95TurboCivic

nice i like it full steam ahead.

NRG Tech Bill

wow man, awesome creativity this came out sick more pics!!!!

got wide

whats the total build cost so far? did you ever consider a tube frame to hole the engine in or is it easier the way you did it?

Turbocivic94

Looks sick. I been thinking about putting S2K motor in my civic for a while.

I would've used EG or Teg for engine placement. It would've been much easier.

grog

wow nice project, Do you really live in mckinleyville? i hardly ever see locals on here. btw i live in arcata, I would love to see your car in person.
keep up the good work

viper_boy403

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hey another local dude! I'm in mack too, and I still havent seen this thing! Caleb I think you need to bring it out to autocross because that would just be awesome

zimsplat

yep, sure do. who might this be? id love to show it off :-)

zimsplat

hahahah, well it doesn't stop very well right now because of the absence of rear brakes, and doesn't turn too well with the welded diff, but it would be fun to take it out there. who is this by the way?

viper_boy403

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This would be Andrew (note the red prelude as my avatar haha)

Too bad you didnt have it out when they had gymkhana for another club that came up, this car would have been fun to watch

grog

Hey I'm Casey, I drive a dark gray 91 hatch.
I have a shell of hatch that has a b20 in it and i've considered either stripping it and scrapping it or doing a wild project like yours. I've got the tools to do it. If i saw your car i think it might inspire me to do something with mine. Now that i think about it i only paid $500 for it i might as well do something with it.
do you take your crx to the samoa drags? maybe i could meet you there.

zimsplat

I'm usually at the drags every weekend they have it...When I don't take the CRX out there, im usually driving a champ white integra with a jdm front.

grog

Right on I'll have to show up next weekend, or is it thursdays? Sorry I haven't been there for like 5 years what time are they held?

viper_boy403

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They used to do them on thursdays but they have them saturday now, and it's only like once every 4 weeks. They have the sunday morning drags like every other week or something

there's a schedule on here somewhere: http://samoadragstrip.com/

88ED8

Good stuff!

zimsplat

So now that the motor is sitting in the car, I started the long process of wiring. the first step was to remove ALL of the stock crx wiring. Because i planned on only having this car as a drag car, every inch of stock wiring was taken out (except for leaving a few behind for tailights and headlights). I also was going to use completely OBD1 wiring colors, sensors, ecu(hondata) etc. my goal was to make all of the wiring as SIMPLE as possible, with all unnecessary things removed...this was about the time that I pulled the dashboard, all the vents, heater, stock fuse box etc, and preformed "stage 10 weight reduction" on the interior.



I used a stock ex harness from an EG for the engine harness, then chopped off the matching plugs, as well as the fuse box to make the crx side of things. whenever possible, I tried to maintain standard OBD1 colors, plugs, etc for ease of future modification or replacement of parts.



I separated all the wiring that I would have to complete into a few categories before i started, and attacked each group one at a time.
I built an aluminum control panel, with 3 main controls. A master switch, ign switch, and starter button. both the master and IGN switches were wired to terminal board, to make later connections easier. also visible in this later picture is the high/low boost switch, and a set of annunciator warning lights (aviation influence) for oil pressure, check engine, charge system, etc.


after hooking up all of the power, ground, and misc wiring associated with the main relay, hooking up all of the sensors was not really difficult, but more time consuming to make check and double check every wire. interestingly, the stock 89HF harness contained every color that i needed to copy the 92-95 scheme.

zimsplat

I had planned on totally gutting the car including dash and stock gauges, but then I started to have second thoughts. I had a friend that got into trouble for removing the stock VIN number on the dash, so I decided instead to keep a "dummy" dash in the vehicle. I cut out all the unnecessary plastic parts from the underside, leaving only the top shell of the dash. After doing this, I started to wonder how difficult it would be to make the stock gauges with tach and water temp gauge work with the all OBD1 wiring. a little tinkering, and I had both working great. I also modified the stock HF green shift up light to work with Hondata. The only other thing that I was missing was a speedometer.


The stock crx gauges work with a cable driven speedo. first of all, there was no way I was going to find a cable long enough to make it work. second of all, I used a hydrolic transmission with the electronic speed sensor. I noticed that the speedo from a DX 94 civic was about the same size as the crx one...


So with a little modifying with a dremel tool, I had it fitting nicely


Plus some trustly shoe goo to hold it in place


Most people look right past the "stock" looking gauges :-)

zimsplat

Also under the dash, there was another major project to be completed. I wanted to change the car completely over to a hydraulically activated clutch. I figured if i could mount a master calendar on the inside of the firewall, i should be able to use the stock clutch pedal. So i fabbed a quick bracket and drilled a hole in the top of the pedal. I ran some hard lines back to where the firewall would soon be, and hooked it up temporarily to check the pedal effort and travel.


works flawlessly!


reservoir access

zimsplat

thanks! that's what I was going for...

Fej

Got some pictures I took on its first trip to the strip...

Time to drop some jaws












Crowd beginning to gather...


Just found this picture of you "lowering" the four door when we used it to to do the 5 speed conversion on my hatch. I'd say we got our monies worth out of that car. Oh wait, it was free


I've got some more pictures I took during contruction, I'll get them to you sometime this week

mr.danny

sick, i bet you turn alot of heads!

JDMCRX

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Nice man more pics for sure

nuclearhappines

There is WAY too much talent sitting on this forum for you guys to only be working on after-market while GM dicks around with BILLIONS of dollars when they don't even know the first thing about building a cool car.

You should build your own mid/rear supercar dude ... even if it's based off of a lambo / bimmer V12 kit...

dank714

nice. finally what the rex was missing, rear wheel drive. good job did u use a 120 millermatic for all you welding?

zimsplat

yep, two spools of wire and about 3 bottles of gas

zimsplat

hey guys, got out today and took some more detail pictures, and two videos also... Let me know if there are any other specific things you want to see more of and ill take some more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjEB0wojTII

shift linkage in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrJS_O886rQ