I've seen everyone's project threds latly so i thought i'd make one too Heres the car before i bought it:






It's a 90 CRX HF i got few months back and i've been slowly working on it to get it running again. I payed $750 for it and it has no rust (very hard to come by in MI) and it had what we thought was a spun rod bearing. Turns out that one of the rods droped it's lower cap into the pan with 517miles on the new motor in the car:




The booty kit and projectors sucked so i sold them, here's the car when i first towed it home (kit was sold localy about 1.5hrs after i bought the car):


Now i've been working my *** off and i finally got the motor pulled yesterday and i decded to snap some pics off:






My Neuspeed/Tokico suspetion setup:


Now this car has 93 GSR wheels (uber rare) and i'm trying to figure out what color to paint them they came gunmetal but i'm thinking bronze. Heres a pic of one gunmetal and one stripped down to the bare metal:




I'll keep this thred updated on how my project comes along, wish me luck that i get it back together soon

 

Sweeet I love these threads cuz after all most of us have project cars Not sure how bronze would look with that red but maybe you'll paint the thing. Any plans besides getting it running?

 

bronze!

 

i say paint the wheels black...what motor is going in the car?

 

oh man i forgot, it's going to be flat black untill i get my spray gun and paint it silver

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Bserieskllr &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i say paint the wheels black...what motor is going in the car?</TD></TR></TABLE>a SOHC ZC (cant find a good A6) with a built Z6 head (springs/retainers and a Comp Cams Stage 3 cam), Skunk2 intake manifold, OBX ARRRRR 4-2-1 2peice headers wraped in header wrap. I'm not super confident in my block building yet so i'm just buying one put together and i'll sell the head

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by oh_crx &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote"> Sweeet I love these threads cuz after all most of us have project cars Not sure how bronze would look with that red but maybe you'll paint the thing. Any plans besides getting it running? </TD></TR></TABLE>this car has to get me to school and back but i'm also going to track it alot. I'm gonna run the neuspeed/tokico's untill the struts blow out then i'll probally get Omni Power or Tein coilovers

 

sweet havent seen the new comp stage 3 cam i got the stage 2.

 

i probally ment the stage 2, i know the part # ends in a 300 for i just guessed it was a stage 3
edit: it's the street/strip cam if that helps

 

yea thats the same as mine 59300

 

93 GSR wheels = 92 GSR wheels = 92-93 GS wheels.

They aren't too rare, but they look good if done right.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Todd00 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">93 GSR wheels = 92 GSR wheels = 92-93 GS wheels.

They aren't too rare, but they look good if done right. </TD></TR></TABLE>didnt know that, i was just guessing they were rare because of how few 92-93 GSRs were made

 

im not so sure how bronze and silver would look. cant really picture it well in my head. bronze and black is nice and bronze and white is nice but im not so sure about silver. if the cars bunna be silver i would go black or would have left them gunmetal. just my 2 pennys

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by HondaKPX &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">im not so sure how bronze and silver would look. cant really picture it well in my head. bronze and black is nice and bronze and white is nice but im not so sure about silver. if the cars bunna be silver i would go black or would have left them gunmetal. just my 2 pennys</TD></TR></TABLE>the paint job he did was very shitty, thats why i'm stripping them. Black would look nice, have black rims on a silver GTI and they look good... humm i'll consider it

 

UPDATE!!!
Yesterday me and my friend Gareth drove to IL to pickup the motor and tranny thats going into this car. Props to Warren (Nu2DaGame) for the motor and Gareth (93CivicSleeper) for riding in a car with me for 10hrs. Now for the pics!

the offical parts hauler parked at a gas station somewhere in Indiana


Right after we got back on the freeway we saw this


Box-O-Parts #1


Engine and Tranny


Gareth after 5hrs of driving


Gareth after 7hrs of driving


Sunset on the way back


All in all ot was a fun trip, i'll take some pics of the motor when i get it torn apart

 

UPDATE!!!
Snaped off some pics of the motor and go fast goodies

Block after alot of cleaning and painting


My OEM HF oil cooler


The piston's i'm going to use, note the 2 rods without caps were irrepairible so i'll take 2 out of my other A6


My Skunk2 inkate manifold and OBX Header




edit: opps forgot the CM Stage 2

 

 

where did you pick up the oil cooler from

 

came on the stock HF motor (i bought the motor from the car before i bought the car)... BTW the bling made me laugh

 

looks good, cant wait to see it finished. I like to see these threads as well hopefully I will start one soon. you all make me jealous

 

UPDATE!!!
Got my block back from my friend Larry who does all my machining (honed block and checked to make sure deck was level) and he also helped my press 2 of my pistons off the bad rods onto different ones (out of my spare A6 block). Heres what i got done today:

Here's the block as it sits now... where's piston #3 you ask...


...here on my floor, the piston pin is binding so i'll press a new one in on monday at Larry's

 

UPDATE!!!
Well the car is finally coming to a close. The motor is finished and all i need to do now is wait for my flakens to come in and press in my ARP Wheel Studs (doing that tomarrow, if i remember i'll do a writeup). Anyway here's some pics:

Top part of the block with the ARP Head Studs installed:


The bottem end put together with king bearings and all new seals/etc:


The "Flatrate" NOTEC head i'm using untill my Z6 head is done


The block finished and ready to meet the CRX very soon!:


Oil pan with a JDM heat sheild (my friend brought it back from japan):


EXTRA PICS!
My GSR rims found a new home on Gareth's civic, i'm going to use the wheels you see on the red civic in the backround:


And for you R lovers, Stealth 95 GS-R's and Tony's (dont remember his H-T name) cars, click the pic for full quality (yes the one car is orange)

 

cool shocks.

 

hott thread.
much love

 

Nice man Bling bling for all the cash spent haha.

-Jon