Hello, H-T!

I haven't been around much lately, as my only car has been a 2005 6MT TL. I have decided to go back to my roots a little and get another 90's Honda. I decided on a 1st gen CRV, and I'm also buying a CRX. The CRV will be my daily/bad weather/snowboarding/mountain biking/whatever, ballin' on a budget beater.

I got it cheap from a woman that knew very little about cars, and just did whatever the dealer told her to do as far as maintenance.. up until the steering rack began to leak. She told me about the leak up front, and I found a few more things that needed attention during my inspection. (front lower motor mounts, exhaust mid pipe, noisy PS pump, etc)

Installed new rack, outer tie rod ends, lower motor mounts... did ATF change, (rear diff coming soon), and PS pump will be acquired next week.

Here's how she looked stock, and after installing the Yonaka coilovers. I raised the front up about 1/3" since this photo was taken, it sits pretty much level now.

I picked up an OEM roof rack for $20 at a junk yard and installed the Inno ski/snowboard holders.


Don't have a whole lot more planned for this thing-- tint is next, possibly some red/clear tail lights, rear sway bar, and eventually some kind of 16" or 17" OEM Honda/Acura wheels (with spare!) when the stock tires quit on me. I'm thinking 02-03 TL-S/CL-S wheels, maybe S2000 wheels, TSX... Who knows.

Enjoy!

 

Not sure why you decided to lower a vehicle you use for snowboarding. Seems counterproductive.
I have a very similar yakima rack and it actually fits 2 boards next to each other + 2 more flipped. Woohoo! But lifted mine for the snow purposes.

Keep it up though. It's a great car.

 

Looks good so far ap1/ap2 wheels for the win diff get those they look great on crv's.

 

It needed a new front left spring so I decided to just get full coilovers. The places I go snowboarding are unfortunately not difficult to get to, and just having AWD will be all I need to access them, if that.. I will also use it for MTB riding in the warmer months, but the situation is similar there.. most of the parks I ride have parking lots that are at least gravel. I may raise it some, we'll see. That's the beauty of coilovers!

Thanks! I thought of doing the S2K wheels- they are definitely on my list. I'd like to do 4 of the same size if I can find them though. S2K wheels are staggered, right?

 

I have driven plenty of lowered vehicles in the snow and to go snowboarding, most of the time the roads are plowed more than enough for even a lowered Civic to drive on. At least where I used to go. I would drive a lowered CRV and I live in Montana haha, I think it just looks better! CRV looks great, I think 4 same stagger S2K rims would look great.

 

Yes they are all four ap1 16" wheels have been done on a crv and they looked great pictures are in the first couple pages of the official crv thread they were either purple or green i forget.

 

Got a surprise 5-day weekend thanks to the weather and federal holiday... slapped some 20% film on. No more fishbowl!

 

looking good, are those the size of the crv yonaka coilovers? there small compared to the stockers lol...and yeah stock wheels i like the rsx, tl, tsx (Type S i think) and the s2k's on the v's look great, i like the 17s mine came with but I may get stock rims when these tires wear down a little more, its about time for new tires on mine

 

Yeah, the coilovers are kind of small but I've had them on for a couple thousand miles so far and they're great. A little harsh, but I'll take it.

Added some stickers to the rear window and deleted the wiper arm-- here's a photo from our snowboarding trip back in February. I'll probably remove the motor and plug the hole properly sometime this summer when I'm bored.

 

i thought about deleting the rear wiper arm until i realized how needed it was this winter

 

Meh, rain-x and the rear defroster worked fine for me most of the time.

 

I can't imagine my crv without a rear wiper, mine needs replacing soon too but I'll go with an element arm and wiper.

 

I barely use my rear wiper.

 

i always forget its back there, but im going to keep it and upgrade to the element rear wiper, looks nicer

 

I use my rear wiper almost every day. I couldn't imagine not having it

 

nice little project..

I like that RonJon decal..

Most bullshit surfshop in existence! PacSun is a close 2nd.

 

Haha, thanks man... I couldn't agree more. They just recently opened one in Ocean City, MD; which is where my family's beach house is. We have a ton of awesome local surf shops already, and we did NOT welcome RonJon at all... Unfortunately the yuppies, morons and posers don't know any better, so they shop there. One of the local bars came up with the sticker and I had to have it.

Not much to report on the CRV, just been enjoying it a lot. I had a really annoying whine coming from the AC idler pulley so I replaced that, only to find that the whining noise was masking the grinding noise being made by the AC compressor clutch. The compressor still works, so I'm just going to deal with it for now. The noise goes away when the compressor is working, and it's about to be hot here most of the time anyway.

I attached a few photos. One is my pup guarding the RD1 and my girl's EP3, another is my RD1 and my beloved 600RR, and the other one is the RD1 parked next to a stock white 99 that I came across in a parking lot.

My passenger side tail light has a crack/hole in it and is letting water in, so I guess I'll grab a pair of red/clear DEPO lights. I've got a new driver side headlight housing and some bi-xenon HIDs to install... One of these days I'll get around to spraying my front bumper. It's pretty terrible.

 

Yea, that front bumper needs some serious lovin'. Everything will look so much better when you get it painted.
That cbr looks clean. Do you swap the back seat in when your girl is on the back? I was thinking about a delete on my bike, but I do like having a woman back there and the least I can do is give her some cushion. :D

 

Yeah, I plan to paint the bumper, install the new headlight housing with the bumper off, and install the HIDs all at the same time. I am at the beach so often and busy doing fun stuff in the warmer months, I don't find the time to work on stuff as often, but I'll get around to it.

My girlfriend wants her own bike and has no desire to be a passenger on mine, which is completely fine with me. I have the seat cowl on there and removed the passenger pegs. That with the fender eliminator and integrated tail light really clean up the rear of the bike! The last thing is to shorten the rear brake reservoir so there's really nothing hanging off of it anymore.

Oh, I forgot to mention my other two-wheeled beast... the Trek X-Caliber on top of the CRV in that photo with the CBR.