Just purchased a Automatic 91 DX hatch shell about 3 weeks ago. Ive owned many crx's and eg's etc but this is my first hatch.

This is my first build thread so youll have to Bare with me aha, Have tons of pictures. Not really any BIG plans for it, mostly a DD.

Will be adding pictures as fast as I can.

I would Like opinions on the car so feel free to comment
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Heres the day i picked her up


I have a whole CRX front clip im going to be putting on the car

 

I already had a L3 si trans and brand new Exedy stage 1 clutch so I had to source and long block. Found a local craigslist ad for a 1 owner 92' CX car being parted out due to being T-Boned. So i drove about 2 hours started the car and let it run for about 20min and pulled it out. To my surprise the cluster said 94,xxx. the man bought the car new so i threw him $300 and I was on my way.

Put the tranny/clutch on and was ready to drop it in.


Finally in, I havent even started on the 5 speed conversion yet. Replaced the Water pump, Tensioner, Thermostat, and timing belt. along with a new oil change.


Test Fitted the CRX Front. I think it looks a million times better. Yes the jack is holding up the bumper cover hah


The whole Front clip is pretty much together now.

 

Okay, This has probably been the worst part of it all so far. i've done it before but I ALWAYS hate taking pedals out. The worst part it the Very top bolt in-between the the tubes for ac/heat. other then that its not so bad, Easiest way ive found to do it is take one of the tubes out. but its still a Bit*h


Manual pedals are in!


Linkages are in and Started putting my Si Interior in.

Also Wired the car to "Think" it's in "Park" 2 large black wires soldered together and Small White/Green Wire and Small black wire soldered together just incase someones having problems. it's Cake

 

Okay I know i'm going to get hell for this BUT I had it laying around and a rebuilt distributor for it so i threw the ol' DPFI on it. lol flame me.

 

Plan on putting rear disc, camber kit, lower control arms on her so I dropped the tank and got to work. itll probably be hard to believe but the ONLY bolts that broke were the ones from the struts to the stock LCA's so i didnt worry about it and pulled the drum assembly with the struts attached.


When I was taking the nuts for the struts off I looked in the spare tire space and found this! Its ALL there!!


New KYB Excel G struts,Blox LCA's, Blox Camber kit.

 

Finally got rid of those Mini Cooper wheels and found something cool.
Drag DR16's 15x7
And a 4040 prop valve
And found some DA teg front hubs since I have a Si trans and it'll probably get a B series sometime so its ready.

Hubs Installed Along with front camber kit,

 

Got her mostly together. and took it down the road and back. runs completely fine and NO CEL's!!!! Has a pretty bad exhaust leak from the Cat though. so it sounds like a Helicopter and sinces its a D15b8 its the slowest car ever....Mean 8 Valve aha

But I found a D16A6 Head with a Old Discontinued Crane stage 1 cam so that should be happeneing very soon.
already ordered my head studs.

 

Great work so far. gl

 

woohoo another c-bus hatch looking good so far man we may have to meet up sometime

 

I have to say that crx front bumper looks sexy on a hatch.

 

Thanks Man! I appreciate it.


Yeah the only thing not from a Crx is the hood. bumper support fenders etc is all from a crx

 

Looking hella clean so far, keep it up

 

PARTS!! New quarters, head studs, head gasket, etc.
So i'm pretty much ready to slap my d16a6 head on.

 

The d15B8 head is off and everything for the most part is clean.
The D16a6 head was off a 88' civic Si so i didnt have to mess with getting the Y7/Y8 cam gear. lucky me.


Heres the B8 head. I'd say she was running a little lean lol
The Intake ports on the B8 head are tiny much smaller then the intake ports on the DPFI manifold so I figured it was going to run lean. but wont have that problem now with the 16 valve head


All back together now and Running. just trying to get timing perfect or atleast close to it without a light.

 

Nice build

 

Thanks Man! Appreciate it.

 

I guess I can show you guys some of my ricer parts lol

Burlap Sack Shift boot, Small Beer tap shifter


Big Block Cadillac Connecting Rod 518 I believe. hah


Ricer Bars

 

My car decided it wants to look good with professional pictures lol

The front end lines up pretty good

 

Pretty much now I need to work on the quarters and source me some Hatch fenders to finish the crx conversion.

The hatch fenders I had were all rusted out so need to find some decent ones so i can cut the bottoms off of them.

Maybe sell My drop out if ANYONES interested?

 

I got rid of the Drags and picked me up some Kosei K1's 16X8 +17 offest


Fenders need rolled ASAP! Took the fenders off Just for a "test fit"