I Have A Primer 91 HF With A B16, Just Recently Picked Up A Red 88 HF Shell From A Guy On Honda-Tech For $700. Taking The B16 And Putting It In The New Shell. The Motor Is A 00' B16A2, It Has 98+ Spec ITR Cams, Converted To OBD1 Using A P28 Ecu With A J's Racing Chip, I Have A JDM J1 Cable Transmission With A Stg.2 Exedy Clutch Kit. Open To All Opinions On My Project

Here's My Old Rex With The "Donner Motor" For The New REX




The New Shell

Not Digging The Cut-outs In Rear, Getting Fixed Soon


Sides Clean

Descent Interior


Photo From Recent Owner

Clean Painted Bay

Pulling Out The B16 From Old Rex


So Empty

Dirty B16, Looks Ruff




Then Spent A Day Cleaning, Disassembling, Painting Engine/Parts, Polished
Hasport Mounts, And Valve Cover Grommets, Fuel Rail, Injectors, Strut Bar

Finished Painted Block, Head, Tranny


Painted Intake Manifold

3rd Coat Of Wrinkle Black On The Valve Cover Waiting To Dry

Some What Re-Assembled

Clean

Got It Set In, Bro Putting The Back T-Bracket In

VC Dried "Dont Paint Wrinkle In Cold Weather" The Wrinkles Get Huge
I Put It In The Oven But It Was To Late It Will Be Re Done In Wrinkle Red Soon

Don't Have $ For Header Right Now So I Painted Up The Oem One

Put Strut Bar On

The Bumper Is Missing Because The On That Came With The Car Was All
Cut up Because The Motor That Was In It Was On Boost, So Im Gonna Use
The Bumper Of My Other CRX

Ran All The Wiring, Its Wire Tucked So In This Photo Everything Plugged
In All Thats Missing Is Radiator/Intake

The Intake Piping Was A Beat-up Red And That Would Ruin The Clean Look
So i Sprayed That Black With Some High Heat Paint I Had Left Over

Put Intake On And Integra Dual-Core Radiator In, Going To Get A Half Size Soon

Went To Go Start It And There No Fuel Pump, So We Dropped The Tank
And Put A Oem One In We Had Laying Around In The Garage

Pulled The Bumper Off The Old CRX And Cant Put It On Green. So Picked
Up Some Dupli-color Bumper Coating To Spray It, Its Temp Until I Can Get
It Painted Red, so For Now Its Gonna Be STD Style LoL


Got The Canadian Cluster

That's As Far As I Got So Far, We Got Rained Out Today So I Will Update Each
Day As I Continue This Build, Let Me Know What You all Think So Far, Open To
All Opinions. Damn Florida Rain

 

Cant wait till its finished that engine bay look good!

 

Yeah Me Either, Im Mounting The Bumper Tomorrow. And Fixing The Ground Issue So We Can Start It

 

Coming along nicely!! Should be a fun daily beater, with some mad hatters!

 

Yessir We'll Have To Race When You Get Your Sh*t Legal, Chad With The B20VTEC GSR Wants To Run Me To. I Didn't Get A Change When Before I Took The B Out Of The Old Rex, Come Over Tomorrow It Will Be Running Tomorrow

 

looks good man why the swap from the other rex? rust?

 

well this crx was cleaner, and had some goodies, and is an 88 hf much lighter than my other crx, no rust, my brother is gunna buy my shell for $200-$300, but yeah im getting rid of the steelies and putting my black hx's on there for now imma rock them black, what you think about white hx's on the red rex????

 

looks good. and btw, i'd rather have rain over all this damn snow! lol

 

X2... When you have to dig out the snow from around your car to work on it, then you can complain about the weather. lol

 

yeah right now we have over 30 inches and its still coming down... and really the hf isnt that much lighter than the hf. like 200lbs maybe, they both were in good shape though

 

Yeah Rain Is Better Than Snow But It Still Sucks LoL, Yeah I Just Couldnt Pass Up The Deal, What Do You All Think About Painting The Hx Wheels White With The White Center Cap And The Red H????

 

that might be kinda cool. i think they'd look good if you sprayed them with a flat or low gloss black and then do the red h.

 

Yeah There Semi-Gloss Black Now I Will Put Them On Tomorrow And Post Pictures But I Think Powder Coated White Might Look Cool. Like Type-R Style

 

i ran white hxs on my red crx, it looks good

 

damn that valve cover is crazy what paint did you use.

 

Did the 88 come with the stock seats?

 

Do You Have Any Pic's Of When You Rocked Them White

 

I Used VHT Wrinkle Paint, Put Your Supposed To Apply It In Warm Temp. And It Comes Outs Nice Fine Wrinkle Like OEM But I Made A Mistake And Painted It In Cold Weather So It Wrinkled Over Night Allot!! So When I Woke Up I Tried Saving It By Sticking It In The Oven, So When It Warms Up Im Gonna Re-do It With Wrinkle Red

And It Came With No Seats But I Got Seats For It

 

i tried that wrinkle red on a vc once and followed directions on the can to a t.. well much to my dismay it didn't work worth a crap and still had huge wrinkles. later found other writeups where people had done this paint and found out i probably should have had it in the oven at a higher temp. oh well i guess. maybe i'll try it again in the future

 

Yeah, To do It The Right Way You Spray A Coat Vertical, Then 2nd Coat Horizontal, 3rd Diagonal In Warm Temperature Then Immediately Put It In An Oven At 200 Degree's For 20 Minutes And In Result You Get Fine Wrinkles But I Rushed Mine And Got A Half A** Job LoL

 

Red CRXs....Build is coming along nicely...whats up with the valve cover lookin real bumpy?

 

Looks good. Paint that Clutch arm black

 

does that valve cover come in leopard also? or just black mink?... lol jk nice rex tho

 

Yeah I Dont Like It Either But We Dont Have Wrinkle Red Where Im At So I Had To Order It LoL, And Yeah I Actually Painted The Clutch Arm Yesterday Yeah Its All Looking Clean With An Odd VC

 

looks good and clean cant wait til mines done! keep up the good work