whats good Honda Tech? have used this site for a long time through multiple builds, but haven't really posted much. So here is the build thread for my latest project my celestial blue pearl CRX. Its going to be a bit of a slower build but hopefully everyone enjoys! I picked it up for $2000 bone stock with 270,000kms. Anyway here we go.

First day she came home!
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one more
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that stock height tho!
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Monster truck!
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stay tuned for more!

Matt

 

Lowering springs!
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Needs more low
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More on the way!

 

You will have fun with that car. I've had a few of them. The last one i purchased in Calgary only cost me $450

 

@Deetz that's a steal for 450!

and more pics!
Chillin with an s14
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Decided it was time for a wire tuck and charcoal delete. before pic
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Pulled the fenders off and thought hmm how about I strip down all the old crap and redo the undercoating while I am in there.
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Bam Clean! and new uca and ball joint!
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Bolted back up (possibly temporary)
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Thought i would line the inner fender since the inner liners had to go
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After wire tuck (sorry for shitty pic)
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That hood Angle tho!
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Interior shot
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Rusty a$$ QP's
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EG brake light sockets in signals. BTW lacked out lenses are going bye bye
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Lightly smoked tail lights (and pee shooter exhaust)
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Pretty decent interior
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I found some power windows in a hatch at pick n pull, snagged em for $100 and they work damn good!
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A little cut and polish! i love this color! B53-P
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Cleaned up the bay a bit.
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Cant believe the depth to the color! and how it looks in different light.
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Nice work so far! It's cool that you can go to a junkyard and pick up power windows for a CRX for so cheap in Canada. Keep up the good work!

 

@LSVTEC to this day only set I have ever found.

 

canadians are lucky with the car parts

 

And here is where i have decided i want to go K20 turbo so might as well tear it down and shave they bay until i can afford some more ****!
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Wire brush(motor is gone!)
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Soo many things to take out!
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So funny story, i put the stock head in my alley as i didn't need it and didn't wanna go to the dump yet, come out the following saturday and wouldn't you know hey its gone! i guess someone wanted it. so i tried the same thing with my block and tranny and damn haha someone took em both off my hands! probably thinking they stealing it. they also went through the bin of small parts next to it and removed what they wanted.
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Headed in the right direction!! Looking good, lots of rust :/

 

Yeah have new quarter panel patch panels that will be installed as soon as it gets warm again or I can afford a heater for the garage!

 

Bump for some WOOD GRAIN NARDI i got off a buddy who sadly has to sell his mint wagon.
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Shaving begins. Or I guess filling, better bust out the welder.
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Sanding up a storm!
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More sanding..
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Passenger mount gone! no going back now!
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Also removed interior as to not start fires when welding fire wall
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also had to weld back bolt holes for the seats as they were cracked and falling through.

 

Looks like a good start. What model do the power windows come in?

 

nice crx man lots of progress so far, love the color deff in for more!! glwyb

 

As far as I know for lhd the edm civics and civic ex. Please
correct me if I'm wrong.

 

Thank you! Lots more to come!

 

would be great to see how you are cutting and welding ect... for the k series swap. Good for a future refrence.

 

couple more pics up! getting shitty weather aka snow now a days so i doubt much more will be going on here. i still have a lot more pics to upload tho!


The work pad!
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All welds are done! for now.. minus the passenger engine mounts. Have to wait till Christmas to purchase those!
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Still lots more sanding to go! Also will be painting stock color.
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Ever since i bought the car i had a funny feeling it had been repainted/had some body work done and woulkdnt you know it almost quarter to half an inch of bondo on rear quarters! Good thing I have new ones that are going in!
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hard to tell in the pic but i was surprised the amount of bondo there. also they painted it twice, one directly over the other so i will be taking it back down to bare metal/stock primer (if i can)

thanks for the look,


Matt

 

bays coming along man. what kinda welder you using?

 

Just using a mig welder with argon as a shielding gas

 

Sorry about not having updates it's been damn cold here lately in the -40 Celsius range. Trying to get some radiant heat installed but 3 thousand is pretty steep. Will upload more pics here soon. Managed to get everything off the front suspension and steering wise. Almost done school so more updates will come when I'm back to working at the end of next week! Thanks for the look!

Cheers,

Matt