1990hondacrx

Well I recently decided to restore my crx from the ground up and what a great time to do it after I melted a piston and had to pull the engine anyways.

well after melting pistons in not 1 but 2 stock b16's I decided to do a fully built gsr bottom end with a b16 head with ctr cams and valve-train.

partial shaved bay did it the ghetto way no welding and grinding just filled holes in with seam sealer and smoothed them over.. a full wire tuck and engine tuck..

Comments fully welcome

1990hondacrx

The engine is a stock sleeved piston rod engine Cp pistons, eagle rods, acl bearings, micro polished, and full balanced crank.

skunk2 intake manifold, fidanza 7lb flywheel, clutch built by a local clutch shop it is kevlar on flywheel side and ceramic on pressure plate. aem fuel Rail and 880cc precision injectors for now will have to upgrade to RC 1200cc for E85 tune

88h22_CRX

Looks awesome. Keep us posted.

1990hondacrx

Starting on the wire tuck the easiest thing I figured to do would be cut the plugs off closest to the headlight and turn signals evenly and go to the junk yard and get a perfectly clean virgin harness off another ef.

cut it closest to the inside of the car so instead of having to solder twice as much you only have to do it once.

Also all the wires are the same colors on most of the efs so not a big hassle if you mess up they color match back up

1990hondacrx

Alot of work to go before it will be on the street again have to finish the drivers side tuck and engine tuck

DCRB

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.... that engine bay is FRESH!!!!!!!!!!!! i'm lovin it! nice motor set up too

ExtraBlackRex

7lbs?? Damn dude that's light as hell.

jspeccrx91

nice color choice looks like mine.........

Noel L Eguia

Engie bay sickness.

1990hondacrx

Close color but yours doesn't have the pop as mine.. yours has a little more penny color but yours looks good... you should flip that brake booster hose upside down and the valve it will help with a cleaner look.
not to much progress this weekend due to holiday and family..

managed to clean the transmission and alot of little odds and ends on the engine

1990hondacrx

the flywheel is 7.5lb it helped a lot on spool time when it spools the power is put to the ground fast!

Reckone

Looking good! Love the color.

Sammy Po

Looks good! pics of the rest of the car?

ExtraBlackRex

I was always told that there was a downside to running a to light a flywheel, not saying what u having one was bad but it just surprised me to see someone dip so low..you have me itching to try it, I never go lower then 9lbs on any build I have...

I think i'ma try it..

1990hondacrx

i love having a lightened flywheel when i was all motor b16 with intake, exhaust, header intake manifold, and tuned with a light flywheel it will rev sooo much faster.

i have been driving with a lightened flywheel now for about 8 years straight so to me its normal feeling. a lot of people say it looses torque and its harder to drive in traffic and start off but its what your used to. just my 2Cents.

1990hondacrx

Ill post more pics of the car when I get home today. I have a lot of body work to do I'm going to be cutting both quarter panels out and replacing them with 2 cut out pieces.

still have to find a drivers door and passenger door they have rust in the bottom of them.

going to use a new front/rear bumper and new hood for paint

1990hondacrx

pic of car before i start the body work to color match to bay

1990hondacrx

Started on the engine wire tuck this afternoon should be almost done tomorrow

big mess but it will clean up nicely ill add a few plugs into it also like VSS for changing over to electronic in future for boost by gear on my AEM EMS all V-Tec wires will be added into the harness

sde780

nice, keep us updated

1990hondacrx

engine wire harness is a good 80% done.. soon as engine harness is done engine will be set in the bay and suspension put back on

k20rex

i'm in for this one, i like the color

1990hondacrx

Wire harness is finally done to the point of having to put the engine in the car to finish the very end at plugs.... I still need to make some kinda clip or bracket to hold the wires up underneath the intake manifold.
the engine will be going in tomorrow and front suspension here is a few pics of the harness completed!

K7-1Ktrevor

sick build, I hope you don't go to the same tuner that melted 2 pistons... built motors really suck to blow due to some one else not being good at their job.

wolfsbain

very nice build, cant wait to see more

1990hondacrx

Got alot done on the car today... re-undercoated the wheel wells, put engine in car, hooked up all the coolant lines and fuel lines its starting to come together a little faster soon its time to do Body work. and alot of it.

i have to buy a new front bumper, hood, rear bumper, and cut quarter panels in and find 2 doors mine have rust on the bottom