My car is featured in the May 08 issue of HondaTuning

1985 CRX
Convertible conversion by Straman Coachworks back in Feb 1985
B16 swap by me
Turbo install by LHT Performance...custom LHT400 kit









Modified by seekerONE at 6:35 PM 10/21/2008

 

Wow, very nice piece of history you got there.

 

awesome write up.
What sort of process is involved in geting your car in a mag? Not tooting my own horn too loud I hope but I have magazine aspirations for my car as well.

 

Man that's badass! Going to have to pick that issue up! I love seeing some old-school stuff in the magazine! Top notch work too!

 

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I actually got really lucky on this. I have been to lots of car shows and I have spoken to alot of people who say they are "associated with a magazine" but none of those people ever came through.

A friend of mine "suggested" my car.
He was making the arrangements for his own photoshoot with the editor when my friend was asked to round up a few other suitable cars. The photographer was coming to Florida from California and the editor wanted to maximize the usefulness of that trip. When my friend mentioned my car, the editor was interested. Of the four cars that were shot over the two days, my car appeared in the magazine first.

The friend is John Wilson from LHT Performance. He was very familar with my car because they had installed the custom version of their LHT400 turbo kit. But I had worked on his project car prior to that time. That project car was the subject of the original photoshoot and is the cover car for the June issue of HondaTuning. That car is a K20 powered, street driven Honda Insight. I was the electrical technician on that project.

http://www.tamparacing.com/for....html




Modified by seekerONE at 4:32 AM 5/8/2008

 

nice car.

i hope you don't daily drive it though. only because you compromised the safety of your already compact and unsafe car.

 

Actually I drive it al the time.

The first one that the company did (they converted a total of 310) was crash tested and certified to pass the required levels (at that time).


Of course the cars made now are much safer.

 

How is a 1st gen CRX unsafe to start with? I'm confused...

Anyway, congrats on the coverage. Got any pics with the top up?

 

the s2000 seats are a nice touch.

cool car

what kind of armrest is that?

 

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It is because most people these days, unfortunately, drive 5,000lbs+ death machines.

...if everyone drove CRXs we wouldn't have that problem would we!

 

do you have pics with the top up? just curious to see what it looks like

 

To be honest, the car with the top up isn't really very pretty. I don't have alot of pictures with it up and this is the only one I have online



I prefer topless pics like this one

 

Very unique, very interesting car

How much did these cost back in the day, in comparison to a stock CRX?

 

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The conversion was $5995 according to some old literature i have found.
The conversion could have been done on any trim level (mine was a DX model).
A CRX Si model back then was about $11K.

 

Nice whip!

 

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a friend sent me this pic from his collection

 

I know where one of those are... I should buy it and put it in the stable with the rest of the cars

 

Congrats! Clean car, guess I'll scoop this issue.

 

at one of the local dealers, there was a red 1g CRX convert similar to this one, minus the badass engine setup and choice taste in rolling stock. i think a salesman drove it.

i have that strutbar in my room. need to get off my *** and ebay that ish.

of course to the owner, i read about it on a Florida import board.

 

This is so nice!
It's not bad,

 

This is such a bad *** car!!!!!

 

im more impressed with the engine turbo setup/cleannes. I had a turbo '85 si with a b16 it was a BITCH to work on and very hard to do a clean install with such little room, lots of custom work. Very nice.

K-sight is SICK too i always wanted to do that but all the frame work made it unfeasible for me.

 

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Thanks. The guys at LHT Performance really did a super job of crafting thier LHT400 kit to fit my car.

Here is a link to step-by-step pictures of the turbo install
http://www.tamparacing.com/for....html

 

Very unique CRX indeed...btw I'm actually putting a B16A setup in my 84 civic 4dr and was wondering how you did your in dash wiring harness? My boss is actually going to do the wire harness but simplify it as well. Also did you use an external fuel pump seeing as how the car is originally carburated to fuel injected? Any information would be greatly appreciated, thanks!