iBkickinit

I have been documenting my progress over at clubrsx.com, but I figured I'd give everyone over here a peek at what I have been up to. Basically its a 1984 CRX that I tube-chassied, and put a K20a2 in the rear of the car. It is vaguely similar to the other mid-engine prelude, although mine is designed for race first, street second. I am building a website for it at http://www.rwdcrx.com, but you can see photos at http://www.rwdcrx.com/Albums. Let me know what everyone thinks!

Current Horsepower: ~200 WHP
Weight: 1200 lbs (without driver)
Weight Distribution: 40/60 (Front/Rear)
Motor: Honda K20a2 (RSX Type-S)
Transmission: 6-Speed Manual
Basic components: Jaz 5-Gallon Fuel Cell, MSD Fuel Pump, Kirkey Aluminum Pro-Street Drag Seats, Lightweight Aluminum Radiator, Custom Intake, Currently Modified Open Header, Pending Custom Race Header.
Front Suspension: Stock CRX Torsion bars w/Gabriel Shocks
Rear Suspension: Stock RSX Struts w/Eibach Lowering Springs.
Chassis: 1.5 inch Chrome-Moly steel tubing.
Brakes: Front - Stock CRX; Rear - 03' Civic Si.

Motor being built for it:
2.5 Liter K24 - Sleeved, fully built top and bottom end, overbored and destroked. forced induction via turbo @ 30 lbs boost. Final HP: ~800





Modified by iBkickinit at 3:04 PM 2/28/2005

roadhead

I'm jealous dude, the only thing cooler than a RWD CRX would be an AWD CRX


What is the projected final weight?

How much of the original CRX suspension geometry did you leave intact?

Just HOW fun is it exactly?

EK-Chris

Cool project!!

BlueIntegraBoy

iTrader: (5)

This is going to be a fast little bugga. Keep us updated.

CB_ejcoupe

Thats a cool project, nice fab work.

JDM H23A

Holy hell

whizzlefist

that needs the mugen wide body kit....

got to http://www.redpepperracing.com and send a message to GT pilot he has made copies

BeavisB16

goddam, thats awesome. Is it really still a CRX?

Hapexamendios EJ8

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BeavisB16

maybe dune-buggy like status

Special_K_Hatch

thats awesome!!!

mrbsponge

what will help to compensate for oversteer, i have seen the delsol like this and saw it try to turn and it looked like it was having trouble doing 15mph turns.

project is kickass, mad props, but this is a thought to be concerned about

MaskedAP1

nice one

iBkickinit

Understeer is a big problem. right now, the front end does want to push out unless I brake aggressively into a corner. for now, the car has a stock front swy bar, but no rear sway bar. This was to help keep traction on the launch, however, I may make a quick disconnect for a rear sway bar to help this issue. I could ballast the front as well, but I am trying to avoid additional weight.

mrbsponge

the heaviset largest thing i could think of to put up front would be the gas tank?? i have seen something similar but not with that motor, and thats what they did. it was an NSX in a 2nd gen crx rear motor, rear drive.

it worked out okay for them, but the car could pull some fatt wheelies no matter what you did!

mrDFWmechanic

thats insane

Hayasa15

that looks awesome but definetly needs a widebody in the rear . how did you get the body on the chassis?

iBkickinit

I did mount the fuel cell in front, but its only 5 gallons. the best place i could fit the battery was behind the driver's seat. Im gonna look into the wide-body kit, but im still looking into have a one-off body made.

91DroppedHatch

damn, thats the cleanist thing ive ever seen, how much was the whole project?

SixguN

Nice job! Looks super clean. All these new projects lately. One day Im gonna build a All Wheel Drive jet car. lol

zakats

did u put the radiator up front? might help a little along with a reaaaly good cooling capacity. heavier wheels might help a bit too? I noticed the steelies. could also go with wider wheels...try truck steelies you can go to diamondracingwheels.com i think is the site and have them made custom and weigh quite a bit wouldnt this car be considered more of a rearengine not mid? did i read that wrong?
fyi awd 84-87 crx's arent that hard to make everything is pretty muchdirect bolt on from the awd wagon cept the driveshaft which is a cheap fab.

good luck with the car you should join http://www.redpepperracing.com
--zak--

f@sth@tch89

iTrader: (3)

whats your plans for this car? drag or road racing? this would be an interesting car for the track.

nice project

ShaunRR

Crazy stuff.

jdmblingn

Thats wild. There was a guy with an H22 in the back of his del sol a while back, anyone know what happened to it? It was for sale i think

ShaunRR

That was Cody's car. He sold it to a guy in Iowa I think, I forget his username though.