my buddy tony has had that setup on his Dc for like 2 or 3 years now and they are all that car needs. You can just bolt the setup together on da or dc knuckles, or even ef ex knuckles if you can find them.

I'm waiting on a bunch of small flap wheels to come in so the head is on hold till I get the better tooling to clean it up. I just converted the car to full hydro clutch setup using a modified stock pedal assembly. Still need to run to the wrecking yard for a clutch reservoir and bleed it to see how it feels. Also installed a 1" jdm itr master cylinder, purchased it a few months ago but didn't realize the crx masters have slightly longer bolts on the brake booster so I had to spend a little more time making it fit. The block filler seems to be fully hardened just need to make some time to pull the shortblock and tranny out then get it machined for the pistons. Been working allot on my all motor project crx and been tuning a shitload so this car gets worked on when things cool down for a little bit which has been rare recently.

I've always enjoyed portwork. I feel like there's a few areas that are easy to improve plus it's a good learning experience, I think allot of people are scared of jumping into portwork just like people are scared to learn how to tune. This is actually the first dohc vtec head I've ported, all the other heads were pr4, p75 and p8r heads. Just the stock ports on this b16 head are such a huge improvement from the factory castings of non vtec heads, it's easy to see why they are so much better.

Ive been slacking on updating this build thread, well that and not a whole lot has been going on with it to be honest. The motor is at the machine shop getting sized for the pistons and decked, I just got the crank back from redline cam and crank. I converted the car to run a full hydraulic clutch setup and it feels so much better then the old cable clutch with hydro adapter. Also I found that the check valve in the aem 400lph fuel pump was causing a massive restriction so it was drilled clean out and now the fuel pump sounds like it should. Been doing a few little things here and there, painted the intercooler and radiator black, the intercooler and radiator will both have a good amount of the dei heat reflective tape on them to help insulate them from one another. I also decided to change the wheel and tire setup to a set of 16" whistlers with 205/50/16s which have a diameter of 24.1" vs the 22.7" 195/50/15s that were on it before. Retrofitted a set of rt4wd rear mud flaps onto the car and they look perfect on it.

Thanks man, I think it's the small things like that that really make a car come together. Replaced the hatch struts with new ones I got off eBay for $20, they feel amazing. Makes the car feel like a new car. Basically just waiting on the block to get done at the machine shop so I can assemble it then gradually put everything back together. I plan on driving this car a good amount this spring and next summer so I'll be running a 3.5" sprint car muffler on it to tone it down a little.

Yep the red la awesome carpet cleaner and the harbor freight steam cleaner literally melts the stains right off man. I let the carpet cleaner solution sit for a minute or so then go over it with the steam then wipe off excess dirt with a microfiber rag and repeat the process till it looks new. Once you get the bay all cleaned up I like to hand wax it to help stop dirt from sticking again.

Still waiting on the machine shop to get my block done so no update on the awd car as of right now. I did however just pick up this 2000 Honda Insight for pretty cheap to use as a daily for now to save on gas, my Escalade averaging 16 mpg was hurting my wallet a bit and seemed overkill for just running around town and to grab parts. I got the insight with a charging issue, possibly a bad ima battery but had planned on just running it on the little 1 liter 3 cylinder for a bit till I could get everything needed for a k swap in it. So far I gotta say I really love this car, it handles incredibly well for what it is and it's actually really fun to drive. So far I've logged 46mpg in town and mostly in traffic. I've always loved the amount of engineering Honda put into these cars and I'm glad to see they have gotten so cheap.

I picked the car up already awd converted. Allot of the conversion was done kinda half assed but the trailing arms were solid so I didn't see a need to change them. The driveshaft on the other hand was pretty funny. They shortened it by cutting and welding it in the middle lol. The viscous coupler mounts were a couple sets of rear trailing arm camber arms from what looked like an ek bolted through the floor.

Had a bit of a hold up due to the rod bearings I had being a little too tight. Finally got my acl hx bearings today and got the bottom end assembled.

Main bearing clearances came out to
1. .0015"
2. .0017"
3. .0015"
4. .0016"
5. .0014"

they were a little on the tight side but my buddy who builds tons of shortblock said assured me they would be just fine.

rod bearing clearances came out to
1. .0018"
2. .0018"
3. .0020"
4. .0017"

Yeah I was probably more worried then I needed to be but I have tuned a ton of motors that Tony's built and never had an issue with any of them. He's got one sleeved gsr he built like 5 years ago still making 600+whp to this day. That's allot more then I can say for most engine builders around here. I'm really excited to get this car back on the road.

im gonna be taking the transmission to tony to figure out what went wrong with the second gear. After a night at pir it started randomly popping out of second gear so I'm assuming worn slider and probably the tension rings or what ever they are called are flattened out. I have a spare crv trans I got for free that was pretty much destroyed, one of my buddies picked it up from pick a part and after inspecting it found it was just a parts only. Luckily I believe the second gear in it is still salvageable.

Spent some time yesterday fitting rear interior back in the car. Feels weird, I must be getting old. I've always been all about the full race car **** but I just wanna make this car nice to drive. The rear cargo cover was a pretty sweet custom made piece I got off the black si that the roll bar came out of. I still need to get the rear divider but I'm sure moe will have a bunch laying around.









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