Andrew Marquis

Heres a look at the life of my CRX. It’s a 1991 Si that I bought from a nice lady in a small town near where I live. It had a fresh 263,000 miles on the odometer when I got it (obviously all highway). This thing ran like a champ and pulled pretty good!

Heres it is right after I bought it; Nice a stock!











Then a few months after I had it it suddenly [and completely randomly] jumped out of time and bent all 4 valves in the. A friend of mine came to the rescue with a D16Z6 motor/Cable SI trans for $400 so I picked it up and swapped it out.












Unfortunatly, I was leaking oil. I thought it was the head gasket, so I changed it.



Still wasn’t the problem. In retrospect, I bet It was leaking from the VTEC solenoid but since it dripped down near the mating surface of the head and the block, I assumed it was an out of square head or something. I really wanted to do a B16 swap, but my dad convinced me to build the D, and helped me out financially to do it, so I did. I sent it to KMS Engine Development in Atlanta, Ga (about 4 hours away) for a nice little build up. 11:1 compression, full valvetrain, rotating assembly, everything.
They PWNED the mess out of me.

While I was waiting I cleaned up my car, Did a wire tuck and painted the bay.







Installed a Walboro 255lph fuel pump,




Swapped on some Rotas and new Yokohama AVS ES100’s.





Then traded them for my [current] GSR “fat fives”






FINALLY:

$3500 and 4 months later I get my motor back. Pissed it took so long, but was happy I finally had at least ‘A’ motor…














It’s first race:


Go it on the Dyno. 128/111




Got it on the Autocross track:





Got it on the drag strip 15.6@91.83 on street tires and my first time ever driving at the strip:







Fast forward a few months. I found a good deal on a B16 so I snagged it and swapped it in.







Start re-doing my wire tuck. Shaved the Valve Cover and gave it a paint job while I was at it.
Went ahead and deleted the rest of my A/C stuff, as well as everything else under the dash














I leave you with this one final shot:



And that’s where I’m at, folks!
I’ve got a 1991 CRX Si with a stock B16 in it. It’s taken me about a year to get here.
I’ve expanded my knowledge of Hondas SO much more since the first day I purchased this little project.
I plan to have a turbo on it for around a conservative 220whp or so in the near future.

Thanks for spending the time to read this! Just sharing my story to the world.
Have a great day
-Andrew.

Hanmin

nice, I love pictures. It's eye candy for me.

EF001282

nice job, what did you do with the d?

KrenzyRyan

Crazy bro, nice pics.

*Boostwerks*

The boost gauge input will need to be after the TB if you want to read vaccum.

Overall, looks pretty good.

danmdevries

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nihad

iTrader: (2)

now u should of never bought that beat up b16 and used to money for a turbo kit just my 2 cent.

NastyHabitzCRX

your rental peroid on those Uhaul pads has expired... ...

looks good, glad to see how someone can read and apply what they learned

Andrew Marquis

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Whatchu talkin 'bout, Habitz?
You mean the "POD"? haha

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Beat up? How is it beat up?
It's got less than 40k miles. Pulls hard. And has a good tune on CROME? lol

I'm turboing the B16. I was going to turbo the D. I even started buying parts for it (cometic head gasket to drop comp to 10:1, boost gauge, vacuum manifold, and and .42/48 turbo) but I decided not to. I'll be boosting the B soon.


Thanks for all the comments fellas. Really appreciated.
-Andrew

NastyHabitzCRX

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lol, i have like 8 of those bluse pads at my house for the same thing as that!!

bigluelok

looks real good

schwinnrex

your car is ballin.
exactly what i want mine to look like. stock with fat fives

VtecSyndrome

Nice, clean rex Not bad at all for a years time

Contender25

Looks good bro. I like it.

Andrew Marquis

Thanks guys
Much appreciated!

90efhatch

Nice Ride. Keep it up I love seeing stock looking CRX's.

Tetanus

Nice rex... what was the purchase price (stock from the lady)? If I were you Id investigate why theirs a 88-89 rear bumper on there... your car was probably rear ended before. Good choice going with the B16A and too bad your pops wasted that money on a D series. You could have bought a nice GSR swap for that much.

GLI

KMS is crap they use super tech stuff just rebadged. I would suggest battle ground engineering in Atl next time for your build. Nice crx though.

Andrew Marquis

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$1700.
I know that something happened to the driver door(if you look at the right angle, it's wavy like a bondo job), but I didn't know the rear bumper is 88/89? Huh. w/e.

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Yes. John at KMS screwed me badly. He originally quoted me 1 month build time. It took him 4 to get it to me. plus the motor made 130hp.
On my next engine build, I'll do it myself.

-Andrew

ant$missShift

clean.. glad to see u out playing with it..

Flip's DC5

Hey man the car looks great! Keep up the great work! Next thing you know, you'll surpass our mighty K-series motor and we won't even know what hit us...until i get my JRSC...he he he(evil laugh) Good job though. Can't wait to see it progress even more.

thevtecnician

WOW don't the d16z6's have 130 hp stock? Doesn't sound like he raised the compression at all. Any way nice clean car. Clean and simple

Andrew Marquis

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125-130 at the flywheel.
This means my motor was making around 150 or so at the flywheel.

Thanks for the comments guys
Chris- I'm comin for you dude Get your meesly blower... I'll see what I can pull from under my sleeve...

Flip's DC5

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Chris- I'm comin for you dude Get your meesly blower... I'll see what I can pull from under my sleeve... </TD></TR></TABLE>

Hey man when you get some time off during the weekend, you should head down here and run your B16 Rex. I'm excited to find out what you can run.

WhiteboyATL

looks good man