What's up everyone. I've had a previous build thread when I owned my first CRX. Now years have gone by, and this will be my 4th CRX now. Learned many things over the years. Short term goal I have for this car is to have the suspension and brakes ready for February (beginning of AutoX season). I bought this CRX as a birthday present to myself. I hated to see my last one go. Paid 1200. Which I think was a decent price considering the condition of this one.

11-08-13
- 3rd owner
- clean title never wrecked
- all original body panels
- 300k
- unmolested
- maintenance records from 1989-present
- working ac/heat



now onto the progress:

11-09-13
- installed hardrace rear lower control arms
- upgraded to Integra rear disc
- changed brake lines to goodridge SS lines

 

What part of Carolina is South Africa in? :D

Great to see another EF getting ready for auto-x/road racing. Lets see some pictures!

On another note, if you really are in the carolinas, I may try to get a group of EFs out to the dragon(and surrounding areas) for a weekend to have some fun. Let me know if you would be interested!

 

Yeah that would be awesome! Pictures are up! When I get home, I'll take pictures of some of the ancient goodies it came with

 

Replace the shock absorbers for the rear glass! Looks like the underside is showing it's age. Any issues with it aside from the mid-range mileage?

 

they will be replaced. I had a spare set from my 88 but I guess between the years they differ. Under carriage is decent, bought from a guy who lived on a dirt road. That will probably explain the brownish color. Not really, common rust on drivers side rear quarter panel. Maybe the size of a penny. I'm gonna reweld the exhaust pipe after the muffler. That's rusted through. Oil light comes on after its warmed and I've drove it for 10 minutes, so oil pump & oil pressure switch will be change soon. And a check engine light for code 12 (egr lift) which doesn't bother me but will fixed soon. But other than that it runs great. Normal tune up will be done soon also

 

Nice. Just keeping it stock motor wise? Seems like a nice daily as is.

 

I've got a poormans type r to swap in it, but that will be probably late next year. (gotta build it first lol. I've got a 2004 accord v6 coupe as my daily. This just sits at home.

 

J-series power right there. The poormans type R is fine. You can swap the cams to GSR or something if you find someone who swapped to ITR or aftermarket and get away pretty cheap.

 

another person to bring to the track

 

Let me know if you decide to get rid of that interior! It looks mint!

 

I was shooting for some skunk 2 pro series cams. Either stage 1 or stage 2.

http://www.ncrscca.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=139
when they get the new schedule up. I'll be running in the ccr scca. I've got a few friends who race there

 

I found this pretty awesome when I purchased this crx. Original window stickers, maintence records beyond maintence records. Warranty and service manual

 

Can't read the MPG from the factory but that is pretty nice. Mine still had the manual in the glove box when I got it. not in that good of condition, but it wasn't bad.

 

50 city 56 highway

 

Gosh. Wish I could go back to 89. $1 a gallon of gas. That's like 2 cents a mile. Rooooooad trip.

 

I've got some updates coming hopefully next weekend when I'm not slammed with work! Got some parts from Honda. Brakes should be finished next week!!

 

While I'm waiting on a few parts..

installed my custom climate control delete plate

 

Why delete the climate control? You don't have heat? I kept my heat despite not having AC.

 

climate control was broke. It blows air. I'm gonna put one back when I get time to do my jumper harness for the accord climate control

 

Very nice. I am a big fan of LED backlit control panels. They look very nice as a final product. Just incase you want to modify it a little bit more.

 

UPDATE!

11-23-13 & 11-24-13

finished collecting the rest of my parts to finish my brake upgrade.
- ingalls lower ball joints
- eBay camber kit with skunk2 bushings
- ES lower control arm bushings/sway bar end link bushings
- rebuilt HF rack and pinion (poly bushings, new inner & outer tie rods, OEM tie rod boots, and regreased)
- new axles




I upgraded the brakes to

- 90-91 civic ex spindles
- 11.1" redrilled rotors
- Acura legend type 2 double piston calipers
- Hawk Hps pads
- 4040 prop with stock booster and MC

 

Just a word of caution on the Ebay camber arms. Mine had 6000 miles on them and they were completely shot. They both had extremely excessive slop in the ball joint. They were probably too worn out well before 6000 miles. And mine was a DD, no track time.

 

I was thinking when mine blew out, I was gonna buy the skunk 2 ball joints and replace them

 

I dont think the S2 ball joints will work on the EF style ebay arms. I know you can do that with the EG/EK/DC ebay arms, but you should double check on the EF ones.

 

Yeah I'll ask a friend who runs the same camber kit on his autox car