I am having the same issue everyone else has with a B18 in a CRX(The damn hood wont shut). I am done with the swap and want to buy a hood rather then cut the frame on the one I have cause my hood is **** anyways.

Spacers on the hinges or lowering the engine with washers and making it crooked are not an option for "me".

Anyone know what ("Fiberglass" I hate carbon fiber) hood offers more clearance then stock?

I like the ZC, it reminds my of the hood on the TSi Talon I used to have.

 

What mounts are you using? I would go for the SiR style hood.

 

Hasport mounts, I'll look into the SiR.

Thanks,

 

I read the SiR hood doent fit with a USDM bumper cover so thats a no-go.

 

the hood won't shut with hasport mounts??

 

Negative, maybe if I slammed it a few times it would eventually shut. Lol,

 

yes the b18 will clear with the zc hood

 

I found out that it indeed does not fit any better than stock with a B18. I found a pretty in depth post on Superhonda about it.

Supposedly someone makes a USDM fiberglass version of the SiR hood and that is what I need to find.

 

thats weird your hood doesnt close. my hood closes fine with a b18a

 

Now that is weird, Hasport mounts?

 

why not just cut the webbing from the underneath the hood.

 

I am going to do that for now so I can drive the car but my hood is pretty jacked up and needs replaced anyways.

If it only takes a minor modifacation I am going to purchase a ZC hood tonight.

 

I bolted the hood on and put some turtle wax on the timing belt portion of the valve cover. I gently closed the hood till it touched the valve cover. I then proceeded to beat the parts of the skeleton flat with a hammer that had wax on them.

The hood now closes and a ZC hood is on order. I will have to modify it a little bit but its cool.

I suspect LS swaps dont have any trouble because a VTEC head is taller than an LS head. I have an LS head on the shelf and just by looking at them the VTEC head looks taller.

 

VIS makes a CF hood in SiR style to fit usdm civic/crx's....if your looking for one

 

we have done several swaps, b16 with hasport mounts and gsr's with yonaka mounts no hood issues whatsoever...

 

Well I can definitely verify that a B18 VTEC engine in a 88 CRX with Hasport mounts will have hood issues.

Fiberglass ZC hood has been purchased. Time to put some show with the Go.

 

oh no im not using hasport. do they make the motor sit higher than other mounts?

 

I can verify that a b-series vtec engine, in my case a b20/vtec (b16 head) w/ hasport mounts has hood clearance issues. put spacers in mine for now till i can afford another hood.

 

im running HCP mounts in mine and both my stock hood and VIS CF ZC hood close with no issues and im running a LS Vtec set up in my crx. no spacers needed.

 

Depends on the car and mounts.

All the EFs seem to be off a bit I've never seen two the same exactly, I guess age is getting to them.

I had a b16 no problems with a ZC hood, GSR no problems my lsvtec i needed to shim.

 

A little update:

A ZC hood does nothing for clearance issues witha b18 VTEC engine. Since the hood is fiberglass and there is pretty good gap between the underside of the hood and the top layer. I was able to heat up the portion of the hood that was contacting the valve cover with a small hand torch and gently massage it up out of the way.

A USDM SIR hood would have been the way to go.