Found this 89 Si for $1000 back in September or October


Motor arrived shortly, it was pretty clean for the most part.


Good ol single cam = gone




Fits pretty good


Well unfortunately for me, on the way to work one morning, I was hit on the interstate.



The car was still driveable for a while until another day I was headed to work and a tire smashed into me, crushing my hood in, smashing my headlight, cracking the top of my radiator, and cracking my windshield. Oh well.






Modified by calgone47 at 12:31 AM 4/2/2004

 

Sounds like you've had alot of bad luck with that car...

 

Just to let you guys know, I did this swap BY MYSELF with no help from anybody. I'm 18 I funded it myself, I work fulltime and goto school fulltime. The swap was done in the winter in freezing *** weather :-X I slaved for 5 straight nights after I got off work. Worked from 1-9:30 everyday and still had time for the swap, so not to sound like a douche, but for the conditions and circumstances, I think I did pretty good.

 

ive seen someone get hit by a spare tire on the freeway...scary *** **** man...sorry for your shittly luck

 

Take that insurance money and go buy another chassis. Keep yours for parts
You can have two Crx's!

 

dont give up on cars....


u got **** on...but flush it

 

hey man sorry to hear about what happened, hope u get all that worked out. nice work on the engine too

 

damn. sorry to hear on your car, but damn i'd love to get a deal like that.

 

nice work on your car.... too bad about the damage tho

 

That's horrible...

 

wow, great story... 18 doing your own swap eh?... its probably nothing to brag since everyone else on here has been on that same route...

props for you any way

 

No, I'm not saying just because I'm 18 doing it means anything special, but you have to admit, most people this young have their parents help by lending money or paying for it alltogether. Anywho... Now I own a black b16 crx and I'm in the process of a dx b16 swap. But my black b16 crx is for sale, it's time to move on to the EK gens. Thanks for the comments though.

 

That is really crappy luck on your project! It was a nice little car, too.

Good luck with your new stuff.

Alex

 

That sucks, you should sell me that airbox though

 

Its just a flesh wound.

Seriously, its not totalled, its still fixable with $$$ and what about insurance?

 

That's some horrible cursed luck. Are you sure the car wasn't orignally painted yellow?

 

A taxi hit me, so the company gave me a $3000 check and let me keep the car so I actually made a little money.

 

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Holy ****, you just got another CRX with another B16 just about.

 

hey im in high school too, how long did it take you to do the swap? what were your total expenditures not including the car? TIA

 

Motor, tranny, ecu, hasport mount/linkage/subharness and shipping from hmotorsonline came to $2169. Had to get new axles and a few other things, so it probably came to about $2300.

 

thanks man, how many hours would you say that you put into doing the swap (the labor part)?

 

one word "ouch"....but really, it could be worse....look at the bright side....get jdm door with power everything and the jdm front end...then walla...haha..just a thought..

 

Thats rough. When you first got your car for a $1000, it was the same condition mine is in, except I paid $500, and before that, I paid $1000 for a shitty *** crx that was rusted everywhere - rockers, quarters, doors/door jams, hell, the hatch didn't close half the time, but yea, don't give up, just use what happened to you as incentive to make a better crx