Hey everyone , after 2 years of waiting i finnaly started to resurect my crx . Im currently working at it daily and will post pics as i make progress . hope you enjoy my crx body rebuild page .

 

i have already taken a few pics .Here is the engine bay empty and ready for paint.

here is the engine bay after paint , its just a spectuprime under the hood color .

 

Looks nice so far!, clean shop as well. Alot of times someone will post pics of the car in messy shop, or sorry paint booth.

 

here is some nasty corrosion.

 

and here is the left rocker cut off and all the dirt sand and rust that fell out if it .

 

here is the left side rocker and all the dirt sand and rust that fell out of it

 

i am working on the car at school , and they have two very nice paint booths , compliments of school budget . my booth at the shop i work at is not this clean at all .

 

taping your masking paper onto your sheeting helps with overspray i know you're just spraying sealer but clear can make it's way up there....looks good though

 

thats actually the color the engine bay will be , but thanks for the advice.

 

got more work done today and yesterday
. here is it flanged and ready to mock up the quarter replacements from of ebay
and here it is mocked up

 

here is a little welding i did on the wheel wells

 

i just got the rockers today right from honda so i will start getting them on tomorow
.and here is a shot of the entire car .

 

That looks like a lot of time and effort, I hope that the rust doesnt come back.....

I would have gotten a better shell, but looks like you are doing a very good job at restoring her.....


good luck

 

it is a whole lot of time and affort . and i did search for another shell for a while , and i actually have another one from california , but i have other plans for that one . and i am going to great lengths to make sure it does not corrode again. on top of that the car will never be driven in winter again .

 

so your welding civic hatchback wheel arches in instead of CRX? I't will work fine and all, it's just a little bit different shape than a CRX's rear 1/4

 

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Are you new here?

This is the most economically priced replacement part we can get for our CRX's.. There are hundreds... if not thousands of people using this same part to repair the rear quarters of their cars. This totally and completely beats the cost and wait time for a OEM panel to come around..

 

when i bought them from ebay it said that they were for a crx . they fit great so far and are working out fine. ill post pic of the left side completley welded up on munday .

 

monday*

 

Looks good keep up the good work.

 

get the car sand blasted or even better dipped i got an estimate for a diping for 1000$ best thing to do worth every peny + the rust will be gone once and for all and u can do a sick paint job after

 

i dont have that much money , i cut all the rust out , i have spent so much already on other stuff that i didnt want to spend alot on the rust , im happy i got everthing i needed for repair is for 365 and i will paint it myslef at school for the cost of the paint . i will have probly 500 into it all together between the the panels and paint.

 

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I heard that you can use them but they need to be modified. There is a post about that somewhere. Something that it does not line up perfect near the molding area. However they do make CRX specific patch panels to avoid any mismatching.

 

thats true with the ones i have . there is suposeed to be a bend where the rocker molding comes up and there there is not . but i cut it off above that and the rocker panels i got go up high enough that they have that bend to its all good.

 

so the only difference between the hatch panels and the crx is that bend at the rocker panel. i wish i could see side by side pictures.

 

that is the only difference . otherwise the arches are the same and the area the hides underneath the bumper is the same . like i said before the only reason there is a bend at the upper rocker on the crx is for where the rocker molding comes up to , where as the hatch has no rocker molding so no bend in the upper rocker.