So me and my brother picked up a lonely little 89 CRX Si over in La Habra the guy said he was selling it for parts so he only wanted 500 for it well we lowballed him got it for 400 so now here it is i have done some progress on it since we got it, it was rear ended so it needs a new rear bumper support and beam front of it was okay needs a new driver side headlamp and hood to my surprise it has a DOHC ZC.....Bar'd IN CALI so that was a big plus since you cant bar these motors anymore...nice interior recently reupholstered with new carpet don't have pics of the inside though it also has current tags till June of 2010 so here are the pics enjoy I am hoping on selling it after getting much of the major damage fixed oh and the sunroof was completely shot, the sunroof didn't work turns out the cables needed some nice greasing up and now works, also today the 2,3,4 spark plugs were drowned in oil pulled the valve cover off and the spark plug gasket donuts where shot replaced them so now they should be good now here are the pics enjoy!!!

needs rear driver headlight


here is the rear


here is the other side


the headlamp needed you can see the zc sitting in there my camera died so i cant get a pic of the motor right now


and this is the rusted *** sunroof panel


im waiting for the 50%off sale at my local pick your part some this thing should be looking semi good by next week ill have updates on it then

 

yea my sunroof lid is rusted, but not quite that bad. i thought that cars out west where supposed to be in better condition than cars from the south. haha oh well. wont be a bad project, you should get you money back and then some.

 

sweeet restore it. doont sell!!!

 

hehe, trying to hide a for sale item in a build thread. I'm curious to see if this works!

 

that should come out nice. from what i can see the interior looks nice?

 

$100 off his askin price woooooooooooooow yeah thats some real lowballing

 

lol a hundred saved is a hundred earned gas for a month for me but yeah from what the guy told me though the crx originated somewhere in the mid eastern US so its probably seen some snow and what not being it a more wetter climate so im assuming thats what i have to blame for the rust but also the weather strip on it was rather flimsy and worn out

 

yea that sun roof lid is notorious for rusting apart. ive had one break if half in my hands before. i took mine off the other day, i noticed rust comming up through the paint. ill be able to save the lid, but maybe not all the parts that hold the moulding on

time to make a trip to the junk yard!

ive pulled lid, track and motor before and the guy stood there with his mouth open staring at me, and let me have it for $20.

 

hahahahahaha i've done that before. i'm waiting for the day that i find an si hatch in there... i'm takin my sawz all and a generator and snaggin the entire top half of the car so i can swap an oem sun roof into my hatch.

to the OP, NICE find!!! that rear end damage should come out nicely, good luck on the sale and the flip!

 

Restore it lol Id be too sad to sell.

 

Part out motor and trans? i think i see a DOHC ZC in there.

 

i would love to keep it but im gonna use the funds from this after i sell it to fund my 90 si so its still a win win i save a rex get paid for doing it and dump the extra cash on my 90 si

 

^^ nice find..your going to have to live at the junkyard to find parts for a rex.

 

Not bad at all.

 

yes it is hard to part with a rex you fixed yourself. ive done it before, and ill never do it again. $500 for car, replaced front end and windshield. went to trade it for another car, deal went sour. ended up havin to repo the car from an old 'friend'.

when i got it back it was dodge charger orange, and was stripped completely inside. i could have cried. then i sold the shell to a guy that was goning to re-restore the car, and a friend sent me pics of it in the junkyard a few days later.

 

DANG THAT SUX WELL here i got some updated pics enjoy.........

So a big update on the progress of the car got all the rear lined up and got almost the front end complete just need the driver side corner light and i still need the rear driver side tail light cleaned up the interior and got a new sunroof panel only thing need is to pop the dents out and bonda sand and primer just waiting for my body panel hammer puller thingy in the mail so here are the updates oh and i jacked the si wheels it came with and put them on my si hatch ill update that thread in a bit as well now to the PICS enjoy


the rear just missing the tail light

one of the two remaining dents that need to be popped out

the front end put together just missing the corner light

another shot of the front end different angle

interior shots

 

Those are some clean seats you got there!