever. I think mine is listed at 22/25mpg. It'd be nice to see a CRV getting around 25-32 mpg ish.

The Subaru Forester is interesting in their standard engine FB2.5, its mpg is higher, and though its listed a slightly less HP 170 vs 185, it has slightly more torque. That being said it out accelerates the CR-V too, while getting better mpg at 24/32/26.

Heck the Forester turbo with FA2.0 has 250HP and 258lbs TQ and the same combined MPG rating as the current CRV. It sounds like a hoot to drive and peppy little SUV that goes 60 in roughly low 6 secs. That all while having standard AWD. If there's one thing the CR-Vs have ever felt a to me, was a little on the slower side of the spectrum.

The newer CR-Vs seem to have been more soccer mom'd more than I'd like them to be, then again, the mass majority of their customers are probably soccer moms. The Forester and Forester Turbo come off looking very appealing to me as a viable replacement someday for the CR-V. Better mpg, peppier, especially the turbo, more off road prowess, great awd system.

It would be somewhat sacrilege for me to get a non CRV in the family, as this family has seen mostly nothing but CR-Vs. 1999 CRV, 2004 CRV, 2005 CRV, 2007 CRV, 2011 CRV.
There was two 1996 Grand Jeep Cherokees Limited, but one burnt to the ground when the heated seats caught fire. The other kept popping out of "park" and rolling away. Ah Mopar.

Sorry I went off a tangent and sounded like a Subaru commercial. I've been brainstorming ideas for a future replacement for my CR-V and its all just been pondering in my head for sometime now.

How about a CR-V Diesel? If it doesn't have to be fast, it can be at least uber mpg efficient! Give me a diesel, raise the CR-V back up to around 8 inches, put the spare back outside the car, because I'd rather have more interior space and a full size spare anyway! Hmm, and give me back my picnic table! A CRV without a picnic table, is no CRV!!

Snafu-Si

Life is too short to drive a boring car.

tony_2018

Google c-tdi crv.

Snafu-Si

What are the chances Honda would bring over ANY diesel to the U.S.? Or are they going to shove more expensive Hybrids that are less fuel efficient into our faces?

tony_2018

Its not there fault. The emissions here are just that stupid, yes the question is "we have turbo diesel vw's so why can't honda bring turbo diesels over". That will always be an issue with politics. If these DCT transmissions are working perfectly, here's hoping they can mate it to the c-tdi and bring it over.

Snafu-Si

Emission laws here are rather silly, the politics, they're also lazy, and inefficient, I know, I used to work at the EPA importing vehicles at the National Vehicle and Fuel Emissions Laboratory (NVFEL) in Ann Arbor Michigan. National Vehicle & Fuel Emissions Laboratory (NVFEL) | Transportation and Air Quality | US EPA.

Many senior members of the EPA don't work Monday or Friday. Every weekend is a 4 day weekend most year round. When they are at work, I remember the vice director that had to sign off on all the vehicles I'm importing, (mostly for military personnel), he was always sleeping in his cubicle, snoring away. Not bad for someone making 100k+++ a year. Tax dollars hard at work. When I walked through the office, people are mostly talking about their weekends, or flirting with the newest office girl.

Every time I went into the printing office, I realized people were printing things totally not work related. Somebody had printed the entire book of Harry Potter, and people were printing out potential purchase items on Ebay. Probably 1/2 of the things printed out at the office had nothing to do with work.

This one OLD lady, must have been 70+ yrs old, she was nice, but I'm not sure DID anything. Her cubicle was a HOARDERS cubicle, she had TROLL figures all over the place, stacks of folders 3 feet high. FIFTY BILLION pictures of her grand kids. If you'd walk by she'd offer you candy. It was like your neighbor granny. But if she actually DID anything there? I don't know.

I felt that the guy running the convenience shop within the building, where you can buy drinks and snacks, worked harder that most the "engineers". And the convenience store guy was blind. No I mean literally blind. I'd tell him what dollar bill I'm giving him and he would have his till box memorized. Unless you were a lying bastard you could tell him the wrong money. But there was a camera there to catch such dorks should they try.

My job was to import vehicles, cars, bikes, race cars, etc. Working through compliance forms of 3520-1 to assist people in other countries bring over vehicles for whatever reason. Mostly boring work, but was pretty cool importing a few F1 cars for personal owners. I actually did the paperwork to bring over the F2002, and F2004 Ferrari F1 cars over. Its just paperwork but it made me feel fuzzy inside.

When work was slow and I was getting stiff sitting in front of the computer for hours, I'd walk around and stretch and walk over to the next building where they do emission testing and fuel mileage testing for new cars. It was pretty cool to see upcoming cars and poke at new vehicles that don't exist, like new gen Porsche's, Audi R8 months before it ever came out. Audi engineers didn't appreciate it and thought that "I might be sabotaging the car". I don't know HOW I would, bunch of **** kraut bastards.

I liked working there, but I didn't like the work. Its lazy, and boring. But its so easy, too easy, too easy for me to stay sane.

Snafu-Si

Sorry went on a little story again. So yeah, here's to hoping that we'll see a CR-V diesel someday.

Snafu-Si

Hmmm I actually tried out some plasti dip today. I plasti dipped my xbox controller, my motorcycles helmet, which actually turned out really well, and a small part of the car where it was rusting a little bit. My paint is so dull, I think the matte plasti dip was even shinier!

That plasti dip site has their stuff but they're a little bit on the pricier side. Not sure if I can get spray gallons at Lowes or Home Depot.

tony_2018

If you're just doing black you can do it cheaply

Snafu-Si

I'm looking at some spray guns, a few Wagner HVLP guns, looks like some range around $100-$150. I'm not sure how much that DipYourCar Spray gun is really worth the $150 they charge for it, its got the lowest psi rating of other guns I see, and shortest length.

I don't know much about spray guns so I'm trying to read up on them.

Sprayable black dip looks to be roughly around $35-$50 per gallon of black.

I saw a 4 gallon pack on Amazon for spray black for $170 shipped.

tony_2018

You really need 4 gallons to spray a front bumper?

Anyways if this isn't going to be a tech thread on something you're currently fixing than it shouldn't continue. This seems more like an opinion thread.

Snafu-Si

No I meant spraying the entire car. :p

most of my questions have been answered, tech wise, I have come to a conclusion to what I need to do for the body side of the CR-V. Good suggestion were given and its not just for me to do it.

That new job I applied for didn't come through, so it kind of slows me down but alas I know what i need to do now.